Guest Editorial: The Motivation Doesn’t Matter. It’s Time to Step Down.

by Danni AskiniDanni Askini, LGBT activist and survivor. Elayne Wylie
Last Thursday morning I received an unbelievable shock when I learned what all of Seattle would be struggling with for the weeks and months to come: three people had accused Mayor Ed Murray of sexually abusing them as teens. In the days that followed, I have struggled—both as a survivor of teenage sexual assault and as a queer person—to reconcile my own personal experience of the mayor with the man I was