Tag: Seattle

Whoever said Seattle’s too rainy for outdoor fun must’ve come at the wrong season. Seattle Pride was beaming and bright this year, with beautiful weather and even more beautiful celebrants. GayCities sent roving photographer Matt Baume to capture the big smiles in and around Seattle Center, with locals stripping down, splashing through fountains, dancing at the main stage, and generally throwing caution to the wind for the year’s biggest queer party. Whether zipping up to the top of the Space...

Seattle’s a lush ocean-front city that works hard and parties harder, which means that student/gogo dancer Jesse has his work cut out for him. His popular face (and body) graces many of the best parties in town, so GayCities asked him to let you know know the ins and outs of enjoying pride season Seattle. JESSE: I like to plan my outfit around my personality — something flamboyant that sparkles. I like to represent self-pride every day. This year I’m...

Jenny Durkan Mayor of Seattle The question is more like: How hasn’t she contributed? Durkan grew up outside of Seattle, the daughter of a Washington state senator and a newspaper editor. She spent her early career teaching English and coaching girls basketball in a Yukon fishing village in rural Alaska before getting her law degree. Her legal career has been defined by her progressive values: fighting for victim plaintiffs, defending journalists called into court by the government, focusing on police reform and...

Vlada Knowlton Filmmaker Ukraine native Vlada Knowlton emigrated to Boston at age 7. As an adult, she  studied at Brown University where she was awarded a Ph.D. in cognitive science. Her studies landed her a job at Microsoft in Seattle, where she met her husband Chadd shortly thereafter. The couple is raising three children. After six years with Microsoft, Knowlton gave up her lucrative gig to study at the Seattle Film Institute. Knowlton chronicled her struggles to balance a career along with...

Welcome to Seattle, the scruffy city of the Pacific Northwest that knows how to stay warm by generating body heat. And who’s this enjoying fetish night at CC Attle’s? Why, it’s hunky muscle dad Terry Miller, accompanied by an acclaimed local Aquarius named Tom. Let’s see what these party pros are cooking up for pride. TERRY: Completely homosexual!TOM: Total faggotry. Queer supremacy. TERRY: Queer Bar! And Nark Bar for queer pride. That’s at Grim’s bar, it’s a takeover by Nark. TERRY: Don’t do the...

Ever since the Babadook became an unlikely LGBT icon, the terrifying horror character has got its claws into Pride. There have been Babadooks spotted at Pride marches the world over, and now the inevitable. A Babadook drag queen got engaged at Seattle Pride at the weekend, and it was predictably if horrifyingly sweet. Fraya Love self describes as Super AWESOME DRAG QUEEN, Madonna and LadyGaGa impersonator, adding “I also moon light as a video hoe.” Ahead of Pride, Fraya posted a few snaps...

A homophobe in Seattle scratched an anti-gay message into his own fence. Shaun Shaffer shares a house with three other gay men, and they put up several flags on their house for pride month. “We just finished putting up the flags, and we were taking the recycling out, and we saw our neighbor up against his fence. We heard Scratching. We couldn’t tell what he was doing. There was muttering,” Shaffer told KING 5 News. They later saw that the man had...

The gay mayor of Seattle has been accused of allegedly raping a teenager and two others 20 years ago. Allegations have been bought against the 61-year-old mayor, Ed Murray, for having sex with minors in the late 1980’s. The plaintiff’s case states that Murray had sex with the minor in 1986 and would pay him between $10 and $20 for sex. Sex with a person under the age of 16 is considered rape in the state. The plaintiff has decided to make...

Five states, the District of Columbia, Miami and Cincinnati have also banned the widely discredited practice. The Seattle City Council unanimously voted Monday to ban conversion therapy for queer youth, becoming the third American city to independently outlaw the practice. Under the new ordinance, mental health providers will be barred from offering or advertising conversion therapy to minors. The practice, which claims to help gay people overcome same-sex attraction, has been widely discredited by mental health professionals and called potentially harmful...