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    Gay mayor accused of sexual harassment as #MeToo reckoning comes to West Hollywood

    by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times Feb 17, 2019 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - 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 lame 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 re-elected.

    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

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