On Aug. 8, the S.L.U.G. Queens will gather once again to continue their tradition of crowning the unofficial goodwill ...

The Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod's annual S.L.U.G. Fest and S.L.U.G Queen Competition & Coronation started in 1983 as backlash to the bland choice of "Eugene Celebration" ...

Eugene’s longest-running alternative pageant returns Friday, as the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous ...

Eugene's 40th SLUG Queen told the crowd, “I promise to keep this legacy strong, to grow it bigger, to make Eugene slimier, weirder and sillier for the whole year!” ...

The free event featured a fashion show, talent competition and more at the Saturday Market Pavilion from 6 to 9 p.m. on ...

Helen Being — aka Queen Galaxia Cosmos — dreamed of being crowned the Eugene SLUG queen ever since they were eight years old. Being first saw a SLUG queen (Society of the Legitimization of the ...

Friday's event was the 39th Slug Queen Coronation. Mitra Gruwell, aka Eve Slug Laurent, was named first runnerup. Beings of Eugene: Jenette Kime, your 2019-20 Eugene Slug Queen ...

A cornucopia of S.L.U.G. Queens oozed back into the slimelight recently with three slick goals. First? Have a slime-tastic time. Two, create slug-adelic art. And three, slug-ceed in raising money ...

The Eugene Celebration hasn’t been around since 2015, but the SLUG queen competition has carried on — and the dedicated volunteers that run it have no intention of stopping. It’s worth mentioning that ...

EUGENE, Ore. — A summer celebration of Eugene’s wacky ways has been canceled, for this year at least, but there’s some hope for the annual parade featuring the city’s Slug Queen.

EUGENE, Ore. — It wasn’t easy, but 25 years after the birth of the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod (SLUG) and the crowning of Queen Bruce, the first Slug Queen ...

Totally unexpected. Totally slimy. Yes, my friends. It is the yearly contest, held each September in Eugene, Ore., to crown a slug queen.