Since then Seattle Pride has never quite lost touch with its activist roots, even as it turned into a month of events and parties that ends with a parade through Downtown. The city's first official pride festival took place in 1977 when the mayor endorsed what was then called Gay Pride Week, just one year after Seattle voters narrowly defeated a measure to strip LGBTQ+ people of equal housing/voting rights. The early events were explicit civil rights protests in defense of sexual freedom, and couldn't have come at a more crucial time. at least according to some of the smartest drag queens we know, anyway. ![]() ![]() Seattle's Pride festival started small - the inaugural event in 1974 culminated with just 50 or so people dancing around/in Seattle Center's International Fountain - but has grown dramatically in the 45 years since it began, becoming one of the country's most popular LGBTQ+ events.
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