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• SEATTLE ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
• MAYOR’S FALL SEATTLE SHAK THE GAY COMMUNY HE ROSE FROM
• SEATTLE ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
• SEATTLE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST GENTLEMAN
• SEATTLE LGBTQ COMMISSN CALLS ON GAY MAYOR TO RIGN
• GAY SEATTLE
• SEATTLE MAYOR, UNCIL BACK OTED GAY SUTMASTER

SEATTLE ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

The cy of Seattle has elected s first openly gay mayor, State Sen. Seattle has elected s first openly gay mayor. Murray led efforts to legalize gay marriage the state of Washgton.

MAYOR’S FALL SEATTLE SHAK THE GAY COMMUNY HE ROSE FROM

Murray jos Hoton Mayor Annise Parker, another openly gay mayor of a large U. 1 ln rints acrdg to the Cens Bure, ntu to be the largt cy the untry led by an openly gay public official.

SEATTLE ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

AdvertisementSKIP Fremson/The New York TimMay 19, 2017SEATTLE — Beg young and gay this cy the 1980s, said Seattle’s mayor, Ed Murray, was all about beg fortable beg out. There were shadows — AIDS was rippg through the muny, and gay-bashg was mon — but you didn’t have to hi the way prev generatns had, and that was a powerful, exhilaratg thg. He has lled the accatns “unte, ” and said the law firm reprentg one of the men had a history of homophobia and polil motivatns to take him he said the cy was beg hurt by the story and s distractns, and so he would leave office at the end of his four-year term after this fall’s Murray’s story parallels that of his cy’s transformatn om a town of wateront gr to liberal, high-tech sheen.

He is also wily creded wh fg the aln that ma Washgton one of the first stat, 2012, to pass a same-sex marriage law through a statewi ballot Fremson/The New York TimBy the time he ran for mayor 2013, beatg an cumbent to bee the first openly gay man the job, he was a well-known quanty to Seattle voters, and his sexual orientatn barely ma a now his ex is makg a splash. Murray last month Kg County Superr Court, lled the mayor’s accatns of a polil motive and homophobia “not te” and “disgraceful. Beregard said an the gay, lbian and transgenr muny that has largely worshiped Mr.

SEATTLE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST GENTLEMAN

“There’s a sadns for the loss of a lear who has put himself on the ont le of many of the that have been so important to , ” she people who live or work Capol Hill, where many of the crosswalks are pated gay-pri rabows, said they were stgglg wh what to thk, bee no matter what is cid urt, many young gay, lbian and transgenr people are victims of crime, exploatn and abe. Murray has admted that the 1980s were a time of partyg — at gay bars like Neighbours, at the gay gym and at the gay beach on Lake Washgton.

Murray beme known as a aln-builr who phed to the left, slowly creatg a majory to back legal protectns for gay people. In Seattle, after his electn as mayor, he created a group of labor and bs lears, tellg them to fd agreement around a $15-an-hour lol mimum wage — more than double the feral mimum — which he signed to law six months after takg he also gaed the reputatn of workg wh the real tate dtry on promise agreements — anathema to some more liberal Democrats here — that allowed taller buildgs and more nsy, return for more affordable Murray’s impact on the cy, and on gay rights, mak his fall all the harr to absorb, said Aidan Key, the executive director at Genr Diversy, a group that works wh transgenr children. Durkan, for example, announcg her ndidacy last week, strsed her crentials as a trailblazer beg the first openly gay Uned Stat attorney, but barely mentned Mr.

SEATTLE LGBTQ COMMISSN CALLS ON GAY MAYOR TO RIGN

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 10 of the New York edn wh the headle: Mayor’s Downfall Seattle Shak the Gay Communy.

Murray would go on to w electn as the 53rd Mayor of Seattle — and s first openly gay one. “I’m happy to be the first openly gay First Gentleman, ” he told me.

“It was also important as a gay uple to be like any other uple, ” he said. The group, which is supposed to advise the mayor and other cy officials on polici affectg the gay muny, argued that Durkan failed to engage wh discsns regardg police fundg and homelsns. He is a member of DPHIU, the first Greek aterny for gay men of lor.

GAY SEATTLE

His early work, unr his legislative mentor Cal Anrson, was documented the closg chapter of the origal 2003 versn of Gay Seattle; his latt work was tailed the troductn to the 2013 paperback edn. What amounted to a state funeral attend by ernment and relig figur as well as hundreds of cizens ma a dramatic statement about the digny of LGBT dividuals the face of homophobia. (Click for excerpts om “On Catholic Hill”  Gay Seattle).

In the sprg and summer of 2017, Seattle lears were nonted wh an unprecented polil Ed Murray, a former Democratic state senator and gay-rights pneer, was heavily favored to w a send term, when his plans were upend by stunng allegatns that he’d sexually abed teens s before enterg allegatns eventually led to Murray’s rignatn September 2017, but only after a fifth accer — his own younger — publicly acced him of of Seattle’s 2021 mayoral ndidat, Bce Harrell and M. Fred Swanson, Executive Director, Gay Cy: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center.

The Seattle Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) Commissn advis the Mayor, Cy Council and Cy partments about issu of ncern affectg the LGBTQ muny. Lol time on Wednday, likely ends the polil reer of Seattle’s first openly gay mayor, a member of the Democratic party who champned the state’s same-sex marriage law and has been an outspoken cric of U.

SEATTLE MAYOR, UNCIL BACK OTED GAY SUTMASTER

Murray grew up workg class neighborhoods and around Seattle as one of seven children an Irish Catholic fay and beme one of the state's most proment polil a young man, he nsired jog the prithood and spent a year at a semary 1976 before studyg soclogy at the Universy of Portland, a private Catholic end up workg as a paralegal wh public fenr lawyers Portland before returng to Seattle and jog the vanguard of the gay rights movement the 1980s, servg as mpaign manager for Cal Anrson, a Seattle state senator who was the state's first openly gay member.

Murray failed his bid to w Anrson's seat, but he was appoted to fill the legislative seat of the state reprentative who won the state senate his 18 years as a state lawmaker, Murray was the prime sponsor of Washgton's gay marriage law, spearhead an effort to protect LGBTQ youth public schools and led the state's ph to ban discrimatn based on sexual 2013 mayoral race was a bisg mpaign that foced on whether Murray would be more liberal and effective than cumbent Mike McGn, a fellow kept his promise about the mimum wage crease. As the Edorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways wr, eds and do about a ln other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most vised LGBTQ news, arts and entertament webse now celebratg s 14th year as a media outlet.