Supervisor Rafael Mandelman spoke outside the 2280 Market Street site of the proposed LGBTQ history museum September 27.

Photo: Bill Wilson

With talks dragging on between San Francisco officials and the GLBT Historical Society over the lease for a new LGBTQ museum in the city’s Castro neighborhood, the delay is raising concerns about a looming deadline for the project to tap into $5.5 million in state funding for it. Currently, those funds are to be used by next summer.   Now, gay state Senator SCOTT WIENER (D-San Francisco) aims to extend that deadline to the end of 2027. He had initially secured the state funds for the museum project in 2022, and as chair of the Senate Budget Committee, had inserted language into California’s 2025 state budget to roll over the unused funds to next year

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