Courtesy of Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights, Pacific Northwest Historical Documents, Digital Collections of the University of Washington Libraries.įlyer produced by the Northwest AIDS Foundation with funding from the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health's AIDS Prevention Project in 1986 as part of the "Rules of the Road" safer sex campaign. Courtesy of Don Wallen: An American Still Life, Modern Photographers Collection, Digital Collections of the University of Washington Libraries.įlyer produced by Citizens to Retain Fair Employment in the successful effort tot defeat Initiative 13 in the 1978 General Election. Gay men and lesbians celebrating Gay Pride on Jat Seattle Center's International Fountain in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City. This is a gateway to scores of Documents and photographs from LGBTQ Special Collections and Archival Resources of the University of Washington Libraries,the Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Project, and the private collections of Tim Burak and Roger Winters. Here are brief descriptions of more than thirty of Seattle and King County's most important LGBTQ Activist Organizations, listed according to the decade of their founding. Watch the Video Oral History interviews with activists who have long served the LGBTQ communities. Start with the Brief History of LGBTQ Activism in Seattle by Kevin McKenna and Michael Aguirre.Įxplore the Timeline of key events in the history of LGBTQ activism both in Seattle and King County and nationwide. This project was supported, in part, by 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax. The Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project and the University of Washington Libraries are generously sharing their collections. Kevin McKenna coordinates this special section which is made possible by grants from the History Department Digital History Fellows program and the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. Courtesy of Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection, Digital Collections of the University of Washington Libraries. 1950 at the Garden of Allah in Downtown Seattle.
A drag wedding ceremony of draq queen Jackie Starr to Bill Scott with maid of honor Skippy LaRue, in female drag, and best man Nick Arthur, in male drag, c.