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• Space Needle Workers Deliver New Petition Asking for Wage Increases

  18-03-2015 23:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Michael Hall, far left, lives with his parents and commutes two hours to work at the Space Needle because he can't afford housing nearby. Joshua Kelety
  Earlier today, more than 50 Space Needle workers and supporters gathered in front of the landmark with signs and a megaphone to ask their bosses for a raise. It's been nearly three years since non-tipped Space Needle workers last received one (that raise was $0.35), and in the meantime a National Labor Relations Board panel has
  
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• TV Families That Are Far Worse Than Yours!

  18-03-2015 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Coach Taylor and Lindsay Weir have dark-ass secrets in Bloodline.
  Are you currently absolutely furious with your drunk sibling who has only two objectives in life (getting even drunker and cramming her hand down your boyfriend's pants)? Is your mom so passive-aggressive that she posts public apologies for your behavior on her Facebook page? Does your dad shower you with gifts, love, and affection—after walking out on your family when you were 6, and only now showing up on
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Sobbing Isn't Sexy

  18-03-2015 21:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on December 11, 2013.
  I'm a straight woman who loves my boyfriend, but sex isn't a priority for me. His sex drive, on the other hand, is ridiculous. He gets very upset when I don't have sex with him and accuses me of not being interested in him anymore, which isn't the case. I just can't fuck on demand! Most people would probably say that my boyfriend is an insensitive asshole for pressuring me for sex. Except this was a switcheroo exercise: I, the girlfriend
  
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• DJ Risk One Needs Your Help, and Raz Simone Name-Checks the Prince of Peace

  18-03-2015 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Jesus feels vaguely dissed by Raz.
  This week, I mean last week, I mean the time since last we spoke, has been the weirdest ever and it's only Wednesday. GOP senators go around the president to talk shit to Iran. A horrifying racist frat chant goes viral, causing heads to roll and asses to be handed—and somebody manages to blame it all on rap. Chicago homie Nigel "Hollywood" Holt signs to GOOD Music. Suge Knight, in court for hitting two people with his truck, actually tel
  
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• Chris Estey's EMP Pop Con Submission Whips Up Interest in Dominatrixes' Music

  18-03-2015 19:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Depeche Mode serve a masterful role in many doms' sessions. Ivica Drusany/Shutterstock.com
  The EMP Pop Conference returns to its namesake architectural wonder April 16-19 (the event is free, but you should register to ensure getting entry). This year’s overarching theme is “Get Ur Freak On: Music, Weirdness, and Transgression.” Seattle music critic/publicist/raconteur Chris Estey rose to the challenge with a paper titled “Her Greatest ‘Hits’:
  
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• Mike O'Brien Went on MSNBC to Talk About Seattle's "Mistake" in Hosting Shell's Arctic Drilling Rigs

  18-03-2015 19:23 via thestranger.com
  
  There is a cat meowing "Al Gore" right after this part of the show. MSNBC
  Seattle is famous! Seattle City Council member Mike O'Brien went on All In with Chris Hayes last night to talk about the city's opposition to the port's Arctic drilling deal.
  Prominently mentioned: The port's "verbal nondisclosure" agreement that kept the deal secret for months. O'Brien also made it very clear that he believes opposition to Shell in Seattle could muck up their Arctic drilling plans for go
  
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• Man with cache of stolen credit cards arrested in Ballard

  18-03-2015 18:04
  
  Man with cache of stolen credit cards arrested in Ballard
  
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• Foul Frats, Sputtering Scientologists, and Literally Shitty Legal Proceedings

  18-03-2015 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  "Don't wanna get arrested? Hop in!"
  MONDAY, MARCH 9 This week of foul fraternization, sputtering Scientologists, and literally shitty legal proceedings kicked off with Bill Cosby, who today issued his first public statement since dozens of women reported being sexually assaulted by the comedy legend over the past four decades. The statement came in the form of a short video released by Cosby, accompanied by the written introduction: "Dear fans, I hope you enjoy my wonderful vid
  
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• Man shot during altercation in Mount Vernon

  18-03-2015 17:31
  
  Man shot during altercation in Mount Vernon
  
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• Car stolen in Lacey with 2 children inside

  18-03-2015 17:03
  
  Car stolen in Lacey with 2 children inside
  
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• The Morning News: The Latest Gay Bashing, Our Gay Mayor's Response, Good Minimum Wage News, and Boudinot's Next Book

  18-03-2015 16:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Rob B Taylor was gay-bashed in Georgetown on Sunday night. Courtesy of Rob B Taylor
  He Had to Get Six Stitches in His Upper Lip: After four guys in Georgetown started chatting him up, he says.
  One of them said, "Hey, you look like a faggot."
  Taylor replied, "Thank you," and kept walking.
  "Hey, faggot!" Taylor heard again before something—he thinks it was a boot—hit his face, slicing his upper lip.
  The four men are described here. The mayor's response: a task-force
  
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• Wednesday marks year since 2 killed in Seattle news chopper crash

  18-03-2015 16:05
  
  One year since 2 killed in Seattle news chopper crash
  
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• State officials: Spring cleaning can mean health dangers

  18-03-2015 15:09
  
  State officials: Spring cleaning can mean health dangers
  
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• Final vote to decide on toll lanes on parts of I-405

  18-03-2015 14:36
  
  Final vote to decide on toll lanes on parts of I-405
  
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• Space Needle workers, labor activists rallying for higher pay

  18-03-2015 13:57
  
  Space Needle workers, labor activists rallying for higher pay
  
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• Things Get Emo in Insurgent

  18-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Things Get Emo in Insurgent
  
  by Suzette Smith
  
  
  
  Far in the future, the farmlands surrounding Chicago become a tropical paradise. That's right: Super-hot-in-the-summer, super-cold-in-the-winter Chicago is now a hippie dream where people wear light fabrics and sleep in hammocks. Of all the things in Insurgent—the second installment of the YA sci-fi action Divergent series—the lack of concern for Chicago
  
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• The Wrecking Crew Is an Excellent Doc About Session Musicians Everyone Has Heard but Nobody Knows

  18-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Wrecking Crew Is an Excellent Doc About Session Musicians Everyone Has Heard but Nobody Knows
  
  by Dave Segal
  
  
  
  Are you a great but unjustly obscure musician? Be patient: Somebody eventually will make a documentary about your achievements. The Wrecking Crew—a self-contained universe of LA all-star session musicians who worked with stunning efficiency, endurance, and excellence when pop and rock were blooming
  
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• The Gunman: Where BAM! and KA-POW! Meet the AARP

  18-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Gunman: Where BAM! and KA-POW! Meet the AARP
  
  by Erik Henriksen
  
  
  
  The baby boomers—previously known as the cohort that inherited a pretty sweet setup from the Greatest Generation, and currently known as the cohort that somehow managed to fuck everything up just in time for Gen Xers and millennials—are getting old. And there are a lot of them. In 1950, Americans over the age of 60 made up 12 percent
  
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• Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Explains #RACETOGETHER Mess In Leaked Memo

  18-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Explains #RACETOGETHER Mess In Leaked Memo
  
  
  
  
  URGENT MEMORANDUM
  
  
  FROM: Howard Schultz, CEO
  
  
  TO: Marketing, Promotions, Legal
  
  
  RE: #racetogether
  
  
  Guys, guys, guys. Let’s walk this back.
  
  
  This whole crazy thing is all a biiiiig misunderstanding. Sure, we’re taking some hits in the press—we’ve been there before, and it is what it is—but
  that’s not what bothers me. W
  
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• Ethan Hawke Directed Seymour: An Introduction, a Film That's Actually Charming

  18-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Ethan Hawke Directed Seymour: An Introduction, a Film That's Actually Charming
  
  by Emily Nokes
  
  
  
  Thankfully, this Ethan Hawke-directed documentary has nothing to do with the rambling J.D. Salinger novella of the same title. Instead, we meet Seymour Bernstein (born in 1927), a classical pianist and teacher with a mesmerizing voice and gentle philosophies regarding integrating art into one’s life.
  
  But why, exactl
  
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• After Watching It Follows, You'll Feel Like You're Being Followed

  18-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  After Watching It Follows, You'll Feel Like You're Being Followed
  
  by Kathy Fennessy
  
  
  
  Even when the script doesn’t add up, David Robert Mitchell’s second feature (after 2010's The Myth of the American Sleepover) is an efficient fear-generating mechanism. Most horror films tap into a variety of fears, and It Follows is no exception.
  
  Mitchell’s scare tactics include water (it begins and ends in pools), sex (
  
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• War of words sidelines Seattle’s ‘City of Literature’ bid

  18-03-2015 08:31
  
  The executive director of the nonprofit Seattle City of Literature, author Ryan Boudinot, caused a fracas by criticizing Master of Fine Arts writing students in an essay.
  
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• Year 3 of SPD oversight: Are new policies making a difference?

  18-03-2015 08:01
  
  Coming in the third year of federal oversight of the Seattle Police Department: assessments of new policies’ effectiveness and a new community-perception poll.
  
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• Judge rejects franchises’ bid to stop part of Seattle minimum-wage law

  18-03-2015 08:01
  
  The ruling means locally owned franchisees in Seattle remain on the same fast track as large employers toward reaching $15-an-hour pay for their workers with two to three years.
  
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• In Darrington, ‘recovery is a marathon, not a sprint’

  18-03-2015 07:16
  
  Snohomish County landslide: One year later | Approaching a milestone moment after the slide that killed 43 people, the Stillaguamish Valley is healing, but there is much work left to do.
  
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• Some Whole Foods spice products recalled over salmonella risk

  18-03-2015 06:46
  The recall affects spices and mixes sold under the Simply Organic and Whole Foods brands, containing organic garlic powder made by Frontier Co-op.
  
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• Passenger recalls crane accident that injured 8 on 520 bridge

  18-03-2015 06:40
  
  Passenger recalls crane accident that injured 8 on 520 bridge
  
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• Zombies swarm Olympia, but they’re just lobbying

  18-03-2015 06:31
  
  Zombies swarmed into Olympia on Tuesday, to lobby for more work. They want legislators to boost the state’s tax-incentive program to lure movies, TV and ad production to Washington — a fund that’s already been tapped out for the year.
  
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• Hard work, not fads, revives Rainier Beach High

  18-03-2015 06:31
  Rainier Beach High School has risen from the near-dead. What they didn’t do is as notable as what they did.
  
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• Public cord-blood banking expands across region

  18-03-2015 06:16
  
  Bloodworks Northwest, formerly Puget Sound Blood Center, now partners with a dozen regional hospitals to collect umbilical-cord blood for its public bank.
  
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• Premera hit by cyberattack; 6 million in state may be affected

  18-03-2015 06:01
  The Mountlake Terrace-based health insurer said it discovered the breach in January, but that it first occurred in May 2014. The company said it has begun mailing letters to potentially affected customers about the attack.
  
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• Judge rejects main complaint against project near Seattle’s City Hall

  18-03-2015 05:46
  A judge has tossed out the main claim in a petition challenging the land-use permit for a huge redevelopment project on vacant property across from Seattle’s City Hall.
  
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• Truth Needle: Is $15 wage dooming Seattle restaurants? Owners say no

  18-03-2015 05:16
  
  Conservative pundits say recent Seattle restaurant closures may have been linked to the city’s new $15 minimum wage. We find that claim to be false.
  
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• State agencies to plan for a government shutdown

  18-03-2015 05:16
  The state Office of Financial Management has directed several state agencies to update their contingency plans in case a budget showdown sparks a partial government shutdown.
  
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• Back home to nest at Marymoor Park

  18-03-2015 04:16
  
  A great blue heron returns to its nest in trees at the off-leash dog park at Marymoor Park in Redmond on Friday.
  
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• Judge Denies Franchise Association's Request; Fast Food Workers Will Get a Raise April 1

  18-03-2015 03:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Protesters gathered at the federal courthouse last week in support of Seattle's minimum wage law. Working Washington
  A federal judge has ruled that the city does not have to hold off on increasing the minimum wage for fast food and other franchise employees while it fights a court battle over whether franchises should be treated as large or small employers.
  The International Franchise Association is suing the city over its minimum wage increase, arguing it unfairl
  
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• The Former Singer of Tit Pig Bought NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi’s Sweater at a Goodwill for 58 Cents and Sold It for $43,020

  18-03-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  The Former Singer of Tit Pig Bought NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi's Sweater at a Goodwill for 58 Cents and Sold It for $43,020
  
  by Trent Moorman
  
  
  
  This past June, Seattle native Sean "Prawn" McEvoy bought an old sweater from a Goodwill in Asheville, North Carolina, for 58 cents. It had "West Point" stitched across the front, and there were holes. Sean (who sang for the defunct, beloved, highly flammable Seattle
  
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• RIP, Free Bassist Andy Fraser, Cowriter of "All Right Now"

  18-03-2015 02:00 via thestranger.com
  Shit. Another day, another death. This time it's Free's bassist Andy Fraser, who died yesterday at age 62 in California. The cause of death is not yet known. Fraser began his career playing a short stint with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers before helping to found the group Free; he was just 15 when the band started playing together in 1968. Obviously, Free are best remembered for their MASSIVE rock hit "All Right Now." Their hit notwithstanding, however, they were an exception of
  
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• RIP, Free Bassist Andy Fraser, Co-Writer of "All Right Now"

  18-03-2015 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Shit. Another day, another death. This time it's Free's bassist Andy Fraser, who died yesterday at age 62 in California. The cause of death is not yet known. Fraser began his career playing with a short stint for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers before helping to found the group Free; he was just 15 when the band started playing together in 1968. Obviously, Free are best remembered for their MASSIVE rock hit "All Right Now." Their hit notwithstanding, however, they were an exception
  
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• We Are Proud... Is a Pressure Cooker of a Play

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  We Are Proud... Spotlights the Uncomfortable, Necessary Discussion of Race, Privilege, and Power in Theater—and Elsewhere
  
  by Brendan Kiley
  
  
  
  There is something unnerving, almost neurotic, about watching a play with the house lights up, when the performers can see the audience, and the audience can watch itself. (At least it is for this critic, who thinks it only polite to keep his note-taking inconspicuous,
  
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• The Meteoric Rise of Totchos

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Everything You Need to Know About Seattle's Latest Overindulgent Food Craze—Totchos
  
  by Naomi Tomky
  
  
  
  If you've heard of totchos, it was probably only in the past few months. If you haven't yet run across this modification of the classic nachos, using middle-school favorite tater tots in place of tortilla chips, you likely will soon. In the last six months, they've gone from slipping in at the occasional div
  
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• The Little Bar That Actually Could: The Hideout Celebrates 10 Years of Being and Selling Art

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  The Little Bar That Actually Could: The Hideout Celebrates 10 Years of Being and Selling Art
  
  by Sean Nelson
  
  
  
  As construction cranes loom and news feeds clog with elegies to bygone hangs, it's a pleasure to report that at least one little bar that could actually could. The Hideout, a dark, signless outpost of art husbandry and behavioral decadence tucked away on Boren, will celebrate its 10th anniversary Friday n
  
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• The Former Singer of Tit Pig Bought NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi’s Sweater at a Knoxville Goodwill for 58 Cents and Sold It for $43,020

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  The Former Singer of Tit Pig Bought NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi's Sweater at a Goodwill for 58 Cents and Sold It for $43,020
  
  by Trent Moorman
  
  
  
  This past June, Seattle native Sean "Prawn" McEvoy bought an old sweater from a Goodwill in Asheville, North Carolina, for 58 cents. It had "West Point" stitched across the front, and there were holes. Sean (who sang for the defunct, beloved, highly flammable Seattle
  
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• The Complicated Relationships of Shannon Perry

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  The Complicated Relationships of Shannon Perry—Gazebos Singer Comes Clean About Her Many Obsessions
  
  by Emily Nokes
  
  
  
  Seattle band Gazebos—singer Shannon Perry, guitarist TV Coahran, bassist Shane Herrell, and drummer Jordan T. Adams—just finished recording their first album, produced by Kurt Bloch. It's not mixed yet, but Perry thinks it went pretty well. Maybe.
  
  "I can't tell what I think of it
  
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• Seattle Has a New Way to Elect City Council Members

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Has a New Way to Elect City Council Members
  
  by Heidi Groover
  
  
  
  Click to enlargeListen, I get it. It can be really hard to care about local elections. Especially when they're still months away. Especially especially when you don't totally understand what's happening. I'm here to help. See that map? Put it on your fridge, take a photo of it. This stuff is going to be important.
  
  Last time you voted for memb
  
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• No Other Road: A Reflection on The Book of Nightmares and the Death of Poet Galway Kinnell (1927–2014)

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  No Other Road: A Reflection on The Book of Nightmares and the Death of Poet Galway Kinnell (1927–2014)
  
  by Gabriel Heller
  
  
  
  Everyone in line at the cafe was staring at the screen of a phone. I was scrolling through the Times, trying to kill some time, waiting. That's when I saw it: "Galway Kinnell, Plain-Spoken Poet, Is Dead at 87," the headline said.
  
  My eyes welled with tears. That doesn't happen too often. Me
  
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• How a Misunderstood True Story Involving Fargo Came to Be a Seattle Cinematographer's Best Work Yet

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  From Tokyo to Fargo—Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter's Beautiful, Doomed Search for a Glimpse of the Stars
  
  by Charles Mudede
  
  
  
  In the winter of 2013, the Tacoma-born and Ashland-based cinematographer Sean Porter got a cold call from Austin-based indie filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner, better known as the Zellner brothers. They wanted him to fly to Tokyo in three weeks and shoot a film based on the true story
  
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• Chastity Belt Get Serious on Time to Go Home

  18-03-2015 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Chastity Belt Get Serious on Time to Go Home, Their Brilliant, Slow Second Album
  
  by Sean Nelson
  
  
  
  Second records are tricky. Depending on the band, and the level of success generated by their debut, the fabled "sophomore effort" can call for a wide variety of approaches, from inspired evolution to full-blown identity crisis. This week's two most notable new releases reveal two very different approaches to the ete
  
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• In Light of New Gay Bashing, Mayor Says He'll Create a Hate Crimes Task Force

  18-03-2015 01:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Taylor received six stitches after being struck with what he thinks was a boot. Courtesy of Rob B Taylor
  Rob B Taylor, 25, appears to be the latest victim of an anti-LGBTQ hate crime in Seattle. Yesterday, he told The Stranger he was walking past a group of four young, African American men on 5th Avenue South and Brandon Street in Georgetown Sunday evening when one of them said, "Hey, you look like a faggot." Taylor replied, "Thank you," and kept walking. "Hey, faggot!" Taylor
  
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• After New Gay Bashing, Mayor Says He'll Create a Hate Crimes Task Force

  18-03-2015 01:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Taylor received six stitches after being struck with what he thinks was a boot. Courtesy of Rob B Taylor
  Rob B Taylor, 25, appears to be the latest victim of an anti-LGBTQ hate crime in Seattle. Yesterday, he told The Stranger he was walking past a group of four young, African American men on 5th Avenue South and Brandon Street in Georgetown Sunday evening when one of them said, "Hey, you look like a faggot." Taylor replied, "Thank you," and kept walking. "Hey, faggot!" Taylor
  
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