On December 11, the Seattle Office of Police Accountability (OPA) held its first “Building the Bridge” event at City Hall. Attendees came from several sectors, including Seattle Police Department (SPD) Assistant Chief Tyrone Davis, college professors,...
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The first Queer-related controversy has come to Seattle’s upcoming World Cup soccer games, despite the best of intentions. Because the 2026 World Cup and Pride Weekend happen to overlap, the city planned to host a “Pride Match” on June 26, featuring LGBTQIA+...
On November 9, multiple patrons at the Magnolia branch of the Seattle Public Library (SPL) noticed that both the Progress Pride and African-American flags had been removed from the rafters, where they had hung since 2022. No statement or explanation was...
While the Trump administration opted to no longer acknowledge World AIDS Day, breaking the government’s 38-year streak of commemorating the epidemic that has taken nearly 44.1 million lives globally according to the World Health Organization, local LGBTQIA+...
The Indigo Wills Project is a Washington-based organization that helps Trans people create wills and assists with the name change process, free of charge. The SGN had the opportunity to talk with the project’s founder, Cirilla Anderson, about what led her to...
As a speech-language pathologist, Nicole Gress saw firsthand how traditional training methods were not working for Trans patients finding their voice. While the methods were effective for those who had a vocal disorder or injury, they were not designed with...
A decade ago, former Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen had an idea. Having served as assistant to the ambitious Jeanette Williams, whose advocacy brought a bridge to West Seattle and made Kubota Gardens into a public park, he could recognize an...
On Wednesday November 5, discussions between Queer community members and Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers got heated during a Seattle University (SU) panel about LGBTQIA+-related policing. The panelists, representing a wide swath of organizations, law...
s fall rolls on and the sun sets earlier in the day, the darkness and clouds can get to Seattleites. Thankfully Diwali is here to light up the room and brighten everyone’s spirits. This year’s festival, celebrated on October 18 in the Armory at Seattle Center,...
On Saturday, October 18, in front of the Space Needle, Rep. Pramila Jayapal addressed a crowd extending for nearly a mile. She began her speech with a quote by a well-known Founding Father: “At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked...