Zakery Leigh’s latest novel, Echoes from the Isle of Skye, is a gothic romance that grips you from the very beginning. Leigh’s writing sweeps you straight into the mist-shrouded hills and dramatic cliffs of the Scottish Highlands, making the hauntingly...
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After the Mayday USA rally in Cal Anderson Park last spring, Seattle’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) attempted to piece together a comprehensive story of why things went so wrong. The OIG assembled a panel of LGBTQIA+ community members and Seattle Police...
Helen Lewis, a staff writer at The Atlantic, has been no stranger to Trans rights criticism over the years. Although her Wikipedia page seems to portray her as an ally of Trans people, once you look into the dozens of pieces she has penned on Trans issues, her...
On Thursday February 5, a rare event occurred: Several hundred young people from high schools across the city temporarily left their classrooms and teachers behind to congregate in front of Seattle City Hall in solidarity with their immigrant classmates and...
Valentine’s Day is often a time to celebrate love. Many, however, share complicated views on it. Pop singer and songwriter Envi Jordan explores this through his newly released single “Somebody to Love” (not to be confused with the song by Queen, a...
On Feb. 11, US Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-7), alongside Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and California Reps. Mark Takano (D-49) and Sara Jacobs (D-51), reintroduced legislation that would affirm federal protections for Trans and Nonbinary people, aptly named “the...
Brace yourself, Seattle! This March, drag superstar and comedy powerhouse Sapphira Cristál will bring her sensational new stand-up tour, One Slue over the Cuckoo’s Nest, to the Emerald City. A fan favorite from RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16, Sapphira is ready...
The pews of Town Hall Seattle were full on Tuesday, January 27, as constituents filed in for an event with US Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-7). A projector displayed footage of the congresswoman’s impassioned rebuttals and fired-up speeches at recent hearings, as...
Even in a politically aware city where small-scale activism happens every day, how Seattle chose to stand in solidarity with Minneapolis over the last weekend of January was remarkable. It was an unapologetic rebuke to the deportations, arrests, and even...
“We Live In Color” returns for Season 4 this Thursday. This year, we're taking our mission to the next level with the Seattle Gay News (SGN) Community Brief. In partnership with Seattle Gay News, one of the country's longest-running LGBTQIA+ publications, “We...