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Saturday, May 31
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Source: KOMO4 TV , Seattle Post Intelligencer blog , The Stranger's SLOG Sirbrina Guerrero Photo via KOMO TV SEATTLE -- A local lesbian couple says a peck on the lips nearly got the two of them tossed out of a Mariners game. The women said they were singled out by a security guard simply because they kissed each other. Sirbrina Guerrero says she only gave her date a peck, but a mother sitting with her son complained to security and, as a result, they were told to stop or leave. "And he (the guest services agent) goes 'there's a lady whose son says he saw you guys making out, and...
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Friday, May 23
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer For the first time since 1977, there won't be a pride march or any other organized pride event other than bar parties on Seattle's Capitol Hill in June. Michael Wells, head of Broadway's business association, told the Seattle P-I that he does not know of any events planned for the street this year. Wells said bars on Capitol Hill might suffer from the absence of a pride march on Broadway. But he said gays and lesbians would probably go to Capitol Hill after the downtown parade and Seattle Center festival that Sunday. Anna Bacler, operations manager...
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Thursday, May 15
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Source: KING5 TV SEATTLE -- Verbena Health, a non-profit that provides health services focused on lesbians in Seattle, has announced that it will temporarily halt all services while charges of embezzlement are investigated. The head of Verbena Health has been accused of helping herself with the group's donated money. KING5 reports the Seattle non-profit devoted to helping women filed a report of embezzlement with Seattle Police claiming its executive director "has been misusing company accounts." Vebena has posted this notice on its website : It is with great sadness that the Board...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sheryl Swoopes Seattle Storm photo For a long time, too long, Sheryl Swoopes kept her secret, and then it got to be overwhelming," writes Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports columnist Jim Moore. But then he gets to tell an inspiring story about an athlete -- something that sports writers do every day, but this the kind of story that too few sports writers have the opportunity to pen. "In late October of 2005, the WNBA's best player broke the news to ESPN The Magazine , admitting she was gay." As Moore points out, that's hardly the most significant...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer , Seattle Times The Very Rev. Robert Taylor resigned Friday as dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, amidst acclaim for his accomplishments but following months of controversy over staff shakeups and parish leadership. Taylor came to "The Holy Box," as the cathedral is often nicknamed, in 1999 with a background that put him instantly in the news. He had been an anti-apartheid student leader in South Africa, became a protege of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and is a partnered gay man. Taylor said in a letter to church members that he was resigning because...
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Monday, February 04
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Source: KIRO 7 News SEATTLE -- Two men were attacked on Capitol Hill early Saturday morning nearly the corner of Denny Way and Olive Way, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. The men said they believe they were targeted because they are gay. Link: KIRO7 video of report The attack comes just two days after King County prosecutors and neighborhood activists announced a publicity campaign to raise awareness of possible hate crimes in the neighborhood. [ see seaQwa Qnews summary ] Thomas Colonna and Brad Crelia told KIRO that they were about a block from home when a car nearly ran them over. They said...
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Saturday, February 02
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Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer and Seattle Times During a press conference at Gay City offices, King County Prosecutor displays the new hate crimes awareness poster being put up around Capitol Hill. photo: Ken Lambert, Seattle Times Mike Hogan, a deputy King County prosecutor, walked into a pet store on Capitol Hill on Friday and asked to put up a poster in the window. "We're going to make the bad people go away," he said. Hogan and other volunteers began putting up the posters, which were unveiled at a Friday news conference, in the neighborhood in response to a spate of anti...
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Wednesday, January 09
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Source: by Robin Evans, seaQwa's Qblog with additional material from Seattle Times Ann Levinson, one of four women -- all GSBA members -- bidding to buy the Storm WNBA franchise got a rousing welcome today from the gay business group seaQwa photo: Robin Evans The stars of today's GSBA luncheon were to have been the three powerhouse legislators who arrived to talk about the upcoming session. [see previous Qblog post ] And they eventually got their warm ovations, but before they were introduced, GSBA president Louise Chernin introduced the women of the hour, long-time GSBA member Anne Levinson...
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Sunday, January 06
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Source: Seattle Times A new book on the late Seattle architect Lionel Pries goes a long way to restore some of the honor that once surrounded his name. Pries was one of the region's foremost architectural designers and instructors, an old-school Beaux Arts advocate who also led the way in Northwest modernism, designing some of the region's most distinctive and progressive houses in the 1930s to '50s. Pries (pronounced Prees) taught at the University of Washington during that time, helping shape the thinking and the skills of many of the Northwest's top architects. But after 30 years...
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Wednesday, January 02
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Source: Olympian If 2007 was a good year for the legal rights of same-sex couples in Washington state, advocates say they want the next year to bring even more rights -- and some responsibilities -- to the state's domestic partnership registry. The registry has drawn 3,161 same-sex couples and unmarried heterosexual couples to sign up since it went into effect July 22. Considered the first step toward legal same-sex marriage, it provides about 10 legal rights enjoyed by married couples, including rights of visitation in hospitals and certain rights to participate in end-of-life decisions. "We...
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Saturday, December 08
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Source: Seattle Gay News Seattle's LGBT Community Center will likely close its doors at its current 5,000-6,000 square foot location at 1115 East Pike St. by the end of the year. The current location has been a popular meeting place for the region's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community and a lifeline for newcomers seeking information as well as community access, gallery space and meeting areas. In an exclusive interview with SGN staff, Board Co-President Breanna Anderson said the Center's financial situation, including debts over $30,000, have required the small nonprofit...
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Thursday, December 06
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Source: Seattle Times A Capitol Hill institution important to Seattle's lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community is in financial trouble and likely will close by year's end at its current location. The Seattle LGBT Community Center , which last year stepped forward to keep a gay Pride march and festival on Capitol Hill after the traditional sponsors moved the annual event downtown, is struggling to pay its suppliers. The revelations cap a year that witnessed the financial troubles of Seattle Out and Proud, another gay-focused nonprofit group and the traditional sponsor of Seattle's...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Wearing sparkles in his faux hawk for the occasion, David Briggs shook one of the last cocktails behind the bar at Manray on Thursday night. Though the bar will be open for a short time Friday evening -- "until the liquor runs out," Briggs said -- this was the going-away party. Or goodbye party. Briggs, the manager at the Capitol Hill bar, wasn't quite sure. "I know. What is it?" he said. "Good-something. There's nothing good about it." It's the last in a week of last calls for the block on East Pine Street, between Belmont...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: Bay Area Reporter by David Lamble In his evocative new film Kurt Cobain About a Son, A.J. Schnack strips away the spin, the buzz and the dead skin of tabloid TV, and essentially reintroduces us to a guy who for an all-too-brief moment allowed some of us to fall back in love with rock n roll. The core of the film consists of audio chats between the singer/songwriter and Rolling Stone editor Michael Azerrad, illustrated with a soundtrack of the bands that make up Cobain's musical roots, illustrated with a Koyaanisqatsi -like montage of everyday moments gathered in the three cities (Aberdeen...
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Wednesday, November 28
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Forwalt went to the community meeting Tuesday night to see what was going to be done about a recent spate of anti-gay attacks around Seattle, particularly in the city's traditionally gay Capitol Hill neighborhood. "From what I've read and heard, I don't feel safe anymore," Forwalt said at a Broadway Performance Hall forum organized by Capitol Hill businesses as well as the LGBT Community Center and the Seattle Commission on Sexual Minorities. He and about 200 others left with no clear answers Seattle Police Capt. Paul McDonaugh, head...
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Wednesday, November 21
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer A nightclub where three people were shot early Monday was already facing sanctions against its liquor license for repeatedly allowing minors into the bar, according to the state Liquor Control Board. Seattle police were investigating the 1:30 a.m. shooting inside Sugar Nightclub at 916 E. Pike St. The shots were fired after a fight on the dance floor and left three wounded: a 22-year-old man shot in the abdomen, a 20-year-old man shot in the wrist and an 18-year-old girl shot in the leg, police said. The shooter fled before police arrived. Mayor Greg Nickels pledged...
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Tuesday, November 20
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Source: Seattle Times The only thing worse than a woman scorned? A drag queen told to clean up her act. But that's one thing David Richart did in his first week as executive director of the Lifelong AIDS Alliance in Seattle. He got the job one day, went to the National Conference on AIDS the next, then came back to Seattle last Tuesday to begin contract negotiations with Glamazonia, the reigning queen of Lifelong's signature fundraiser, Gay Bingo. It wasn't pretty. Staffers were asked to undergo anti-harassment training, and Glammie (aka Thom Hubert) was included. Richart asked Glammie...
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Saturday, November 17
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer The disappointing failure of an experimental [ see Qblog posts ] AIDS vaccine will provoke reflection on future research. It should also spur wider use of established tools for containing infectious diseases. In the vaccine test, HIV infections unexpectedly appear to have increased among those receiving the vaccine rather than a placebo. Early speculation has centered on the possibility that a version of the cold virus used in delivering AIDS genes could have played a role. Scientists may learn valuable lessons for vaccine formulation. We hope vaccine research...
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Friday, November 16
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Source: Telegraph (London) [ed note: Apparently, Hutcherson finally got someone to listen to his story about taking the microphone during the public comment period at Microsoft's shareholder meeting. See Pity poor Hutch in Qblog .] A black conservative Christian pastor of an evangelical megachurch has vowed to take over Microsoft by packing it with new shareholders who will vote against the company's policy of championing gay rights. The Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former Dallas Cowboys linebacker, heads the Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, home of Microsoft. He told Microsoft executives...
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Thursday, November 15
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Source: Bay Area Reporter San Francisco -- At bus stops around town commuters will find ads plugging a mobile phone service that are a ringing endorsement for marriage equality. Using mashed-up text on different color grids the ads read "yo wassupport gay marriage." The campaign is to promote progressive telecommunications company Working Assets' new Credo Mobile phone service. The text at the bottom of the ads calls on phone users with left-leaning politics to sign up. "When you have a credo you stand for something," read the ads. "Join Credo Mobile and help change...
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Wednesday, November 14
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Source: Puget Sound Business Journal and Amazon.com Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. said it's launching a new jewelry collection aimed at lesbians and gays. The "Love and Pride" collection will carry jewelry and fashion accessories that "combine beautiful, innovative designs with powerful messages of equality, diversity and tolerance," according to the online retailer (NASDAQ: AMZN). There will be about 150 items in the collection, ranging in price from $30 to $5,000 and including rings, watches, necklaces, bracelets and earrings for men and women. The Love & Pride boutique...
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Wednesday, November 14
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Source: Seattle Times and CTV Seattle -- Volunteers in a failed worldwide AIDS-vaccine study headed by Seattle researchers will be told whether they were given the experimental vaccine -- and may face a higher risk of getting HIV than those who got a placebo. Merck & Co. -- the developer of the vaccine -- and academic researchers from the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and elsewhere said they would "unblind" the study, meaning everyone would find out who got the real shot and who got a placebo injection. "All study volunteers will be encouraged...
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Friday, November 09
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Source: Seattle Times A Seattle woman who claimed she was antagonized and harassed because of her sexual orientation at the Goodyear store where she worked and then was demoted after she complained about it has been awarded $4.4 million by a King County jury. Sheffield, 47, began working for Goodyear in Seattle in 1994 as a sales representative and received promotions until she was made store manager of a Goodyear store near Northgate in 1999, according to the suit filed last year. According to the suit, Sheffield neither hid nor flaunted her sexual orientation until her former manager encouraged...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Volunteers in the Seattle arm of an international AIDS vaccine clinical trial recently halted because of safety concerns have decidedly mixed feelings about participating. "If I had known this vaccine could diminish my overall immunity (to HIV), I definitely would not have signed up," said one 40-year-old West Seattle man who participated in one of three studies. The studies, coordinated in Seattle but done all around the world, were halted in September when it was discovered that those vaccinated had higher rates of HIV infection. "I wanted to...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle Evidence is building that an experimental AIDS vaccine given to 1,500 volunteers not only failed to protect those who received it, but may have put some of them at higher risk of contracting HIV than those who were given a placebo. At a Seattle meeting held Wednesday to discuss the latest findings, vaccine experts wrestled with the complex questions raised by the disappointing early results of the study, first disclosed by drugmaker Merck & Co. nearly seven weeks ago. Enrollment in the study was halted at the time, but researchers are still tracking the HIV status...
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Wednesday, November 07
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Source: seaQwa Qnews (includes material from Seattle Times ) Both out candidates for Seattle City Council easily won reelection in Tuesday's election. Candidates for local office in Seattle run in city-wide elections a non-partisan ticket. All voters in the city can vote for each of the council positions. Tom Rasmussen ran unopposed to retain his seat for a second four-year term. A longtime advocate for seniors, Rasmussen was director of the Mayor's Office of Senior Services before joining the council. Sally Clark faced her second election since being appointed in 2006 to a vacant seat...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: Associated Press via Seattle Times (includes background material from Seattle Post-Intelligencer , Seattle Times , and Washington Blade ) SEATTLE (AP) A Justice Department lawyer has asked a federal appeals court panel in Seattle to uphold the "don't ask don't tell" policy in the case of Margaret Witt. She's an Air Force nurse forced out of her job because she's a lesbian. Attorney Jonathan Cohn argued that gays in the armed forces could be disruptive. The lawyer for Witt, James Lobsenz, says the law is unfair. He says a heterosexual child molester is allowed to...
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Tuesday, October 30
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Source: Seattle Times by Danny Westneat Tim Burgess is the ideal candidate for Seattle city politics. Except for one very big thing. It's a thing that goes to the core of his being. And a thing his city happens to be famously queasy about. "I'm open about it," he says. "My world views, my political views, my lifetime of working for equality and justice -- I can't deny it's shaped by my religious beliefs." Insert sound of chairs creaking as Seattle shifts nervously in its seat. Burgess is the leading contender to depose an incumbent Seattle politician in this...
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Thursday, October 25
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Source: Seattle PI Shortly before 4 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 22, Marcus Wilson called 911, reporting that a man on a Capitol Hill street threatened to kill him because he is gay. It was the latest of seven incidents in Seattle since June -- five of them in Seattle's traditionally gay neighborhood -- in which the victims said they were threatened or attacked at least in part because of their gay sexual orientation. While that number of incidents citywide isn't larger than usual, it has alarmed some in the gay community. Michael Hogan, the King County deputy prosecutor specializing in...
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Thursday, October 25
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Source: Seattle Times In Seattle's nastiest political campaign of the season, incumbent council member David Della provided ammunition to NARAL Pro-Choice Washington and the Seattle Gay News to attack challenger Tim Burgess for working with a "radical right" group. The two groups accused Burgess at a Wednesday news conference of writing letters opposing abortion and gay and lesbian rights for his company's former client, Concerned Women for America. NARAL obtained the letters from Della's campaign. Burgess has maintained that he's pro-choice and favors gay marriage rights...
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