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. citizen four years ago, and gay Walnut Creek resident Luis Zamora, who works in San Francisco as a facilities supervisor at law firm Morgan Lewis & Brockus LLP and is the current public policy chair for the Golden Gate Business Association, the country s oldest LGBTQ chamber of commerce.
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