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. The Commissn remends polici and legislatn, brgs LGBTQ muni together wh the larger Seattle muny through long-range projects, and ensur Cy partments fairly and equably addrs issu affectg and volvg Seattle's LGBTQ muni as dividuals and as a protected class afford accsibily and cln to the servic of the Cy of Seattle.
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. Ed Murray, who is also the archect of Washgton state's same-sex marriage law. * gay mayor of seattle *
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.
SEATTLE ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
The cy of Seattle has elected s first openly gay mayor, State Sen. Ed Murray, who is also the archect of Washgton state's same-sex marriage law. * gay mayor of seattle *
Murray jos Hoton Mayor Annise Parker, another openly gay mayor of a large U.
SEATTLE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST GENTLEMAN
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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 LGBTQ COMMISSN CALLS ON GAY MAYOR TO RIGN
Seattle’s LGBTQ Commissn is mandg the cy’s gay mayor rign immediately followg allegatns that he sexually abed his teenage foster son and three others the 1980s. * gay mayor of seattle *
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.
SEATTLE’S GAY MAYOR ED MURRAY AND HIS CATHOLIC JOURNEY
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.
“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.
SEATTLE'S LGBTQ MISSN MANDS GAY MAYOR RIGN AFTER ABE CLAIMS
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.
MAYOR’S FALL SEATTLE SHAK THE GAY COMMUNY HE ROSE FROM
“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. “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.
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In 1980, he me out as gay.
PORTLAND: LARGT U.S. CY WH OPENLY GAY MAYOR
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.
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