Vote For Seattle Pride Theme and Grand Marshal!

February 1, 2022• byMichael Strangeways

Unless Covid rears its ugly head again with a new deadly variation or we’re at war with Trumpinistas or Russia or anti-vaxxers, Seattle WILL have in-person LGBTQ Pride events this June so that means it’s time to vote for the theme for this year’s Seattle Pride Parade produced by Seattle Out & Proud. Go here to vote but we’re making it easy and giving you the info BEFOREHAND so you can think about the options (you can also add your own choice).
In other cities, this process is frequently more community oriented with public meetings and voting but…kooky ole Seattle likes to do things the bassackwards way! (Also: on the rare occassions they do have a public meeting, hardly anyone shows up!!) Like having TWO separate groups for official Pride events…the Out & Proud group who do the parade and picnic thing at Volunteer Park and PrideFest who produce the festivals on Pride Saturday and Sunday.
Maybe the theme should be UNITY and the two groups unite so they stop competing for the same funding/sponsors?
Just a THOUGHT!
The same one I have every year…
ADDED: AND, registration to be IN the Pride Parade opens on Wednesday, February 2nd. Go to https://www.seattlepride.org/seattle-pride-month for the skinny.
The Theme options for 2022 are:

And, here’s the list for Grand Marshal options..it behooves me to note that some of these people have ALREADY been grand marshals. But, again, you can add more choices on this survey. Personally, I’m all for the astronaut!

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.