San Francisco promised a new gay supervisor

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Acting Mayor Dianne Feinstein announced yesterday that she will appoint a homosexual to replace slain Supervisor Harvey Milk.

Milk and Mayor George R. Moscone were shot dead in their City Hall offices Monday. An ex-supervisor, Dan White,

has been charged with two counts of murder.

Moscone's term was to expire in January 1980 and it will be up to the city's 11-member Board of Supervisors to name a replacement. Mrs. Feinstein is regarded as the most likely choice when the board meets Monday.

Mrs. Feinstein, a widow, said that

If the board does not name a successor to Moscone she will begin next week appointing people to three seats on the board, the city's legislative body.

With Mrs. Feinstein in the mayor's chair, there are three vacancies on the board: her own seat, Milk's and that of White, who resigned Nov. 10 and later

changed his mind. He reportedly was pleading with Moscone to reappoint him to the board when the mayor was shot.

In a television interview Thursday night, Mrs. Feinstein said she would appoint Don Horanzy, a former federal housing official, to White's seat. Moscone had intended to name Horanzy to the board.