In the antechamber to his mayoral suite on the 11th floor of City Hall, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has hung black-and-white portraits of three deceased civil rights pioneers.
Every day he goes into the building he passes by images of gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Georgia congressman John Lewis."They are icons who each, I think, contributed to my ability to sit in this room," Gloria told the Bay Area Reporter from the municipal building during a recent Zoom interview.Inside his office is a painting of Diego, the Chihuahua mix breed Gloria and his partner, Adam Smith, adopted after briefly fostering him last year.