15 August 2012 / Seattle Orcas supporting Swim for Life donor registry drive

Seattle Orca swim club had one entry two years ago and two entries last year in the Puget Sound Swim for Life. How many will sign up this year? More about the event:

It's a little-known fact that thousands of leukemia and other patients every year don't find a life-saving bone marrow donor match in time, even with a national registry of 9.5 million possible donors. The tissue-typing requirements are precise and costly and the donor registry simply isn't long enough.

Swim for Life is your opportunity to change that reality, and have fun doing it.

In just the past two years alone, the swim has raised enough to test and add 1,100 new donors to the national Be The Match registry.

Swim for Life is an annual 2.5 mile, team-based swim across Lake Washington from Medina Beach Park to Madison Park. A team is four or fewer swimmers and a kayaker, so you always have a safety boat near you.

This combination builds team spirit and a collective feeling of accomplishment; many swimmers who meet each other in this event continue to swim together over the year and return as a team the next year.

More info HERE.

12 May 2012 / Seattle Orcas are slippery when wet!

Join the Seattle Orcas, a member of FGG member organizations Team Seattle and IGLA, at their fundraiser for IGLA 2013 which they will be hosting next year.

Info HERE.

19 June 2012 / Seattle Walk With Pride

Seattle starts Pride Week with Run and WALK with Pride on Sunday 19 June 2012. This is the 29th year. This year the money raised goes to The It Gets Better Project with money directed at GLSEN Washington. Run, Walk, or Donate. If you are visiting Seattle, contact Seattle Frontrunners for hosted housing for this event.

Info HERE.

17 June 2012 / Seattle Frontrunners Run and Walk with Pride

Run and Walk With Pride is an annual community event open to all, presented by Seattle Frontrunners. Join us on Sunday, June 17th in Seward Park for a fun 4K run, 10K run, or 4K walk. All abilities are welcome, so come and join the fun! Chip timing is provided and we have awards for top finishers. All finishers will be eligible for our fabulous raffle prizes!

Each year we select a local non-profit GLBT organization as our beneficiary. The selection process is designed to ensure the proceeds make a meaningful difference to them as our beneficiary.

For 2012 we selected It Gets Better Project, with proceeds going to GLSEN WA!

You made the videos, now is your chance to really help Make It Get Better! Register today and Donate/Fundraise for this great cause!

Info HERE.

Seattle FrontRunners say "It Gets Better"

FGG member organization Seattle FrontRunners has made this "It Gets Better" message.


View it below, and visit our "It Gets Better" page HERE.

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19 June 2011 / Run and Walk With Pride with Seattle Frontrunners

Run and Walk With Pride with Seattle Frontrunners, member of FGG member organizations International Frontrunners and Team Seattle

Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 10:00 am
Seward Park, Seattle

Run and Walk With Pride is an annual community event open to all, presented by Seattle Frontrunners. Join us on Sunday, June 19th in Seward Park for a fun 4K run, 10K run, or 4K walk. All abilities are welcome, so come and join the fun! Chip timing is provided and we have awards for top finishers. All finishers will be eligible for our fabulous raffle prizes!

Each year we select a local non-profit GLBT organization as our beneficiary. The selection process is designed to ensure the proceeds make a meaningful difference to them as our beneficiary. For 2011 we have selected Three Dollar Bill Cinema, organizers of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, as well as many others!
Run and Walk With Pride is open to everyone.

Bring your friends and family! Join us on June 19th in Seward Park for a 10K run, 4K run or 4K walk.
Run starts at 10:00 am.
All finishers receive t-shirt and entry into our fabulous raffle prizes! (must be present to win)
Chip timing by BuDu Racing

More info HERE.

11 June 2011 / Seattle Frontrunners hold event to support their charity run-walk

It is with great delight and anticipation that Seattle Frontrunners, the producer of Seattle’s long time beloved community event Run Walk with Pride (RWWP), collaborate with RPlace once again for a dynamic, fun and beneficial night, Underwear Fashion Show 2011! You won't want to miss this gala eveningon 11 June as the official RPlace KICK OFF party to SEATTLE PRIDE 2011!

Our beneficiary this year is Three Dollar Bill Cinema, the producers of, among many other events, Seattle’s GLBT Film Festival. Three Dollar Bill Cinema has sponsored the Run Walk with Pride event for years, and as an important and integral local arts organization, it is our great pleasure to support them in kind. Show your pride and keep YOUR local film arts organization thriving and fulfilling its mission to strengthen, connect, and reflect diverse communities through queer film and media.

As part of an eclectic electric night, RPlace HOSTESS extraordinaire Lady Chablis weaves her female illusionists into the evening as well as electronic synth-dance-cabaret, Vintage Youth featuring one of last years models Giulio Pellcoolj. Vintage Youth reinterprets classic dance tracks, bringing them stomping into the future with pop-cabaret aesthetics and electro-disco beats.

Note that the run-walk will take place on 19 June. 

Seattle bowling tournament this weekend

Team Seattle member club Seattle Unified Bowling Association is hosting this weekend'sSeattle Espresso Cup at the West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave. SW in Seattle.

More info HERE.

Live from Cologne: welcoming Seattle, Philadelphia and Chicago to Cologne

Teams Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle got together Friday night, July 30, at the Hilton City Center around the corner from Cologne's famous cathedral for welcoming drinks and dinner.

Pictured bottom row Tim and Kelly from Seattle, top row Kyle, Tom, Kevin, Drew and Dick from Chicago.

City Teams receptions

Team Chicago, Team Seattle and Team Philadelphia have come together to bring together a "Welcome Reception" on Friday, July 30th and a "Wheels Up/Farewell reception" on Sunday, August 8th for anyone in town on those days. What better way to start and end your Gay Games VIII experience to meet and greet some other athletes and participants from other U.S. Cities?? After our Welcome Reception, we will be "Night Owling" with additional city teams.

The City Teams Reception(s) are open and welcomed to everyone who purchases a ticket regardless of Gay Games registration type or city team affiliation.

For more info and to purchase your ticket, click HERE.