Unity in Matrimony (all things LGBTQIA+ weddings) inQUEERy Resource Guide. This issue of the Seattle Pride Magazine is our annual Official Seattle Pride Guide, featuring: Seattle Pride in the Park on June 4th.
A parade which draws in excess of 130,000 people and has become a joyous, rainbow-hued symbol of both inclusion and the start of summer. The Seattle Pride Parade is back, and we are HERE FOR IT. Pride Western Australia Incorporated (Pride WA) is Western Australia’s largest community group, representing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex community. Just three years later, the Parade welcomed 2,000 attendees, and Seattle Mayor Wes Ulman declared the first Gay Pride Week. Since then Seattle Pride has never quite lost touch with its activist roots, even as it turned into a month of events and parties that ends with a parade through Downtown. Our History The first Seattle Pride Parade (a march of less than 200 people) took place in 1974, although it wasn’t officially recognized by the city. The city's first official pride festival took place in 1977 when the mayor endorsed what was then called Gay Pride Week, just one year after Seattle voters narrowly defeated a measure to strip LGBTQ+ people of equal housing/voting rights. This year will be a scaled-down, but mighty Trans Pride celebration The goal of Trans Pride Seattle is to increase the strength of the trans and. Trans Pride Seattle is back in-person After a difficult few years without in-person community spaces, we are so excited to see your (masked) faces again. The early events were explicit civil rights protests in defense of sexual freedom, and couldn't have come at a more crucial time. SAVE THE DATE: Friday, September 2nd, 2022.
at least according to some of the smartest drag queens we know, anyway. Seattle's Pride festival started small - the inaugural event in 1974 culminated with just 50 or so people dancing around/in Seattle Center's International Fountain - but has grown dramatically in the 45 years since it began, becoming one of the country's most popular LGBTQ+ events.