Three LGBTQ community leaders have won appointment to San Francisco's Immigrant Rights Commission, helping to double queer representation on the civic advisory body.
At its March 9 meeting, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted 11-0 to seat the trio of out applicants along with three straight people seeking to be reappointed.
Commissioner Jessy Ruiz Navarro, who is originally from Mexico and the advisory body's lone transgender member, secured her reappointment.
When she joined in 2019 Navarro was the panel's first commissioner whose primary language isn't English. Joining the commission is artist Lucia Obregon Matzer, a queer immigrant from Guatemala who became a U.S.