Posted on 02/17/2019 4:58:24 PM PST by simpson96
For years, Mayor John Duran has been a public avatar for West Hollywood’s cheekily sexual culture.
From the City Council dais, he joked about wearing gold lamé underwear and announced a public forum on anal cancer named Booty Call to Action. But he was also accused by another councilman of looking for sex on the dating app Grindr during public meetings.
Even after the city paid $500,000 in 2016 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Duran’s former council deputy—whom Duran hired after meeting on Grindr and having sex with him—Duran was reelected.
For many, it seemed West Hollywood was the town that #MeToo forgot.
But now, amid new allegations of sexual harassment against Duran by members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, some West Hollywood residents and politicians are saying enough is enough and that times have changed. Three of the city’s five council members have called on Duran to resign, saying he has become a distraction.
Duran, 59, has refused to step down, describing himself as a proudly sensual gay man who lived through a sexual revolution colliding against a prudish #MeToo movement that’s too quick to judge. Bawdiness is just part of who he’s always been, Duran said, and he’s not going to change now.(snip)
In Grindr screenshots provided to The Times, Duran asked to come to Gleason’s room. Gleason declined, saying it was “a little too close to home” and that he worked for Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino and was dating Gerle.
Duran wrote: “Oh my god. I didn’t realize that. Disregard!”
A few minutes later, he wrote: “[Oral sex] shouldn’t count. But Gerle would Hate me.” A few minutes later, he asked again for a sex act, then wrote, “Oh come on. That was slightly funny.”
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Ping. Since you work close to this area, I thought that this might be of interest.
The #metoo movement has backfired on the left in a big way. Has anyone besides liberals been snagged by it?
Yep, they thought it was the perfect way to "Get Trump"
” Since you work close to this area,”
thanks for reminding me s/
Will the #MeToo victims ever include all the young boys molested and sexually abused over the years by the Hollywooders? It is well known this goes on.
I didn’t think so.
Is all of West Hollywood that far off the rails?
It amuses that the movement didn’t “Get Trump”, and, instead, skewered Lefties.
“Will the #MeToo victims ever include all the young boys molested and sexually abused over the years by the Hollywooders? It is well known this goes on.”
And what about the near weekly stories about school teachers? I dont think I have ever heard a liberal bring that up a single time, but they sure love yukking it up about catholic priests which are actually far far less common
“Gay mayor accused of sexual harassment...”
A happy mayor did that?
Omg yes. Zak Bagans could probably film an evil spirit episode from any house.
Too bad Edgar Cayce was wrong, eh?
Councilman Joe Buscaino – Boys & Girls Clubs of the LA Harbor
http://bgclaharbor.org/tag/councilman-joe-buscaino/
Something about “cheeky” and West Hollywood makes my health and safety index go bonkers.
More of a freakshow than most of us could imagine, eh?
So Sodom and Gomorrah!
It needs to be nuked.
There are Freepers who actually live there lol
#MeToo/#BelieveHer the big lie;weaponized by the left.
In the 80s, my cousin dated a newspaper reporter whose beat was West Hollywood. It was freakish way back then! Can’t imagine what it is like now!
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