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2025 Capitol Hill Pride Weekend: Trans Pride in Volunteer Park, PrideFest on Broadway

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This weekend, there will be Pride celebrations across Capitol Hill even as challenges in Seattle, across the nation, and around the world cast their shadows. Two major celebrations will lead the way as Friday’s Trans Pride Seattle rally and party again fills Volunteer Park and Saturday’s PrideFest Capitol Hill spans five blocks of Broadway, Denny, and Cal Anderson Park. Both events are free to attend.

  • FRIDAY — TRANS PRIDE SEATTLE — 5 – 10 PM VOLUNTEER PARK: Friday’s event runs from 5 to 10 PM and will fill the Volunteer Park amphitheater stage with speakers and performers: Now in our twelfth year, Trans Pride Seattle stands as a radiant testament, honoring and carrying the torch of our Transcestors who originated Pride as a means of both resistance and cultural communion. We gather here in celebration of Trans life. To be Trans is to be powerful. In each of us is the power that comes from dreaming, from forging new paths, from becoming. We are not bound by the limitations of what is, but illuminated by the infinite possibilities of what we can create. What profound gifts we bring to this world. Our celebration is survival and our survival is celebration. We gather here in vibrant defiance of the violence, dehumanization, and political attacks on our lives. We gather because we dare to imagine—and demand—a world where all people can live truly, safely, and freely. Trans Pride is not just a festival. It is a declaration: We are divine. We are powerful. We are the past, the present, and the future. We are unstoppable. More: transprideseattle.org Continue reading →

20th anniversary HUMP! coming to Dan Savage’s neighborhood this weekend

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Capitol Hill’s very own Dan Savage is bringing a neighborhood Pride approach to this year’s 20th edition of his annual HUMP! film festival that was born in the days before “amateur” was the most popular category on Pornhub and has grown into a showcase of “unapologetically human, sex-positive short films—each five minutes or less—crafted by independent filmmakers and everyday people from around the world.”

With planned smaller neighborhood screenings in Seattle for the 20th anniversary year of the festival, of course the sex columnist/podcaster/film buff is bringing HUMP! to his home turf. HUMP! is coming to 15th Ave E’s Quality Flea Center this Saturday: Continue reading →

After skirmishes ‘on the frontlines at Denny Blaine, Cal Anderson, and recent events at City Hall,’ the Pride flag flies above Seattle

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(Image: City of Seattle)

City officials and community leaders gathered at Seattle City Hall this weekend to again raise the colors of the Pride flag above the city.

This June’s Pride celebrations come amid a rush of recent challenges to the city’s queer communities.

Jaelynn Scott of Capitol Hill’s Lavender Rights Project acknowledged “the leadership of the young people who were on the frontlines at Denny Blaine, Cal Anderson, and recent events at City Hall” in celebrating the flag raising event. “We are so proud of you,” Scott said to the assembled crowd. “Our liberation will be led by this movement of youth right now.”

Saturday’s ceremony follows political attacks on Seattle and Mayor Bruce Harrell over the city’s handling of Christian fundamentalist and anti-trans rallies that have provoked counter-protests and demonstrations on Capitol Hill and at City Hall. Continue reading →

A *way* better use for Capitol Hill Parks — Pride starts next week with Cal Anderson clean-up, Volunteer Park celebration

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A better use for Capitol Hill’s parks will be here next week as Pride celebrations begin across Seattle. Saturday brings the start of the 2025 festivities with the annual Pride in the Park party in Volunteer Park:

Seattle Pride in the Park is back and louder than ever on Saturday, June 7, from noon to 7 p.m. at Volunteer Park!

This free, family-friendly LGBTQIA2S+ event brings together community, culture, and celebration with: Continue reading →

Fundraiser: Organizer of PrideFest Capitol Hill and Seattle Center celebrations says some sponsors are pulling out

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A PrideFest 2025 scene on Broadway

The producer of the events that fill Cal Anderson, Broadway and the Seattle Center with Pride celebrations every June is trying to close a $75,000 gap amid what it says is a nationwide downturn in support for LGBTQ organizations and queer causes and “sponsorship challenges across the country for organizations like ours.”

“Already, we are seeing a loss of about 1/3 of our sponsorship funding (around $225,000 total, or $75,000 down as of April 1),” the call for support reads. “At PrideFest, we are committed to throwing big, beautiful events that are free for all, but it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce such a large event well, to pay artists, and to make it safe for everyone.”

You can give here.

PrideFest and director Egan Orion organize the annual Pride weekend events that include the party around the Seattle Center fountain that follows the city’s annual Pride parade and the street festival that precedes it and fills Broadway and Cal Anderson with vendors, performances, and fun. Here is a look at the 2024 PrideFest festivities on Capitol Hill. Continue reading →

QPF 2025: Time to start making your Pike/Pine music festival plans

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Arrietty the Elf at QPF 2024 (Image: Queer/Pride Festival)

With Seattle’s short-lived false spring drizzled away, let’s think of warmer summer days — and a neighborhood push to grow an annual Pride event into one of those music festivals whose lineup drop you look forward to during the Pacific Northwest’s dreariest days.

The Queer/Bar family of businesses is planning another year of growth for the three-day Queer/Pride Festival with 2025 headliners Tinashe, Lil’ Kim, Rebecca Black, Countess Luann, and Heidi Montag. The festival takes place on 11th Ave on Friday, June 27th through Sunday, June 29th. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Broadway, Cal Anderson, and Volunteer Park filled with crowds and love as Seattle celebrates its 50th Pride

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PrideFest filled Broadway

The Dyke March mixed with the PrideFest street festival Saturday night on Broadway in a familiar and fun scene in the middle of Capitol Hill’s annual June celebration of queer community, culture, love, and, yes, commerce.

While Pride 2024 weekend didn’t have the sunny, blue skies of 2023, crowds still filled Broadway, Cal Anderson Park, and the AIDS Memorial Plaza where organizers also added Drag Queen Storytime and a pet drag show to the mix.

The night before, a sliver sky also greeted the 2024 edition of Trans Pride Seattle to its home this year in Volunteer Park where organizers at the Gender Justice League continued a grassroots ethos, forgoing corporate sponsorship, and sustaining the annual rally and party “to honor and carry the torch of our Transcestors who originated Pride as a means of both resistance and cultural communion.”

Friday’s Trans Pride

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Capitol Hill Pride: Seattle’s 50th Pride weekend brings Trans Pride to Volunteer Park, Seattle Dyke March and PrideFest street festival to Broadway

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Pride in the Park from the air as Volunteer Park got the 2024 Pride season off to a solid start earlier this month

As the city prepares to mark Seattle’s 50th Pride celebration with Sunday’s annual downtown parade, Capitol Hill will again be busy with events marking the neighborhood’s importance in queer history and community. Here is a look at the Pride 2024 weekend ahead. Happy Capitol Hill Pride.

FRIDAY JUNE 28th — TRANS PRIDE SEATTLE: The city’s celebration of Trans Pride will take another turn in Volunteer Park this year after moving into the park last year to mark its 10th anniversary. While the performers have increased in stature and social media status, organizers at the Gender Justice League have continued a grassroots ethos, forgoing corporate sponsorship, and sustaining the annual rally and party “to honor and carry the torch of our Transcestors who originated Pride as a means of both resistance and cultural communion.” You can view a list of scheduled performers and speakers and learn more about Friday’s event here. — More info on the CHS Calendar

SATURDAY JUNE 29th — PRIDEFEST CAPITOL HILL: This is the big street festival and fair in Cal Anderson Park you’ve been waiting for. Organizers are back in 2024 with plans to close Broadway from John to Roy, turn Barbara Bailey Way into a festival street, and fill Cal Anderson with Drag Queen Storytime, a pet drag show, and the PrideFest Capitol Hill Dance Party with C89.5 DJs to close it all down. — More info on the CHS Calendar

SATURDAY JUNE 29th — SEATTLE DYKE MARCH: The annual Dyke March is moving back onto Broadway as organizers have grown their group into the new Seattle Dyke Alliance with a mission that extends beyond the popular march. After moving into Volunteer Park last year, the march is getting back to its roots and marking its 30th year with a rally from 5 to 7 PM in the Seattle Central plaza followed by the traditional march through the neighborhood and up Broadway to mingle with the PrideFest festivities. The march echoes with the decades of fights for rights and safety in the community. No worries, the Dykes on Bikes will also be on hand. “This is a protest – no police escort,” organizers write. “Know the risks, see you there.”  — More info on the CHS Calendar

JUNE 29th AND 30th — PRIDE WEEKEND — Varies!: Capitol Hill’s Pride weekend parties and beer gardens along Pike/Pine and Broadway have grown in scale with streets closed to traffic and multiple stages. As usual, Sunday’s big parade takes place downtown.

A scene from the 2023 PrideFest street festival on Broadway

 

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A Pride Punk Rock Flea Market on Capitol Hill and what comes next for the old 15th Ave E QFC

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The old 15th Ave QFC went back into motion this weekend after a handful of years blocke-off by fences and plywood thanks to corporate cost cutting, city politics, and the long haul to developing large-scale housing in Seattle.

The Punk Rock Flea Market didn’t seem to care about all that as vendors filled the old grocery store Saturday and even spilled out into the surface parking lot destined to eventually be part of the demolition that will make way for a planned 6-story, “S” design building with 170 new apartment units above 10,000 square feet of retail space and underground parking for 99 vehicles.

PFRM organizers have been overhauling the old grocery for weeks with a team of volunteers readying the space as the next short to mid to ???-term home for the roving flea market. This weekend’s debut market celebrated Pride and was open Saturday and Sunday featuring more than 150 vendors, organizers said.

Property owner and Capitol Hill developer Hunters Capital has been trying to keep the space activated and settled on the flea market as one solution as it finalizes the long cycles of paperwork and financing required to develop the property. Continue reading →

Check out ‘Mighty Realer – A Very Queer Art Show’ during tonight’s Capitol Hill Art Walk Pride edition

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Thursday is the Pride edition of the monthly Capitol Hill Art Walk with more than 20 studios, galleries, and venues officially participating — and the rest of the Hill unofficially participating as you enjoy a warm-ish June evening in the neighborhood.

A core to this month’s Art Walk will be on 11th Ave at the Vermillion art bar where the Mighty Realer queer arts showcase follows up on last year’s Mighty Real show.

The 2024 edition features artists including Anouk Rawkson, Jordan Christianson, Kerstin Graudins, David Van Der Linden, Casey Curran, Maybe, Jeff Legere, Tony Barnes, Kelly O, Richard Peacock, Christopher Ando, Julianee Mendoza, and Ruben David.

It is going to be so -er. Continue reading →