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A new rainbow landmark on Capitol Hill, application process begins for Pride Place ‘affordable, affirming housing for LGBTQIA+ seniors’

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The green roof is covered with vegetation and solar panels

There is another type of important Pride event happening this week on Capitol Hill.

Thursday, the application process for new Broadway affordable senior housing development Pride Place opened to interested residents. Move-ins are expected to begin in September. Hundreds are expected to apply for one of the building’s 118 studio and one-bedroom units neighboring queer dance club Neighbours.

Calling its project “affordable, affirming housing for LGBTQIA+ seniors in the heart of Capitol Hill, Seattle,” developer Community Roots Housing says it is working with community partner GenPride to put the final touches on the building this summer. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Capitol Hill Art Walk does Pride

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At Six of Pikes (Images: CHS)

Chophouse Row (Images: CHS)

Steve Gilbert Studio (Images: CHS)

Thursday night’s Capitol Hill Art Walk was just the start of a busy weekend of Pride-powered activities in the neighborhood. Make sure to check out details of Parke Diem and the Pride edition of the “second Saturday” On the Block 11th Ave street festival here.

On CHS’s walk Thursday night, we visited the JRAT show at the No Bad Days gallery, took in a little of the Palace of Peen art show at Passable, visited the Steve Gilbert Studio (hi, Steve), stopped through a pop-up DJ show at the SUM K-fashion shop, stopped in Six of Pikes Studio and Vermillion (happy 15th birthday, Vermillion), and browsed a queer marketplace at Chophouse Row. Pfew! Busy night. You can check through the Capitol Hill Art Walk listings at capitolhillartwalk.com to learn more.

Save your energy. There is plenty more Capitol Hill Pride still to come.

More images from Art Walk, below.

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CHS Pics | Pony spending Pride 2023 ‘on the surface of Mars’

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(Image: Pony)

Capitol Hill gay bar Pony can be hard to get into during any Pride but this June is extra challenging.

“It’s true that the Pony building currently appears to have been deposited on the surface of Mars,” the E Madison queer party spot quipped in a social media post this week. “It’s also true that we are continuing to serve drinks on Mars—you just have to go around to Union St and walk around the side of the building to get in.”

Pony, of course, isn’t really celebrating Martian Pride. CHS reported here in 2021 on owner Mark Stoner’s negotiations with the city to scooch over a smidge for the under-construction Madison bus rapid transit project.

Under the deal, the city acquired a 247-square-foot portion of the Pony property along E Madison as part of the $134 million+ RapidRide G project to provide speedy, regular Metro bus service in the busy corridor. Stoner told CHS at the time he had hoped to work out a trade with the city taking what it needed on the Madison side of the bar and Pony getting new ground on E Union but land swaps with the city are against the law. In the end, Pony’s patio got a little slimmer and the bar got some cash from the city.

Part of the deal for businesses up and down Madison through the years of construction are scenes like the one currently outside Pony as crews have ripped up pavement to do needed utility and infrastructure work along the route, put new temporary pavement down, and are again ripping the streets up as part of the construction process expected to wrap in 2024.

SDOT says the last steps include installing this new underground stormwater detention tank under 10th Ave, installing a new water main,repaving the street and rebuilding sidewalks. Then, later this year and into 2024, crews will start to install shelters, ORCA readers and rider information signs at the new RapidRide stops, and the platforms for the new center-running bus stations.

Pony, meanwhile, isn’t letting the lack of pavement get in the way of playing its part in Capitol Hill Pride festivities.

And another Capitol Hill extraterrestrial hangout is marking its fourth anniversary. Life on Mars opened on E Pike in June of 2019.

 

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CHS Pics | Seattle Pride in the Park starts a month of LGBTQIA+ celebration on Capitol Hill

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Pride 2023 on Capitol Hill got started over the weekend with a day of picnics and music in Volunteer Park kicking off the coming month of LGBTQ+ celebrations.

Just one year from the triumphant return of the neighborhood’s Pride celebrations to their rightful place in June following years of pandemic postponements, 2023 festivities began Saturday with the Seattle Pride in the Park festival, the updated version of the old Pride Picnic that now fills Volunteer Park’s amphitheater lawn with free music and dancing. The 2023 theme was Galactic Love — “all about celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community as one big, beautiful, extravagant galaxy.” The weekend also brought the traditional Pride neighborhood clean-up around Cal Anderson Park.

There are plenty more Capitol Hill Pride celebrations ahead. Check out our list below and find more on the CHS Calendar.

  • FRIDAY JUNE 23RD: TRANS PRIDE SEATTLE — Trans Pride Seattle got back on its feet in 2022 — but not in time to be part of celebrations in June. This year, the celebration of transgender freedom continues its new tradition of gathering in Volunteer Park with a Friday night rally and party. Continue reading →

QPF: Plans for ‘bigger and better’ Queer/Pride Festival in 2023 on Capitol Hill

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One of the biggest concerns amid the complaints around the annual Capitol Hill Block Party’s three-day domination of Pike/Pine is that the music festival can leave some of the neighborhood’s core communities and businesses out of the fun.

After years of focus on proposals to reshape the July music event, organizers of the Queer/Pride Festival June celebration of queer culture and Pride are, instead, embracing the Block Party route.

The 2023 QPF, as the producers are calling it, will take on closer to CHBP proportions. UPDATE: Burgess points out the footprint of the festival will remain constrained to 11th Ave — far from Block Party’s much larger footprint that extends across an area stretching from Broadway to 12th.

“QPF returns this summer bigger and better than ever,” producer Joey Burgess of the Queer/Bar family of businesses announced Tuesday about plans for the 2023 event. “We’re lighting up our stages with some of the hottest artists from around the world, and we’ve expanded our overall footprint to include a larger stage, bigger screens, and more food and beverage offerings.”

This week’s lineup announcement doesn’t quite rival the Block Party’s 2023 acts dropped last week — but the QPF party is clearly growing. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Triumphant September return readies Trans Pride Seattle for future Junes

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Volunteer Park and its new amphitheater proved a worthy host for the return of the annual Trans Pride celebration in Seattle. September also held up its end of the bargain.

Friday night on a gorgeous late summer Seattle night, hundreds gathered in the park for a return of the important LGBTQ celebration that organizers decided to move back to September to provide an easier logistical and financial restart after years of pandemic postponements.

CHS reported here on the effort to bring back Trans Pride Seattle and its move to Volunteer Park, a Capitol HIll setting with a long history providing a space and center for queer events and rallies including its part in Seattle’s first Pride celebrations in 1974. Continue reading →

Trans Pride Seattle returns with a September night for togetherness and freedom in Volunteer Park

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A scene from Trans Pride Seattle 2019

By Elizabeth Turnbull

By 2019, Trans Pride Seattle had grown into a surprisingly massive event with huge crowds rallying on Capitol Hill for a celebration of civil rights, love, and good times. 2020 brought the pandemic and a move to online-only events to mark traditions like Pride. 2021 came and went without an in-person Trans Pride celebration.

Now this year, it is time to rally together again but Trans Pride 2022 will be an event in transition, indeed. Seattle’s Gender Justice League has recovered in time to pull together a September version of the annual event that will bring a different take on the celebration. Moved to Volunteer Park, Trans Pride in 2022 will focus on being together, for this year at least, moving on from its past marching through the streets of the Hill. The police are a pain to work with, organizers say. Instead, Friday night, the crowds will come together to hear speakers and entertainers to enjoy a summer evening in Volunteer Park.

The event is designed to create a safe and celebratory space to bolster a sense of togetherness and freedom.

“Trans Pride in itself is just a beacon for the general trans community,“ Ganesha Gold Buffalo, a SafeHouse advocate with the Gender Justice League told CHS. ”And it allows us to gather in a space where we’re in a time of being disconnected from the community on a lot of different levels.” 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 →

Including the return of the Seattle Dyke March to Broadway, here’s a map of Capitol Hill’s major Pride weekend events

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The Dyke March will fully return for the first time since 2019

Source: City of Seattle

With traditions like the Seattle Dyke March back in the flesh on Broadway for the first time in years, Pride weekend on Capitol Hill is so busy, you’re going to need a map.

Fortunately, the good people at the Special Events Committee charged with organizing City Hall’s resources to help support Seattle’s incredibly busy schedule of major festivals and gatherings have created this mapping of street closures around the major Pride events across the Hill starting Friday night and continuing through Sunday’s big parade downtown. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Some celebrated Juneteenth in the Central District with a roller party — Get ready for Pride skate dancing this weekend on Capitol Hill

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As Seattle observes the holiday for the first time with a quiet Monday at City Hall, there was a wealth of Juneteenth celebrations across the city and the Central District Sunday including a day of roller skate dancing in Judkins Park.

The Juneteenth Celebration: Skate Party & Community Day was hosted by the Northwest African American Museum and included complimentary skate rentals for people to join the fun.

You’ll want to keep those wheels rolling. Pride on Capitol Hill will feature a roller party at the smooth and well paved AIDS Memorial Pathway Plaza on Saturday: Continue reading →