The 2025 Vashon Island Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, August 7, with a gala screening of director Noémie Merlant’s The Balconettes, a charming, pitch-black comedy about three women trapped in a Marseille apartment during a heat wave. It’s a delightfully...
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Looking beyond the races happening within the City of Seattle, many exciting LGBTQIA+ regional candidates and propositions are also on the ballot. The SGN Editorial Board has endorsements for both these propositions, as well as for a select few candidates out...
We are excited to announce that our endorsement for City Council Position 9 is Dionne Foster! She has already done excellent work in Seattle advocating for marginalized communities and will continue to make Seattle a better place for working-class people and...
We’re endorsing Alexis Mercedes Rinck for Seattle City Council Position 8! She made the most of the little time left in her first term, protecting us from Trump’s BS and advancing progressive revenue. Ensuring she can continue her good work on our community’s...
We’re endorsing Jamie Fackler for Seattle City Council District 2! In a competitive field, Fackler stood out to us thanks to his thoughtful, holistic approach to the issues and complete commitment to tackling our housing crisis head-on, through the power of...
We’re endorsing Erika Evans for city attorney! Evans has experience as a federal prosecutor and has committed to standing up against the Trump administration to protect marginalized people who are being targeted, including the Queer community. Her drive to...
We’re endorsing Ry Armstrong for mayor! Armstrong is a candidate who believes in innovative solutions and radical empathy. They’re uniquely positioned to help the city navigate financial threats nationally and a growing disconnect between leadership and...
On a street in Cagli, a small town in the Marche province of Italy, I saw a rainbow flag. I was so happy, immediately thinking, “Oh my gosh, they have Pride flags here — that’s amazing!” As I was to be in Cagli for a month on a foreign correspondence program...
At this point, it’s quite clear that James Gunn knows how to successfully bring comic book superheroes to the screen. If his Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy didn’t already prove this — easily the best self-contained story arc in the entire Marvel...
Sit back, relax, and let the leavened bread rise and wine flow as you enjoy Gay Jesus, the latest short film and creative baby of Seattle local Aaron Jin...
Seattle Pride is over, but celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community is a year-round affair. Reign FC will be embodying this mantra on August 1 with its upcoming Pride match against Los Angeles’s Angel City FC...
It’s the summer of 2009, and I’m 25 years old. I roll into Seattle in my packed ’97 Corolla. I’m a straight, white, cis cliché from Elkhart, Indiana — land of RV factories, churches, riding lawnmowers, and faded American flags. I’m chasing love...
Transgender applicants and their families experienced familiar disappointment in Seattle on Wednesday, June 18 at the US passport office on Fifth Avenue. The day before, it was announced that US District Judge Julia Kobick had widened an injunction...
This guide gives direction and guidance to those relocating to and living in Washington, primarily those fleeing red states looking for a more welcoming home with better legal and societal protections for Trans people. It answers common questions and...
Ember Royale Touché, Miss Teen Pride of 2024–25, is a “mortuary Trans male historian” by day and an exquisite drag queen by night. Mainstream drag, like that popularized by RuPaul's Drag Race, has often centered around cisgender Gay men dressing in...
Booze. Drugs. Sweat. Blood. Chaos. Madness. And through all of it, music. That’s the ’90s grunge essence of Pink Umbrellas Love Rainydaze, Seattle author Zola McDaniel’s new book of short stories of life in the day-to-day trenches, with alliances...
Jasmine Joshua sat in a coffee shop ten feet from the colorful poster for their latest project, Here and Their, which will be showing at 12th Avenue Arts June 13–28. It’s more than just a silly punk rock show about Queer identities and family; it holds...
At just 29 years old, Molina Molina is one of Seattle’s most recognizable comedy divas. The comedian, writer, and producer can often be seen on stages around Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, showing off her incredible acting skills with her...
Now with a superstar to rally around, PWHL Seattle — the eighth and newest team in the Professional Women’s Hockey League — has added 11 new players to its roster, providing fans with their first glimpse into the team’s future on the ice.
A decade ago, on June 25, marriage equality became the law of the land with the landmark Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges. But given the current political climate and Project 2025’s goal of promoting nuclear families, many fear that decision...