Transgender activists likewise fought for inclusion in Seattle’s nondiscrimination ordinances in the 1980s.
Gay Seattleites fought for nondiscrimination in the 1970s. Later, in 1893, they were declared a crime, and in the late 1960s, activists politically organized around same-sex intimacy. In the 1880s same-sex relations were of little concern to most residents. The story of LGBTQ Seattle is over 130 years in the making. Don Wallen Photographs, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections. Two gay men holding hands at Seattle Pride at Seattle Center, 1974. Don Paulson and Skippy La Rue Photgraph Collection, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections.Ĭover designed by Carl Juarez for Spring 1992 issue of Ecce Queer, a queer zine that ran in Seattle during the early 1990s. Charles Harbaugh Papers, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections.ĭrag queen Jackie Starr and Bill Scott wedding party, c. Letter published by the Freedom Day Committee, which organized the 1992 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Parade and Freedom Rally, announcing that Bisexual and Transgender would be included in the official name of the Pride Parade. Courtesy of the Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project. The Bailey-Boushay House was founded in 1992 to provide hospice care for AIDS patients as well as out-patient services. Outreach flyer for the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health’s AIDS Prevention Project and the Northwest AIDS Foundation’s “Rules of the Road” campaign, 1986. Courtesy of the Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project.Ī group of men belonging to Black and White Men Together, 1987. Group of women marching with the Berdache Society, an organization for Native American sexual and gender minorities, in the Gay Pride Parade, 1980. Victory party held by Citizens to Retain Fair Employment, celebrating the defeat of Initiative 13, November 7, 1978. Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections. Seattle Magazine cover of Peter Wichern, an openly gay businessman, published the same year that the Dorian Society was founded, 1967. Seattle Times article identifying Seattle’s “homosexual problem” - that too many openly gay people were residing in the city, September 21, 1966. The Double Header was the longest continuously operating gay bar in the United States, having opened in 1934, until it closed its doors on December 31, 2015.
Courtesy of Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project. The sign for the Casino Pool Hall, which opened in 1930 in Pioneer Square. Willis Sayre Photographs, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections. Courtesy of King County Superior Court.įrancis Renault, a vaudeville drag performer, 1907. Indictment of Stanley Wesley under the State of Washington’s recently passed sodomy law, 1893. Courtesy Robert H Miller Collection, Museum of History & Industry (Negative Number 20.5).
Gay Pride March through Downtown Seattle, 1977.