The pews of Town Hall Seattle were full on Tuesday, January 27, as constituents filed in for an event with US Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-7). A projector displayed footage of the congresswoman’s impassioned rebuttals and fired-up speeches at recent hearings, as...
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Even in a politically aware city where small-scale activism happens every day, how Seattle chose to stand in solidarity with Minneapolis over the last weekend of January was remarkable. It was an unapologetic rebuke to the deportations, arrests, and even...
“We Live In Color” returns for Season 4 this Thursday. This year, we're taking our mission to the next level with the Seattle Gay News (SGN) Community Brief. In partnership with Seattle Gay News, one of the country's longest-running LGBTQIA+ publications, “We...
Harry Tanner says that, when he was a teenager, he thought he “was going to hell.” For years, he’d been attracted to men, and he prayed that it would stop. He asked for help from a lay minister, who offered Tanner websites meant to repress his urges, but they...
Seattle’s drag scene is about to ignite as international showgirl, producer, and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 sensation Bosco brings back her acclaimed drag revue, Grindhaus, to The Crocodile on February 6–7 for two unforgettable nights. Known for her...
Last Valentine’s Day, I had a bit of fun writing about ten LGBTQIA+ “romances” that I enjoy watching — not just in February but pretty much whenever the opportunity arises. This was a fun, eclectic, and wildly divisive list filled with idiosyncratic choices...
When it opened its doors in October, The Ink Drinker signaled to book lovers across Seattle that if they need a place to read a book or sip a literary-inspired cocktail, it was the place to go. Located in the heart of Ballard, the literary bar screams dark...
Long before Sophie Lucido Johnson was an award-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker, back before she could ever even imagine herself as a published writer, she was a teacher in the New Orleans public school system, where her love of drawing seemed like more...
A culture of impunity is often how victims of abuse at the hands of male romantic partners describe their experiences. And in the last few years of the post-#MeToo era, there has arguably been a lot of leeway for men of status, from Donald Trump to Joe Biden...
Love is one of the most foundational human emotions. We are born to crave love from those around us, and spend all our lives seeking, grasping, or letting go of great loves. For many in the LGBTQIA+ community, real love stories don’t always look like the...