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Celebrating 43 Years! Issue 4 Volume 45

ArtsWest : Mothers and Sons

Rufus Wainwright interview

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WOMXN’S MARCH

“We shall over-comb” – Photo courtesy of wpxi.com

by Janice Van Cleve Special to the SGN Over 160,000 women and their supportive men and children marched in Seattle on January 21 to protest the presi-

dency of Donald Trump. They marched in solidarity with half a million women in Washington DC, 50,000 in Philadelphia, 750,000 in Los Angeles, and thousands see WOMXN’S MARCH page 5

Trump regime “disappears” LGBT community

Former Office of National AIDS Policy director Amy Lansky – Photo courtesy of youtube.com

by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Only minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, and even as he was still delivering his belligerent and graceless inaugural address, Trump operatives took

down the LGBT page on the White House website. Under the Obama administration, the website’s “Issues” tab featured a section on LGBT rights, an issue Obama’s team consee LGBT DISAPPEARS page 16

Ed Murray defiant as Trump signs orders on immigration

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray – Photo courtesy of yahoo.com

by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Seattle Mayor Ed Murray was defiant after Donald Trump signed executive orders dealing with immigration and sealing

off the country’s border with Mexico. Trump signed orders on January 25 concerning the construction of his border wall with Mexico, increasing deportations, and see MURRAY DEFIANT page 7

Ed Murray racks up key union endorsements

Mayor Ed Murray – Photo by Jon Lok/The Seattle Times

by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer With more than nine months to go until the election, Ed Murray is racking up endorsements in his bid to be re-elected mayor of Seattle.

On January 25, Murray’s campaign announced that he’d received early endorsements from nine key labor unions representing several economic sectors. The unions endorsing Murray are as folsee MURRAY ENDORSED page 15


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