Shelley Brothers, co-owner of Capitol Hill’s the Wildrose passed away this week, the pioneering lesbian bar announced on social media yesterday. Brothers dedicated her life to the bar, working hard to keep it alive through tribulations of all kinds—recessions, the pandemic, the fading of lesbian bars, and even the advent of Grindr. She kept a vigilant and protective watch over the space, making sure that it not only survived, but did so as the sanctuary for queer people it had always been.
“Shelley was/is a queer icon in Seattle,” Seattle PrideFest posted of Brothers, who led the organization’s parade in 2015 with her Wildrose co-owner Martha Manning. “She was
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