Editing West Hollywood, California (section)

===Local===
[[File:WeHo City Hall 2024 Feb.jpg|thumb|West Hollywood City Hall (2024)]]
The city government is headed by a five-member city council, including a Mayor and a Vice Mayor who serve one-year terms. The positions of Mayor and Vice Mayor are largely ceremonial positions which rotate between the councilmembers, and both positions are largely not re-elected in concurrent terms. However, councilmembers serve multiple non-concurrent terms in both offices. The five councilmembers are Mayor John M. Erickson, Vice Mayor Chelsea Lee Byers, [[John Heilman]], [[Sepi Shyne]], and Lauren Meister.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.weho.org/city-government/city-council|title = City Council &#124; City of West Hollywood}}</ref>

West Hollywood was the first city in the country to have a city council with a majority of gay members.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/people/032000pe.htm |title=The Folks Who Rule in Wilton Manors |first=Jesse |last=Monteagudo |work=Gay Today |access-date=May 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Jonathan |last=Van Dyke |title=WeHo Remains a Coalition, 30 years After Cityhood |work=Park LaBrea News Beverly Press |url=http://beverlypress.com/2014/11/weho-remains-a-coalition-30-years-after-cityhood/ |date=November 27, 2014 |access-date=November 27, 2014}}</ref>

On February 19, 2001, West Hollywood became the second city in the United States (after [[Boulder, Colorado]]) to change the term pet "owner" to pet "guardian" in their municipal codes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nabrlaw.org/portals/10/PDF%20Files/LSOFNHA2002.pdf |title=NABR Animal Law Section – Ownership v. Guardianship |website=nabrlaw.org |access-date=May 15, 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

With West Hollywood being one of the most prominent gay-friendly cities in the United States, [[Proposition 8]] had a higher rate of rejection than it did in any other city in Los Angeles County: 86% of the city voted against the amendment, which restricted marriage to heterosexual couples.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gay marriage ban: How cities in Los Angeles County voted |url=http://projects.latimes.com/elections/la-county-prop-8-results-by-city/ |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>