By Alexis Espinoza, The Porterville Recorder, October 18, 2019
It was a historical night for the LGBTQ+ community in Porterville as the City Council passed the first ever proclamation that directly ties to the gay community. National Coming Out Day was brought to light under the Council’s discretion, and ultimately commemorated on paper with the National Coming Out Day proclamation.
Brock Neely pushed the proclamation hard on the Council, and was upset when it didn’t appear on the agenda for the Council meeting on October 1. He said that all of the proper paper work had been submitted and the support for the proclamation was there, yet it did not receive Council consideration until Tuesday night. National Coming Out Day is celebrated on October 11, which was a large reason behind Neely’s anger with the Council. Had it been on the agenda for the meeting scheduled for October 1, the proclamation would have been passed in time.
But it was Tuesday night, October 15, that marked the historical moment for Porterville’s LGBTQ+ community, and the Council was still at odds when it came down to the vote.
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