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CHS Pics | A Cal Anderson vigil for Club Q

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It has been more than six years since thousands of people including city and state officials gathered in Cal Anderson Park for a ceremony honoring the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history.

Saturday, a much smaller crowd of around one hundred or so people gathered in Cal Anderson for a vigil along the AIDS Memorial Pathway and the plaza above Capitol Hill Station to remember those shot and killed in this month’s hate attack on Colorado queer bar Club Q. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Pride returns to its rightful space on Capitol Hill

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With photographs by Ananya Mishra and Lisa Hagen Glynn

Against a backdrop of a nation’s eroding civil rights, Seattle came to Capitol Hill to celebrate freedom Saturday. The return in full of Pride celebrations in the neighborhood was also a celebration of doggie drag and cooling stations.

With bright sun and the first truly summer-like temperatures of 2022 in Seattle, thousands partied on Broadway at the street festival and in Pike/Pine at bar and restaurant celebrations and beer gardens as Pride weekend took its rightful place in June.

In 2021, concerns over the continued spread of COVID-19 pushed Capitol Hill celebrations into September. In 2020, the celebrations in the first months of the pandemic gave way to online gatherings and continued protest during a summer of demonstrations over Black Lives Matter and police violence.

There were many happy returns on the day. Saturday night, the Seattle Dyke March rallied for the first time in years at Seattle Central’s plaza and marched through Pike/Pine and Broadway again after going virtual during the pandemic. Continue reading →