On December 11, the Seattle Office of Police Accountability (OPA) held its first “Building the Bridge” event at City Hall. Attendees came from several sectors, including Seattle Police Department (SPD) Assistant Chief Tyrone Davis, college professors,...
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The first Queer-related controversy has come to Seattle’s upcoming World Cup soccer games, despite the best of intentions. Because the 2026 World Cup and Pride Weekend happen to overlap, the city planned to host a “Pride Match” on June 26, featuring LGBTQIA+...
Rhonda Lewis chosen to replace Girmay Zahilay, becoming the first Black woman on King County Council
After three hours of decision-making, the King County Council came to a verdict: Rhonda Lewis will be stepping into Girmay Zahilay’s District 2 seat, becoming the first Black woman to serve on the council in the process. Zahilay, recently elected as King...
Like the 1996 film The Birdcage, in which a Gay couple running a Queer club must hide their queerness to appease their conservative in-laws, the former employees of Jake’s on 4th in Olympia reportedly found themselves in a similar predicament with the bar’s...
On November 9, multiple patrons at the Magnolia branch of the Seattle Public Library (SPL) noticed that both the Progress Pride and African-American flags had been removed from the rafters, where they had hung since 2022. No statement or explanation was...
While the Trump administration opted to no longer acknowledge World AIDS Day, breaking the government’s 38-year streak of commemorating the epidemic that has taken nearly 44.1 million lives globally according to the World Health Organization, local LGBTQIA+...
The Indigo Wills Project is a Washington-based organization that helps Trans people create wills and assists with the name change process, free of charge. The SGN had the opportunity to talk with the project’s founder, Cirilla Anderson, about what led her to...
As a speech-language pathologist, Nicole Gress saw firsthand how traditional training methods were not working for Trans patients finding their voice. While the methods were effective for those who had a vocal disorder or injury, they were not designed with...
When former FOX 13 journalist-turned-influencer Brandi Kruse said that FBI Director Kash Patel should investigate the Seattle-based Gender Justice League for “left-wing violence,” GJL’s Kai Aprill-Tomlin immediately started thinking about how to protect the...
A decade ago, former Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen had an idea. Having served as assistant to the ambitious Jeanette Williams, whose advocacy brought a bridge to West Seattle and made Kubota Gardens into a public park, he could recognize an...