Mahogany to kick off San Francisco D6 supervisor bid Thursday
Queer San Francisco Democratic Party Chair Honey Mahogany will officially announce her run to become the city's first transgender supervisor Thursday.
She will be the third out candidate to launch a bid to represent District 6. The newly redrawn supervisorial district covers the city's South of Market, Treasure Island, and Mission Bay neighborhoods.
The Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District in western SOMA falls within the district boundaries, as does the section of the Transgender District along Sixth Street.Mahogany will join with supporters at 5 p.m.
June 2 at The Crossing, located at 200 Folsom Street, to make her announcement at the parklet in the East Cut neighborhood. Formerly a temporary bus terminal during the construction of the new Salesforce Transit Center, it is now operated by East Cut Landing Partners as a recreation facility and beer garden, among other uses.She had worked on the reuse of the land as the de facto chief of staff to former District 6 supervisor Matt Haney, whom she had worked for over the last four years.
