Organizers of the Rainbow Honor Walk in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood are gearing up to add several plaques amid changes to the project that posthumously honors LGBTQ luminaries. The board of the nonprofit may also alter how it selects people in the future in an effort to get the plaques installed quicker. The last formal class of 23 inductees was announced in 2022. The plaques for three of those people, including gay Bay Area Reporter founding publisher Bob Ross, are expected to be installed soon. A plaque for Roger Casement, a gay Irishman who was hanged for treason in 1916, is expected to be installed in October, according to Charlotte Ruffner, vice president of the honor walk board, and Matthew Rothschild, a gay man and retired attorney who has taken the lead in fundraising for
SF nonprofit looks to add LGBTQ luminaries’ plaques to Castro streets

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