Seattle Pride
Virtual Collection, Pride
- Description
- In 1977, Mayor Uhlman declared June 25 - July 1 as Pride Week, a proclamation that came after years of housing and employment discrimination. The struggle leading up to Pride Week is documented in the records of the Seattle Municipal Archives. Included in this curated collection are documents, photographs, and other records of LGBTQ life in Seattle within the movement for civil rights as well as in celebration of that community in the decades since. Digital resources range from parade photos in the early 1990s and 2000s to the first same-sex weddings performed at Seattle City Hall after the passage of the Washington State Marriage Equality Act in 2012.
The records of Councilmember Jeanette Williams, a champion of civil rights, include a 1975 Open Housing Ordinance revision. Records from the Mayor's Lesbian/Gay Task Force track the development of the domestic partnership program during the HIV/AIDS crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
For a closer look at the subject, see two of SMA's Digital Document Libraries: The Gay Rights Movement and the City of Seattle in the 1970s and LGBT Issues in the 1980s: Building Coalitions and Consensus in Seattle.