At Diversity Alliance of the Puget Sound (DAPS), we don’t march — we mobilize. Our Securing Our Own People (SOOP) teams are already boots on the ground for over 10 events this Pride season, and we’ve fully led health and safety at two.
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Teachers refused to call on me because I was too timid to speak louder than a mouse. I don't know what happened to the kids who exchanged looks when I read in class, but if you told them what I do today, they wouldn't believe you.
When I first came out, I was also running for public office. I’ll never forget what a political mentor said to me at the time: “I love you, Dave. But it’s too bad — now you can’t run for office.”
In a city rich with Queer culture, the nonprofit’s LGBTQIA+ Open Studio sessions provide a rare blend of free-form art making, community care, and radical hospitality.
“Azúcar: A Latine PRIDE Night Experience” is hosting its final show of the 2024-25 season on June 14, featuring resident burlesque and “draglesque” performers.
Severe and excessive use of force by Seattle Police officers against Queer protestors and allies has led to the Office of Inspector General to launch an investigation.
The Progress Pride flag-raising ceremony outside of the Washington State Capitol was a joyous event — until about 50 Washington State Patrol (WSP) graduates marched straight through the assembled crowd.
Lambert House, a drop-in center in Seattle for LGBTQIA+ youth, announced in early 2024 that it had raised $2 million over five years to buy the property it sits on.
In his new, best-selling memoir, FAIRYBOY: Growing Up Gay And Out In Pre-Stonewall New York and Beyond, veteran journalist Garrett Glaser revisits a world unrecognizable to many contemporary LGBTQ readers.
At the April 5 "Hands Off!" protests across all 50 US states in over 1,200 locations, Americans demanded an end to the Trump administration’s harmful executive actions that impact all marginalized communities.