Nightlife’s best-kept secrets are where you’d least expect them. I continued to reassure myself of this as my GPS led me through a sprawling urban junkyard by train tracks that would be the perfect setting for the acclaimed true-crime doc on my murder. But instead I soon found myself outside BDSM Brewing Company in Hillsboro, a massive building with LGBTQ+ symbology and the brewing company’s branded art spray-painted across the façade. Once I was inside, it was quickly apparent that the only way I was getting thrown hog-tied into a trunk and left for dead was if I asked someone nicely.

Jokes aside, BDSM Brewing Company is a no-frills, immediately welcoming brewery and social space attracting people with some very particular interests, and not just in whips and chains. The brewery hosts ka

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