Illustration by Brian Barber
[R.T. Rybak] recalled he was a reporter at the Star Tribune 35 years ago, when the city’s police department was still conducting raids on the bath-houses on Hennepin Avenue. (The bath-houses were among the few places gays could freely congregate.)
Now, as mayor, he was the officiant of the marriage of the city’s police chief, Janee Harteau, and her longtime partner, Holly Keegel, a sergeant on the Minneapolis police force.
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My mayor’s better than your mayor. And as he’s on his way out, this is a brilliant way of increasing his national...
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