‘Wait, Capitol Hill Is Gay?’ 

This story originally appeared in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue.
Happy Anniversary! It’s been one year since Christian supremacists took over a historically queer park in Seattle’s historically queer neighborhood.The event, which you may have read about in last year’s Queer Issue, was part of the Mayday USA tour, an anti-trans, anti-abortion spectacle specifically designed to goad Seattleites into a protest that served their narrative: Christians as victims of left-win