Letter to Mayor Durkan - Gay Cy: Seattle's LGBTQ Center

Contents:

• SEATTLE ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
• SEATTLE ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
• SEATTLE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST GENTLEMAN
• SEATTLE LGBTQ COMMISSN CALLS ON GAY MAYOR TO RIGN
• SEATTLE’S GAY MAYOR ED MURRAY AND HIS CATHOLIC JOURNEY
• SEATTLE'S LGBTQ MISSN MANDS GAY MAYOR RIGN AFTER ABE CLAIMS
• MAYOR’S FALL SEATTLE SHAK THE GAY COMMUNY HE ROSE FROM
• PORTLAND: LARGT U.S. CY WH OPENLY GAY MAYOR

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.

SEATTLE ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

Murray led efforts to legalize gay marriage the state of Washgton. 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.

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.

SEATTLE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST GENTLEMAN

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. He is a member of DPHIU, the first Greek aterny for gay men of lor.

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. Back 2012, when the marriage equaly bate was full swg Washgton State, one of the leadg voic the ph for equaly was Ed Murray, a gay Catholic state senator. Murray, now the mayor of Seattle, was recently profiled by Seattle Weekly, and, tertgly, the foc was not on the fact that he was a gay mayor, but a Catholic one.

Not only is he a practicg Catholic a secular cy, he is a gay man who has remaed a church that has been outright hostile toward homosexualy. The article also reunts Murray’s g out as a gay man, and how Catholic pastoral misters supported him that procs:. There he got to know Trappist monks who troduced him to monastic worship, and unseled him on, among other thgs, his homosexualy, which he began to acknowledge llege.

SEATTLE LGBTQ COMMISSN CALLS ON GAY MAYOR TO RIGN

“After stickg wh the Church for years, spe s poor rerd on many gay-rights issu, Murray says he uldn’t take any more. Bee of the fearls learship of Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at Stonewall, Gay Cy n exist to rry forward our missn- to cultivate accs and nnectns to promote self-termatn, liberatn, and joy LGBTQ muni. On behalf of the Staff and Board of Gay Cy: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center.

Gay Cy. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray attends a dner receptn for Che Print Xi Jpg Seattle, Washgton September 22, 2015 (REUTERS/Jason Redmond)Seattle’s LGBTQ Commissn is mandg the cy’s openly gay mayor rign immediately followg allegatns that he sexually abed his teenage foster son and three others the a sthg letter sent to Mayor Ed Murray on Monday, the missn referenced a child welfare report filed wh the state and published by The Seattle Tim that seemed to dite that Murray sexually abed his foster son Jeff Simpson when he was a has strongly phed back on the claims and labeled them homophobic – somethg the cy’s LGBTQ missn took issue wh.

“We perceive your attempt to dismiss the claims as a ‘polilly motivated’ monolhic issue of homophobia to be a manver that is divisive and damagg to our muny, ” the letter said.

SEATTLE’S GAY MAYOR ED MURRAY AND HIS CATHOLIC JOURNEY

“Claimg homophobic tent to shield yourself om acuntabily and erase the experienc of survivors of sexual abe is silencg, manipulative, and morally repugnant. “Notg both that you are the first openly gay Mayor of Seattle, and that many dividuals on the Seattle LGBTQ Commissn were appoted by you, we do not take our cisn to ll for your rignatn lightly, ” the letter said.

Cal Anrson, D-Seattle, to mayor of Seattle, where he was known as a champn of gay rights and lear of a prospero cy ristg the polici of Print Donald Tmp.

In 1980, he me out as gay.

SEATTLE'S LGBTQ MISSN MANDS GAY MAYOR RIGN AFTER ABE CLAIMS

Anrson was the state’s first openly gay legislator.

In the Legislature, Murray was bt known for his work on gay rights, particularly his legislatn to make same-sex marriage legal. 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.

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

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. “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.

PORTLAND: LARGT U.S. CY WH OPENLY GAY MAYOR

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. 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.