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HRC DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN US by Lindsey Anderson SGN Staff Writer On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) declared that it now considers the United States under a national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people. This is the first time the country’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization has made such a declaration in its nearly half-century history.
see EMERGENCY page 17
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Gothic Pride Seattle crowns new royalty to reign over revival
What is a lavender graduation?
Photo by Kitten Rose
by Daniel Lindsley SGN Staff Writer As our city’s parks, storefronts, and corporate Twitter accounts don all the colors of the rainbow and more in honor of Pride month, Gothic Pride Seattle is keeping it real and sticking to shades of black. The organization held a pageant last week at Cafe Racer to bestow the title
of Mx. Gothic Seattle, and it will likely appear in the Seattle Pride parade along with its traditional black hearse. Non-goths might assume that the organization is simply an alternative to the flamboyant aesthetic typical to celebrations of queerness, but as board members Daemon Chadeau and Samandra Luvett explained,
see GOTHIC PRIDE page 8
Photo courtesy of WWU
“I am proud of every student that is vocal and present and lovely and proud, because it makes space for every student Colorful cords, wrapped around the who can’t be that all of the time,” said shoulders of Queer graduates of Western graduate Luca Jiménez-Arroyo during Washington University, waved in the wind, the ceremony, reading from the poem just one part of an event dedicated to cel- “For Those Who I Am Proud of,” which ebrating Pride, which also included poems, Luca wrote. speeches, tie-dying T-shirts, and a table of free food. see LAVENDER page 6 by Cameron Martinez SGN Intern