Queer, trans musicians of color launch new festival in Seattle

A brand new Seattle music fest launches this weekend, to kick off LGBTQ Pride month.

The creators say they didn’t see queer and trans people of color centered in other festivals, so they created their own.

Twinkle lights overhead, and a row of guitars on the wall, band members from SuperCoze huddle together for a practice session. Surf-rock swells through their small room at Crybaby Studios on Capitol Hill.

They’re prepping for their next show: the So Dreamy Music Festival.

The members of SuperCoze are QTBIPOC: queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Most have never played a music festival. That’s something their front-person Cody Choi has set out to change.

"I realized not only with my band that is entirely QTBIPOC, but a lot of other people’s bands that I know that are really great, that I look up to even, were not on these festivals or if they were they weren’t ever a headliner,” said Choi, who created the new festival.