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Home *Coronavirus Pandemic, *Dragolicious, *Resist. Protest. Obstruct. Inform., #Covid-19 Pandemic, Arts & Entertainment, Arts News, Capitol Hill News, Community, Community Events, Day Time Nightlife, Digital Nightlife, Drag O'Tainment, Gay 101, News, Nightlife, Pride, Queer Arts, Queer History, Queer Music, Queer News, Queer Theater, Queer TV, Seattle News, Seattle Out and Proud, Seattle Pride 2020, Seattle PrideFest, Seattle Queer History, Seattle Transgender Scene, Trans* Pride, Video Fun Land, We Love The Nightlife, Web TVSeattle’s Virtual Pride Was A Big Success

Seattle’s Virtual Pride Was A Big Success

June 29, 2020• byMichael Strangeways
Aleksa Manila hosted the 2020 Virtual Seattle PrideFest’s Saturday show

Now, it obviously wasn’t a weekend of events that drew tens of thousands attendees but organizers of Seattle’s virtual Pride events were happy with audiences averaging over 3,300 per day over the three day Pride holiday weekend which ended yesterday, Sunday, June 28th. Seattle’s three main Pride organizers; Seattle Out & Proud, Seattle PrideFest and Seattle Trans Pride all teamed up for 2020 celebrations that had to forgo live events in favor of virtual ones due to the still ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has killed over half a million people globally since the first of the year.

The series of events were tagged as  Together For Pride  and event staff reported last night that attendees came from 24 states and four countries during the three days of the event which began on Friday with host Seattle Trans Pride, followed by Seattle PrideFest taking over on Saturday and Seattle Out & Proud wrapping up the hosting duties on Sunday.

And, the videos showcased a wealth of diversity and talent from Seattle area artists and performers and included everything from Puppets teaching us proper pronoun usage to vibrant dance performances, live music, drag queens, informative looks at film, local history, LGBTQ rights, the Black Lives Movement and a tribute to Seattle Gay News publisher George Bakan who passed away earlier this month. There were glitches here and there, but overall it was a strong and well produced series of live video events.

Which hopefully we won’t have to repeat in 2021…

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Attendance averaged 3,300 per day; unofficial attendance figures for the three days of speakers, performers, activities and activism were as follows:

  • Friday, June 26: 2,100
  • Saturday, June 27: 3,300
  • Sunday, June 28: 4,500

For those who may have missed seeing some of the weekend’s programming, many of the presentations and performances will be available via the host organization’s websites beginning tomorrow afternoon.

In solidarity with the racial equity and social justice protesters – as well as with other regional LGBTQIA+ organizations, the organizers have centered much of the weekend’s content on activism and on Black, Indigenous and People of Color voices and artists.

Today’s attendees were largely from the Seattle area, but others participated virtually from Russia, South Africa, Spain and Zimbabwe. More than 450 of which pinned their locations on Seattle Pride’s Many Places, One Pride Google map.

For Sunday’s events hosted by Seattle Out & Proud/Seattle Pride, visit their YouTube Channel Here: https://bit.ly/2YIWOhX

Saturday’s Seattle PrideFest show is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=754618145365981

For Friday’s Seattle Trans Pride/Gender Justice League videos go to their YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9j2v60w4Od441U1Rk0tMVA

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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.

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