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On the List | Capitol Hill Pride Weekend including Trans* Pride, Pridefest, Dyke March — Plus, 48th Volunteer Park Criterium

Happy Pride Weekend 2015, Capitol Hill. There is a lot of LGBTQ celebration to be part of plus a few great events like the annual Volunteer Park Criterium. Have fun. Pedal quickly. Be proud.

  • Friday — Trans* Pride Seattle March and Celebration — Broadway and Cal Anderson (info)
    This event will follow the success we have built over the last two years! Trans* Pride March assembles at 5pm and steps off at 6pm from the north part Seattle Central Community College Followed by a celebration in Cal Anderson Park featuring speakers and performers from 7pm to 10pm. We will host community tables again this year featuring groups and organizations that are Trans lead or serve trans communities.

  • Saturday — Pridefest Capitol Hill — Cal Anderson (info)
    Includes Prom Dress Rugby!

    Includes Prom Dress Rugby!

    Back for a third year, PrideFest Capitol Hill has two stages–one with family and all ages programming and a DJ stage and a beer garden for the rest of us. Join us in Cal Anderson Park and 11th Avenue for another fun year of PrideFest Capitol Hill – we’ll post updates as we have ’em! Join us for our favorite thing of all, drag queen storytime! This year we’re planning on doing TWO sessions (each with 2 queens), most likely to start and end our family programming (1-1:30pm and 3:30-4pm).poster-pridefestcapitolhill

  • Saturday — Capitol Hill Pride Festival March and Rally — Broadway (info)
    A community festival march and rally celebrating diversity and community pride, remembering Stonewall and local history. The festival is open to everyone, LGBT, straight and anyone of any background. Live local Music, Food and Entertainment with over 150 booths of restaurants non-profits, businesses and artists. New in 2015:
    March rom Seattle Central Campus to Main Stage on Harrison. “Never Forget” 1969 Stonewall with speakers and history. The Capitol Hill Pride Festival March will be an all ages, all orientations, all gender/transgender civic march with no fees open to the public. The march has no fees as the Directors of the festival feel an individual should not have to pay a fee to march, demonstrate or show civic and community pride.
  • Saturday — The Seattle Dyke March — Broadway (info)
    The 2015 Seattle Dyke March is on Saturday June 27th. Rally from 5-7pm at the Seattle Central Community College Plaza at Broadway Ave E and E Pine St. The March steps off at 7pm to go around Capitol Hill and back to the Plaza.993922_592084907479682_64494430_n-400x300 (1)
  • Saturday — Volunteer Park Criterium (info)

    Racer Chris Soelling sent CHS these details of the day of cycling planned for Volunteer Park on Saturday including thousands of dollars in race prizes — and a free kiddie race:
    1975 Racing in the StreetsThe Cucina Fresca Cycling Team, a Seattle based bicycle racing team, is putting on the Volunteer Park Criterium Bicycle Race on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at Volunteer Park, Capitol Hill, Seattle. 

    As best we can tell, this is the 48th annual edition of the race, starting in at least 1967.  It features multiple “Criterium” style races, which are technical, high speed bike races on a closed circuit, this one around the Volunteer Park loop, approximately .8 of a mile each lap.  The races typically last from 30 minutes to an hour with riders competing for the overall win and intermediate prizes called “primes.”  There are prizes of more than $5,000.  Riders race in separate categories, from beginning amateur to professional cyclists, with separate races for each category, including pro women as well as amateur women’s races.  There is even a free kiddies race at 11:45 am.

    Volunteer Park will be closed to traffic all day, because the races start at 8 am.  This is one of only two or three bike races within the Seattle City limits, and has some of the best spectator viewing, because you can watch from the Asian Art Museum, the water tower, and other good vantage points around the course as cyclists reach speeds of 40 + miles an hour on the closed circuit.

    The racing is not without risk as well.  I attach a photo taken from the race in 1974 or 1975, when I crashed and was caught on camera going down.  I hope to not do that this year.

For more things to do on and around Capitol Hill — or to add your own event — check out the CHS Calendar.

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Marley
Marley
8 years ago

The Crit is a super fun, family friendly event to check out, even if you’re not into cycling. To see the raw athleticism at all levels is awesome- plus cheering them on (even when you only know one or two of the racers) is really fun and helpful to those racing. I’d especially encourage you to check out the women’s and juniors races, which might give a different face to cycling than you’ve seen before. (Cat 4 Women are at 9:30, Juniors at 12:00.)