The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has seated three straight members on the Historic Preservation Commission, leaving it for the time being without anyone from the LGBTQ community.
Mayor London Breed is facing pressure to name an out person to a fourth seat she has yet to fill. Last month, Breed did not reappoint the commission's two gay members, Jonathan Pearlman and Aaron Hyland, who had been serving as the commission's president.
Pearlman's Seat 3 is to be filled by an architectural historian, and LGBTQ community leaders have encouraged Breed to name Hyland to it.
Breed spokesman Jeff Cretan told the Bay Area Reporter last week that the mayor will take the lack of LGBTQ members on the commission under consideration as she makes her