As community organizations look ahead to 2022, we'd like to suggest that the two LGBTQ Democratic clubs redouble their efforts to recruit qualified queer people to serve on San Francisco boards and commissions.
This need became starkly apparent last week when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors appointed a straight ally and Mission district activist to the vacant seat on the police commission that had been held for years by Petra DeJesus, a lesbian Latina.