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Bay Area Reporter :: Breed nominates out man for preservation panel

Bay Area Reporter :: Breed nominates out man for preservation panel

Mayor London Breed intends to nominate an out man for the vacant seat on the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. Jason Wright, who is LGBT according to the mayor s office, would be the only out person on the seven-member advisory panel should he be approved by the Board of Supervisors. Commissioner Jonathan Pearlman, a gay man, is presently serving on the commission but his term has expired and Breed did not renominate him or Andrew Hyland, the other out member. Wright has been nominated to Seat 3, which is designated for an architectural historian. Wright has a background in both design and conservation, according to a biography from the mayor s office, and has 18 years of work in preservation architecture. He has overseen both conservation and architectural projects and engaged in laboratory and other technical conservation methodologies.

San Francisco Designates Pioneering Lesbians Home a Landmark

San Francisco Designates Pioneering Lesbians Home a Landmark The place where Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon founded the Daughters of Bilitis and launched  The Ladder will be preserved for generations to come.  The cottage in San Francisco where lesbian pioneers Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon made their home and a haven for LGBTQ+ people beginning in 1955 has now been assigned landmark status. A request for the minimum of a plaque on the sidewalk will be submitted within six months, according to the  The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to designate the hilltop home at 651 Duncan St. landmark status. The one-bedroom house was the place where Lyon and Martin helped found the political group the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955.

First San Francisco Lesbian Landmark; Home Of First Same-Sex Married Couple Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin Classified City Landmark

First San Francisco Lesbian Landmark; Home of First Same-Sex Married Couple Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin Classified City Landmark The San Francisco home shared by the city’s first same-sex couple to marry, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, is set to become a protected landmark, preserving the LGBTQ history it housed for the past 65 years. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to make the late couple’s home since 1955 on 651 Duncan St. earlier this week, making it the first lesbian landmark in the western U.S. A bronze plaque is planned to be placed on the sidewalk in front of the house memorializing the roles Lyon, Martin and the house played in LGBTQ civil rights activism.

Home Of San Francisco s First Legally Married Same-Sex Couple Is Now A City Landmark

Home Of San Francisco s First Legally Married Same-Sex Couple Is Now A City Landmark Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were wed in 2004 and again in 2008, when marriage equality became the law of the land in California. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The hilltop cottage belonging to a lesbian couple who were the first same-sex partners to legally marry in San Francisco has become a city landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to give the 651 Duncan St. home of the late lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin landmark status. The home in the Noe Valley neighborhood is expected to become the first lesbian landmark in the U.S. West, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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