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List Of LGBTQ People From Seattle
Notable LGBTQ people from Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, include: * Arrietty, drag performer *Faygele Ben-Miriam, activist *BenDeLaCreme, drag queen * Bosco, drag performer *Carrie Brownstein, musical artist, actor, and author *Brandi Carlile, musician * Abrahm DeVine, swimmer *Jenny Durkan, former United States Attorney; Mayor of Seattle from 2017 to 2021 and the first female mayor since the 1920s * Michael Hadreas, musician *Rebecca Heineman, video game programmer * Irene Dubois, drag performer * Gretchen Kalonji – materials scientist, professor, and academic administrator * Mama Tits, drag performer and entertainer * Mary Lambert, singer *Jinkx Monsoon, drag queen and singer * Waxie Moon, performer * Ed Murray, former Seattle mayor 2015 to 2017 * Dylan Orr, government official *Clyde Petersen, filmmaker and musician * W. H. Pugmire, performer and writer *Megan Rapinoe, professional athlete *Dan Savage, writer and activist *Robbie Turner Robert Peter Tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two ''Billboard'' Music Awards, and a Tony Award. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with ''Fortune'' saying that he is "easily the world's most famous drag queen." In 2017, RuPaul was included in the annual ''Time'' 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Born and raised in San Diego, California, RuPaul studied performing arts in Atlanta, Georgia, before relocating to New York City, where he became a popular fixture on the LGBTQ nightclub scene. He achieved international fame as a drag queen with the release of his debut single, "Supe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Dubois
Irene the Alien, formerly known as Irene Dubois, is the stage name of Ian Hill, an American drag performer most known for competing on the fifteenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', and the tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Education Hill attended Southern Methodist University and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater. Career Hill worked with Houston Grand Opera and Texas Repertory Theatre. He began doing drag in Dallas, during college, and has worked as a drag queen since age 25. Based in Seattle, Irene the Alien has performed at Julia's on Broadway and Queer Bar, where she co-hosted the weekly show "The Mothership" with Bosco, as of 2022. Drag "sister" to Bosco, former drag mother to season 17's contestant Arrietty, Irene is known for her "bizarre and otherworldly" looks and alien-inspired drag. Being a fan of Patricia Arquette and ''Medium'', her former stage name was inspired by Allison DuBois. Irene the Alien won the So You Think You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of People From Washington (state)
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBTQ Culture In Seattle
Seattle has a notably large LGBTQ community, and the city of Seattle has protected gay and lesbian workers since the passage of the Fair Employment Practice Ordinance in 1973. Seattle's LGBTQ culture is celebrated at Seattle Pride, which began in 1977 as ''Gay Pride Week''. Gay cabaret traveled in a circuit including Seattle and San Francisco since the 1930s. Seattleites have operated gay-friendly clubs and bars since the 1930s, including The Casino in Underground Seattle at Pioneer Square (which allowed same-sex dancing since 1930), and upstairs from it The Double Header bar was in continuous operation since 1933 or 1934 until 2015 (thought to be the oldest continuously-operating gay bar in the United States). Seattle's gay shopping and recreation area is centered on Capitol Hill with rainbow-painted crosswalks, bars, bookstores and other venues. In 2013, Seattle overtook San Francisco as the United States city with the most households composed of gay or lesbian couples (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Turner (drag Queen)
Robbie Turner is the stage name of Jeremy Baird, an American drag queen and writer most known for competing on the eighth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Early life Baird was raised by Pentecostal ministers in Centralia, Washington. Career Early in her career, Turner performed at Tacoma, Washington's pride festival. In Seattle, she performed at the bar R Place and hosted the Robbie Turner Revue at the Hard Rock Café. Turner auditioned for ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' multiple times before being cast for the eighth season. Fellow Seattle performer Jinkx Monsoon endorsed Turner in the submitted audition tape. During the "Snatch Game" competition, Turner portrayed Diana Vreeland. Turner was eliminated from ''Drag Race'' after losing a lip sync battle to Derrick Barry. ''Vulture'' ranked Turner number 53 on their list of "Every Snatch Game Impersonation on ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', Ranked". ''The Independent'' Lily Pearson included Turner's lip sync against Cynthia Lee Fontaine in her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBTQ community activist. He writes Savage Love, an internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column. In 2010, Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBTQ youth. He has also worked as a theater director, sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan. Born in Chicago to Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic parents, Savage attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. After living in West Berlin from 1988 to 1990, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he befriended Tim Keck, co-founder of ''The Onion''. When Keck moved to Seattle, Washington, Savage moved as well to become an advice columnist for ''The Stranger (newspaper), The Stranger'', which Keck founded; he had offered Savage the position after Savage wrote a sample column which impressed him. Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Rapinoe
Megan Anna Rapinoe (; born July 5, 1985) is an American former professional Association football, soccer player who played as a Midfielder#Winger, winger. She spent most of her career playing for Seattle Reign FC, OL Reign of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States women's national soccer team, United States national team. Winner of the Ballon d'Or Féminin and named The Best FIFA Women's Player in 2019, Rapinoe won gold with the national team at the Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2012 London Summer Olympics, 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and played at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, where the U.S. finished second. Rapinoe co-captained the national team alongside Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan from 2018 to 2020. She previously played for the Chicago Red Stars, Philadelphia Independence, and magicJack (WPS), magicJack in Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), as well as Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, Ly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Petersen
Clyde Petersen is an artist based in Seattle, working in film, animation, music, and installation. As a director, he is best known for ''Torrey Pines'' (2016), an autobiographical stop-motion animated feature film, which toured the world with a live score. He is the founding member of punk band Your Heart Breaks. Between 2012 and 2015, he hosted the web series ''Boating with Clyde'', set on a small handmade boat in the Washington Park Arboretum. Petersen is transgender and his art often explores queer themes. Career In 1998, whilst living in Bellingham, Washington and studying documentary film production at Western Washington University, Petersen started the band Your Heart Breaks. The band has released multiple albums, either by self-releasing or through small independent labels, throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Petersen worked with animation on commercials at a post-production house in Seattle. He has directed music videos (some of which were animated) for The Thermals, Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Orr
Dylan Orr (born 1979) is the director of Environmental Health Services for King County, Washington. He was formerly the director of the Office of Labor Standards for the City of Seattle from 2015 to 2018. In that role, Orr was responsible for enforcing Seattle's historic minimum wage law, as well as its paid sick and safe time law, wage theft law, and fair chance employment law. Previously, Orr was chief of staff to assistant secretary Kathy Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy. As part of the United States Department of Labor, he contributed to the development of national disability employment-related regulations and policies, including regulations issued under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. As the Department of Labor representative, he also worked with the White House Office of National AIDS Policy on the implementation of the President's National HIV/AIDS Strategy, in addition to making significant contributions to several federal LGBT policie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Murray (Washington Politician)
Edward Bernard Patrick Murray (born May 2, 1955) is an American politician from the state of Washington who most recently served as the 53rd mayor of Seattle from 2014 to 2017. A Democrat, he was previously a state legislator, first with the Washington State House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, then the Washington State Senate from 2007 to 2013. In 2017, Murray faced multiple allegations of child abuse, rape and sexual molestation, including from a family member and his adopted son. He denies the allegations. Murray resigned as mayor of Seattle on September 12, 2017. Early life and education Murray was born in Aberdeen, Washington, to an Irish Catholic family, and is one of seven siblings in his family. He spent much of his childhood in West Seattle's Alki neighborhood, but attended high school at Timberline High School in Lacey, where he served as student body president. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waxie Moon (performer)
Waxie Moon is a gender-bending neo-burlesque persona of the performer Marc Kenison. Kenison studied modern dance at Juilliard School and acting at University of Washington. During his six years dancing for the José Limón Company, Kenison performed for the White House and toured other parts of the world, including the war-torn Sarajevo and El Salvador. After co-founding the Washington Ensemble Theater in Seattle, Kenison turned to burlesque and created Waxie Moon, whom he describes as "the gender-blending queer lady boylesque performance art solo stripping sensation". In 2009 Waxie Moon became the subject of Wes Hurley's documentary of the same name. The documentary '' Waxie Moon'' won several awards including Best Local Film at the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Jury Award at Queer Fruits Festival in Australia and Best Film at Love Unlimited Film Festival. The film is distributed by TLA Video. Waxie Moon is also the star and co-writer of '' Waxie Moon in Fallen Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinkx Monsoon
Hera Lilith Hoffer (born September 18, 1987), best known by the stage name Jinkx Monsoon, is an American drag queen, actress, singer and comedienne, originally from the Pacific Northwest, and perhaps best-known for winning the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 5), fifth season (2013) of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. She made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in 2023 and has appeared in character roles on television and in cabaret. Nine years after her first win on ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', in 2022, she returned as part of an RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 7, all-winners ''All Stars'' season, featuring a mixture of crowned queens from several seasons competing against one another for the title of "Queen of All Queens" and a $200,000 prize. Monsoon placed first here as well, becoming the first two-time winner of the show across its many global franchises. Throughout her drag career, she has been noted for her wit and comedic timing, her musical theatre-inspired performances, and for Imper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
