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Seattle Pride is a nonprofit organization that coordinates and promotes LGBTQIA+ events and programs in Seattle year-round. The organization aims to create unity, honor diversity, and achieve equal human rights throughout the region and the world [9] through a variety of programs including its Pride Speaks speaker series, [10] Vote with Pride [11] voter engagement program, and its community ...
A newly married couple leaving Seattle City Hall is greeted by well-wishers on the first day same-sex marriages are celebrated in Washington state. Since 2001, Washington state has provided benefits to same-sex partners of state employees. [12] The state adopted a statute defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman in 1998.
Seattle (/ s i ˈ æ t əl / ⓘ see-AT-əl) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 755,078 in 2023, [3] it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the county seat of King County, the most populous county in Washington.
Seattle Pride, 2017. Notable LGBTQ events in Seattle include the Seattle Queer Film Festival (formerly known as the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival) and Seattle Pride. The Pride ASIA festival "draw[s] attention to the vibrant cultures that make up Seattle’s queer Asian American and Pacific Islander communities." [9] The city also hosts ...
GenPride is located inside the new Pride Place building in Seattle, the first senior LGBTQ housing community in Washington state, which had its grand opening on October 25, 2023. [ 8 ] [ 12 ] The first floor of the building houses the offices and community center of GenPride.
CM Sawant declaring "Trans Pride Day" with Danni Askini, 2016. Trans Pride Seattle was first founded in 1997 as a march and protest in Capitol Hill. [2] It was revived 16 years later by Gender Justice League on June 23, 2013, in Cal Anderson Park. [3] [4] [5] The pride has grown to tens of thousands of attendees.
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On June 30, 1974, Gay Pride Week concluded with a "Gay-In" at the Seattle Center that featured "zany dress, general frivolity, carousing and a circle dance around the main International fountain." In 1995, A new transgender rights organization called The T People created the first Transgender Pride party and demonstration in Seattle.