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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.
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.
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 ...
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From June 24 to June 30, 1974, Seattle's lesbians and gays celebrated the city's first Gay Pride Week. It was the first event in the region in which the gay community as a whole came out of its collective closet. On June 28, 1974, the Gay Community Center at 1726 16th Avenue E held a grand opening.