SEATTLE — In the warmth and glow of the summer sun, a group of individuals from the local LGBTQIA community and the Seattle Sounders gathered to raise a giant Progress Pride flag at Lumen Field on Thursday. The flag will fly throughout the weekend as the city celebrates Pride and the Sounders welcome the Vancouver Whitecaps for their Pride match on Saturday.
Among those present for the flag-raising were Brad Evans, Sounders legend and club representative, as well as poet and educator Ebo Barton, a representative from Starbucks named Ariel Molina who works as a barista at the company’s Seattle Children's Hospital location, and a local transgender soccer player named Bobby Jones — who last year won the right to play for his club’s boys team.