The last line of the lyrics to rising Seattle-based band Fox Cult’s latest single, “City of Rust,” echoes a sentiment often evoked by those who reflect on the history of the city’s punk scene. Far from its heyday in the early 1990s, when Seattle itself seemed...
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For two months, Mia Larotonda has been fighting a legal battle to have her Transgender fiancée’s burial rites honored in accordance with her gender identity. On July 9, Ms. Indigo Greene, aka Alice Alexandra Greene, was reportedly found by Larotonda in their...
Watoto is a religious organization based in Uganda, founded in 1984 by Gary Skinner, an evangelical missionary born in Zimbabwe and raised in Canada, and his spouse Marylin. It has faced over a decade of anti-LGBTQIA+ and human rights abuse allegations.
Envi, a Queer pop artist based in Seattle, has a style that can be described as upbeat and provocative, as displayed in the two singles, “Dreamland” and "Tight,” that will be featured in his debut album...
Valencia, Spain, is getting ready to host the 2026 Gay Games, and tourism boosters are already preparing to put the city’s best face forward, with the hopes of enticing some of the estimated 8,000-12,000 attendees to return again and again...
For 18 years, David Armstrong committed his life to the 5th Avenue Theatre as the producing artistic director. When he decided to step down from his role in 2018, he was approached by people in the school of drama at the University of Washington to teach a...
Miss Roxy Doll, a rock star at heart who epitomized the grungy, gritty, and gothic worlds of drag. She led the iconic “Dollhouse,” a beloved weekly variety and talent showcase hosted at Capitol Lounge and later at Neighbours. But on June 24, she passed away....
The Advanced Security Training Institute (ASTI), a 501(c)(3) corporation that trains American police inside Israel, has previously liked numerous X (Twitter) posts that have expressed anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant views, according to a review of its X account...
On a street in Cagli, a small town in the Marche province of Italy, I saw a rainbow flag. I was so happy, immediately thinking, “Oh my gosh, they have Pride flags here — that’s amazing!” As I was to be in Cagli for a month on a foreign correspondence program...
It’s the summer of 2009, and I’m 25 years old. I roll into Seattle in my packed ’97 Corolla. I’m a straight, white, cis cliché from Elkhart, Indiana — land of RV factories, churches, riding lawnmowers, and faded American flags. I’m chasing love...