Wine Country Pride (WCP), a volunteer-run nonprofit that was founded in 2020 by a group of friends and business owners, aims to celebrate and support the LGBTQIA+ community in rural Willamette Valley wine growing regions with its month of fundraisers and events. One of those events is the world’s first Queer Wine Fest — celebrating 16 queer-owned, -made, and -grown wineries from Oregon, Washington, California. Remy Wines will host the event, owned by McMinnville’s interim mayor and WCP president, Remy Drabkin; Drabkin was named interim mayor of McMinnville, which makes her the first queer-identified person to hold the office. Other participating wineries include Roco Winery, Sis and Mae Wine,
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