Seattle
Out and Proud takes
great pleasure in
the theme for the
2012 Seattle Pride
Parade, to be held
in downtown Seattle
on Sunday, June 24.
This year's theme is
“The Many Faces of
Pride”. Look all
around you and the
intricate jigsaw of
Pride will unfold to
you — Latino and
Asian and Native
American and black
and white; families
in all their
wondrous
incarnations;
20-year locals and
first-time visitors;
the transitioning
and the
transgendered; the
impaired and their
companion animals;
the athlete; the
aesthete; the
strange; and the
stranger. These are
The Many Faces of
Pride. More info:
Seattle Out
and Proud
City Guide Columns
94 Stewart Restaurant in Seattle, WA is a Northwest style
‘bistro’ fashioned to seamlessly meld into the historic surroundings,
while offering fresh seafood and local farm raised meats with
preparations emphasizing the diverse cultures of the Northwest.
Capitol Hill is the most densely
populated neighborhood in
Seattle, Washington. It is the
center of LGBT life in Seattle
and also a center of the city's
counterculture, while also home
to some of the city's grandest
mansions and many attractions.
Seattle's Out Loud &
Proud is the largest LGBTQ
gathering in the Pacific
Northwest. The event is held
annually at the Seattle Center
over Pride Weekend. The festival
takes place on the last Sunday
in June between 11 AM and 7 PM.
Typically over 50,000 people
attend with over 100 vendors and
dozens of sponsors
participating.
The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film
Festival is an annual film
festival in Seattle which first
took place in 1996. It is part
of Three Dollar Bill Cinema, a
nonprofit organization which
promotes queer cinema. The 15th
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival will take place October
15-24, 2010.
Seattle is the home of several
coffee companies, Starbucks
being the most recognizable.
Starbucks has been at Pike Place
Market since the coffee company
was founded there in 1971. The
first store is still operating a
block south of its original
location. The Space Needle,
dating from the Century 21
Exposition (1962), is Seattle's
most recognizable landmark.
There are several other
recognizable landmarks in
Seattle including the Pike Place
Market, pictured below.
In Time is a science fiction thriller
film starring Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian
Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki,
and Vincent Kartheiser. The Rum Diary
is directed by Bruce
Robinson and stars
Johnny Depp.
Puss in Boots,
a computer animation
film, stars Antonio
Banderas, Billy Bob
Thornton and Salma
Hayek.
Anonymous dramatizes a fringe theory, unsupported by any
historical evidence, that the works of Shakespeare were
written by an
Elizabethan
aristocrat, Edward
de Vere, 17th Earl
of Oxford.
