Courtesy of the Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project. Victory party held by Citizens to Retain Fair Employment, celebrating the defeat of Initiative 13, November 7, 1978.
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Don Wallen Photographs, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections. Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections. Seattle Magazine cover of Peter Wichern, an openly gay businessman, published the same year that the Dorian Society was founded, 1967. Seattle Times article identifying Seattle’s “homosexual problem” - that too many openly gay people were residing in the city, September 21, 1966. The Double Header was the longest continuously operating gay bar in the United States, having opened in 1934, until it closed its doors on December 31, 2015. Courtesy of Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project. The sign for the Casino Pool Hall, which opened in 1930 in Pioneer Square. Willis Sayre Photographs, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections. Courtesy of King County Superior Court.įrancis Renault, a vaudeville drag performer, 1907. Indictment of Stanley Wesley under the State of Washington’s recently passed sodomy law, 1893. Courtesy Robert H Miller Collection, Museum of History & Industry (Negative Number 20.5). You can learn more at Pride March through Downtown Seattle, 1977. Pike/Pine lesbian bar the Wildrose is also facing an uphill battle as it has remained open under the COVID-19 restrictions while being buoyed by a community fundraising campaign. Neighbours is hoping to recover from months of closure and break-ins while R Place lost its lease and is on the hunt for a new home after 35 years on the Hill. E Madison’s Pony is hard at work overhauling its popular patio after a $250,000 deal with the city to make way for a coming bus transit project on the busy street.īigger challenges face the neighborhood’s dance venues. Union, meanwhile, isn’t the only LGBTQ+ nightlife venue undergoing important changes heading into spring and summer. The bar’s move echoes choices many in the neighborhood have made over the years to find new apartments and homes often within blocks of their previous addresses. Jay Inslee to add restaurant and hospitality workers to the list in the next phase of vaccine eligibility. Monday, advocates including the Seattle Restaurant Alliance announced a 3,500-name petition effort calling on Gov. Starting March 17th, Seattle’s Lumen Field mega site and clinics and pharmacies around the city will begin welcoming important new communities to the ranks of vaccine eligibility: essential workers including public transit workers, law enforcement and fire department personnel, and vital grocery, agriculture, and food processing workers - but not food and drink workers. Meanwhile, Union has new food and drink neighbors including Optimism Brewing, Metier, Soi, Gokan, Frankie and Jo’s, and the Renee Erickson trio of General Porpoise Doughnuts, Bar Melusine, and Bateau.įor Scheaffer and Hill gay bar legends Nathan Benedict, Steve Nyman - former owners of Inside Passage and Thumper’s - Opening under COVID-19 restrictions means Union customers will need to review the bar’s guide to requested etiquette during the ongoing pandemic including a request that customers remain masked when interacting with staff. The new tenant has swapped out the rock and the darkness for patio wood and Pride rainbows. “I hope that the community that we service and that has adopted us as a second home joins in the excitement of our ability to relocate and reopen,” Union partner Greg Scheaffer told CHS about the planned move back in September.īorn in the summer of 2018 at 14th and Union, the bar has reopened closer to the Pike/Pine core after an overhaul to the space most recently home to Portland export Sizzle Pie and its heavy metal-hued Dark Bar.
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Gay bar Union has completed a classic Capitol HIll move and reopened just four blocks from its first home in the neighborhood.