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Seattle Pride festival organizers held a Seattle Center event last year with a Volunteer Park budget, and if they don't figure out a way to pay the balance it could kill this year's festival.

City officials at Seattle Center are threatening to cancel this year's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender festival because the group still owes the city $100,000 for last June's event. Seattle Out And Proud, the organizers, say they are broke.

Organizers say they are a small volunteer organization struggling with growing pains and that the board has been trying to "morph into a more professional organization," said Dave Coffman, Seattle Out's attorney and a board member.