You have a wide variety of options this weekend, Friday, May 31 through Sunday, June 2nd as we finish up May fun and start crazyass June Pride based fun. This weekend offers a bar grand opening, and Pride events, and movies at SIFF, and lots of gay theater, and many options to drink and cruise and watch drag queens.
So, like most weekends…
If you enjoy hanging out at Seattle City Hall with our lesbian mayor and a bunch of community folks while raising the city’s official Pride flag, then go do THIS!
City of Seattle’s 7th Annual Pride Flag Raising
Please join the Seattle LGBTQ Commission and Mayor Jenny Durkan to celebrate and honor 45 years of Seattle Pride and 50 years since the Stonewall Riots. We will have light refreshments and DJ MIXX America! There will be limited seating at the event, so please leave seats for community members with limited mobility. Anyone unable […]
If you live near the lovely ‘burb of Burien, then you have MANY options this week as they have their own special Pride celebrations, with multiple events happening:
Burien Pride: Drag Queen Bingo!
Presented by Burien PRIDE! This is BINGO in the Park! We will have a very large beer / wine garden and plenty of tables. Come join this family friend event. Tickets are $20 and then $5 cash at the door for your Bingo Cards. Reserve your tickets at www.DiscoverBurien.org.
Burien PRIDE 2019!
Burien PRIDE Presents Drag Queen Bingo May 31! Main Pride Festival in Town Square Park June 1! Mark those calendars! Burien Pride 2019 will commence on Friday, May 31, 2019 for Drag Queen Bingo! The festivities continue a second day on Saturday, June 1, 2019 for the Burien Pride festival in Town Square Park! Back […]
If you love a good queer, dj dance party in the park, go do THIS!
THiRST: Queer DJ Dance Party
THiRST is back ! Summer 2019 marks the third summer Playthey is going big in the parks of Seattle. Each Friday we bring you queer, femme dj talent in day to dusk getdown. This year we’re taking up space in not one, not two but Three Seattle Parks – Cal Anderson, Judkins + Powell Barnett. […]
If you’re young and queer, then put on some party duds and go do THIS:
Seattle Central Queer Prom 2019
Theme: A Pop of Color Who: Everyone! When: Friday, May 31st, 2019 Time: 7p – 9p Where: Seattle Central College, Mitchell Activity Center Gym Please feel free to invite your friends. It is open to the community to share in the diversity of Capitol Hill and Seattle. This event will help show LGBTQ support for […]
If you love soccer, you can watch THIS all weekend long:
Rain City Soccer Club – Summer Friendly Tournament 2019
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rain-city-soccer-summer-2019-friendly-tournament-tickets-58504693112 Seattle will be hosting a friendly soccer tournament on Saturday, June 1st. All skill levels & genders are welcome. Players will be evenly split among 7 teams. This is a friendly tournament, so all participants should play safely & fairly like at Kickabout! Registration includes: – Custom 2019 Tournament Shirt (sizes are […]
AND, of course there’s the big hard opening of the Seattle area’s newest gay bar THE SWALLOW BAR out in White Center!
The Swallow Grand Opening!
Come ye come ye, and celebrate our Big Opening!! We’ve got a boat-load of entertainment, including the one and only Adé, Princess Charming, DJs Girth and Mister Sister, and assorted go-go studzz!! 8pm no cover!!
If you want to continue dancing the night away, Pony has a new night with DJs Almond Brown and Riz Rollins!
Turn’t! @ Pony
Black sound, rewound: celebrating 70 years of raw black & queer music. With Dj’s Almond Brown and Riz Rollins NO COVER 9pm
If you’re on Capitol Hill on Saturday, they’re kicking off some Pride fun with an all day festival and concert!
Capitol Hill Pride Concert
Capitol Hill Pride is excited to announce! Capitol Hill Pride Concert Saturday June 1, 2019 Noon-10:pm Seattle Central College Free June 1st is the start of Pride month celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall! http://www.capitolhillpridefestival.info/ The Unicorn Rises! Live music artists, non-profits, speakers and performers. June 1st is the start of Pride month celebrating the […]
In case you missed the Red Dress Party last weekend, here’s a funner/bluer option with the Sisters….
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Present: The Seattle Blue Dress Party
The Blue Dress Party will take place on the Hiyu, Seattle’s premier floating venue. The party will be on a cruise around Lake Union and Lake Washington. Our community has endured the battle against HIV/AIDS for the last 35 years, and the red ribbon has been the symbol of our efforts. For the past seven […]
For drag lovers, ArtHaus Season 5 wraps up at Kremwerk with special guest Dusty Ray Bottoms!
ArtHaus 5.0 Finale ft. Dusty Ray Bottoms (RPDR10)
LIGHT HAUS presents ARTHAUS 5.0: The Finale! ft. Dusty Ray Bottoms! 🎟 TIX: bit.ly/ArtHaus5Finale 🎟 After 9 months of competition, the ArtHaus Finale is here! Competing finalists will face off to win a Cash Prize & the opportunity to curate the next season of Arthaus: Drag Haus Battle Royale! For this momentous occasion, we have […]
For Seattle area LGBTQ Asians, there’s THIS event!!
Queer LiberAsian: A Celebration of Queer Asian Excellence
Tickets at: bit.ly/QueerAsian $5 for UW students w/ valid ID | $7 General ALL TICKET PROCEEDS GO TO Official Pride ASIA! Queer LiberAsian is a performing arts showcase of Queer Asian excellence. Queer visibility and Asian visibility have both reached ground breaking high points in recent media. However, the excellence of when Queer and Asian […]
For all you clean freaks, here’s your chance to clean up filthy Capitol Hill on Sunday!
Capitol Hill Clean Sweep
PrideFest and Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce present Clean Sweep! We kick off Pride month with hundreds of volunteers cleaning the streets of Capitol Hill. We provide the tools and the fuel (food/coffee/desserts) and you give us your time to clean up the neighborhood! https://www.facebook.com/events/311688169479095/
For folks in/near the Seattle neighborhood of South Park (which is NOTHING like a cartoon…) there’s their annual Pride Picnic!
9th Annual South Park Queer Pride Picnic
9th Annual South Park Queer Pride Picnic Queer Pride Picnic en el parque Sunday, June 2, 2019 :: Domingo 2 de junio, 2019 1 – 4 pm :: Duwamish Waterway Park 7900 Tenth Avenue S y S Elmgrove Street on the river :: cerca del rio Free! ¡Gratis! 1 pm – 2 pm: food & […]
If you love gay cabaret, there’s a new show at the Unicorn for the next four Sundays!
The Greatest ShowQueen
THE GREATEST SHOWQUEEN! A New Musical Parody Revue Written & Performed by Tom Orr Directed by Marie Ruzicka Musical Direction by John Lehrack 4 Shows Only! 4 Sundays in June! 5pm Door • 6pm Curtain • 6/2-6/23 After an absence of 22 years, Tom Orr — the creative mind behind the award-winning musical parody revue […]
If you love LGBTQ theater there is a ton of it happening this weekend, including this superb production of TAKE ME OUT, which is HIGHLY recommended!
Play: “Take Me Out” @ 12th Avenue Arts
Is baseball ready for an openly gay superstar? “Take Me Out” explores what happens when a superstar player on a major-league baseball team announces that he is gay. What outfielder Darren Lemming receives is disarming—and often hilarious—candor from his teammates, manager, and agent. Setting his play entirely in the team’s clubhouse and shower, playwright Richard […]
AND, there’s also a college production of THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Seattle Central College! Only $10 at door (cash only!)
Seattle Central Drama Department Presents The Laramie Project
In October 1998 in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old student at the University of Wyoming, was tied to a fence post, severely beaten, robbed, , tortured and left, alone, to die. His body — battered, bloody, barely clinging to life — was discovered eighteen hours later. […]
ALSO, don’t forget that the Season 11 RuPaul’s Drag Race gals including winner YVIE ODDLY will be in Seattle’s Moore Theatre on Monday, June 3rd!!! Get tickets HERE!
RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season 11 Tour
The 11th season of Emmy Award-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has proven itself to be the most fashionable, fearless and jaw-dropping spectacle in “Drag Race” herstory! Asia O’Hara hosts your Season 11 favorites including A’keria Davenport, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Honey Davenport, Ra’jah O’Hara, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Soju, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo and Yvie Oddly. https://www.facebook.com/events/1471536609650333/
See ALL the events on the big Seattle Gay Scene Calendar and see Pride events on our big 2019 SGS Pride Guide!!!!
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