Every great underdog story starts with someone willing to take a chance. In 1976, that someone was a struggling, little-known actor named Sylvester Stallone, who wrote a screenplay studios desperately wanted — but he refused to sell it unless he could play the...
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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...
It’s easy to go into the mind-blowing documentary You Can See Everything from directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim and assume you’re going to get fresh insights into who Elizabeth Holmes is and whether or not the charismatic but controversial Theranos...
The plot of Whalefall couldn’t be simpler: While searching alone for the remains of his grizzled seaman father, Mitt (Josh Brolin), scuba diver Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams) gets swallowed by a giant sperm whale. With the odds stacked against him and less than...
If you know anything about Oscar Wilde, you know that he was Gay, transgressive, and brilliant. Salome, the most shocking of his works for theater, contains sexual obsession, murder, incest, suicide, adultery, necrophilia, and Salome’s “dance of the seven...
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...
Writer Aaron Sorkin should stop trying to direct his own scripts. His ticking-clock procedural The Social Reckoning makes so many egregious missteps that watching it to completion can be a chore. But the dazzling Mikey Madison gives one of the best...
Pride arrived for a second time this year in Dallas, Texas, with the local community coming together for a few more days to uplift their LGBTQ+ neighbors. It was a weekend of fun inclusivity that this city is no stranger to: Dallas currently boasts the...
Country music superstar Orville Peck isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind when you think of the razor-claw wielding, masked. martial arts superstar Vega from the Street Fighter video game series, but that’s only because you haven’t been paying...
Trash Panda Go Kart is a name that creates a funny mental image of a couple of raccoons piloting a go-kart, one with its paws on the steering wheel while the other pushes the gas and brake pedals. For Zinnia Su and Selena Kane, the name perfectly captures...
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:...
More than half a century after The Rocky Horror Picture Show first stumbled into theaters, Patricia Quinn is still discovering just how enormous the strange little movie became. Quinn, who originated the role of Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show before bringing...
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...
I am a Transgender elder, and I have lived long enough to know that being down is not the same thing as being finished. I have also lived long enough to know that simply telling people we are hurting is not enough. The Transgender movement has much in common...
I was introduced to Pregnant Dad at Chop Suey in February at the first-ever Trans Music Showcase. They say to save the best for last — but the host, May Graves, introduced them with something along the lines of: "This band is absolutely terrible. Their music...
Much like last year’s smash The Housemaid, Verity is a pulpy, unabashedly soapy erotic throwback to thrillers like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Sleeping with the Enemy. Unfortunately, unlike that jolt of cartoonish, female-driven silliness, filmmaker...
In less than a month, Washington voters will decide on whether to approve or reject Let’s Go Washington’s initiatives: IL26-638 (“Protecting Girls’ Sports”) and IL26-001 (“Restoring Parental Rights”). As LGW — the political action committee founded and funded...