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Capitol Hill man charged in Pride baseball bat attack on ‘America First’ livestreamers

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A scene from one of the livestreams that captured Saturday’s incident

Livestreamers were busy around the Hill during Pride including Friday night’s Trans Pride event in Volunteer Park

A 39-year-old Capitol Hill man has been charged with second degree assault for swinging a baseball bat as he was hit by pepper spray during a tangle with livestreamers provoking crowds in the middle of the neighborhood’s Pride festivities Saturday night.

CHS reported here on the incident just north of Cal Anderson Park as groups clashed with the “America First ” livestreamers amid reports of tossed eggs and assaults against officers.

Police reported the melee under control within minutes.

Prosecutors have charged Hunter Hancock with second degree assault in the case.

“Disagreements, no matter how significant, do not justify the use of potentially deadly force,” prosecutors write.

In its records, SPD reports the livestreamers were causing discord amid the festivities.

“While people were trying to celebrate Pride a second group arrived and antagonized the group at Cal Anderson,” one report reads.

Another SPD report describes the baseball bat incident:

Police interviewed witnesses including the reported victims — two men, aged 44 and 37 — but gathered the most important evidence from video of the fight:

Prosecutors say the Capitol Hill man was ordered held on $35,000 bail. Records show he is currently free on bond. Police say Hancock has no criminal convictions in the state. He has not yet entered a plea on the charge.

The incident marred a weekend of celebration across Capitol Hill and Seattle as an estimated 300,000 people celebrated Pride.

 
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CHS Pics | 100 more scenes from Capitol Hill Pride 2026

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Seattle’s 2026 Pride added to a summer of celebration in the city.

In a year that marked 20 years since the Pride parade outgrew Broadway, city officials say some 300,000 people celebrated across Seattle and on Capitol Hill through the weekend including somewhere around 30,000 on Capitol Hill Saturday for the PrideFest street festival and events like the annual Dyke March. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | 10 pictures from a weekend of Pride on Capitol Hill

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We will have many, many more soon but here are 10 scenes from the weekend’s Pride celebrations on Capitol Hill including the annual PrideFest street festival on Broadway, the Dyke March, Prom Dress Rugby at Cal Anderson, and Friday night’s Trans Pride celebrations in Volunteer Park. Happy Pride.


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One arrested after assaults, egg-tossing in midst of Capitol Hill Pride festivities — UPDATE: Police report

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Live streamers were active in the area through the day’s festivities

Seattle Police took at least one person into custody after a group was reported assaulting people and tossing eggs at officers in a disturbance on the north side of Cal Anderson Park in the middle of Pride festivities Saturday night.

Multiple units were called to the disturbance just after 7 PM near 10th Ave and E Barbara Bailey Way where officers reported the assaults were underway and a crowd of about 50 people had formed in the altercation involving individuals reportedly armed with a baseball bat and eggs. An officer was also reportedly hit by an “electronic noisemaker” thrown by one of the assault suspects during the melee as police moved in to bust up the disturbance. Continue reading →

Take a walk on Capitol Hill’s AIDS Memorial Pathway

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Forty-five years after the AIDS epidemic began, many still mourn lost community members and fight the stigma of a positive diagnosis. Today, an estimated 1.2 million Americans live with HIV — benefiting from improved medical care, yet still navigating life without a cure.

Above Capitol Hill Station, a 20-foot high sculpture made up of speakers creates an “X” above the plaza. Entitled ‘andimgonnamisseverybody,’ the piece is a backdrop to daily life in the neighborhood, from commutes to weekly farmers markets, and a central component of the AIDS Memorial Pathway.

Proposed by Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen in 2015, the AMP project got underway in 2017, beginning its fundraising, artwork selection and installation. It debuted five years ago on a hot and sunny Pride weekend on Capitol Hill.

“We wanted to have a visible site, a place that was physical and accessible that was relevant to the community,” Rasmussen tells CHS.

When the idea was first proposed, multiple locations were scouted throughout the city, but when Sound Transit confirmed the area north of Cal Anderson Park, above the light rail station, was available for local art installations, it seemed the perfect fit for an AIDS Memorial in the city.

“That’s our history — we were there. The gay bars were there, the community organizations were located on Broadway or Capitol Hill, the hospitals that treated those affected were all up there adjacent to or in the vicinity of that space,” Rasmussen reflected. “This is where people lived and died and were cared for.” Continue reading →

20 years after the Pride parade left Broadway, here’s a look at this year’s celebrations on Capitol Hill: Trans Pride, Dyke March, PrideFest street festival, and more

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Pride 1992 on Broadway (Image: comeoutseattle.org)

Twenty years ago, Seattle’s core celebration of its queer communities — the annual Pride parade — moved off Capitol Hill.

In 2026, the neighborhood will still swell with Pride as it celebrates around its rainbow crosswalks and everlasting core of gay bars and dance clubs.

Below, find a roster of 2026 Capitol Hill Pride events that highlight how much Seattle’s celebration has changed over the past two decades

Those 20 years have brought massive change to the city — and Capitol Hill, and an expansion of “the gayborhood” to areas across Seattle and the Puget Sound. Continue reading →

Switch: The Cuff is taking over Queer/Bar — a year after Queer/Bar sold off The Cuff

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With a Pike/Pine business couple ready to step away from the nightlife industry, there are some changes going on in Capitol Hill’s gay bar scene.

Queer/Bar is getting familiar new owners.

Seattle Gay Scene reports:

Every Pride, there’s pretty much always some kind of drama or big news…over the years, we’ve had Drag Queen Drama, and Seattle Pride Drama, and, Political Drama, and just general soap opera shenanigans. For Pride 2026, it’s a simpler kind of drama…it’s just the news that Queer Bar has been sold to the owners of The Cuff Complex.

Queer/Bar husband and husband owners Joey Burgess and Murf Hall tell the SGS they are ready for “a different chapter of life” and stepping away from nightclub ownership. They continue to hold Elliott Bay Book Company, Oddfellows, and The Gemini Room.

The dramatic turn of events comes a year after Burgess and Hall sold The Cuff to Scott Walent, who talked with CHS about his career in San Francisco as an events promoter and his hopes for restoring and protecting the 13th Ave leather bar.

Now Walent is stepping up to take 11th Ave’s Queer/Bar under his wing. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | A month of LGBTQIA2S+ love on Capitol Hill begins with Pride in the Park

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It has been 20 years since Pride outgrew Capitol Hill and the city’s annual parade moved to downtown Seattle.

Saturday’s Pride in the Park crowds in Volunteer Park marked the start of a month of festivities that will fill Capitol Hill — and Seattle — with a celebration of love. Continue reading →

Seattle Pride 2026 begins with Saturday’s Pride in the Park on Capitol Hill

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With the kind of stuff neighbors are up around Seattle parks, here’s three cheers for the neighbors of Volunteer Park where Saturday will bring the start of Seattle’s 2026 Pride festivities.

This year’s Pride in the Park will continue the growth of the annual event from its roots as a family picnic into a day of music and dancing in a full LGBTQIA2S+ celebration.

“Seattle Pride in the Park isn’t just another festival—it’s a full-on experience,” organizers say. “It’s where thousands of us come together to celebrate, dance, eat, shop, connect, and just be.” Continue reading →

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 →