Welp, actually, the Seattle Gay Pride Parade long ago set a standard for being a flighty bitch who might up and switch neighborhoods on you at any moment!

The very first Pride Parade paraded through Pioneer Square. Gay Pride Seattle began in 1974 down in Pioneer Square. Like all Pride Events to this day, it was thrown in honor of the Stonewall Riots, of course.

The event followed the migrating gays to Capitol Hill in the early 1980s, and there it thrived.

In 2006, Parade organizers split with the Capitol Hill Tradition--they had been talking about it for years-- and moved the Parade and ensuing fest Downtown, which caused a big bitchy rift among Seattle Gays, let me tell you. (Dan Savage had been advocating since the early 2000s for the Parade’s downtown relocation, mostly citing a, “We’ve outgrown the hill! Other major cities’ Pride Parades go through downtown, ours should too!” reason or something.

The move and the ensuing debt almost killed the Parade and its after party entirely in 2007. But clever Gayness prevails, and Pride Parade and rally persist…Downtown…