Thomas Charles (“Cha-Cha”) Rantz was born March 13, 1952, and passed away at his home in Seattle on August 21, 2025, due to a tragic accident. He was 73 years old. Born in Newport News, Virginia, to Richard Charles (colonel, US Army, Oct. 21, 1921–Feb. 4,...
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“For the longest time, I never felt like a girl. I also never feel 100% like a man. It’s always been this spectrum of existence,” said Trans drag king Tuna Melt on King of Drag, an original series on the free, Queer-oriented streaming platform Revry. Released...
![Justice for Nikki Armstrong: A Transgender woman’s story of assault, survival, and perseverance [Updated Sept. 24]](/image/story/4842?width=500)
On September 15, Nikki Armstrong, a 39-year-old Transgender woman, was the victim of a violent, hate-filled assault in Renton, Washington by a group of four teenage boys. According to the Renton Police Department’s Meeghan Black, at 8 p.m., the department...
Darran Bruce is a Seattle business owner and creator of The DJ Sessions, best known for its DJ truck that plays electronic dance music, primarily on Capitol Hill. On August 1 around 8 p.m., he and his employees reported being victims of property damage and...
On August 17, Lesbians across Seattle unbuttoned their vests, hooked on their comically large carabiners, and headed to Cal Anderson Park for the first-ever “Performative Lesbian Contest.”
Along Rainier Avenue, on the strip running from Little Saigon down to Renton, a collection of Seattle’s best spots are interlaced among the big-box chain stores. Near the intersection with Genesee Street in Columbia City, hidden behind an otherwise unassuming...
On Sunday, September 7, the Defund Musk Women’s Rights group held a sequel to its previous event in University Village on July 26. This time, the demonstration took place at Waterfront Park in Seattle and the nearby Pike Place Market...
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...
On August 30, a concert for Christian nationalist musician Sean Feucht was expected to take place at Cal Anderson Park. This outraged many in the Queer community, particularly those who had the spring Mayday USA protests fresh in their minds, leading some to...
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.