How much power do our dreams have? For one young woman living in the American South, dreams had the power to take her far away, into the new life she’d longed for. After a year of manifesting new possibilities, Madeline Clere found that maybe dreams can have...
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On Saturday, March 28, 2026, Seattleites returned to the streets for the third “No Kings” protest since the reelection of President Donald Trump. According to organizers, protesters numbering around 100,000 flooded the streets around Cal Anderson Park in...
The Lifelong Pride Gala: An Evening for Equality will light up Seattle on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at The Sanctuary downtown. As the city’s only Pride dinner, this highly anticipated event marks a historic moment as Lifelong’s inaugural gala with the aim of...
With attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights across the US escalating under President Trump — exacerbated by an affordability crisis, cuts to social services, and a sluggish economy — multiple Queer and Transgender candidates have been stepping up in Washington to combat...
The final panel of the day at the Society of Professional Journalists conference, held Saturday, April 11 at the University of Washington–Tacoma, turned its focus to one of the most urgent and contested topics in media today: how journalism covers Transgender...
Idaho has joined the long list of red-state legislative bodies across the country restricting the civil rights of Trans and Queer people with the passage of House Bill 752 , slated to go into effect on July 1, 2026. The bill stipulates that “any person who...
On March 20, several residents of Snohomish, Washington, were reportedly asked via text message if they supported a veto of the city’s Pride parade this year. The messaging campaign was sent from multiple phone numbers, according to Out in Snohomish, the...
A case of TMVII, a sexually transmitted fungal infection spreading among Gay men, has recently been confirmed in the state of Washington. Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII, commonly shortened to TMVII (pronounced “T-M-seven”), is an infection that...
Dennis Worsham is a civil servant who — although not as well recognized as Attorney General Nick Brown or Gov. Bob Ferguson — still performs a vital role as Washington’s secretary of health. Among the 24 appointed heads of state agencies tasked to implement,...
When Kitty Smith, an artist disgruntled with Trump’s reelection, began to draw dragified versions of Jesus in 2024 to protest the increasing negativity toward LGBTQIA+ people across the country, never did she expect her idea to “yassify Jesus” would transform...

