Reprentative Ken Calvert, a long-servg Republin, is facg a tough re-electn race a redrawn district that now clus Palm Sprgs, proclaimed to be the gayt cy Ameri.
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- IN GAY-IENDLY PALM SPRGS, AMERI'S FIRST ALL-LGBT ERNMENT IS NO SURPRISE
- PALM SPRGS’ FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAYOR DISCS CHANG CY SHOULD MAKE
- THE PALM SPRGS CY COUNCIL IS NOW 100% QUEER"I WAS JUDGED THIS CY BY THE NTENT OF MY CHARACTER," SAYS NEWLY ELECTED TRANS UNCILWOMAN LISA MIDDLETON. "BY THE WORK THAT I'VE DONE THIS MUNY."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 10, 2017/7:00 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}LISA MIDDLETONBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 10, 2017 / 7:00 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE PALM SPRGS CY COUNCIL IS NOW 100% QUEER","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-11-10T12:00:10.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-11-10T12:00:10.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"ELECTN","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH THE ELECTN OF LISA MIDDLETON AND CHRISTY HOLSTEGE, THE PALM SPRGS CY COUNCIL IS NOW AN ALL-LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MIDDLETON MA HISTORY ON TUDAY AS THE FIRST TRANSGENR PERSON ELECTED TO NON-JUDICIAL OFFICE CALIFORNIA. CHRISTY HOLSTEGE, WHO INTIFI AS BISEXUAL, WON THE OTHER VANT CY UNCIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"IT MAK ME CREDIBLY PROUD OF MY CY. I WAS JUDGED THIS CY BY THE NTENT OF MY CHARACTER, BY THE WORK THAT I'VE DONE THIS MUNY," SAID MIDDLETON. "WE'RE GOG TO HAVE A PROGRSIVE CY UNCIL, ONE THAT IS FOCED ON THE FUTURE, ONE THAT IS A PROBLEM-SOLVG CY UNCIL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHE AND HOLSTEGE WERE NNG FOR TWO OPEN SEATS, AS LONGTIME UNCIL MEMBERS CHRIS MILLS AND GNY FOAT CHOSE NOT TO SEEK RE-ELECTN. ONLY ABOUT 8,350 PEOPLE VOTED, A NUMBER OF THEM VIA MAIL- BALLOTS, ACRDG TO THE DERT SUN. MIDDLTON AND HOLSTEGE WILL JO OPENLY GAY UNCILMEMBERS GEOFF KORS AND J.R. ROBERTS. ON THE UNCIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PALM SPRGS HAS LONG BEEN A POPULAR GAY VATN SPOT, BUT ALSO HAS A NSERVATIVE STREAK: REPUBLIN SONNY BONO WAS MAYOR OM 1988 TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2011, A POLICE STG OF A CISG AREA WARM SANDS THAT SAW 19 MEN ARRTED WAS CRICIZED FOR EVINCE OF ENTRAPMENT AND BIAS—AND THE FACT THAT NO STRAIGHT PEOPLE HAD BEEN ARRTED FOR SIAR BEHAVR. THE JUDGE THE SE, DAVID DOWNG, LATER WAS QUOTED AS SAYG HE WOULDN'T READ THE MOTNS OF A PARTICULAR FENDANT BEE THE MAN HAD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- PALM SPRGS GAYS GET LOVE OM CY COUNCIL, DEATH THREATS OM NEIGHBOR
IN GAY-IENDLY PALM SPRGS, AMERI'S FIRST ALL-LGBT ERNMENT IS NO SURPRISE
A bisexual woman and a transgenr woman joed three gay men on the uncil that electn night.
PALM SPRGS’ FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAYOR DISCS CHANG CY SHOULD MAKE
The gay and lbian muny — a majory of the electorate this cy of 45, 000 people — cheered the tone as an affirmatn of the muny’s mol tolerance. The uncil elected November 2017 also happened to be all whe, and some people did not thk that was ol at was viewed by many as a broad step toward greater diversy stead turned Palm Sprgs to a fom for a bate about what diversy means — and who, exactly, is bt sued to reprent whom a state shaped for s by inty challeng that emerged almost immediately to this cy’s all-LGBTQ uncil reflected arguments that have remaed unrolved — here California and across the untry — for s over gay, Ain Amerin and Lato reprentatn. The move effectively guaranteed that the all-LGBTQ uncil will end s short, largely unhappy tenure wh this November’s past year has clud bter bat over whether the uncil should weigh on natnal issu, whether the mayor is secretly a Republin, and whether gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr policians unrstand the changg needs of those outsi the muny.
Bickerg over polics is about as ol here as replacg one of the cy’s Jetsons-sleek midcentury morn hom wh a three-story is a cy of walled-and-gated retirement muni and golf urs edged by sert, a state-of-the-art sign and cultural center, and a statn for gays, lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people who over the years have moved here to make a home and live out life those were Lisa Middleton, who is 66 years old and beme the uncil’s “T, ” as she put , wh her November 2017 electn.
THE PALM SPRGS CY COUNCIL IS NOW 100% QUEER"I WAS JUDGED THIS CY BY THE NTENT OF MY CHARACTER," SAYS NEWLY ELECTED TRANS UNCILWOMAN LISA MIDDLETON. "BY THE WORK THAT I'VE DONE THIS MUNY."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 10, 2017/7:00 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}LISA MIDDLETONBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 10, 2017 / 7:00 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE PALM SPRGS CY COUNCIL IS NOW 100% QUEER","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-11-10T12:00:10.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-11-10T12:00:10.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"ELECTN","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH THE ELECTN OF LISA MIDDLETON AND CHRISTY HOLSTEGE, THE PALM SPRGS CY COUNCIL IS NOW AN ALL-LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MIDDLETON MA HISTORY ON TUDAY AS THE FIRST TRANSGENR PERSON ELECTED TO NON-JUDICIAL OFFICE CALIFORNIA. CHRISTY HOLSTEGE, WHO INTIFI AS BISEXUAL, WON THE OTHER VANT CY UNCIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"IT MAK ME CREDIBLY PROUD OF MY CY. I WAS JUDGED THIS CY BY THE NTENT OF MY CHARACTER, BY THE WORK THAT I'VE DONE THIS MUNY," SAID MIDDLETON. "WE'RE GOG TO HAVE A PROGRSIVE CY UNCIL, ONE THAT IS FOCED ON THE FUTURE, ONE THAT IS A PROBLEM-SOLVG CY UNCIL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHE AND HOLSTEGE WERE NNG FOR TWO OPEN SEATS, AS LONGTIME UNCIL MEMBERS CHRIS MILLS AND GNY FOAT CHOSE NOT TO SEEK RE-ELECTN. ONLY ABOUT 8,350 PEOPLE VOTED, A NUMBER OF THEM VIA MAIL- BALLOTS, ACRDG TO THE DERT SUN. MIDDLTON AND HOLSTEGE WILL JO OPENLY GAY UNCILMEMBERS GEOFF KORS AND J.R. ROBERTS. ON THE UNCIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PALM SPRGS HAS LONG BEEN A POPULAR GAY VATN SPOT, BUT ALSO HAS A NSERVATIVE STREAK: REPUBLIN SONNY BONO WAS MAYOR OM 1988 TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2011, A POLICE STG OF A CISG AREA WARM SANDS THAT SAW 19 MEN ARRTED WAS CRICIZED FOR EVINCE OF ENTRAPMENT AND BIAS—AND THE FACT THAT NO STRAIGHT PEOPLE HAD BEEN ARRTED FOR SIAR BEHAVR. THE JUDGE THE SE, DAVID DOWNG, LATER WAS QUOTED AS SAYG HE WOULDN'T READ THE MOTNS OF A PARTICULAR FENDANT BEE THE MAN HAD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
”Ortega served on the missn assigned to draw five votg districts, and the uncil ma clear before the procs began that there would be no gerrymanrg to help cumbents hold their uncil has had a gay and lbian majory for a , but very few women have served recent years.
PALM SPRGS GAYS GET LOVE OM CY COUNCIL, DEATH THREATS OM NEIGHBOR
”Moon, the mayor, is a 69-year-old retired naval officer who grew up gay Ltle Rock. ”His vote agast districts, he said, was part bee he believ the cy should have an at-large mayor — now the office will rotate annually among uncil members — and part bee he has never seen eye-to-eye wh what he lls the uncil’s “profsnal gays, ” meang those who have been more directly active LGBTQ . “They n throw all this s--- at me — that I am not gay enough, not progrsive enough, ” Moon said.
But Garner already has the support of some of the cy’s most fluential gay polil players, cludg Jam Williamson, who several years ago beme the first openly gay man elected to the Palm Sprgs school board.
”The stggle for gay and transgenr rights, other words, has so triumphed this wealthy sert oasis se ltle remarkable about electg three gay men, a transgenr woman and a bisexual woman, all Democrats, to s five-member uncil.