HAPPY PRIDE!
ISSUE 2 2
C E L E B R AT I N G
VOLUME 50
48 YEARS
F R I D AY
IN
JUNE 3, 2022
S E AT T L E ’ S L G B T Q I A + N E W S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T W E E K LY S I N C E 19 74
“RESILIENCE 2.0” Pride ASIA brightens, enlightens despite damp day
by Daniel Lindsley SGN Contributing Writer The concrete and the sky matched at Hing Hay Park on Saturday: both were cold and gray. Gathered on the steps and at the red metal tables was a reserved audience; they cheered, but they also drew into themselves to stay warm against the wind. They were cheering for the performance of Northwest Kung Fu and Fitness, whose traditional lion dancing enlivened the park with movement. Just minutes before, Deputy Mayor Monisha Harrell had proclaimed at the mic that May 29, 2022, would be recognized as Pride ASIA Day, and lauded the positive impact of the
Asian and Pacific Islander community on the city. Local drag artist and prominent activist Aleksa Manila hosted the event in a bright yellow pantsuit, along with Seattle drag legend Gaysha Starr and Miss Gay Washington Dutchess Drew. They added an energy that defied the dreariness and shined spotlights on whoever went on stage. One such person was Jӧel Barraquiel Tan, the first Queer, Asian, Pacific Islander director of the newly reopened Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Tan started the job late last month, and his keynote address on Saturday was an invocation of the dead.
Gaysha Starr – Photo by A.V. Eichenbaum
see PRIDE ASIA page 5
Seattle Starbucks workers still fighting New union shop and walkout highlight organizing drive
Join the movement at Clara’s Books
Photo courtesy of SBWU
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Seattle Starbucks workers scored another victory when workers at the Eastlake store voted unanimously to unionize. They join Starbucks workers at the company’s flagship Reserve Roastery on Pike Street and the Denny and Broadway store in voting to be representing by Starbucks
Photo by Lindsey Anderson
Workers United (SBWU). That election victory makes 100 Starbucks locations that have already voted to unionize. Some 200 more have filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a union election — so many, in fact, that the NLRB can’t keep up with the demand for elections.
see UNION page 4
by Lindsey Anderson SGN Contributing Writer It’s an age-old question in Seattle: what comes first, the radical social movement or the theoretical literature? For the activists at Clara’s Bookstore in Columbia City, the answer is the movement. Doreen McGreth runs the store while also working for the Seattle Freedom Socialist
Party. For the last three years, she has been in charge of organizing meetings, ordering literature for the store, and planning events, like the upcoming Roe v. Wade decision-day rollout, for when the Supreme Court announces its official decision. “I was always a feminist,” McGreth said of the passion that led her to Clara’s. “I was
see CLARA’S page 7