SAN FRANCISCO - ,

Leaders of San Francisco's LGBTQ community praised Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi for her decades of support and dedication to public service when reacting to her announcement that she will retire after serving out her current term in January 2027.

They described her as a champion for those who don't have a voice.

"It's a heavy heart full of gratitude for her decades and decades of service she's done for her constituents in San Francisco, across the nation, and around the world," said John Cunningham, CEO of the National Aids Memorial.

He said the site's national designation is largely thanks to Pelosi.

Cunningham recalled that when she was newly elected to the house in 1987, she addressed the Aids epidemic in her first speech on the floor,

"She stepped to the micr

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