We are asking voters to choose “Yes” on City of Seattle Proposition 1! At a time when misinformation about and bans on LGBTQIA+ materials are accelerating across the country, the Seattle Public Library has served as a bastion of information, gathering, and...
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Our endorsement for the 7th Congressional District of Washington is Pramila Jayapal! The only incumbent in our endorsement guide, Rep. Jayapal has been one of the biggest champions to date for Trans and Queer rights (as well as progressive policies) in the US...
The fifth annual Vashon Island Film Festival kicks off August 13 with a gala screening of director Matt Johnson’s Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony and concludes on August 16 with presentation of the 2026 Tribeca award-winner Labrador — Autopsy of Silence directed...
Our endorsement for the Washington State Senate 37th District is Tatiana Brown! As the underdog in a race against Rep. Chipalo Street, we chose Brown due to her unabashed commitment to environmental and social justice. With Rebecca Saldaña leaving to run for...
Our endorsement for the Washington Senate 43rd District is Hannah Sabio-Howell! Sabio-Howell has advocated and organized for the rights of working-class and marginalized people in our state. A Queer Filipina woman, she is looking to unseat Senate Majority...
Our endorsement for Washington House of Representatives 29th District Position 2 is Erin Chapman Smith! Chapman-Smith has spent a decade as a housing advocate for Queer and Trans youth, and now hopes to enact policy as a state legislator to help tackle the...
Our endorsement for Washington House of Representatives 37th District Position 2 is Jaelynn Scott! As a longtime LGBTQIA+ community activist and executive director of the Lavender Rights Project, Scott has shown time and again her commitment to tackling the...
Our endorsement for King County Council District 2 is Rebecca Saldaña! Her decade of Washington State Senate experience, along with her commitment to coalition building and progressive policies, is ultimately what led us to choose her as the best option for...
Our endorsement for Seattle City Council District 5 is Nilu Jenks! Among the candidates, Jenks stood out in part because of her comprehensive and nuanced platform to tackle the wide array of problems residents in the district face, including affordable...
Our endorsement for the 9th Congressional District of Washington is Kshama Sawant! On Seattle City Council, Sawant was a driving force behind progressive policies and government accountability that made our city a better place. Sawant’s candidacy against Rep....
Originally published in 2001 and quietly fading into the background, Tramps Like Us has been reissued — with an insightful introduction by Eileen Myles — and it demands to be read. This isn’t just a novel; it’s a fictionalized memoir, a raw, frank reflection...
Our endorsement for the 37th Legislative District Position 1 is Kelabe Tewolde! Tewolde has a life's experience and working-class politics that are as rooted in the 37th as they come. Looking to challenge incumbent Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos, Tewolde offers a...
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight) achieves something monumental and magnificent with his robust, stridently adrenalized adaptation of Homer’s eighth-century BCE epic poem The Odyssey. In this modern interpretation that still pays exhilarating...
Michael Gerard Stegmann died in Seattle on July 11, 2026, following a head injury, surrounded by his family and close friends. He was 65. Mike grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, and graduated from Saguaro High School in 1979. He moved to Seattle in 1987 and made...
On July 15, King County Superior Court Judge Samuel Chung ruled against neighborhood group Denny Blaine Park for All’s request to ban nudity or fully close down a historically LGBTQIA+ park and beach along Lake Washington. Although Denny Blaine Park will...
Spend any time in the Emerald City and you’ll be sure to find those eager to espouse a doctrine of what is or isn’t proper Seattleite behavior. As our once secluded, hilly town on an isthmus has become more and more metropolitan, people’s attempts to...
Among all the Hollywood biographies and histories I’ve read, this book truly stands out. I was genuinely impressed by the depth of research and the behind-the-scenes revelations I had never encountered. It’s a compelling and exciting read. Even the famous...
Michael Alan Ramey, born August 2, 1938, in Washington. DC, died peacefully, as he wished, on June 12, 2026, in Seattle, after voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), supported by loving friends and the wonderful people at A Sacred Passing. Mike lived...
Lois Thetford, 80, died on May 24, 2026, in Seattle, soon after a cancer diagnosis. Lois had been a vital member of the Seattle Lesbian and Queer community for over 50 years, and her unexpected loss came as a painful shock to many. Born in Christiansted, St....
No Seattle Pride parade today would feel complete without the procession of a certain leathered-up armada and its unmistakable roar of engines. The tale of Dykes on Bikes — built out of a necessity for community among Lesbians and the Sapphically aligned that...