A Woman Possessed
This story was originally published in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue. It was from the glittering ashes of male-centric glam rock that one of LA’s first punk bands emerged. As a music-obsessed teenager who was convinced she’d one day marry Elton John (this is the bi experience, people), Alice Bag met Patricia Morrison (Legal Weapon,…
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Sea Change
It got salty, and there were some rough waters, but unionized employees and management at Sea Creatures restaurant group came to a tentative agreement on a union contract Wednesday night, the union announced to The Stranger. This means that workers at acclaimed oyster bar the Walrus and the Carpenter and both locations of doughnut shop…
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Slog AM: Supreme Court Says No More Deportation Protection for Haitian and Syrian Immigrants, Europe Bakes, Mayor Katie Wilson Hires Temporary Communications Staff
According to state records, part of the chemical tank that ruptured in an implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packing Company pulp mill that killed 11 and injured eight last month had sprung a leak in late 2023 and early 2024. Records also show that state regulators have cited the mill for clean air and water…
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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The interesting struggles you’ll wage in the coming weeks will require your vulnerability: showing up exactly as you are when you might rather fight or escape. Your warrior nature probably prefers a clear enemy or a definable problem you can confront, but the truer conquest will come from laying down your…
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A Germaphobe’s Guide To Eating Ass
In the mid-2010s, Time’s pronouncement that America had reached the transgender tipping point overshadowed another startling edict from Salon a few months later: Ass was the new pussy. Licking it. Suckling it. Introducing it to a curious finger. Dicking it down with fleshy and artificial phalluses. The world had caught up to Mozart, who, in…
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Oops!…They Did It Again
Haunted memory, darkened rooms, underground house party: these were the themes in the first iteration of Once Removed, where five artists took over a Greenwood bungalow this past February and filled it with art. Conceived by two Seattle gallerists—Zoë Hensley and Sammy Skidmore—the project transforms houses slated for demolition into temporary sites for exhibition. The…
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Pop Loser: Karma Is the Guy From Metallica Falling Straight off the Stage
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, Olivia Rodrigo announced her own version of Lilith Fair, Halsey dragged Anthony Fantano, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett experienced Taylor Swift’s karmic powers, and pioneering Portland queercore band Team Dresch announced their first new album in 30 years. It’s Pride weekend, and there is so much great live music…
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Slog AM: World Cup Helps Soundtransit Break Single-Day Ridership Record, the Mamdani Era Begins, Georgetown Stolen Rat Trap Returned
True, the way Seattle is hosting its portion of the World Cup is far from perfect. It’s riddled with social problems. But one also has to admit that the city is receiving a great deal of social media praise for aspects of the city that can be attributed to progressive urbanism and politics. Link, for…
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Sen. Jesse Salomon Brought Us a Bear Meal
We are deep in our endorsement process, otherwise known as our pit of suffering. The compensation is snack time after candidates bribe us with their delicious treats. State Sen. Jesse Salomon, who is running for re-election in the north-of-Seattle 32nd District, brought us a feast fit for a black bear. As we walked up the…
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Cleaning House
Bisexual AFAB non-binary here. (And a Magnum sub!) I have a legal query I’m hoping you or perhaps one of your guest experts might be able to help with? I’m a self-employed cleaner in Portland, Oregon, who offers a discount for LGBTQ+ folks on first cleans. The discount attracts the kinds of clients I want, queer…
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Slog AM: Boeing’s New Plane Can’t Fly in the Rain, United Auto Workers Divest from Israel, Alan Greenspan Dies
Washington Dems Decline to Condemn MGP for Anti-Trans “Genocide” Vote: There was a strong push by delegates at Washington Democrats’ party convention in Spokane this weekend to punish US Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez for voting for a Republican bill last month that would force teachers to out transgender students to their parents. But the push wasn’t…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, June 22–29
MONDAY 6/22 The Devil Queen (FILM) Brazillian director Antônio Carlos de Fontoura’s 1974 film The Devil Queen reimagines the life and crimes of 1930s druglord/drag performer João Francisco dos Santos as a 1970s queen swathed in psychedelic fabric, who uses her jackknife to slit throats and shave her legs. Told through stunning candy colored makeup,…
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