Saturday, more than 300 volunteers spread out from Cal Anderson Park to take part in the annual Capitol Hill Clean Sweep and help tidy up our neighborhood streets.
Targeting Broadway and Pike/Pine, the event was also the first in a series of expanded Pride events this month on Capitol Hill.
You can view more images from the day on the CHS Facebook page.
Meanwhile in the Central District, participants fell just short of a record hopscotch attempt — but still had a pretty swell time.
Rainbows across Capitol Hill from Pride past
As we reported earlier this week, Saturday brings a first for Seattle as the Pride flag will fly above City Hall to mark the beginning of LGBTQ celebrations this month. From theseattlelesbian.com:
To commemorate the beginning of Pride Month, Seattle City Hall will raise the Pride Flag for the first time in its history. Mayor Mike McGinn and Senator Ed Murray will be on hand to mark the timely event, as will pioneers in the local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
The free event is open to the public and will take place at 4thAvenue and James Street at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 1.
Meanwhile, the call for the company that operates the business behind Seattle’s Space Needle to do the same has started again this summer. You can sign an online petition to show your support here.
Dr. Jen (Image: Ray Varga via Dr. Jen’s House of Beauty)
“I have a deep love of sparkly.”
That sparkly love is driving a reinvention underway inside a former E Pike head shop and Internet cafe. Dr. Jen’s House of Beauty should open its doors in its new home for the first time by late June — just as you start to feel a little blue that another Pride has come and gone.
“It has a strange shape inside and it’s a bit of a challenge working with it,” Dr. Jennifer Dietrich tells CHS about the buildout underway to create her new shop and laboratory at 617 E Pike. “I wanted to make it as sparkly as the other place was. And I wanted a really big lab space!”
CHS first made note of the Pike/Pine mad scientist of cosmetology when we visited her pop-up location inside Retail Therapy earlier this year. Dietrich’s Atomic Cosmetics and Xerion Skin Science lines have become super sexy in the skin care and makeup industry. She has her friends to thank, she says.
“I started the whole thing about five or six years ago when I found out all the expensive shit I was buying was really, really toxic,” Dietrich said. Helping backstage with local burlesque and drag performers also opened Dietrich’s eyes.
“I would see these girls — and what they put on their faces — and I was horrified.” Continue reading
Not one but two family events on Capitol Hill for Pride 2013 (Image: CHS)
As the causes and the community around being LGBTQ in Seattle continue to change, grow and expand, the 7th annual Seattle PrideFest is prepping for its biggest year yet — including even more fun and celebration on Capitol Hill.
“Everything this year we’re trying to do bigger and better since we have *a lot* to celebrate,” said festival director Egan Orion. “We want the community to get amped up since we passed such a huge milestone last year.”
To capitalize on R-74’s big approval last year, PrideFest is playing of a same-sex marriage theme for its Gay Day of Service, with the appropriate official tagline “We Do.” On June 1st, PrideFest is teaming up with Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce to host a street cleaning community service project.
