A town in Florida has become the second in the nation to elect an entirely LGBTQ City Commission.
Wilton Manors’s City Commission’s last straight commissioner, Scott Newton, lost his re-election bid.
The City Commission is now made up of four LGBTQ commissioners and a gay mayor. The only other city in the U.S. with an all-LGBTQ city council is Palm Springs, California.
Newton finished third in a four-candidate race for two spots on the City Commission. Mayor Gary Resnick and Paul Rolli, who are both gay, won the two seats.
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Commissioner Justin Flippen, who is gay, was elected mayor as Resnick is leaving the position.
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The other two commissioners are the middle of their terms and weren’t up for re-election.
According to the 2010 Census, Wilton Manors has the second-highest percentage of same-sex couples living in it, after Provincetown, Massachusetts.
“LGBTQ people are severely under-represented at every level of government, so to have an all-LGBTQ city commission and an LGBTQ mayor in Wilton Manors would be an exciting moment, especially given the strong LGBTQ community there,” Sean Meloy of the Victory Fund said in a statement.