On June 29, 1974, a Saturday, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that about 200 attended a picnic at Occidental Park in Pioneer Square. This included a poetry reading by Katherine Bourne, and music by Patrick Haggerty and Sue Issacs of the band Lavender Country. This was followed by a one-woman show dramatizing the event entitled "Lavender Troubadour" written and performed and sung by Rebecca Valrejean On June 28, 1974, the Gay Community Center at 1726 16th Avenue held its official grand opening. On the evening of June 27 a Memorial Service was held at the Metropolitan Community Church to commemorate the victims of the 1973 Upstairs Lounge arson attack in the New Orleans gay bar that claimed 32 lives. June 26 was a discussion on transsexuality at the University of Washington Hub Ballroom. The week started off Monday evening, June 25 with an Open House and discussion sponsored by the Stonewall Recovery Center, a drug treatment program. This was the first event in the region in which the gay community as a whole came out of its collective closet. From June 24 to June 30, 1974, Seattle’s lesbians and gays celebrated the city’s first Gay Pride Week.
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