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Seattle Times. Members of the LGBTQ community have said that Denny Blaine Park has been a safe haven for them for decades.Hundreds of people packed a public meeting last month, filling Seattle’s MLK FAME Community Center beyond capacity, with no attendees speaking in support of the plan.

Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore has shared his memories of the days that followed Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain taking his own life.In an extract published in The Guardian from his autobiography Sonic Life, which is released this week (October 24), Moore recalls receiving a phone call from Sonic Youth’s booking agent Bob Lawton that confirmed the news on the morning of April 8, 1994.“It hadn’t been looking good in the preceding months: the overdose in Rome, reports of Kurt missing in action around Seattle, the intervention by his friends and family,” Moore wrote. “Reportedly Kurt had taken his life three days ago, before being discovered by a worker installing security lighting at his Lake Washington house.”“Kim [Gordon, Moore’s then-wife and Sonic Youth bandmate] was at a photoshoot for the X-girl clothing line that she had co-founded with her friend Daisy von Furth at Daisy’s apartment farther downtown,” he continued.

NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson, 33, and his superstar wife Ciara, 33, are selling their lakefront Washington state megamansion for $36 million and it comes equipped with a movie theater and its own recording studio! As football fans know, Russell was recently traded from the Seattle Seahawks to the Denver Broncos. Needless to say, he won’t be needing the Seattle, Washington, pad anymore.

Kurt Cobain remains one of the most influential rock stars of all time - but he was just 27 years old when he took his own life.

Kurt Cobain took his own life.The Nirvana legend was just 27 when he shot himself at home in Lake Washington Boulevard.His body was discovered on April 8 by Gary Smith, an electrician who had shown up at his house to install a security system, who originally thought Kurt was simply sleeping when he came across him.Gary did note a small amount of blood coming from his ear, but spotted no further signs of trauma.Later, a coroner found Kurt had been lying there dead for days, and established the official date of death to be April 5 1994.Kurt’s body was found beside a suicide note addressed to his imaginary childhood friend Boddah.