The organization stressed that people should have the right to choose their sexuality, sex, and gender and publicly express their gender and sexuality as they please. Their website is Seattle Gay Liberation Frontįormed in June 1970, the Seattle chapter of the Gay Liberation Front argued for societal change rather than the inclusion of gay people as respectable members of society. Today, SCSSM is located on Melrose Ave and Pine Street on the southwestern slope of Capitol Hill. Today, Seattle Counseling Services for Sexual Minorities continues to provide counseling with a wider understanding of sexual minority and gender identity issues. In 1970, 264 people came into the SCS house for counseling while over two thousand phoned into the center for counseling. Their current home is “New Freeway Hall,” located in Columbia City, and their website is Seattle Counseling Services for Sexual Minoritiesįounded by Bob Deisher as Seattle Counseling Service in the Dorian House on Malden Avenue in 1969 when homosexuality was still considered a mental illness, SCS provided a space for people to talk to volunteer counselors. Radical Women continues today with socialist feminist politics that also take into account racial oppression and gender identity issues. That is, they viewed capitalism and patriarchy as inextricably linked and sought the defeat of both. Radical Women identified the root of gay and female oppression in the heterosexual monogamous family, which they viewed as the basic social unit necessary to support a capitalist political economy. Radical Women is a socialist feminist organization founded in the late 1960s that grew out of the Freedom Socialist Party, but only included women. Today, FSP is located at "New Freeway Hall" in Columbia City. The Freedom Socialist Party met in Freeway Hall in the University District. The party supported the gay liberation movement, and included many gay men in its ranks in its early years. The Freedom Socialist Party was an anti-racist, socialist feminist organization founded in 1966. While relatively inactive prior to the gay liberation movement, the guild supported the creation of Seattle’s Imperial Court, a drag organization, and assisted the Gay Community Center in organizing a gay campground in the Cascades. Gay bar and bathhouse owners formed the Queen City Business Guild in the 1960s. The Dorian Society produced the newsletter Columns, the foundation of Seattle Gay News. Seattle Counseling Services for Sexual Minorities began in the Dorian House the same year. In 1969, the organization established a “Dorian House” on Capitol Hill, which was the first gay institution in Seattle that was neither a bar nor a bathhouse. While advocating the repeal of Washington State’s anti-sodomy law and increased services for homosexuals, Dorian Society members also encouraged members of the gay community to conduct themselves responsibly in public. The Dorian Society targeted heterosexual allies by portraying homosexuals as respectable citizens. The Dorian Society’s membership was predominantly middle-class white men.
Heer had been active in the homophile movement in Boston before moving to Seattle. University of Washington Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Nicholas Heer served as the first president. The Dorian Society was the first and only homophile organization in Seattle, officially founded in 1967. Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project.Hands Off Washington – Equal Rights Washington.Seattle Commission for Lesbians and Gays.Seattle AIDS Support Group/Seattle Area Support Groups and Community Center.Northwest AIDS Foundation/Lifelong AIDS Alliance.AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACTUP).Washington Coalition for Sexual Minority Rights.Seattle Counseling Services for Sexual Minorities.