In 1893, the Washgton State legislature quietly began passg a set of laws that sentially ma homosexualy, and eventually even the discsn of homosexualy, a crime. By ntrast, one century later Mike Lowry beme the first ernor of the state to addrs the annual lbian and gay pri rally Seattle. Gay Seattle trac the evolutn…
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- GAY SEATTLE
- GAY SEATTLE: STORI OF EXILE AND BELONGG PAPERBACK – APRIL 5, 2013
- GAY SEATTLE: STORI OF EXILE AND BELONGG
GAY SEATTLE
* gay seattle stories of exile and belonging *
In 1893, the Washgton State legislature quietly began passg a set of laws that sentially ma homosexualy, and eventually even the discsn of homosexualy, a crime. By ntrast, one century later Mike Lowry beme the first ernor of the state to addrs the annual lbian and gay pri rally Seattle.
GAY SEATTLE: STORI OF EXILE AND BELONGG PAPERBACK – APRIL 5, 2013
Gay Seattle trac the evolutn of Seattle’s gay muny those 100 turbulent years, tellg through a century of stori how gays and lbians have sought to achieve a sense of belongg and equaly Seattle.
GAY SEATTLE: STORI OF EXILE AND BELONGG
Gay Seattle reunts the monizatn of gays by social csars around the turn of the century, the earlit prosecutns for sodomy, the official harassment and discrimatn through most of the twentieth century, and the medil discrimatn and mment to mental hospals that ntued to the 1970s as homosexualy was diagnosed as a disease that uld be “cured. Plac of refuge om this imposed social exile were created unrground theater and dance clubs: the Gold Rh-era burlque shows, morn drag theater, and mid-century the emergence of openly gay bars, om the Caso to Shelley’s Leg. The creasgly public prence of gays Seattle was acpanied by the gradual alcence of social servic and self-help anizatns such as the Dorian Society, gay bs and advocy groups cludg the Greater Seattle Bs Associatn, and the stormy relatnship between the Vatin, Seattle’s Catholic hierarchy, and gay worshippers.