The poster pictured here advertises an solstice celebration organized by Lambda Productions to benefit three LGBTQ groups-- the Dorian Group, Families and Friends of Gays and Lesbians, Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities-- and the sexual assualt resource Seattle Rape Relief. The party was hosted by Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988), the first gay service member to intentionally out himself to the military to fight its ban on gays. Matlovich, a recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star, was discharged from the Air Force after revealing he was gay. After his photograph appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1975, Matlovich became a symbol for gay servicemembers, and for the fight for gay rights in general.

The benefit was held at the Eagles Hippodrome Ballroom (aka Eagles Hippodrome, the Mother Aerie, Aerie No. 1, Eagles Temple, and the Senator Hotel), a seven-story historic theatre and apartment building in Seattle at 1416 Seventh Avenue, at the corner of Seventh and Union Street. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1983 and has been home to ACT Theatre since 1996. The current configuration of the building, under the official name Kreielsheimer Place, has two stages, a cabaret, and 44 residential apartments.

Caption information source: "Gay Viet Vet Dies of AIDS," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 24, 1988, p. A9
Caption information source: "Landmark where top ’60s bands played," by Casey McNerthney, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 18, 2011, retrieved from https://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/08/18/seattle-history-landmark-where-top-60s-bands-played/