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Seattle Men’s Chorus’ exceptional tribute to Cher concert SEC 2 PG 1
Fiona Goodwin — “a very British lesbian” April 6 SEC 2 PG 1
Seattle Gay News S E AT T L E ’ S L G B T Q N E W S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T W E E K LY
HRC: Brunei must Landslide victory for city’s immediately rescind first out Lesbian mayor barbaric anti-LGBTQ law – Lori Lightfoot challenged old school machine politics and the U.S. must act CHICAGO ELECTION:
Lori Lightfoot – Photo by Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP / Getty Images
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Chicago elected its first African American woman and first out Lesbian mayor on April 2.
Lori Lightfoot campaigned against the old school machine politics that have dominated Chicago since the bad old days of Richard Daley, and won a resounding victory, trouncing her rival, Cook County
Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah – Photo by Ahim Rani / Reuters
The Sultanate is one of few countries in the world to impose death penalty for consensual same-sex relations; to date, the Trump-Pence Administration’s response has been woefully inadequate
see CHICAGO page 6
WASHINGTON, D.C. – [On April 3,] the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released the following
see BRUNEI page 11
Chateau Apartment Rep. Pramila Jayapal gives residents win concessions personal and emotional from developer speech in support of City orders immediate repairs the Equality Act
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant with Chateau Apartment residents – Photo courtesy of the Office of Kshama Sawant
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Residents of the Chateau Apartments at 19th Ave. & E. Fir St. announced on April 3 that they had won significant concessions from their landlord, Cadence Real Estate.
The Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections also sided with the tenants, finding the landlord guilty of 63 code violations. Cadence plans to demolish the ’60s-era apartment building – home to 21 households, many of them low-income people
see CHATEAU APTS page 4
U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal – Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer As a co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus, Seattle-area Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal was expected to support the Equality Act, but in an emotional April 2
speech, she revealed she had deeply personal interests in LGBTQ civil rights protections. “My beautiful, now-22-year-old child told me last year that they were gender nonconforming,” she said. “And over the last year, I have come to
see JAYAPAL page 4