504 Democratic Club: Photo of Margarita Lopez sitting at a dinner table

Margarita Lopez sitting at a dinner table
Councilwoman Margarita Lopez (pictured left) smiles and holds her left thumb up while sitting next to an unidentified elderly woman at a dinner table at the 504 Democratic Club twentieth anniversary dinner. As stated from the Gay City News, Lopez, a lesbian, chairs the Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Disability Services and is an advocate for the disabled community on such services as expanding the fleet of wheel-chair accessible medallion taxis. The club awarded her the Franklin D. Roosevelt Political Leadership Award.