Film + Cupcakes = Goodness

And this weekend, Capitol Hill is filled with the goodness! The 14th Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival kicks off with a bash tonight and runs through next Sunday. We're long time sponsors of the festival, and look forward to it every year, but this year...there's MORE!

Our Capitol Hill café is the official lounge of this year's festival. What does that mean? Well, two things. And they're both super terrific.

1. As our way of saying thank you to festival filmgoers, and to support the arts and the discussion thereof, we are offering a free babycake with a coffee or tea purchase to anyone with a ticket stub or festival pass. Films are screening all week at the Egyptian and over at our superfriends the Northwest Film Forum, so we really could not be better positioned as your official festival hang out. See a film. Bring your friends. Discuss over coffee and cupcakes. Perfect.




2. We are actually showing a film in our café! Yes, you read that correctly. Starting Saturday and running through the end of the festival, 13 Love Stories will be projected on the wall of our Capitol Hill café at 3 pm and 8 pm each day. This film "profiles the moving stories of thirteen couples whose lives were profoundly affected by Proposition 8 - the recent California ballot initiative that eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry." We are psyched to have this important piece showing in our café, and it couldn't be more timely for our own state. Your chance to help us APPROVE REF 71 is just around the corner. Get those voting pens ready!




Speaking of marriage equality, remember when we had a little fundraiser called Legalize Gay Cupcakes? We kicked it off for Pride back in June, and sold tees, buttons, and stickers to raise money for Lambda Legal, those good folks who fight hard every day for marriage equality and equal rights across this great nation. Well, the gear has been sold and the tally is in. Thank you to everyone who helped us raise $1762 by buying a Legalize Gay Cupcakes tee, button, or sticker, and rockin' the message hard! Keep up the good work as we fight to get Ref 71 approved, so that ALL Washington families have rights they deserve.

Simply Stunning

Photo courtesy of Jordan Stead.

PRIDE!

Pride weekend meant big fun for Seattle, and cupcakers especially. We started it all off bright and early Saturday morning with Equalityoga at Cal Anderson Park. Part of the Stonewall 4o festivities, (commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots,) Equalityoga brought together some of the city's best yogis to lead hundred of Seattleites in an outdoor, public yoga session. From Downward Dog to Lotus, hundreds of humans were bending and posing for equal rights, peace, and love. It was a beautiful thing, people. PLUS, mad yogis were rockin' the Legalize Gay Cupcakes tee!



Sunday was THE day for Pride fun, as the annual Pride parade took over 4th Avenue in beautiful downtown Seattle. Miss Cupcake Royale lead our pack through the thick of it, while Mini (The Mini Cooper Clubman) hauled our big, gay, sparkly cupcake through throngs of screaming supporters. It. Was. Fabulous.




Thanks to all who cheered us on and helped us out. Big thanks to the Wilmots for the super sweet cupcake chariot, and HUUUGE thanks to Miss Cupcake Royale for leading the way with grace, class, and SASS.



You can still buy your very own Legalize Gay Cupcakes tee shirt by visiting one of our cafés, or by clicking HERE. Remember $5 goes to Lambda Legal!


Aww. Feel the love, people. Feel. The. LOVE.

Thanks to Joey Veltkamp for the sweet parade pics. Check out more on his blog!

Sweet Sassy Molassey!

Chicken wire?
Check.

Tinsel?
Check.

Fuschia lamé?
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-eeeck.

Yeah. That's right. It's the big sparkly cupcake. You may have seen it hoisted over the doorway here in our Ballard café and thought, "Woah. That's a big sparkly cupcake." And if you're downtown for the Pride parade this weekend, (alllll the cool kids are goin') you'll see it again...roped on top of a Mini Cooper Clubman.

Leading the way for our big-gay-sparkly-cupcake troupe will be THE Miss Cupcake Royale. Her 5 inch hot pink heels arrived in the mail today, and she's already working on her strut. Check this vintage shot of the famed CC Royale:



Oh SNAP! Grab your LEGALIZE GAY CUPCAKES tee shirt. Put on your own 5 inch hot pink heels. And we will see you there. And it will be FABULOUS.

Legalize Gay Cupcakes!

It makes sense. Really, it does. You know what totally does NOT make sense? Making gay cupcakes illegal. That's just absurd. But, as it turns out, that's just what some people want to do. So, so sad. We think it's time those people learned...

THE TRUTH ABOUT GAY CUPCAKES

1. They are fresh and delicious.
2. They are all-natural.
3. They feel the same cupcake LOVE other cupcakes do.
4. They look AMAZING in pink.
5. They know how to rock the sparkle. Err, sprinkles.
6. They live in your neighborhood.
7. They work in your community.
8. They pay the same taxes you do. Well, more if you're lucky enough be legally married to the person you love.
9. They are asking for equal rights. No more. No less.
10. They are your friends, neighbors, family members, co-workers, teachers, doctors, business owners, politicians, religious leaders, artists, baristas, your community.

Our community.

And we believe that every member of our cupcake community, regardless of flavor, swirl size, or sprinkle type, deserves the same rights and opportunities. It's just the Royale way.



If you agree (and we sure hope you do) you should buy our sweet "Legalize Gay Cupcakes" tee shirt, buttons, and stickers. Proceeds go to Lambda Legal, to help them keep fighting the good fight for equality on a national level. Starting tomorrow, you can get 'em at any of our three cafés, or you can click HERE right now to buy one online.