Before Wayne Turner became a public interest attorney for HIV issues and Medicaid advocacy in Washington, DC, and taught LGBTQ+ health law and policy at Georgetown Law School, he was hard at work as a Queer and AIDS rights activist in Seattle. Turner was...
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Pride in Seattle today is mostly known for being a citywide celebration. However, before large corporations saw it as an opportunity to covet rainbow dollars, it was also a means for the LGBTQIA+ community to demand broader societal acceptance, raise awareness...
Nathan Benedict and husband Steve Nyman have been part of Seattle’s LGBTQIA+ community for over four decades. They are both owners of Union on Capitol Hill, founded in 2018; before that, they owned Thumpers from 1985 to 2006. The two men started Come Out...
Some years ago — almost five precisely — having little or no money and nothing in particular to interest me in the midst of pandemic lockdown, I thought I would traverse the sandy shores of Lake Athabasca in the wilderness of northern Saskatchewan to be a...
Tim Murray’s journey is as enchanting as his comedy. It begins in Sandusky, Ohio, a lakeside town better known for its amusement parks than for Queer culture or a vibrant comedy scene. Growing up as a closeted Gay kid in a conservative environment, Murray...
Long before Sophie Lucido Johnson was an award-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker, back before she could ever even imagine herself as a published writer, she was a teacher in the New Orleans public school system, where her love of drawing seemed like more...
A culture of impunity is often how victims of abuse at the hands of male romantic partners describe their experiences. And in the last few years of the post-#MeToo era, there has arguably been a lot of leeway for men of status, from Donald Trump to Joe Biden...
Love is one of the most foundational human emotions. We are born to crave love from those around us, and spend all our lives seeking, grasping, or letting go of great loves. For many in the LGBTQIA+ community, real love stories don’t always look like the...
“Okay, so my roommate got me to do this before I could talk myself out of it,” wrote No_Detective776 to the members of the r/Seattle subreddit last April. “How on earth does a North Seattle aro/ace girl meet other aro/aces not in like… Tacoma? I feel like I...
Genitals — perhaps no other part of the body dictates our desires, capacities, and identities more as people on this earth. And from a very young age, we are conditioned — whether through family, friends, the media, the public education system, religions, etc....