The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper (stranger_slog) wrote, @ 2017-10-11 15:40:00 |
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Years ago, there was an underground dance hall in Pioneer Square that catered to lesbian mothers, gay servicemen, drag queens, and achnucekor "Two-Spirits," Native Americans whose identities exist outside the gender binary. At the time, homosexuality was considered a mental illness and a crime punishable by imprisonment.
"The Casino was the name but it was about as far from Monte Carlo as you cd ever get," recalls Storme Webber in a poem titled "I Cover the Waterfront" (the idiosyncratic spelling is hers). "Cuban heel boots and sneakers, stilettos and cheap thongs, and watch how you walk downcause those steps are steeply angled."