Gay mayor accused of sexual harassment as #MeToo reckoning comes to West Hollywood
By Hailey Branson-Potts
Feb 16, 2019 | 11:30 AM
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.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-weho-sexual-scandal-protests-20190216-story.html
