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In its response to the complaint, the Seattle commission shared the letter and publicly admonished the event organizers:
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“We will never charge admission over the color of a person’s skin and we resent being attacked for standing in those values,” the complaint to the city from LeFevre and Lipson reads. However, I simply cannot support an organization that is trying to stop Black people in the LGBTQ+ community from celebrating Pride in the manner that they choose.”Ĭharlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, who once ran the Museum of the Mysteries on north Broadway, are facing an ongoing wave of condemnation and cancellations after the Seattle Human Rights Commission posted the letter from the Capitol Hill Pride organizers criticizing the Black Pride event hosted by groups including the Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network for its plans to charge white attendees a “reparations fee that will be used to keep this event free of cost for BLACK AND BROWN Trans and Queer COMMUNITY.” “After a year that has taken an unbelievable toll on all of our communities, I was looking forward to this opportunity to celebrate Pride in person. Lorena González said Friday joining a long string of cancellations. “I will no longer be attending Capitol Hill Pride after reading their letter to the Seattle Human Rights Commission,” Seattle City Council president and mayoral candidate M. Two former Capitol Hill business owners who have continued to organize events through the years during the neighborhood’s annual Pride celebrations are scrambling this week to apologize over their complaints to the city about a competing Taking B(l)ack Pride event.ĭozens of scheduled participants including mayoral candidates, community groups, and entertainers for the planned festival in Cal Anderson Park have announced they will now not take part in the organizers’ Capitol Hill Pride in-person events this weekend. Happier days from Capitol Hill Pride in 2015