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...
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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...
Reporters, photographers, copy editors, and others members of the Seattle Times newsroom took to downtown streets on Sept. 30, just a block from the newspaper’s new office, to demand wage increases, as well as proper protections against AI replacing them and...
It’s no secret: Across the country, Americans face a crisis of community. The cult of individuality has left many feeling isolated and alone, as though nobody could understand their personal stories or struggles. In 2022, seeing the need for more authentic...
For anyone who treated To Catch a Predator like appointment television, watching Primetime is a surreal experience. Documentarian Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven) makes his narrative feature debut with this disquieting docudrama, and those buying a ticket...
On September 26, Stone Soup Crew held a community resource fair at Cal Anderson Park. The event included food, a DJ, and booths staffed by several organizations. In addition to being about providing food, clothing, and necessities to those who are struggling,...
I came out in my twenties at a Big 5 consulting firm. I was good at my job, and even stepped up to help launch the company’s first LGBTQ+ employee resource group (ERG). However, I still spent an enormous amount of energy navigating being out at work and what...
On September 10, in the aftermath of the Bite of Seattle shooting, over 30 major companies, business leaders, and associations in Seattle signed a letter to Mayor Katie Wilson and members of City Council, urging them to take stronger action on public safety,...
Let’s get this out of the way first: Forgotten Island is an absolute blast. It’s chaotic, funny, and scary in the best way, hitting you emotionally before you even realize it. DreamWorks Animation’s latest film, arriving September 25, is the kind of movie that...
Last year, I had the incredible opportunity to be in Seattle as Tim Murray taped something truly special — and yes, you heard that right: I was in the audience. That performance has now been crafted into Tim Murray Is Witches, a comedy special full of...
For audiences who first discovered Chris Salvatore nearly two decades ago through the Eating Out films, his latest role may come as something of a shock. Gone is the charming, handsome romantic lead that audiences came to know as Zack. In the apocalyptic Queer...
I love that director and cowriter Zach Cregger used his clout from last year’s surprise, Academy Award–winning hit Weapons to get the keys to the Resident Evil franchise. Why not have some fun? Why not make something that hits hard, moves fast, and isn’t...
Twenty-five years ago, while much of America watched the unimaginable unfold on television, 16-year-old Joseph Fenity was sitting nearly 1,800 miles away in Texas, asking a question that would ultimately shape his career: Who is listening to the young people?...
The Washington Department of Health has required the Seattle LGBTQ+ Center’s HIV/STI testing program to ship its blood samples to a privately run facility in Texas for testing, which may raise questions about the risk of personal data collection of Trans and...
When I phoned Seattle community organizer and filmmaker Sophie Amity Debs to chat about the second Seattle Trans Underground Film Festival, known as STUFF, taking place October 15–18 at the Northwest Film Forum, I admittedly didn’t know what to expect. What I...
Nine percent of Transgender people in the United States have been displaced from hostile states to bluer ones, or even out of the country entirely (according to the Movement Advancement Project). Perhaps one of the most insidious repercussions of this diaspora...
Seattle has become the next US city to recognize and protect nonmonogamous relationship structures, after the city council voted unanimously on Tuesday, Sept. 15 to pass CB 121278. Seattle will join nine other US cities (including Oakland, CA, and Cambridge,...