In June 1974, about 200 people participated in the first Seattle Gay Pride Week in Pioneer Square . Fifty years later, the Seattle Pride Parade is now one of the nation’s largest and is expected to draw about 300,000 people to downtown Seattle. Leading into the golden anniversary, our reporters wrote about 50 LGBTQ+ changemakers who left lasting impacts on our region, delved into Pride’s roots and history, rounded up ways to celebrate this month and more.
Scroll down to explore the past and present of Seattle Pride. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Pride festivities in Seattle, we asked for nominations of LGBTQ+ changemakers who left lasting impacts on our region. Here are 50 to know.
How and when did Capitol Hill become the symbolic center for Seattle’s LGBTQ+ community? Here is a look toward an answer via seven questions. To mark the Seattle Pride Parade’s 50th anniversary, intergenerational friends and family members share what’s changed over the decades. In a 2012 interview just months before her death, Chow said if she could save even one child from feeling bad because they were gay, “I would have succeeded in my last crusade.
” The state’s road to same-sex marriage was one of incremental steps and setbacks, which played out in courtrooms, legislative chambers and, eventually, weddings. Although Pride celebrations have become more mainstream, we still have a long fight ahead for true liberation, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes. From a Canlis chef to a socc.
