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July 2017
Rebuild & Unite/Restableciendo Nuestras Vidas – Javier Nava
Join us for a conversation with Javier Nava a Pulse Nightclub survivor. He will share his story and how his life was impacted after the shooting at Pulse Nightclub. Acompáñanos a conversar con Javier Nava sobreviviente de la matanza en el bar Pulse de Orlando. Compartirá su historia personal al igual que detalles de cómo su vida cambio después de esta tragedia.
Find out more »Just Speak Family
Hello community, Surge Reproductive Justice is proud to introduce to you to Just.speak.seattle, a #ReproductiveJustice storytelling series. This first one features stories of family, and is part of NW Pride of Color! Come and share your story! Family is so many things and comes in so many forms, and it shapes us and eventually how we form our own families. Priority mic for Queer and Trans People Of Color. Whoever you are, you have a story. Feel free to share…
Find out more »August 2017
First Meetup in New Space! 🙂
We’re moving! Starting August 24th, we're hosting our regular every-other-Thursday meetups at Gay City! This means we finally have a quieter, more accessible, central, and private space to be ourselves and get to know each other. Please come as scent-free as possible and get in touch with us if you need help with transportation. This location is a few blocks from Convention Place Station and Capitol Hill Station. Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies!…
Find out more »Gender Odyssey Nonbinary Social
We're bringing together Seattle enbies and those in town for Gender Odyssey! If you'd like to hang out with your Seattle Nonbinary Collective friends *and* make some new ones, or see what our collective of awesome queers is like, please join us Saturday night at Gay City!
Find out more »September 2017
Gay City Arts: A Hundred Suns Setting EP Release Party
A Hundred Suns Setting EP Release Party by Nic Masangkay An Accessible, Anti-oppressive Concert Experience Together, we yield love that outlasts a hundred suns setting. Celebrate the release of Nic Masangkay’s electronic-R&B pop EP: A Hundred Suns Setting! In addition to a set by the Filipinx poet-producer-singer-songwriter, enjoy performances by fellow queer artists of color DJ Phenohype, Realistic Fiction, Zora Seboulisa, Julz Ilang-Bulan, and host for the eve, DA QWEEN. Organized by SDQTPOC, this is meant to be an accessible,…
Find out more »Invoking the Muses: Celebrating LGBTQ Senior Health and Housing
Capitol Hill Housing is bringing together stakeholders and community members around health and housing for LGBTQ seniors in Capitol Hill. This event will celebrate and build momentum around efforts for LGBTQ-friendly senior building in Capitol Hill. Featured speakers from Generations Aging with Pride, a leading organization in LGBTQ aging, will lead our discussions. Join us for food from LGBTQ-owned businesses, a performance from artist Storme Webber, and great conversation on September 21st from 5:30 to 7:30pm in the Calamus Auditorium,…
Find out more »Enby Meetup: Now at Gay City!
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We’ve moved! As of August 24th, we're hosting our regular every-other-Thursday meetups at Gay City! This means we finally have a quieter, more accessible, central, and private space to be ourselves and get to know each other. Please come as scent-free as possible and get in…
Find out more »Sick Womxn & Queers Show II
Many of us are sick. Many of us are struggling to pay the medical bills. Let’s get together and make art about it! Several Pacific Northwest artists who are sick/disabled womxn + queers will be performing for an event called "Sick Womxn & Queers: Swooning into Fall II." When: Saturday September 23rd 7-10pm at New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118 *This event is part of a series of events seeking to raise funds and awareness of…
Find out more »QTPOC in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club: A Crown for Cold Silver
I started a Queer/Trans and POC Feminist book club and first on the list is A Crown For Cold Silver by Alex Marshall. It's a book that I originally started reading for a one star review (linked in the discussion) about it being SJW wish fulfillment and it certainly is. Let's meet up and talk about the gender and sexuality in grimdark fantasy (2pm-3:30pm) with a Q&A with the author! (3:30pm-4:30) Support Local! If you order your copy through Elliot…
Find out more »October 2017
Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Gay City Arts: Femmes of Vulgarity
Gay City Arts Presents Femmes of Vulgarity Oct 5-8 Doors at 6:30 | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 Sponsor Tickets*: $20.00 Radical Hospitality: Free Black and brown, trans, and queer femme artists face a uniquely extreme version of the virgin and slut societal paradox. Vulgar-noun: kitschy, coarse, gaudy, making explicit reference to sex or bodily functions, racy, flamboyant. Come be immersed in the celebration and exploration of black and brown trans/queer artists…
Find out more »National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
El próximo 15 de octubre se conmemora el Día Nacional Latino para la Concientización del SIDA, por tal motivo te invitamos a nuestro Foro Comunitario en el cual charlaremos de lo importante que sigue siendo el concientizar y seguir aprendiendo más sobre nuevos métodos de prevención, estadísticas, cuidado de la salud, adherencia, etc. Te esperamos. ¡No faltes! October 15th has been recognized as the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day. For this very reason, we invite you to our community forum…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Gay City Arts: Get Mad!
Gay City Arts Presents Get Mad! October 19-22 7:00pm | Doors at 6:30pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 Sponsor Ticket*: $20 Radical Hospitality**: Free Madness is a complicated, ever-shifting identity, at times coercively assigned to those of us whose minds and ways of being defy the norms, and at other times proudly (re)claimed for ourselves. Madness can come as a breaking point when we’ve endured too much trauma, but that same rupture can liberate us into…
Find out more »QTPOC in Sci-fi And Fantasy: When Fox is a Thousand
Monthly book club exploring race, sexuality and gender in Fantasy and Sci-fi settings. This is a public book club that's open to allies. This month's choice is: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- When Fox Is a Thousand Winner: Astraea Foundation Emerging Novelist Award Finalist: Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award When Fox Is a Thousand is a spirited retelling of an old Chinese folktale. In Larissa Lai’s lyrical and enchanting novel, a fox spirit comes to haunt Artemis Wong, a young woman living in…
Find out more »November 2017
Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Queerly Yours: A Night of LGBTQ Love Stories
it's a great time to celebrate love stories in all their rainbow colors! Join us for Queerly Yours as we kick-off the Read with Pride NW weekend with a special reading event at Gay City with seven amazing LGBTQIA romance and genre fiction authors. From contemporary love stories to romantic suspense to exciting adventures, each writer shines a spotlight on LGBTQ lives, loves and relationships, and promotes the theme that there’s a Happily Ever After for everyone. This event is…
Find out more »Reading with Pride: LGBTQ Love Stories
Celebrate LGBTQIA love stories with a special reading event at Gay City on Saturday, November 4 that will highlight seven authors of queer romance and genre fiction. Whether their books are exploring the far reaches of space, riding through the old west, or heating up the streets of Seattle, each author shines a spotlight on LGBTQIA relationships and the universality of love. This event is free and open to the public. The authors sharing their work during Reading with Pride…
Find out more »Gay City Arts: A Certain Type of Brilliance
Gay City Arts Presents: A Certain Type of Brilliance A Femme Showcase by Liz Cruz November 9-12 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 Femmes possess an alchemy that can’t be quantified, but which draws us together and enables us to be bold, ingenious, and capable of a magic that fortifies our own hearts and the soul of the community around us. A Certain Type of Brilliance is a celebration…
Find out more »QTPOC in Sci-fi And Fantasy: The Fifth Season
Monthly book club exploring race, sexuality and gender in Fantasy and Sci-fi settings. This is a public book club that's open to allies. This month's choice is: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin WINNER OF THE 2016 HUGO: BEST NOVEL This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son…
Find out more »December 2017
Healthy Sexual Presenation
*SPACE LIMITED - DINNER PROVIDED* ***Límite de cupo, habrá cena **** Please register on link below. Regístrate en el link de aquí https://goo.gl/forms/j7c2dENwLZZV6nJK2 Presentation/Conversation
Find out more »Why Should Just the Pretty Survive?
Come help Tara Hardy celebrate her book winning a Washington State Book Award! She’ll perform her one-woman show, “Why Should Just the Pretty Survive?” that arose from her book, My, My, My, My, My, (Write Bloody Press, 2016) which is largely inspired by her experiences with illness and of having come face-to-face with her mortality. This production explores what it means to have a body and for that body’s most important work to be executing the exquisite, temporary and glorious…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Gay City Arts: Somebody Get Me A Chainsaw
Gay City Arts Presents: Somebody Get Me A Chainsaw A One Man Show by Mark "Mom" Finley December 14-17 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Beware She’s Loose!!! It’s been about a decade since Mark Finley tried to make a comeback; at least 2 decades since she’s done a new live show; and she’s been stuck in this damn town for nearly 3 – wasn’t she supposed to be…
Find out more »QTPOC in Sci-Fi and Fantasy: The Devourers
Monthly book club exploring race, sexuality and gender in Fantasy and Sci-fi settings. Usually on the fourth Sunday of the month, this choice is a week earlier due to Holidays. This is a public book club that's open to allies. This month's choice is: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DEVOURERS by INDRA DAS Content Notice: Book contains extreme violence and rape. On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »January 2018
Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Gay City Arts: Bet Ya Ungodly Things
Gay City Arts Presents: Bet Ya Ungodly Things Solo Dance-Theatre by Neve Andromeda Mazique-Bianco January 13-14, 18-19 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 Bet Ya UnGodly Things is a multigenre dance fable set in the New Jersey countryside where Neve grew up Black, Disabled, Queer, and wanting to be an acting ballerina. Clinton is the town from which Assata Shakur escaped prison, and she, like other black liberation activists,…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »February 2018
Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Gay City Arts: Cupid Ain’t @#$%!
Gay City Arts Presents: Cupid Ain't @#%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement Spoken Word by J Mase III February 8-10 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 Cupid Ain't @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement has been entertaining fans for 9 seasons and is coming up on season 10! An international tour started in Philly, it has since reached NYC, DC, London, Oakland, Detroit and Seattle among a host of…
Find out more »DECK OUT at Gay City: February Artist Spotlight
DECK OUT: Playing Cards for the Queer Lifestyle by Louise Croff Blake Come view the original illustrations from DECK OUT, purchase Decks in-person, and see all the related works//apparel! DECK OUT, which received a 2017 GAP Award from Artist Trust, is a hand-illustrated deck of playing cards that has been renovated for the queer lifestyle. Each suit correlates to a component of queer culture: ♤ Spades ~ Queer Vigilantism ♡ Hearts ~ Queer Kink ♢ Diamonds ~ Queer Spirituality/Witchcraft ♧…
Find out more »Gay City Arts: Cupid Ain’t @#$%!
Gay City Arts Presents: Cupid Ain't @#%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement Spoken Word by J Mase III February 8-10 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 Cupid Ain't @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement has been entertaining fans for 9 seasons and is coming up on season 10! An international tour started in Philly, it has since reached NYC, DC, London, Oakland, Detroit and Seattle among a host of…
Find out more »Gay City Arts: Cupid Ain’t @#$%!
Gay City Arts Presents: Cupid Ain't @#%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement Spoken Word by J Mase III February 8-10 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 Cupid Ain't @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement has been entertaining fans for 9 seasons and is coming up on season 10! An international tour started in Philly, it has since reached NYC, DC, London, Oakland, Detroit and Seattle among a host of…
Find out more »Born to Cuddle Zine Release Party!
Come celebrate the release of: BORN TO CUDDLE: The Radical Potential of Platonic Cuddling to Overthrow the Heteropatriarchy Inspired by cuddling with friends, this zine aims to equip all you queerdos out there with tools, knowledge, and perspectives to initiate the physical intimacy you want with whomever you want. What better day to celebrate platonic love and the ageless act of cuddling than FEB 14 -- the hallmark holiday designated by capitalism to fuel the hetero-romance-complex? Come by yourself, bring…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »QTPOC in Sci-fi and Fantasy: The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet
Monthly book club exploring race, sexuality and gender in Fantasy and Sci-fi settings. This is a public book club that's open to allies. This month's choice is: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL ANGRY PLANET by BECKY CHAMBERS Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect…
Find out more »March 2018
Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Mutaciones
Gay City Arts Presents: Mutaciones, Cruzadas, Desvios, Relajos, Desmadres, Metamorphosis y Time Travel Along Las Fronteras del Ser (Borderlands) A multimedia/multimedium experimental play that crosses back and forth between the borders of performance and ritual, between ceremony and storytelling, and between the past/present/future. Written and Produced by Hijx De Su Madre: Ale Abreu, Norma Alicia Pino, Fabian Romero. March 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm March 11th Matinee Doors at 1:30pm | Show at…
Find out more »Queer Clothing Exchange!
Trash and Treasure! Queer clothing and goods exchange! Bring yr unwanted clothing, shoes and jewelry to donate! Goods will be sorted by type not gender! This event will be $10-$20 suggested donation at the door to benefit The Queer and Trans Youth Music Project and our year round youth leadership program Rogue Rainbow. No One Will Be Turned Away For Lack of Funds! All welcome regardless of if you have clothes or money to donate. All left over clothes will…
Find out more »Gay City Arts Presents: The Darker Side of the Rainbow
Gay City Arts Presents: The Darker Side of the Rainbow A BlaQ night of poetry, burlesque, music by Garfield Hillson March 22-25 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Once upon a time six Black artists dared to imagine themselves on the other side of the sterotypes that sought to define them. They decided to bend the rainbow of other people's expectations and dreamed themselves anew. They decided to courageously…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Gay City Arts Presents: The Darker Side of the Rainbow
Gay City Arts Presents: The Darker Side of the Rainbow A BlaQ night of poetry, burlesque, music by Garfield Hillson March 22-25 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Once upon a time six Black artists dared to imagine themselves on the other side of the sterotypes that sought to define them. They decided to bend the rainbow of other people's expectations and dreamed themselves anew. They decided to courageously…
Find out more »Gay City Arts Presents: The Darker Side of the Rainbow
Gay City Arts Presents: The Darker Side of the Rainbow A BlaQ night of poetry, burlesque, music by Garfield Hillson March 22-25 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Once upon a time six Black artists dared to imagine themselves on the other side of the sterotypes that sought to define them. They decided to bend the rainbow of other people's expectations and dreamed themselves anew. They decided to courageously…
Find out more »QTPOC in Sci-fi and Fantasy: Everfair
QTPOC in Sci-Fi and Fantasy is a monthly book club exploring race, sexuality and gender in Fantasy and Sci-fi settings. This month's choice is by a local author, and I'm very excited to share it with you. This is a public book club that's open to allies. This month's choice is: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVERFAIR BY NISI SHAWL An alternate history / historical fantasy / steampunk novel set in the Belgian Congo, from noted short story writer Nisi Shawl. Everfair is a…
Find out more »Gay City Arts Presents: The Darker Side of the Rainbow
Gay City Arts Presents: The Darker Side of the Rainbow A BlaQ night of poetry, burlesque, music by Garfield Hillson March 22-25 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Once upon a time six Black artists dared to imagine themselves on the other side of the sterotypes that sought to define them. They decided to bend the rainbow of other people's expectations and dreamed themselves anew. They decided to courageously…
Find out more »April 2018
Gay City Arts Presents: Queer, Mama. Crossroads
Gay City Arts Presents: Queer, Mama. Crossroads Theater, play, drama, vignettes by Anastacia Renee April 12-15 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 What happens when queer black women die at the hands of police brutality? What happens when those women are mothers? What happens when those women are in a holding place to cross over? Queer, Mama. Crossroads examines these questions through the lens of three women with the…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Gay City Arts Presents: Queer, Mama. Crossroads
Gay City Arts Presents: Queer, Mama. Crossroads Theater, play, drama, vignettes by Anastacia Renee April 12-15 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 What happens when queer black women die at the hands of police brutality? What happens when those women are mothers? What happens when those women are in a holding place to cross over? Queer, Mama. Crossroads examines these questions through the lens of three women with the…
Find out more »Gay City Arts Presents: Queer, Mama. Crossroads
Gay City Arts Presents: Queer, Mama. Crossroads Theater, play, drama, vignettes by Anastacia Renee April 12-15 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 What happens when queer black women die at the hands of police brutality? What happens when those women are mothers? What happens when those women are in a holding place to cross over? Queer, Mama. Crossroads examines these questions through the lens of three women with the…
Find out more »Gay City Arts Presents: Queer, Mama. Crossroads
Gay City Arts Presents: Queer, Mama. Crossroads Theater, play, drama, vignettes by Anastacia Renee April 12-15 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 What happens when queer black women die at the hands of police brutality? What happens when those women are mothers? What happens when those women are in a holding place to cross over? Queer, Mama. Crossroads examines these questions through the lens of three women with the…
Find out more »Trans-mitting Words and Love
Gay City will be celebrating National Transgender HIV Testing Day on April 18th with a Trans Writing Workshop at 6pm, immediately followed by an Open Mic Night featuring amazing trans artists. Throughout the night, we'll be offering free walk-in HIV testing for trans folks in Wellness Center. Come by, share your art, share your story, eat snacks, and get tested! Writing Workshop: 6-7pm Open Mic: 7-9pm Featured Performers Taylor Bereiter, Scarlett D'giacomo, and Zora This program is supported in part…
Find out more »Dismantling Fatphobia!
Fatphobia is defined as a pathological fear of fatness… What do you think of when you see/hear the word “Fat?” Who is affected by Fatphobia? Do you have internalized Fatphobia? What can we do to unpack it? In this workshop we’ll explore + dismantle diet culture and fatphobia/weight stigma through an intersectional lens. “Weight stigma in general refers to negative attitudes and behavior made towards fat people; attitudes and behavior that mean fat people are not able to participate in…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »May 2018
Gay City Presents: Fallen Star
Gay City Arts Presents: Fallen Star A One Woman Play by Tobi Hill-Meyer May 10-13, 17-20 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Celestial is proud to be one of the first trans women superheroes to join the Heroes Regional Council, but as she discovers more and more ways they perpetuate the systems of oppression she aims to take down she decides to go solo and pursue her own vision…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Gay City Presents: Fallen Star
Gay City Arts Presents: Fallen Star A One Woman Play by Tobi Hill-Meyer May 10-13, 17-20 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Celestial is proud to be one of the first trans women superheroes to join the Heroes Regional Council, but as she discovers more and more ways they perpetuate the systems of oppression she aims to take down she decides to go solo and pursue her own vision…
Find out more »Gay City Presents: Fallen Star
Gay City Arts Presents: Fallen Star A One Woman Play by Tobi Hill-Meyer May 10-13, 17-20 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Celestial is proud to be one of the first trans women superheroes to join the Heroes Regional Council, but as she discovers more and more ways they perpetuate the systems of oppression she aims to take down she decides to go solo and pursue her own vision…
Find out more »Gay City Presents: Fallen Star
Gay City Arts Presents: Fallen Star A One Woman Play by Tobi Hill-Meyer May 10-13, 17-20 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Celestial is proud to be one of the first trans women superheroes to join the Heroes Regional Council, but as she discovers more and more ways they perpetuate the systems of oppression she aims to take down she decides to go solo and pursue her own vision…
Find out more »Gay City Presents: Fallen Star
Gay City Arts Presents: Fallen Star A One Woman Play by Tobi Hill-Meyer May 10-13, 17-20 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Celestial is proud to be one of the first trans women superheroes to join the Heroes Regional Council, but as she discovers more and more ways they perpetuate the systems of oppression she aims to take down she decides to go solo and pursue her own vision…
Find out more »Gay City Presents: Fallen Star
Gay City Arts Presents: Fallen Star A One Woman Play by Tobi Hill-Meyer May 10-13, 17-20 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Celestial is proud to be one of the first trans women superheroes to join the Heroes Regional Council, but as she discovers more and more ways they perpetuate the systems of oppression she aims to take down she decides to go solo and pursue her own vision…
Find out more »Gay City Presents: Fallen Star
Gay City Arts Presents: Fallen Star A One Woman Play by Tobi Hill-Meyer May 10-13, 17-20 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Celestial is proud to be one of the first trans women superheroes to join the Heroes Regional Council, but as she discovers more and more ways they perpetuate the systems of oppression she aims to take down she decides to go solo and pursue her own vision…
Find out more »Gay City Presents: Fallen Star
Gay City Arts Presents: Fallen Star A One Woman Play by Tobi Hill-Meyer May 10-13, 17-20 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7 pm General Admission $15-$20 Students, Seniors, People with Disabilities $12 "Celestial is proud to be one of the first trans women superheroes to join the Heroes Regional Council, but as she discovers more and more ways they perpetuate the systems of oppression she aims to take down she decides to go solo and pursue her own vision…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »June 2018
Queer Love Songs by Be Steadwell
Queer Love Songs by Be Steadwell Washington DC singer-songwriter Be Steadwell sings music from her new Album, Queer Love Songs. This performance offers laughter, catharsis and a breath of fresh air. Be’s courageous expression of emotion inspires and urges her audience to follow suit. Using loop pedal vocal layering, guitar and film, Be Steadwell offers Queer Love Songs as a reclamation of humanity. about be Be Steadwell is a singer songwriter from Washington DC. With roots in jazz, acapella and…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »Enby Meetup
Coffee. Queers. Coloring books. Laughter. Unwind with a marvelous group of enbies! Make new friends! Share stories! Whether you come every week or are brand new, we can't wait to get to know you. We don't police anyone's gender, but this space is intended for nonbinary and questioning people only. If you're specifically binary-identified, we would love to have you at our events and workshops, which each occur monthly! Check out the Events tab on our Facebook page or our…
Find out more »September 2018
Gay City Arts: How to Have A Body
Gay City Arts Season 6 opens with "How To Have A Body," a solo theatrical show about the intersections of queerness and disability. Using storytelling, spoken word, ritual, and music, writer & cultural worker Gina Stella dell’Assunta explores the trials and joys of living in a queer disabled body. Consider this an invitation to intimacy; a call to arms; a rallying cry. #gaycity #gaycityarts #queer #lgbtq #disability #theatre #arts #seattletheatre https://www.facebook.com/events/2170062409985010/
Find out more »October 2018
Seattle’s QTPOC Music Scene
Take a peek into Seattle's Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC) music scene. Learn about the challenges artists face with having their voices heard and stories told in Seattle, and in mainstream music. Film features: Tiffany Wilson, Falon Sierra, Nic Masangkay, Adra Boo, JusMoni, Thadayus Wilson, Nikkita "KO" Oliver, Monica Thomas of Occlusions, and Whitney Mongé. Directed and Produced by: Momma Nikki Presented by Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center and Momma Nikki https://www.facebook.com/events/284939432112181/
Find out more »November 2018
Akwaaba: Healing a Queer Black Soul
Akwaaba: A one person show that takes you on a personal journey into the realization that there is no complete resolve to the full healing of oneself, but there is always a beginning, a start to the process, and a determination. Naa Akua creates a space of expression through poetry, sound, ritual, and monologue. Naa says Akwaaba (welcome) to the stories of the when, what, why, and how of their Queer Black Healing Process. BIOGRAPHY: Naa Akua is a queer…
Find out more »December 2018
Volunteer Orientation
SWOP is excited to announce a new and revitalized Volunteer Orientation & Training! We are gearing up for our December Event Series where we’ll need volunteers to table, manage events, fundraise, and provide on-site support. This training will equip you to represent SWOP to the public and empower you to lead SWOP-related projects with SWOP’s help. We also have leadership positions available on the SWOP Council! These positions are for dedicated people interested in leading groups related to SWOP organizational…
Find out more »AIDS-It’s In Our Blood: Stories of Love, Loss, Rage, & Survival
In this variety show, performers will present work related to long-term survival of HIV revolving around themes of love, loss, rage, and survival. "Someday, the AIDS crisis will be over. Remember that. And when that day comes -- when that day has come and gone, there'll be people alive on this earth -- gay people and straight people, men and women, black and white, who will hear the story that once there was a terrible disease in this country and…
Find out more »February 2019
A Certain Type of Brilliance
A Certain Type of Brilliance by Liz Cruz Femmes possess an alchemy that cant be quantified, but which draws us together and enables us to be bold, ingenious, and capable of a magic that fortifies our own hearts and the soul of the community around us. A Certain Type of Brilliance is a celebration of femmes ability to pull amazing things out of thin air, to create on a dime, to use our vulnerability and creativity as our greatest assets…
Find out more »Comedy: Explanation of Benefits @ Gay City
THIS IS NOT A BILL - Explanation of Benefits is a queer fundraiser for medical expenses featuring your local queer heroes comedians Monisa Brown, Mitchell Mitch and musical angel Katie Kuffel. Join me for a night of community support, music, and laughs upon laughs. Admission to this event is sliding scale with all funds raised going toward medical expenses and paying the performers. GET TIX: https://benefits.brownpapertickets.com I am tryna raise $2,000, yr ticket is yr donation! if you cant attend…
Find out more »QTPOC in Sci-fi and Fantasy: How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?
QTPOC in Sci-Fi and Fantasy is a monthly book club exploring race, sexuality and gender in Fantasy and Sci-fi settings. This is a public book club that's open to new members and allies. This month's choice is: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories by N.K. Jemisin In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city…
Find out more »Gay City/Three Dollar Bill 2019 Academy Awards Party
Join us in celebrating the 91st Academy Awards hosted by Gaysha Starr! Walk the pink carpet and get your picture taken, indulge in delicious bites and cocktails, and watching the awards all in support of Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center and Three Dollar Bill Cinema. Gaysha Starr Photo Credit: Nate Gowdy
Find out more »March 2019
A Certain Type of Brilliance @ Gay City
by Liz Cruz Femmes possess an alchemy that can’t be quantified, but which draws us together and enables us to be bold, ingenious, and capable of a magic that fortifies our own hearts and the soul of the community around us. A Certain Type of Brilliance is a celebration of femmes’ ability to pull amazing things out of thin air, to create on a dime, to use our vulnerability and creativity as our greatest assets in resistance to oppression. The…
Find out more »Rogue Rainbow Presents: A Clothing Swap!
Rogue Rainbow: A queer and trans youth leadership team of Queer & Trans Youth Music Project is throwing our first fundraiser! Come bring your old clothes you don't want anymore and take as many new clothes as you would like! This is a fragrance free space so please wash and launder donations in fragrance free detergent! We're looking for clothing donations of all sizes and gender presentations 🙂 Suggested donation $5-$25 but no will be turned away for lack of…
Find out more »Amara Information Meeting (AIM)
Join us for an introduction to Amara and our foster care and adoption services. At this meeting, we will address your questions and help you determine if Amara is the right organization for you. Thanks to Gay City for hosting this Amara Information Meeting!
Find out more »Gay City 101
Want to join Gay City’s Volunteer Crew? This is where you start!! Our Volunteer Coordinator will take you through the history of Gay City and show you the ropes! Light refreshments are served! You don’t need to bring any extra materials.
Find out more »QTPOC in Sci-fi and Fantasy: Trail of Lightning
QTPOC in Sci-Fi and Fantasy is a monthly book club exploring race, sexuality and gender in Fantasy and Sci-fi settings. This is a public book club that's open to new members and allies. This month's choice is: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do…
Find out more »April 2019
But Can I Pay My Rent Tho?!: Surviving as a TQPOC Artist
But Can I Pay My Rent Tho?!: Surviving as a TQPOC Artist April 1 (Part 1) & April 8 (Part 2) 6pm - 9pm Free (Donations Accepted at gaycity.org/donate) Without art, there can be no movements. Yet, artists are often unrewarded for being the drivers of change, which has created a culture of unsustainable practices. In particular, being a Black/Brown artist who is along the trans and/or queer spectrum means that we are more at risk of being underpaid and…
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