White Center Now: The blog about White Center

4-8 pm tonight, White Center Pride has a happy-hour fundraiser at The Lumberyard – lots of holiday-themed fun – details here.

It’s on! Rainbows everywhere to contrast the gray sky over this year’s White Center Pride Street Festival, happening on 16th SW between Roxbury and 100th until 11 pm. Entertainment, food, and drink abound.

And people!

See whitecenterpride.org (and our preview) for more on what’s happening in the hours ahead.

(WCN photo, 2021)

The White Center Pride street festival is just two days away! 11 am-11 pm Saturday, June 1, on 16th SW in the heart of White Center between SW Roxbury and SW 100th, music, performances, more (toplines here). It’s free, but if you buy a wristband, that’ll connect you with special deals:

-Expedited access to VIP drink lines
-Backstage experiences
-Premium seating
-All-day discounts at 15+ bars and restaurants

From Happy Hour prices to $5 Wells, $4 Pints, $4 Slices – exclusively for wristband holders.

You can buy yours online for $15 (that link is also where you’ll find the list of participating venues), or look for the White Center Pride booth at the festival on Saturday.

ADDED: We asked for details – festival organizers provided these lists of performers and DJs:

Performers
Rylee Raw
Londyn Bradshaw
Kymera
Drew Paradisco
Melody Lush Paradisco
Kenzie
Mia Moore
Queen Andrew
Dean the Vampire King
La Cienaga
Dion Dior Black
Whispur Watershadow
Ovary Act
Summer Heaux
Kameron Michelle
Kitty Vixen
Dolly Madison
Isabella Richards
Fraya Love
Jolene Granby
Holli B. Sinclair
Celys St. James Black
Sasha Scarlet
Cherri Bepsi
Tymira
Becca Wong
Kymera
Justin Lane
Jizzuhbell Johnson

Bands
Polari
Frecuencia Acustica
Creature Hole
Soulbaum
The Night Cry
Stephanie Anne Johnson
Amy Hall
The Aquanets
Man Plus

DJs
Baby Van Beezly
DJ Memo
DJ Last Eye
DJ Ed Martin
DJ Clover
DJ Cookie Couture
DJ Redline

(WCN/WSB photos and video)

The Pride flag is up at Triangle Park on the north edge of White Center, after a ceremony and celebration tonight kicking off the multi-day White Center Pride festivities. The crowd filled the little plaza in front of Mac’s Triangle Pub:

Those there for the White Center Pride kickoff included King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall:

A highlight was the youth mini-parade that headed out from the plaza after the flag-raising:

One of the schools organizing the parade, Community School of West Seattle, got a gift – a new flag, courtesy of WC Pride, to replace the one stolen from them earlier this week (as reported on our partner site West Seattle Blog):

Many smaller flags were flown, too:

And some important reminders:

White Center Pride continues with a Queer Beer release party Friday night and the street party all day and night Saturday – more on both at whitecenterpride.org. And while you’re at the street festival – or before – you can see the items up for bid in this silent auction announced by WC Pride:

For this year’s White Center Pride Street Festival we have a silent auction that will raise funds to support our community LGBTQ+ projects and goals such as our outreach programs, food drives, and more. We are still in the process of gathering donations, but as of now the items are quite special and include 2 significant David Johansson Art pieces, an Erika Barcott Hanging Quilt and many certificates to local shops and restaurants.

Attendees can view the items at the street fair and online. The auction itself will all take place online here: givebutter.com/c/wcpsilentauction