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Celebrating 40 Years!

Issue 24 Volume 41

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Seattle Gay News SEATTLE’S LGBT NEWS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Endorsements roll in for Murray Nine prominent former Burgess backers announce their support file photos

(l - r) Senator Sharon Nelson, King County Councilmember Joe McDermott, and Representative Eileen Cody are among the latest to endorse Senator Ed Murray’s bid for Mayor of Seattle

by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer State Sen. Ed Murray continues to pull in key endorsements in his bid to become mayor of Seattle. At the 34th Legislative District endorsement meeting on June 12, Murray received his second sole endorsement from a Seattle Democratic district organization. He has also won the sole endorsement in the 43rd District, which he represents in Olympia. The 34th District lies in West Seattle, where Murray spent much of his childhood. “The vote-rich area is considered to be up for grabs in this mayoral election, so for Ed to be able to claim a sole endorsement from the local Dem organization is a major boost to his campaign,” consultant Sandeep Kaushik said in a statement. “Murray also has endorsements from West Seattle elected officials: Reps. Eileen Cody and Joe Fitzgibbon, state Sen. Sharon Nelson, and [King County] Councilmember Joe McDermott,”

Kaushik continued. SUPPORTER LIST GROWS Only two days before the 34th District endorsement meeting, Murray’s campaign announced he had been endorsed by nine former supporters of City Council member Tim Burgess, who withdrew from the race for mayor on May 17. Calling Murray “a leader who will bring people together to get things done,” the nine, all of them high-ranking former Seattle city officials, wrote a letter to other Burgess supporters, inviting them to join the Murray camp. “After evaluating the remaining challengers and their priorities, experience, and skills, we now enthusiastically support and endorse Ed Murray for Mayor of Seattle. We invite you to join us,” they wrote. Signatures on the letter included Patricia McInturff, former director of human services; Adrienne Quinn, former director of houssee murray page 6

‘Berlin Patient’ visits Seattle Another try on Timothy Ray Brown will speak at free public event June 19 T.J. Kirkpatrick

by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer

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Sen. Leahy reintroduces same-sex couples amendment to reform bill Susan Walsh / ap

Timothy Ray Brown, famous as the “Berlin Patient” cured of HIV, will be in Seattle for a series of appearances June 18 and 19, including a science forum at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a free community event at Seattle University. Brown was cured of HIV through a blood stem cell transplant in 2008, and has remained free of the virus ever since. He is in Seattle at the invitation of the Hutchinson Center, where scientists are attempting to apply his experience to cure HIV. Brown is no stranger to Seattle – in fact, he was born at Northgate Hospital. “It’s now the parking lot for Barnes and Noble,” he jokes. Later, his family moved to Edmonds. After Brown graduated high school he moved to Capitol Hill, and attended Seattle U in 1985 and 1986. “I went to my first Gay Pride in Seattle – it must have been 1983 – Senator Patrick Leahy right before I graduated from high by Mike Andrew rick Leahy (D-VT) reintroduced school,” Brown recalled. his amendment to allow Gay and SGN Staff Writer Lesbian citizens to sponsor their TREATED FOR LEUKEMIA Shortly after the U.S. Senate same-sex partners for permanent At 24 he moved to Europe, ending up in Berlin, where in 1995 he voted to open debate on the so- residency. called Gang of Eight immigration see patient page 16 reform bill on June 11, Sen. Pat- see immigration page 16

Timothy Ray Brown is the only person ever known to have been fully cured from AIDS.


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