“People are simply judged on their merits.” “The reaction in Palm Spring was very much, OK, so?” said Geoff Kors, a council member. The reaction in Palm Spring was very much, OK, so? People are simply judged on their merits Geoff Kors, council memberĪ precedent-setting event which might elicit cheers and controversy elsewhere unfolded in this picturesque corner of California’s Coachella valley with a shrug and some bemusement at national and international interest. The struggle for gay and transgender rights, in other words, has so triumphed in this wealthy desert oasis it sees little remarkable about electing three gay men, a transgender woman and a bisexual woman, all Democrats, to its five-member council. “Tell the truth, I didn’t even think about it until after the election,” the mayor, Robert Moon, 68, said in an interview this month as the new council prepared to convene.
