Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections. Seattle Magazine cover of Peter Wichern, an openly gay businessman, published the same year that the Dorian Society was founded, 1967. Seattle Times article identifying Seattle’s “homosexual problem” - that too many openly gay people were residing in the city, September 21, 1966. Courtesy of the Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project.

The Double Header was the longest continuously operating gay bar in the United States, having opened in 1934, until it closed its doors on December 31, 2015. Courtesy of Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project. The sign for the Casino Pool Hall, which opened in 1930 in Pioneer Square. Willis Sayre Photographs, University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections. Courtesy of King County Superior Court.įrancis Renault, a vaudeville drag performer, 1907.

Indictment of Stanley Wesley under the State of Washington’s recently passed sodomy law, 1893. Courtesy Robert H Miller Collection, Museum of History & Industry (Negative Number 20.5). Gay Pride March through Downtown Seattle, 1977.