SGN: Seattle Gay News

07/12/2025

Hello Tacoma Happy Pride! 🏔️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We came down from Seattle this morning, cars loaded, to give out Pride issues and stickers to the folks here at Wright Park 🌲📰

We’ll be here until closing at 6pm, please stop by and say hi to us! Our booth is along South I street, facing the hospital near the food trucks 🛻 🌮

07/10/2025

Hello everyone, thank you all for sharing your kind thoughts and memories of Roxy ❤ We are currently working on a more thorough, multi-page tribute to her for our upcoming August issue. If there is anyone out in the community that feels comfortable sharing their photos or statements about their relationship with Roxy, please feel free to DM us here on Facebook or email them to [email protected] and we will put them in our tribute 💐

There is also going to be another Roxy Doll memorial show at Neighbours tonight "The Dollhouse" at 9pm hosted by Delulu Lemon with lots of other talented drag performers💃🪩

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In Loving Memory of Roxy Doll (November 16, 1967 – June 24, 2025)

It is with profound sorrow that we share the passing of Roxy Doll, a beloved drag luminary and heart of Neighbours Nightclub. She fell ill on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, and laid down to rest. She was later found unresponsive. Despite swift life-saving measures, Roxy slipped away from this existence.

Like all of you, the SGN is stunned and heartbroken. Roxy wasn’t just a performer—she was Neighbours. She embodied the true spirit of inclusion, joy, and resilience. For years, she poured her passion into the nightclub, especially through the pandemic clean‑up and restoration efforts. She breathed life back into our beloved space, Seattle's oldest LGBTQIA+ nightclub currently operating.

Rest peacefully, Roxy Doll. We love you. We miss you. And, your memory will live on in the hearts of Seattle's LGBTQIA+ community.

This is a developing story and the SGN will bring coverage of her passing online at SGN.org and in the pages of the SGN in the coming months.

07/09/2025

Seattle Gay News Publisher Renee Raketty dropped by the 🎙 KUOW Public Radio studio this week and sat down with Patricia Murphey to discuss her efforts to get an accurate passport.

👉 Do us a favor and help get the word out about the fight for trans people to be treated equally as Americans. 🇺🇲



Link:

In one of his first actions back in office, President Donald Trump required federal agencies to only recognize two biological s*xes, based on s*x “at conception.” Although a judge blocked that executive order, things are still complicated at the passport office. Seattle Gay News Publisher Renee ...

07/03/2025

Last Sunday, the SGN's nightlife columnist Alan Motley went out interviewing some of the wonderful attendees at this year's Seattle Pridefest 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you to everyone who participated in the video, as well as those who visited us at our booth! Could not have had such a successful pride season this year without y'alls love and support 📰🔥🙌

06/29/2025

Some pics from Capitol Hill Pride yesterday!

06/29/2025

🏳️‍🌈 Seattle Pride Parade info!
If you're planning on marching with us, meet us along 4th Ave and Seneca - we're section 4.04!

06/28/2025

🏳️‍⚧️ Did you get to meet some of our staff at Trans Pride yesterday?

If not, we'll be popping up at events around town, including Capitol Hill PrideFest today! And we've got a sweet surprise! Follow us on Instagram and tiktok for more!

06/27/2025

My name is Delta Rotter, and I am a lot of things. I’m a single mother to a Nonbinary child. I’m a domestic violence survivor and a state government employee. I’m a Q***r person with a Q***r partner and Q***r friends, who was raised in a conservative, rural town here in Washington and forced to hide essential parts of me away, even from myself. I’m a registered voter in our state, and this past November I filled in the box next to your name on the ballot I cast for our governor.

When I first heard you were running for governor, I was cautiously optimistic. As a public servant in a cabinet-level state agency, I knew people who knew you. One of my colleagues spoke highly of you, and I’d heard plenty of tales of how tough you were as our state’s attorney general.

My child was born just weeks before the 2016 election. I sobbed as I watched the results come in, terrified of the world I had just brought them into. You were one of the brave ones who was actually going to do something about it. You filed lawsuit after lawsuit, and you won. You were a man of action, and I thought, “Who could possibly be better to have as the leader of our state as we stare down the barrel of Project 2025?”

On June 4, 2025, I found out I was wrong about you.

Read the full letter below.

The following letter was sent to the SGN (and the governor).