While Seattle’s Pride celebrations are just ramping up, Pride Month goes through all of June. It’s a month chosen to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969, but 50 years later, Pride Month has grown to draw attention to the many concerns facing LGBTQ+ communities, including safety, housing and employment discrimination, and a multitude of other threats our current dystopian fever-dream administration seems to be adding on the regular.
What does this have to do with weed? Cannabis has a long relationship with the LGBTQ+ community, and pot-loving heteronormative cisgender white dudes such as me owe a tremendous debt to the queer community. So let’s explore some of those connections and the ways your canna dollar can support LGBTQ+ business owners all year round.