In the Nov. 3 general election, anti-Trans measures were on the ballot. Federal Medicaid cuts loomed. And on Tuesday night, voters in South Seattle responded. Jaelynn Scott, a Democrat and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won the open House seat...
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Much like the US Supreme Court at the federal level, the Washington Supreme Court is our state’s highest judicial body, overseeing the application and constitutionality of the law. With all of the legal challenges the federal government under Trump has hurled...
It isn’t a stretch to surmise that in this year’s three statewide ballot measures, MAGAed-align billionaire Brian Heywood and his PAC Let’s Go Washington — along with the Washington State Republican Party — were desperate to interject divisive culture-war...
Black flyers began appearing on Capitol Hill and several other Seattle neighborhoods, including Ballard, the U-District, and the International District/Chinatown, calling for people to come to City Hall on October 20 to share stories of Trans suffering and...
With Kshama Sawant out of the race, incumbent Rep. Smith is overwhelming likely (according to polls) to secure another term in office against right-wing challenger Doug Basler. Two years of the second Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress...
Seattle’s LGBTQIA+ history continued to come alive at MOHAI as the History Café celebration brought another collection of remarkable voices out of the archives and into the spotlight. On September 15, community members gathered to revisit the memories,...
On May 2, 2026, electrologists at the Real You Electrolysis (RYE) clinic in Vancouver, Washington, formed a union that consists entirely of Transgender workers, under the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Real You Electrolysis Workers United (RYEWU) began...
On Wednesday, September 15, Seattle’s LGBTQIA+ history came alive at the Museum of History and Industry for a special History Café celebrating the voices, memories, nightlife, activism, and people who helped shape Queer life in the Pacific Northwest. Since...
The feminist organization Women’s March designated October 8, 2026, a day of action, for rallies, campus walkouts, and other protests nationwide against sexual violence and the institutions that allow it to continue, under the slogan "Stop Sexual Violence:...
For 35 years, Entre Hermanos has been more than an organization. It has been a lifeline, an advocate, a gathering place and, for generations of Latino LGBTQ+ people in Washington state, a family. As it prepares to celebrate its milestone anniversary with the...