Stop into the Underground on a Sunday night and you’re likely to get transported into a theatrical scene where RuPaul lookalike drag queens and Freddie Mercury types in fetish leather grace both the stage and the dance floor. Come back on Monday and you’ll likely see some of the same Underground regulars in jeans and T- shirts, watching the football game or the slow- moving sea fish in the saltwater tank, and slugging back Budweiser drafts.

The Underground is one of Portland’s four gay venues, and some say it’s the best. The club scene is great here, attracting plenty of straights, too, who come here for the booty-shakin’ dance floor.

The club’s seven-day string starts quietly, with happy-hour drink specials, free pool and jukebox music or TV during the first half of the week. High-energy DJs garner bigger crowds on Thursdays and Fridays; but Saturday nights are when the lines out the door grow longer, and the dance floor, game room and lounge crowds get bigger. Once or twice a month, Sundays are the highlight of the week. These are the Sundays when the usual karaoke night includes a drag cabaret, featuring both local and national lip-synching divas. --Kiersten Aschauer