June 1st Is The 4th Annual Pride Flag Raising Ceremony At Seattle City Hall

May 31, 2016• byMichael Strangeways

Photo: City of Seattle Mayor’s Office

It’s happening tomorrow, Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at Seattle City Hall Plaza, 600 4th Avenue…the 4th annual City of Seattle Pride Flag Raising Ceremony presented by the City of Seattle’s LGBT Commission. Join city and community leaders as the official Pride Flag is raised in front of City Hall in a special event from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. It’s free and open to the public to attend.

Six of the 16 current members of Seattle’s LGBT Commission: From left to right, Luzviminda Lulu Carpenter, The Lady B, Julia Ember Ricciardi, Nicholas Oakley, Manuel Venegas and Yani Robinson.

City of Seattle LGBT Commission
presents
4th Annual City of Seattle
City Hall Pride Flag Raising Ceremony

WEDNESDAY | JUNE 1, 2016 | 3:30PM – 5:00PM
@ CITY HALL PLAZA | 600 4TH AVE | Seattle, WA

3:30pm – Music starts
4:00pm – Program starts
4:30pm – Flag Ceremony begins
5:00pm – Closing & Mingle
5:30pm – End

Join us in raising the pride flag over Seattle City Hall where it will reside for the month of June for LGBT Month. There will be a band, music, keynote speakers, poetry, and more.

Entertainment:
Adra Boo of Fly Moon Royalty
Rain City Rock Camp for Girls youth band

Keynote Speakers:
Mayor Ed Murray, Councilmember Lisa Herbold, Jen M Self of University of Washington, and Ray Corona of the LGBT Commission
Co-Chairs Manuel Venegas, Luzviminda Lulu Carpenter
Commissioners Deb Salls, Eli Grossman, Anders McConachie, Dominique Stephens, Yani Robinson, Julia Ember Ricciardi, The Lady B, Freddy Mora, and more new commissioners.

Seattle Office for Civil Rights

JUNE 1st – 3:30pm-5:30pm!!!!

SPONSORS:
Seattle Office for Civil Rights

Accessibility:
Accommodations for meetings and events is available on request for people with disabilities. Call SOCR at 206-684-4500 for more information.

*** ASL Provided ***

THEN, stick around and head over to the Hotel Monaco for the public Seattle Pride meeting!

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.