155 results for: LGBTQIA
Serial
Seattle Gay News, Vol. 41, No. 26, June 28, 2013
The Seattle Gay News (SGN) was founded in 1976 to provide news coverage focusing on Seattle’s gay community; it is the third oldest LGBTQ+ newspaper in the US. Seattle Gay News started as a newsletter produced by the Gay Community Center. It provided news to a community that was largely ignored by mainstream newspapers and advocated for gay rights in…
ID Number:2021.67.74
Date:2013
Serial
Seattle Gay News, Vol. 41, No. 45, November 8, 2013
The Seattle Gay News (SGN) was founded in 1976 to provide news coverage focusing on Seattle’s gay community; it is the third oldest LGBTQ+ newspaper in the US. Seattle Gay News started as a newsletter produced by the Gay Community Center. It provided news to a community that was largely ignored by mainstream newspapers and advocated for gay rights in…
ID Number:2021.67.75
Date:2013
Serial
Seattle Gay News Vol. 45, No. 45, November 10, 2017
The Seattle Gay News (SGN) was founded in 1976 to provide news coverage focusing on Seattle’s gay community; it is the third oldest LGBTQ+ newspaper in the US. Seattle Gay News started as a newsletter produced by the Gay Community Center. It provided news to a community that was largely ignored by mainstream newspapers and advocated for gay rights in…
ID Number:2021.67.78
Date:2017
Videorecording
Human Rights: Homophobia and Its Effect on Society, Community Television Agency program, April 19, 1989
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.09
Date:1989
Poster
Shelly's Leg bar poster, Seattle, 1974
Shelly's Leg was the first publicly gay disco and bar in Seattle when it opened on November 13, 1973, in a converted hotel in Pioneer Square at the intersection of South Main Street and Alaskan Way. Co-owner Shelly Bauman (1947-2010) funded the wildly popular party spot with settlement money from an accident at the Bastille Day Parade in 1970 which…
ID Number:2022.13.1
Date:1974
Photograph
Paul Bigley and friends at Imperial Court campaign event, Seattle, February 2, 1985
The International Imperial Court System is one of the largest LGBTQ organizations in the world. Founded in San Francisco by gay-rights activist José Sarria in 1965, the system is comprised of local chapters, or courts, across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Most courts are known as empires and are headed by monarchs elected for one-year terms. The monarchs help the…
ID Number:2022.42.1.1.1
Date:1985
Photograph
Investiture ceremony for the Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle, February 17, 1985
The International Imperial Court System is one of the largest LGBTQ organizations in the world. Founded in San Francisco by gay-rights activist José Sarria in 1965, the system is comprised of local chapters, or courts, across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Most courts are known as empires and are headed by monarchs elected for one-year terms. The monarchs help the…
ID Number:2022.42.1.1.2
Date:1985
Photograph
Paul Bigley and Peaches O'Day, 2006
The International Imperial Court System is one of the largest LGBTQ organizations in the world. Founded in San Francisco by gay-rights activist José Sarria in 1965, the system is comprised of local chapters, or courts, across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Most courts are known as empires and are headed by monarchs elected for one-year terms. The monarchs help the…
ID Number:2022.42.1.2.1
Date:2006
Ephemera
Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle Coronation 2008 brochure
The International Imperial Court System is one of the largest LGBTQ organizations in the world. Founded in San Francisco by gay-rights activist José Sarria in 1965, the system is comprised of local chapters, or courts, across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Most courts are known as empires and are headed by monarchs elected for one-year terms. The monarchs help the…
ID Number:2022.42.1.4.1
Date:2008
Ephemera
Thank you certificate from royalty of Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle, 1986
The International Imperial Court System is one of the largest LGBTQ organizations in the world. Founded in San Francisco by gay-rights activist José Sarria in 1965, the system is comprised of local chapters, or courts, across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Most courts are known as empires and are headed by monarchs elected for one-year terms. The monarchs help the…
ID Number:2022.42.1.8.1
Date:1986