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News (USA)
Across the nation, thousands of people protested Trump’s election last night
The raw divisions exposed by the presidential race were on full display across America on Wednesday as protesters flooded city streets.
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News (USA)
Washington State’s first gender clinic opens next month to treat trans kids
Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic will be only the 5th hospital in the country of its kind.
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News (USA)
Seattle Mariners apologize after double header of homophobia
Two LGBTQ couples have been reprimanded for showing affection at Mariners’ games in two weeks. The last incident happened at the team’s inaugural Pride Night.
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News (USA)
Seattle poised to ban gay conversion therapy
The full council is expected to vote on the measure at 2pm local time on Monday.
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News (USA)
Seattle: Trans person assaulted leaving fundraiser for Orlando victims
A flower Volz was wearing in their hair the night of the attack was left covered in blood.
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Seattle mayor signs order to protect transgender rights
The city will develop uniform guidance and trainings for city staff on how to best provide safe and inclusive spaces for transgender and gender-diverse people.
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News (USA)
Hearing set for man charged in murder-terrorism case
Ali Muhammad Brown also faces murder counts stemming from the June deaths of two men killed after leaving a gay nightclub.
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News (USA)
Seattle police officer under fire for homophobic, racist comments online
The cop claims he was being “ironic” by using the term “f*g” on his Twitter account.
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News (USA)
Groups concerned about Walgreens’ ties to Catholic hospital
Can Walgreens offer assurances that its LGBTQ customers and LGBTQ patients at the clinics will be treated with dignity and respect?
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University of Washington names first Latina woman as president
Ana Mari Cauce is the first woman, first openly gay person, and first Latina to hold the job permanently at the Seattle-based institution.
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Pelosi addresses LGBT protections at Amazon
Pelosi visited the Amazon campus to discuss protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
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Commentary
Is the decline of the modern “gayborhood” a good thing?
Are “tech-bros” and Grindr to blame? Or is it a sign of social progress?
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News (USA)
Girl Scouts council returns $100,000 donation over anti‑transgender provision
The Girl Scouts of Western Washington says it has returned a $100,000 donation because it came with the provision that the money couldn’t be used to support transgender girls.
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News (USA)
Seattle unveils 11 rainbow crosswalks in gay‑friendly Capitol Hill neighborhood
Seattle has new rainbow-colored crosswalks for LGBT Pride Week, and it plans to keep them for years. Mayor Ed Murray, who is openly gay, unveiled one of the 11 new crosswalks in the historically gay-friendly Capitol Hill neighborhood on Tuesday.
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Four West Coast mayors lift bans on city-funded travel to Indiana
The mayors of four West Coast cities say they’re lifting bans imposed on city-funded travel to Indiana after changes were made to that state’s religious objections law to make clear it can’t be used to discriminate.
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Seattle mayor Ed Murray joins Indiana boycott, says no city-funded travel
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says he will not allow work-related city-funded travel to Indiana after the passage of a new law that has the potential to discriminate against LGBT people and others based on religious beliefs.
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Accused killer says murders of four men were ‘vengeance’ against U.S.
A Seattle man accused in a nationwide murder spree that has claimed four victims, including two gay men in Seattle, has told investigators that he had launched his own “jihad” against Americans as an act of “vengeance” to retaliate for U.S. military action in the Middle East.
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Seattle nightclub arsonist sentenced to 10 years in federal prison
SEATTLE — A man who set fire to a crowded Seattle nightclub on New Year’s Eve has been sentenced to 10 years in prison — twice what prosecutors asked. No one was injured when 31-year-old Musab Mohammed Masmari ignited gasoline in a stairwell at Neighbors, a gay nightclub, where more than 700 people were celebrating the holiday…
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Suspect in ‘execution-style’ murders of two Seattle gay men captured in N.J.
SEATTLE — The suspect in the murder of two gay men in Seattle last month has been arrested in New Jersey, according to Seattle police. Ali Muhammad Brown, 29, was taken into custody in West Orange, N.J. on Friday. No additional details about the arrest have been provided. Earlier this month, prosecutors in King County, Wash., filed aggravated murder charges …