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.

Nancy Pelosi was the first of her kind and perhaps the last of the powerhouse speakers able to bend the increasingly fractious and Balkanized House to their will to achieve big things. Ms. Pelosi, who broke the House’s glass ceiling after learning rough-and-tumble politics in the D’Alesandro family business in Baltimore,