After beloved longtime edor Gee Bakan died last year, his dghter, Angela Crag, hered the Seattle Gay News and hired some new people. The publitn is movg forward, strivg to...
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- SEATTLE GAY NEWS CHARTS A PATH TO THE FUTURE AFTER ATH OF LONGTIME EDOR GEE BAKAN
- SEATTLE GAY NEWS ARCHIV S PAST AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
SEATTLE GAY NEWS CHARTS A PATH TO THE FUTURE AFTER ATH OF LONGTIME EDOR GEE BAKAN
On Friday, Augt 4, 2023, hundreds of protters gathered at the 76 gas statn on Broadway on Capol Hill wh flowers and signs to mourn the btal murr of O'Shae Sibley, a Black Gay man stabbed to ath at a gas statn New York Cy. SEATTLE GAY SCENE is Seattle’s Leadg LGBT muny webse, and most vised lendar the regn.
We also proudly serve as media sponsors for a number of amazg lol anizatns, cludg: Gay Cy Health Project, Lifelong AIDS Alliance, SIFF, Three Dollar Bill Cema, Qulture Qreative & Hard Tim Prs, NARK Magaze and Ban Strip to help brg some of the most excg live events and entertament the cy. Seattle Pri Magaze is produced partnership wh Seattle Gay News. When Gee Bakan, the edor and publisher of Seattle Gay News sce 1982, died June 2020, thoands of people the LGBTQ+ muny Seattle grieved.
SEATTLE GAY NEWS ARCHIV S PAST AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
Bakan, known as “the Governor of Capol Hill, ” ma the weekly newspaper Seattle’s leadg source of rmatn about the AIDS epimic the 1980s durg a time when many news sourc blamed gay people for the disease they lled “gay ncer. ” He also created a place where Seattle’s LGBTQ+ muny uld feel a sense of solidary when many stat still had laws place agast gay sex.