Pride in the Park from the air as Volunteer Park got the 2024 Pride season off to a solid start earlier this month
As the city prepares to mark Seattle’s 50th Pride celebration with Sunday’s annual downtown parade, Capitol Hill will again be busy with events marking the neighborhood’s importance in queer history and community. Here is a look at the Pride 2024 weekend ahead. Happy Capitol Hill Pride.
FRIDAY JUNE 28th — TRANS PRIDE SEATTLE: The city’s celebration of Trans Pride will take another turn in Volunteer Park this year after moving into the park last year to mark its 10th anniversary. While the performers have increased in stature and social media status, organizers at the Gender Justice League have continued a grassroots ethos, forgoing corporate sponsorship, and sustaining the annual rally and party “to honor and carry the torch of our Transcestors who originated Pride as a means of both resistance and cultural communion.” You can view a list of scheduled performers and speakers and learn more about Friday’s event here. — More info on the CHS Calendar
SATURDAY JUNE 29th — PRIDEFEST CAPITOL HILL: This is the big street festival and fair in Cal Anderson Park you’ve been waiting for. Organizers are back in 2024 with plans to close Broadway from John to Roy, turn Barbara Bailey Way into a festival street, and fill Cal Anderson with Drag Queen Storytime, a pet drag show, and the PrideFest Capitol Hill Dance Party with C89.5 DJs to close it all down. — More info on the CHS Calendar
SATURDAY JUNE 29th — SEATTLE DYKE MARCH: The annual Dyke March is moving back onto Broadway as organizers have grown their group into the new Seattle Dyke Alliance with a mission that extends beyond the popular march. After moving into Volunteer Park last year, the march is getting back to its roots and marking its 30th year with a rally from 5 to 7 PM in the Seattle Central plaza followed by the traditional march through the neighborhood and up Broadway to mingle with the PrideFest festivities. The march echoes with the decades of fights for rights and safety in the community. No worries, the Dykes on Bikes will also be on hand. “This is a protest – no police escort,” organizers write. “Know the risks, see you there.” — More info on the CHS Calendar
JUNE 29th AND 30th — PRIDE WEEKEND — Varies!: Capitol Hill’s Pride weekend parties and beer gardens along Pike/Pine and Broadway have grown in scale with streets closed to traffic and multiple stages. As usual, Sunday’s big parade takes place downtown.
A scene from the 2023 PrideFest street festival on Broadway
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