“I faced it the entire time, it wasn’t overt but it was there,” he said. When he ran for office two decades ago, Oden said he faced discrimination as he sought to become not only the first gay man but also the first African American elected to the council. Oden said he was pleased to see that voters had no qualms about electing an all-LGBTQ council.
I do think representation matters, and we should continue to be a model city for civil rights.” “But it is still historic for the movement. “We really focused on local issues, we are not running because of those identities,” Holstege said.
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Holstege and Middleton said identity issues never became a central part of the campaign, which focused more on environmental concerns, the city’s growing homelessness population and how to tackle looming pension liabilities. “We have broken through,” Middleton said. Middleton called the elections historic for transgender Americans. In Virginia, a transgender woman, Democrat Danica Roem, unseated an incumbent who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Middleton, a retired auditor who worked for the State Compensation Insurance Fund, joins at least seven other openly transgender people elected to public office across the country last week, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Rick Zbur, executive director of Equality California, said Palm Springs is the only city council in California comprised of all LGBTQ people. D.C.And while the Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights organization, doesn’t keep nationwide data on the makeup of city councils, the Palm Springs council is believed to be the first in the country to be entirely LGBTQ.Editor's Pick: Vincint Brings His Getaway Tour To D.C.'s Union Stage.BETTY Is Ready To Take The JxJ Festival By Storm.Haus Of Bambi Debuts A New Drag-Centric Cabaret Show.Editor's Pick: The Indigo Girls Stream A Concert On Veeps.Editor's Pick: "Freestyle Love Supreme" Returns To The Kennedy Center.5 Essential Things To Know About Ava Max.Carly Rae Jepsen Drops New Single "Western Wind".Lady Gaga Might Be Competing For Two Oscars With Her New Music.Karine Jean-Pierre To Be First Out LGBTQ White House Press Secretary.Randy Rainbow On His Life, Amazing Career, And Grandmother.The party officially begins Friday, April 29 and runs through Sunday, May 1 at the Palm Springs Convention Center at the Renaissance Hotel, 277 N Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs, Calif. Leading the DJ lineup for the weekend’s marathon of parties are Dan Slater, Ben Bakson, Phil Romano, Rick Braile, Joe Gauthreaux, Isis Muretech, and Dani Brasil.Ī slew of additional performers are on tap for the weekend, ranging from an international posse of buff go-go Dancers to yoga sessions led by licensed Yogi Master Francisco Ramos to an Andrew Christian Fashion Show. The month of April will draw to a close with the first White Party since 2019 - also sadly, the first since Sanker’s passing last year from liver cancer.Ĭhris Diamond has taken the mantle as Sanker’s successor and is producing this year’s event.įor the relaunch, Diamond has recruited Paula Abdul to headline the Sunday T-Dance, with the Saturday night party headlined by British starlet RAYE - the voice of recent sassy house-tipped pop jams “You Don’t Know Me” by Jax Jones and “Bed” by David Guetta with Joel Corry.ĭiamond has also collaborated with Israel’s Karina Kay on “Eternal,” a new song written in memory of Sanker that Kay will perform at the T-Dance.