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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s Pride Festival culminated in its annual parade on a cloudless Sunday morning, bringing big crowds and a sea of rainbows into the heart of the city for a celebration centered around joy and resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-19-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-19-BL.jpg\" alt='People march in the street holding a multicolored sign that reads \"SF LGBT CENTER.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-19-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-19-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-19-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the San Francisco LGBT Center march in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The parade stretched down Market Street, from Embarcadero to Civic Center. [aside postID=news_12044243 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg']Organizers say the event brings in nearly a million people every year, making it one of the largest Pride celebrations in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme of this year’s festival – which spans the whole weekend – is “Queer Joy is Resistance,” which resonated with many in attendance, who said it not only tapped into Pride’s roots in the Stonewall riots in 1969 but also the continued attacks on the LGBTQ community from President Trump and his followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing colorful outfits embrace on the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitty hugs a friend before walking with Openhouse, a nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ seniors, in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is so important to be visible, to be out, to be loud, to push back [and] to not let what’s happening in Washington get you down,” said Lara Starr, a member of Free Mom Hugs, a nationwide organization that focuses on celebrating the LGBTQ community. “It is exhausting, but we got to keep turning out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing multicolored indigenous clothing dances in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of BAAITS ((Bay Area American Indian Two‑Spirits), a group supporting Two-Spirit Indigenous people, walks in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing beads a white t-shirt and holding a rainbow flag and bubble gun walks in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Marin LGBTQ+ Center march in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessy Ruiz, one of the Community Grand Marshals selected by the SF Pride Board of Directors, said he wanted to come out to support the Latinx community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a pink top and a holding a white fan above their head in the street among several people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Pride Parade participants wave to the crowd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is very important [for] everyone to support each other,” said Ruiz. “I tell everyone, ‘Don’t be scared in these hard times’ and [to] come and enjoy Pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several people wearing colorful clothing stand next to each other behind a barricade.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd watches the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our administration is not recognizing us equally like the rest of the population,” said Jesse Crosslin, a 63-year-old San Francisco resident who has attended Pride with his friends for decades. “We celebrate through love and unity and just show a positive resistance through peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several people behind barricades hold rainbow flags as a man wearing a white dress shirt points at them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie marches in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also in attendance on Sunday was San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who marched in the parade and spoke to attendees at the Civic Center afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand side to side with our LGBTQ+ community,” he said. “This is the city that knows how to take care of every single person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046495\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Two people ride on a motorcycle together with a rainbow flag behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Dykes on Bikes contingent lead the San Francisco Pride Parade through downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pride festivities kicked off Saturday, where Michelle Gutierrez from Sunnyvale was at the Free Mom Hugs booth “sharing the love with not just sons and daughters, but grandsons, brothers, and sisters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing blue paint and a colorful costume on the street surrounded by people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Openhouse contingent, a nonprofit serving LGBTQ+ seniors, walk in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel that love overcomes hate, leading into this year’s theme regarding resistance,” Gutierrez said. “Love ultimately has more power, and it’s a form of peaceful protest, if you will, because we can fight back without using bullets and weapons. We can fight back with the love we have to give.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing blue costumes walk on the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Openhouse contingent, a nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ seniors, walk in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13978009 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-1501334621.jpg'] Jeff Cotter, founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainbowfund.org/\">Rainbow World Fund\u003c/a>, had their bus parked outside Civic Center plaza Saturday. The organization is celebrating 25 years of educating and developing philanthropy within the LGBTQ community for humanitarian aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that we don’t let people take our joy away,” Cotter said. “Having joy is one of the most important things we can do and showing up for Pride is one of the most important ways that we can practice our civil disobedience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an elaborate dress walks in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siam Phusri, a Thai drag performer, marches in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>elita layà with \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopcopcitybayarea.com/\">Stop Cop City Bay Area\u003c/a>, which opposes the $47 million regional police training facility being built in San Pablo, said joy as resistance recognizes that pride is “rooted in disrupting hyper surveillance and disrupting police surveillance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hug amongst a large crowd on the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of BAAITS (Bay Area American Indian Two‑Spirits), a group supporting Two-Spirit Indigenous people, hugs a person in the crowd during the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing our neighbors be kidnapped. We’re seeing that folks are losing faith in the system, and so I see joy and restoring and reminding ourselves of the faith that we should have in one another,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a pink shirt holds a rainbow flag.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A participant waves a rainbow flag. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, thousands of people participated in the annual Trans March according to organizers, taking over Dolores Park along Market Street to Turk and Taylor in the Tenderloin where an anti-police brutality riot led by transgender people took place in 1966 at Compton’s Cafeteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in a red car wave to people standing behind barricades.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Matt Haney waves to the crowd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Saturday saw the return of the city’s Dyke March, which hasn’t taken place in an official capacity since before the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Brian Krans, Billy Cruz, Spencer Whitney and Dana Cronin contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Organizers say the event brings in nearly a million people every year, making it one of the largest Pride celebrations in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme of this year’s festival – which spans the whole weekend – is “Queer Joy is Resistance,” which resonated with many in attendance, who said it not only tapped into Pride’s roots in the Stonewall riots in 1969 but also the continued attacks on the LGBTQ community from President Trump and his followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing colorful outfits embrace on the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitty hugs a friend before walking with Openhouse, a nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ seniors, in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is so important to be visible, to be out, to be loud, to push back [and] to not let what’s happening in Washington get you down,” said Lara Starr, a member of Free Mom Hugs, a nationwide organization that focuses on celebrating the LGBTQ community. “It is exhausting, but we got to keep turning out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing multicolored indigenous clothing dances in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-09-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of BAAITS ((Bay Area American Indian Two‑Spirits), a group supporting Two-Spirit Indigenous people, walks in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing beads a white t-shirt and holding a rainbow flag and bubble gun walks in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Marin LGBTQ+ Center march in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessy Ruiz, one of the Community Grand Marshals selected by the SF Pride Board of Directors, said he wanted to come out to support the Latinx community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a pink top and a holding a white fan above their head in the street among several people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-23-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Pride Parade participants wave to the crowd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is very important [for] everyone to support each other,” said Ruiz. “I tell everyone, ‘Don’t be scared in these hard times’ and [to] come and enjoy Pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several people wearing colorful clothing stand next to each other behind a barricade.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd watches the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our administration is not recognizing us equally like the rest of the population,” said Jesse Crosslin, a 63-year-old San Francisco resident who has attended Pride with his friends for decades. “We celebrate through love and unity and just show a positive resistance through peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several people behind barricades hold rainbow flags as a man wearing a white dress shirt points at them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-24-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie marches in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also in attendance on Sunday was San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who marched in the parade and spoke to attendees at the Civic Center afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand side to side with our LGBTQ+ community,” he said. “This is the city that knows how to take care of every single person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046495\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Two people ride on a motorcycle together with a rainbow flag behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Dykes on Bikes contingent lead the San Francisco Pride Parade through downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pride festivities kicked off Saturday, where Michelle Gutierrez from Sunnyvale was at the Free Mom Hugs booth “sharing the love with not just sons and daughters, but grandsons, brothers, and sisters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing blue paint and a colorful costume on the street surrounded by people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Openhouse contingent, a nonprofit serving LGBTQ+ seniors, walk in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel that love overcomes hate, leading into this year’s theme regarding resistance,” Gutierrez said. “Love ultimately has more power, and it’s a form of peaceful protest, if you will, because we can fight back without using bullets and weapons. We can fight back with the love we have to give.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing blue costumes walk on the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Openhouse contingent, a nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ seniors, walk in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Jeff Cotter, founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainbowfund.org/\">Rainbow World Fund\u003c/a>, had their bus parked outside Civic Center plaza Saturday. The organization is celebrating 25 years of educating and developing philanthropy within the LGBTQ community for humanitarian aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that we don’t let people take our joy away,” Cotter said. “Having joy is one of the most important things we can do and showing up for Pride is one of the most important ways that we can practice our civil disobedience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an elaborate dress walks in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siam Phusri, a Thai drag performer, marches in the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>elita layà with \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopcopcitybayarea.com/\">Stop Cop City Bay Area\u003c/a>, which opposes the $47 million regional police training facility being built in San Pablo, said joy as resistance recognizes that pride is “rooted in disrupting hyper surveillance and disrupting police surveillance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hug amongst a large crowd on the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-11-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of BAAITS (Bay Area American Indian Two‑Spirits), a group supporting Two-Spirit Indigenous people, hugs a person in the crowd during the San Francisco Pride Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing our neighbors be kidnapped. We’re seeing that folks are losing faith in the system, and so I see joy and restoring and reminding ourselves of the faith that we should have in one another,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a pink shirt holds a rainbow flag.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-26-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A participant waves a rainbow flag. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, thousands of people participated in the annual Trans March according to organizers, taking over Dolores Park along Market Street to Turk and Taylor in the Tenderloin where an anti-police brutality riot led by transgender people took place in 1966 at Compton’s Cafeteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in a red car wave to people standing behind barricades.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-31-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Matt Haney waves to the crowd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Saturday saw the return of the city’s Dyke March, which hasn’t taken place in an official capacity since before the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Brian Krans, Billy Cruz, Spencer Whitney and Dana Cronin contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated July 2\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046464/55th-annual-sf-pride-parade-focuses-on-queer-joy-as-resistance\">San Francisco’s iconic Pride celebrations\u003c/a> saw community groups and artists organize rallies, concerts and film festivals that explored the spectrum of experiences across the LGBTQ+ community in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s something you can do in San Francisco any day of the year: a self-guided tour of Chinatown’s historical queer landmarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading out on this independent walking guide is also a particularly good option for anyone who missed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976447/chinatown-pride-san-francisco-lgbtq-chinese-culture-center\">second annual Chinatown Pride\u003c/a> back in May, organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/\">Chinese Cultural Center\u003c/a> and contemporary arts organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/\">Edge on the Square\u003c/a>. 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This includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/yumei-hou\">Hou Yumei\u003c/a>’s art of paper cutting, installations by \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/sun-park\">Sun Park\u003c/a>, illustrations by Chinatown’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/leland-wong\">Leland Wong\u003c/a> and drawings by \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/jeanette-lazam\">Jeanette Lazam\u003c/a> — who you’ll see again later on in your tour, thanks to her role as \u003ca href=\"https://www.historypin.org/en/manilatown-heritage-foundation-s-collection/manilatown-manang-jeanette-gandiongco-lazam-2/geo/37.796126,-122.404933,17/bounds/37.793722,-122.4071,37.798529,-122.402766/paging/1/project/about\">an openly queer tenant organizer\u003c/a> in the struggle to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/reel/DAt5-VRqL3z/?locale=uken1&hl=en\">save the neighborhood’s International Hotel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit, curated by Candace Huey, frames these artists as “hidden dragons,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/all-eyes-on-us\">producing their work\u003c/a> while adapting to the challenges of “immigration, assimilation and survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While social circumstances may have limited the visibility of some of these artists, Edge on the Square’s Pallasigue encourages visitors to also think about how staying under the radar can serve as a form of protection. “Marginalized communities — not just queer communities — have to negotiate what it means to be out or visible,” she said. “They may choose \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to be out or visible as a form of safety, protection and resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041654\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kotobuki Taiko performs during the inaugural Chinatown Pride procession through San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday, May 24, 2025. The event, co-presented by the Chinese Culture Center and Edge on the Square, featured a walking tour highlighting historic queer landmarks and honored the neighborhood’s LGBTQIA+ history dating back to the 1930s. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Stop #2: Bars and shops along Grant Avenue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From Edge on the Square, head north on Grant Avenue. Along these next few blocks, you’ll see staple Chinatown bars Li Po Cocktail Lounge on your right and Buddha Lounge on your left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These spots are remnants of the time when Chinatown was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904467/chinatown-nightclubs-showgirl-magic-museum\">a big nightlife destination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the 1930s to 1960s, clubs like Forbidden City and Chinese Sky Room threw glamorous shows featuring big bands and showgirl troupes — drawing in major celebrities like Frank Sinatra and \u003ca href=\"https://sfmuseum.org/hist10/forbidcity.html\">then-actor President Ronald Reagan\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12044243 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg']“But the queer history here is that there were several underground bars that served as gathering spaces for the community,” Pallasigue said. People who frequented these establishments often had to live a double life, she said, transforming into a version of themselves devoid of queerness during the daytime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on our research, it’s during the 1940s and ’50s that the queer nightlife in Chinatown was thriving,” Zhu said. “Chinatown was the go-to space where you could have a relatively safe environment to hang out and be yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like CCC continue working on recovering the history of these underground bars. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about Chinatown’s nightlife boom and the Asian and Asian American performers behind it, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theclarionsf.org/showgirl-magic-museum\">Showgirl Magic Museum\u003c/a> at 2 Waverly Place, a block away from the Grant and Sacramento street intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #3: East West Bank, formerly the site of Telephone Exchange, 743 Washington St.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lotus speaks outside of East West Bank on Washington St, the 3rd stop on the Chinatown Pride procession route through San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday, May 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From Buddha Lounge, cross Washington Street. On your left side, you’ll see a three-tiered pagoda painted in red and green. Now a branch office of East West Bank, this building served \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2016/04/plugged-in-the-fascinating-history-of-the-chinese-telephone-exchange/\">as the home of the Chinatown Telephone Exchange\u003c/a> from the end of the 19th century till 1949. Before cell phones or even landline telephones with dials, you would have to first call your local telephone exchange and ask the operator — \u003cem>an actual human\u003c/em> — to connect you to the person you were trying to reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Chinatown Telephone Exchange, a team of dozens of women connected the neighborhood’s thousands of residents to the outside world. As part of their jobs, these female operators were required to wear traditional qipao dresses every day and be fluent in multiple languages, Zhu said.[aside postID=arts_13977169 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_1997_13_Box4_DE_PatronsAtComptons-cropped.png']During the Chinatown Pride procession, an elderly woman approached Zhu to share that she herself had worked at a telephone exchange in the city similar to the one located on Washington Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At work, “she saw women flirting with each other,” Zhu said. “While they connected the outside world to Chinatown, there was this concealed intimacy. She was sure that there were other queer women operators besides her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Exchange’s architecture is also a symbol of Chinatown’s ability to transform in order to survive, Pallasigue said. The 1906 earthquake destroyed most of Chinatown and local officials saw that as an opportunity to remove the Chinese community from this part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chinese and Chinese American business groups instead proposed that in order to boost tourism, the neighborhood \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/story.html\">be protected and rebuilt\u003c/a> as an exaggerated version of what Westerners at the time imagined China to be like. Up went the paper lanterns, neon lights and pagodas — including those at the Chinatown Telephone Exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is built into Chinatown’s DNA,” Pallasigue said: “Being creative with the use of space as a form of resilience in order to preserve the culture and community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #4: 41ross, 41 Ross Alley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalypso (right) walks to Ross Alley, the 4th stop on the Chinatown Pride procession route through San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday, May 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the old Telephone Exchange building, walk up the hill on Washington Street and turn right at Ross Alley. On the left side, you’ll find 41ross, a gallery space managed by CCC that has hosted the work of dozens of LGBTQ+ artists over its 11 years in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal for this space is really to support artists and provide a platform for them — not only to showcase their work, but to also sell it,” she said, adding that 41ross includes a design store where visitors can find works by Jeanette Lazam, Hou Yumei, Leland Wong and other artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/all-eyes-on-us\">currently featured at Edge on the Square\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, 41ross collaborated with queer artist-activist Xiangqi Chen \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/post/out-%E5%87%BA-museum-a-chinese-queer-museum-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E9%85%B7%E5%85%92%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8\">to host “OUT/出 MUSEUM,”\u003c/a> a museum prototype focused on Chinese queer art. Visitors can ask the 41ross staff to learn more about ongoing work to find a permanent home for Chen’s collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #5: International Hotel Senior Housing, 848 Kearny St.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stepping out of 41ross, take a left and then a right on Jackson Street. Walk downhill on Jackson until you reach the intersection with Kearny Street, where you’ll see a tall apartment building behind a Muni bus stop. This is International Hotel Senior Housing, an affordable housing complex that opened in 2005 for lower-income seniors — and it stands on the site of the former \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihotel-sf.org/\">International Hotel\u003c/a> (or I-Hotel), where \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihotel-sf.org/history/\">one of the most extensive struggles\u003c/a> between tenants and developers in the city’s history went down.[aside postID=science_1997508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/06/250603-QUEERKAYAK-20-BL-KQED.jpg']Since the 1920s, the I-Hotel housed hundreds of elderly and impoverished Filipino and Chinese men who shared cramped living quarters known as single room occupancies, or SROs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the property owners decided in 1968 that they wanted to turn the hotel into a parking lot and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13964200/violeta-marasigan-bullet-filipina-activist-ihotel-manilatown-san-francisco-marcos\">started handing out eviction notices to residents\u003c/a>, students, activists and other community members quickly rallied in support of the hotel’s tenants, sparking \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihotel-sf.org/timeline/\">a nine-year battle\u003c/a> to prevent evictions. And although the owners ultimately succeeded in removing all residents in 1977, the struggle for the I-Hotel formed a generation of activists in Chinatown, Pallasigue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The struggle for the I-Hotel was about displacement, gentrification and the question: who belongs here?,” she said — adding that even within this movement, “there weren’t many queer leaders at the forefront because they tended to be pushed out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the younger I-Hotel tenants at the time of the 1977 evictions was Jeanette Lazam — one of the artists currently featured at Edge on the Square. During the struggle to save the I-Hotel, she \u003ca href=\"https://convergencemag.com/articles/coming-home-jeanette-lazam-returns-to-the-i-hotel/\">pushed for Asian American activists from different generations to work together\u003c/a>, all the while \u003ca href=\"https://vdoc.pub/documents/san-franciscos-international-hotel-mobilizing-the-filipino-american-community-in-the-anti-eviction-movement-asian-american-history-cultu-k9benlnleos0\">defying homophobia and sexism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when a group of nonprofits succeeded in transforming the former I-Hotel site into affordable housing, Lazam was one of the few surviving former tenants who returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #6: Crossing Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge, 745 Kearny St.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfred Twu and others gather on Portsmouth Square Pedestrian Bridge, the 6th stop on the Chinatown Pride procession route on Saturday, May 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To wrap up your tour, head south to Portsmouth Square and step on the pedestrian bridge over Kearny Street. During the procession, Pallasigue and Zhu recalled that drag queens led the crowd across the bridge to the sound of taiko drums, with Pride flags flying high in the air. “This is the immortal runway,” Zhu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ending the procession at the bridge was intentional, Zhu said — because this landmark will soon disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a city-led improvement project, the bridge is \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1911\">scheduled to be demolished later this year\u003c/a>. But “even if the bridge goes away, even if these landmarks, one day, are physically gone, we still have the fact that we’ve brought all of these different people together — and they’re now telling these stories,” Pallasigue said. “We’ve woven ourselves into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG052_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG052_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG052_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG052_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG052_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG052_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG052_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG052_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peipei Ma’Bilz (center left) walks across Portsmouth Square Pedestrian Bridge, the 6th stop on the Chinatown Pride procession route on Saturday, May 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Nastia Voynovskaya and Rae Alexandra and NPR’s Chloe Veltman.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chinatown holds so many untold queer stories,” said YY Zhu, director of galleries and programs at CCC, whose team spent months researching and talking to elders in the community to identify the places in the neighborhood where LGBTQ+ individuals lived, connected and organized. “This is really our invitation to people to come to Chinatown and interact with this history,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for those who want to recreate this tour for themselves, we chatted to Chinatown Pride’s organizers to learn how folks can follow the procession’s footsteps. Each stop is only one or two blocks from the starting point, so if you are walking, the whole tour should take less than an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG060_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG060_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG060_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG060_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG060_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG060_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG060_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG060_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peipei Ma’Bilz performs outside of the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco during the 2025 Chinatown Pride celebration on Saturday, May 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We might not recognize this landscape as queer — but now we do,” said Erika Pallasigue, art and public programs manager at Edge on the Square. “You don’t have to be queer, you don’t have to be Asian, you don’t need to be any of those identities — but think about which parts of \u003cem>you \u003c/em>are coming up as you’re in these spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn the location of each stop and what motivated organizers to include it in the tour — and use our Google Map below to guide your journey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m52!1m12!1m3!1d3152.777105925208!2d-122.40876392411549!3d37.79526307198029!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m37!3e2!4m5!1s0x8085808b44883cad%3A0xd750b48a84be159b!2s800%20Grant%20Ave%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA%2094108!3m2!1d37.7943718!2d-122.4062012!4m5!1s0x808580f4b208980f%3A0x79f4a6ea2653f493!2s916%20Grant%20Ave%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA%2094108!3m2!1d37.795432!2d-122.4063589!4m5!1s0x8085808b4d0a5ab7%3A0x66e0e066e2685cbc!2s743%20Washington%20Street%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA!3m2!1d37.7950577!2d-122.4062732!4m5!1s0x808580f35bc71103%3A0x5c021c2e2c24075a!2s41%20Ross%20Alley%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA%2094108!3m2!1d37.795611099999995!2d-122.40751829999999!4m5!1s0x808580f4d3d446af%3A0x3331b3be07e21a26!2s848%20Kearny%20Street%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA!3m2!1d37.7960717!2d-122.4049677!4m5!1s0x8085808b37612399%3A0xf31611c8c7750f1!2s745%20Kearny%20St%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA%2094108!3m2!1d37.7948832!2d-122.4054149!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1750884488990!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1000\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #1: Edge on the Square, 800 Grant Ave.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few feet away from Portsmouth Square, Edge on the Square is an art exhibition and performance space that first opened in 2021 — on the same corner once occupied by retail store Asian Image and the iconic Shing Chong market \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CqlwOixLIge/\">before that\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edge on the Square is currently hosting the exhibit “All Eyes on Us: Invention & Ingenuity During Artistic Diasporas,” which features artists representing a wide range of mediums. This includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/yumei-hou\">Hou Yumei\u003c/a>’s art of paper cutting, installations by \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/sun-park\">Sun Park\u003c/a>, illustrations by Chinatown’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/leland-wong\">Leland Wong\u003c/a> and drawings by \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/jeanette-lazam\">Jeanette Lazam\u003c/a> — who you’ll see again later on in your tour, thanks to her role as \u003ca href=\"https://www.historypin.org/en/manilatown-heritage-foundation-s-collection/manilatown-manang-jeanette-gandiongco-lazam-2/geo/37.796126,-122.404933,17/bounds/37.793722,-122.4071,37.798529,-122.402766/paging/1/project/about\">an openly queer tenant organizer\u003c/a> in the struggle to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/reel/DAt5-VRqL3z/?locale=uken1&hl=en\">save the neighborhood’s International Hotel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit, curated by Candace Huey, frames these artists as “hidden dragons,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/all-eyes-on-us\">producing their work\u003c/a> while adapting to the challenges of “immigration, assimilation and survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While social circumstances may have limited the visibility of some of these artists, Edge on the Square’s Pallasigue encourages visitors to also think about how staying under the radar can serve as a form of protection. “Marginalized communities — not just queer communities — have to negotiate what it means to be out or visible,” she said. “They may choose \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to be out or visible as a form of safety, protection and resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041654\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG025_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kotobuki Taiko performs during the inaugural Chinatown Pride procession through San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday, May 24, 2025. The event, co-presented by the Chinese Culture Center and Edge on the Square, featured a walking tour highlighting historic queer landmarks and honored the neighborhood’s LGBTQIA+ history dating back to the 1930s. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Stop #2: Bars and shops along Grant Avenue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From Edge on the Square, head north on Grant Avenue. Along these next few blocks, you’ll see staple Chinatown bars Li Po Cocktail Lounge on your right and Buddha Lounge on your left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These spots are remnants of the time when Chinatown was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904467/chinatown-nightclubs-showgirl-magic-museum\">a big nightlife destination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the 1930s to 1960s, clubs like Forbidden City and Chinese Sky Room threw glamorous shows featuring big bands and showgirl troupes — drawing in major celebrities like Frank Sinatra and \u003ca href=\"https://sfmuseum.org/hist10/forbidcity.html\">then-actor President Ronald Reagan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“But the queer history here is that there were several underground bars that served as gathering spaces for the community,” Pallasigue said. People who frequented these establishments often had to live a double life, she said, transforming into a version of themselves devoid of queerness during the daytime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on our research, it’s during the 1940s and ’50s that the queer nightlife in Chinatown was thriving,” Zhu said. “Chinatown was the go-to space where you could have a relatively safe environment to hang out and be yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like CCC continue working on recovering the history of these underground bars. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about Chinatown’s nightlife boom and the Asian and Asian American performers behind it, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theclarionsf.org/showgirl-magic-museum\">Showgirl Magic Museum\u003c/a> at 2 Waverly Place, a block away from the Grant and Sacramento street intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #3: East West Bank, formerly the site of Telephone Exchange, 743 Washington St.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG039_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lotus speaks outside of East West Bank on Washington St, the 3rd stop on the Chinatown Pride procession route through San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday, May 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From Buddha Lounge, cross Washington Street. On your left side, you’ll see a three-tiered pagoda painted in red and green. Now a branch office of East West Bank, this building served \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2016/04/plugged-in-the-fascinating-history-of-the-chinese-telephone-exchange/\">as the home of the Chinatown Telephone Exchange\u003c/a> from the end of the 19th century till 1949. Before cell phones or even landline telephones with dials, you would have to first call your local telephone exchange and ask the operator — \u003cem>an actual human\u003c/em> — to connect you to the person you were trying to reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Chinatown Telephone Exchange, a team of dozens of women connected the neighborhood’s thousands of residents to the outside world. As part of their jobs, these female operators were required to wear traditional qipao dresses every day and be fluent in multiple languages, Zhu said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the Chinatown Pride procession, an elderly woman approached Zhu to share that she herself had worked at a telephone exchange in the city similar to the one located on Washington Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At work, “she saw women flirting with each other,” Zhu said. “While they connected the outside world to Chinatown, there was this concealed intimacy. She was sure that there were other queer women operators besides her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Exchange’s architecture is also a symbol of Chinatown’s ability to transform in order to survive, Pallasigue said. The 1906 earthquake destroyed most of Chinatown and local officials saw that as an opportunity to remove the Chinese community from this part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chinese and Chinese American business groups instead proposed that in order to boost tourism, the neighborhood \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/story.html\">be protected and rebuilt\u003c/a> as an exaggerated version of what Westerners at the time imagined China to be like. Up went the paper lanterns, neon lights and pagodas — including those at the Chinatown Telephone Exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is built into Chinatown’s DNA,” Pallasigue said: “Being creative with the use of space as a form of resilience in order to preserve the culture and community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #4: 41ross, 41 Ross Alley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG042_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalypso (right) walks to Ross Alley, the 4th stop on the Chinatown Pride procession route through San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday, May 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the old Telephone Exchange building, walk up the hill on Washington Street and turn right at Ross Alley. On the left side, you’ll find 41ross, a gallery space managed by CCC that has hosted the work of dozens of LGBTQ+ artists over its 11 years in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal for this space is really to support artists and provide a platform for them — not only to showcase their work, but to also sell it,” she said, adding that 41ross includes a design store where visitors can find works by Jeanette Lazam, Hou Yumei, Leland Wong and other artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/all-eyes-on-us\">currently featured at Edge on the Square\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, 41ross collaborated with queer artist-activist Xiangqi Chen \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/post/out-%E5%87%BA-museum-a-chinese-queer-museum-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E9%85%B7%E5%85%92%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8\">to host “OUT/出 MUSEUM,”\u003c/a> a museum prototype focused on Chinese queer art. Visitors can ask the 41ross staff to learn more about ongoing work to find a permanent home for Chen’s collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #5: International Hotel Senior Housing, 848 Kearny St.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stepping out of 41ross, take a left and then a right on Jackson Street. Walk downhill on Jackson until you reach the intersection with Kearny Street, where you’ll see a tall apartment building behind a Muni bus stop. This is International Hotel Senior Housing, an affordable housing complex that opened in 2005 for lower-income seniors — and it stands on the site of the former \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihotel-sf.org/\">International Hotel\u003c/a> (or I-Hotel), where \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihotel-sf.org/history/\">one of the most extensive struggles\u003c/a> between tenants and developers in the city’s history went down.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Since the 1920s, the I-Hotel housed hundreds of elderly and impoverished Filipino and Chinese men who shared cramped living quarters known as single room occupancies, or SROs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the property owners decided in 1968 that they wanted to turn the hotel into a parking lot and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13964200/violeta-marasigan-bullet-filipina-activist-ihotel-manilatown-san-francisco-marcos\">started handing out eviction notices to residents\u003c/a>, students, activists and other community members quickly rallied in support of the hotel’s tenants, sparking \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihotel-sf.org/timeline/\">a nine-year battle\u003c/a> to prevent evictions. And although the owners ultimately succeeded in removing all residents in 1977, the struggle for the I-Hotel formed a generation of activists in Chinatown, Pallasigue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The struggle for the I-Hotel was about displacement, gentrification and the question: who belongs here?,” she said — adding that even within this movement, “there weren’t many queer leaders at the forefront because they tended to be pushed out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the younger I-Hotel tenants at the time of the 1977 evictions was Jeanette Lazam — one of the artists currently featured at Edge on the Square. During the struggle to save the I-Hotel, she \u003ca href=\"https://convergencemag.com/articles/coming-home-jeanette-lazam-returns-to-the-i-hotel/\">pushed for Asian American activists from different generations to work together\u003c/a>, all the while \u003ca href=\"https://vdoc.pub/documents/san-franciscos-international-hotel-mobilizing-the-filipino-american-community-in-the-anti-eviction-movement-asian-american-history-cultu-k9benlnleos0\">defying homophobia and sexism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when a group of nonprofits succeeded in transforming the former I-Hotel site into affordable housing, Lazam was one of the few surviving former tenants who returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stop #6: Crossing Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge, 745 Kearny St.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05242025_CHINATOWNPRIDEWALKINGTOUR_EG054_QED_DUPE1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfred Twu and others gather on Portsmouth Square Pedestrian Bridge, the 6th stop on the Chinatown Pride procession route on Saturday, May 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To wrap up your tour, head south to Portsmouth Square and step on the pedestrian bridge over Kearny Street. During the procession, Pallasigue and Zhu recalled that drag queens led the crowd across the bridge to the sound of taiko drums, with Pride flags flying high in the air. “This is the immortal runway,” Zhu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ending the procession at the bridge was intentional, Zhu said — because this landmark will soon disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a city-led improvement project, the bridge is \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1911\">scheduled to be demolished later this year\u003c/a>. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. For a long time, Quin Petty thought of the Bay area as this mythical place. The only real representation they’d actually seen of San Francisco specifically was in the TV show Charmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>And I was obsessed with Charmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>It was so unattainable. Almost. It just felt like, I don’t know, like. Like I said, like a fairyland where I wasn’t allowed to be. And if I could only make it there that, like, I don’t know, everything would be perfect, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Beyond Charmed, there was just one thing they knew about the Bay. 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Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>My name is Quin Petty. I was raised in what is sometimes colloquially known as the Bible Belt of Southern California. Very Mormon forward town, in a place called Marietta, California. My mom is Mexican and my dad is half Japanese and half white. Growing up, I always knew that I was different and I always kind of felt. Closer to femininity than I did to boy things, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>I feel like it’s a very typical queer experience to like, know yourself, telling yourself without actually telling on yourself for a while until you reach pre-K kindergarten. But I think more than anything, my attraction to boys was definitely more so. The thing that led me to realizing I was different, especially because I knew that boys liked girls and like I wanted boys to like me. I do very specifically remember when I was younger constantly asking like, why was I born a boy? Like, why can’t I be a girl? It just wasn’t clicking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>I didn’t understand why that option wasn’t available to me. So yeah, I came out around sophomore year of high school. It was the first day of P.E., and I had it with one of my best friends, and there was like some new girl was like, approaching me and like, we were talking and blah, blah, blah. I specifically remember her, like asking. She was like, are you okay? I just remember my best friend fully ready to defend me. She took in the breath to say no. And I was like, yeah. I just remember the look of shock on her face like, bitch, I’ve been lying for you this whole time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>Everyone was already blaming me for thinking that I was gay and I was like, well, if I am gay, then they have to find something else to bully me for. Like, they can’t just keep going with us forever. If there ever was a perfect time to come out, I think I got a good time. I got a good time slot. 2008 was around the time, like Lady Gaga was coming out. Katy Perry was out here kissing girls. There was just so much culturally going on. Prop A was a big issue. Don’t ask, Don’t Tell was still being talked about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>There were things happening not only within culture, but within government and within everybody’s TVs at home. It wasn’t necessarily this bad thing anymore. And if anything, I think I saw that and I realized that like, hey, here’s this thing that I’ve had in me for forever, and people are finally starting to appreciate it, kind of see it as this thing that makes you special and makes you different. And it’s crazy too, because throughout high school, I was still kind of getting bullied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>Like people are still talking behind my back, but I didn’t care. 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And so I went through their email and I found the ticket, printed it out. And like I specifically remember in the dead of night, slowly opening the front door, and my mom comes out and like her little nightgown and basically catches me running away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>And I just remember her repeating in her little sleepy haze, she was like, you’re going to come back for me? And I was like, yeah, there’s a return flight. Like, I’m not going to just stay there. I spent a good like my first two weeks in San Francisco. Alejo was this, like, broke art school student living in what used to be a utility closet in this, like, poorly kept apartment complex right off of Octavian. They had one single loft bed, but I was having the time of my life. I didn’t care. We had a hot plate, we had ramen, we had hot dogs and a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>I stole a couple meals from that Safeway right there off of Market Street. Went to Dolores for the first time. It felt like one of those things where it’s like, I shouldn’t be here. This isn’t a place I was meant to be, but here I am. Me as a gay person from this horrible little town. Like, I wasn’t meant to make it out, but I did. I ended up moving up to the Bay about two years, 2 or 3 years after I first visited the morning of like, I think it was like four in the morning. I decided to start this voyage, with my parents permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>This time I ended up moving in with Alejo again for about like four months or so. We were living in Concord. And I was working at Club Monaco at the Westfield in San Francisco. And, yeah. After like 4 or 6 months, maybe I was able to save up enough money to get an apartment. Well, a room in San Francisco for $400. And that was it. That’s all I needed. I lived in what I like to refer to as the outer, outer, outer mission. 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If you ask any trans person who has taken time to transition and has like had multiple coming out, I think we all have this little conversation with ourself, this little mini check in where we’re like, girl, are you are you trans lady? Like, are you sure? And then there’s always that talk back where you’re like, no, there’s no way. Why would you want to make your life harder?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>I ended up moving back home for about a year, actually. So like living back home, especially living in a place where you sort of have to rehash a lot of your trauma, a lot of it gets brought back up again. And I think in having that stuff being brought back up, I realized that I couldn’t necessarily have these important conversations with myself and go through these healing processes in the same place that I had endured so much trauma as well. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. For a long time, Quin Petty thought of the Bay area as this mythical place. The only real representation they’d actually seen of San Francisco specifically was in the TV show Charmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>And I was obsessed with Charmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>It was so unattainable. Almost. It just felt like, I don’t know, like. Like I said, like a fairyland where I wasn’t allowed to be. And if I could only make it there that, like, I don’t know, everything would be perfect, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Beyond Charmed, there was just one thing they knew about the Bay. 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Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>My name is Quin Petty. I was raised in what is sometimes colloquially known as the Bible Belt of Southern California. Very Mormon forward town, in a place called Marietta, California. My mom is Mexican and my dad is half Japanese and half white. Growing up, I always knew that I was different and I always kind of felt. Closer to femininity than I did to boy things, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quin Petty: \u003c/strong>I feel like it’s a very typical queer experience to like, know yourself, telling yourself without actually telling on yourself for a while until you reach pre-K kindergarten. But I think more than anything, my attraction to boys was definitely more so. The thing that led me to realizing I was different, especially because I knew that boys liked girls and like I wanted boys to like me. I do very specifically remember when I was younger constantly asking like, why was I born a boy? 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"content": "\u003cp>For Elsie Saldaña, a flawless lip sync is the hallmark of serious artistry in drag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would know. Saldaña has been performing in the Central Valley since the 1960s and still occasionally graces the stage as El Daña — the oldest drag king in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing dark blue clothing walks in a field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña strolls through a field in Fresno on April 16, 2024. For Saldaña, the orchards were not only a place of hard work but of refuge, where she would hang out with her queer friends. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday night earlier this year, she donned all black except for a rhinestone-studded belt as part of her transformation into the chest-baring crooner Tom Jones. She was about to perform his version of “Kiss” at the Red Lantern bar in Fresno and played the song on repeat in preparation, mouthing every word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had to be perfect — after all these years, she’s still one of the few drag kings in the lineup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For as old as I am to do this, I feel I have it in me,” she said. “And if I feel that I still have it in me, why should I stop?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2.jpg\" alt=\"A white costume adorned in rhinestones.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Elsie Saldaña’s drag performance outfits, adorned in rhinestones from top to bottom, rests on her bed in her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 79 years old, she admits she can’t move like she used to. Yet she’s always ready for the next performance opportunity. Her rhinestone and sequin outfits are neatly stacked in her closet and Boot Barn boxes keep her Stetson cowboy hats pristine. She practices lip-synching in the car on her way to work as a house cleaner, driving past the few remaining orchards where she picked figs in her youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991271\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing dark clothing walks toward a screen door while putting on a glove.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña, 79, at a client’s home that she regularly cleans for income in Fresno on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many in the Fresno area, Saldaña grew up in a family of Mexican farmworkers. When she’d come home after long hours in the fields, she’d turn on the radio and lip-synch to Frank Sinatra or Vic Damone, pretending her hairbrush was a microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time she performed for someone other than her reflection in the mirror was in 1965 at the Red Robin, a gay bar in town. The song was Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba.” Her knees were shaking, but the claps and cheers from the audience made her feel like a star. She was hooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing dark clothing and gloves holds a broom in a bathroom.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña mops the bathroom of a client’s home in Fresno on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This launched a side career in drag where, for a long time, she was the only “male impersonator” in the area. (The term she preferred then.) In the beginning, Saldaña would stuff her male clothes in a paper bag to sneak past her mother, who she knew wouldn’t approve of drag, nor her being a lesbian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d perform in big stage productions or solo shows at the few LGBTQ-friendly bars such as Girl of the Golden West, The Palace and Red Lantern — the only bar remaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing dark clothing and blue jeans uses a vacuum in a home.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña vacuums the living room of a client’s home in Fresno on April 16, 2024. The job requires moving furniture, including flipping over the recliner chairs to vacuum underneath them. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saldaña still gets nervous before a performance. On the night of her recent show, her coif was stiff with hairspray, her shirt sharply ironed, her bowtie snug. Tom Jones was her specialty. When she pushed the swinging door into the Red Lantern, where she performed “It’s Not Unusual” over four decades ago, it was like stepping into the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black-and-white photos of shirtless cowboys on its walls are new, but the dance floor is the same, save for a glittering disco ball — a beacon of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area has a very rich and long history of drag and performance, mostly because of the bar network and Imperial Court,” said Kat Fobear, professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fresno State. “But it is in the face of historically and currently very conservative culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://internationalcourtsystem.org/\">Imperial Court \u003c/a>is one of the oldest LGBTQ organizations in the country and started in 1965 in the Bay Area — a time when homosexuality was considered a mental disorder and laws prohibited cross-dressing. The court was a way to foster pride and expanded to numerous cities, including Fresno, where it thrives to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members compete for royal titles and host fundraising drag balls. In 1980, Saldaña co-founded the Sequoia Empire Court in Visalia, back then a small town. She assumed the emperor’s title three times, raising thousands of dollars for AIDS and other charities. Her mother, eventually accepting who she was, would attend the balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visalia at that time really had a closeted community,” Saldaña said. “And once they found out about the court … they got brave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991281\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person looks down at vintage pictures on the floor of people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña looks at old family photos of her and her son Mark at her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the ’80s and ’90s, Saldaña kept busy performing throughout California, working a day job in manufacturing, and being a mother to a son named Mark, who she raised with her partner at the time. Her son was her biggest fan — often giving her notes, always applauding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a red shirt holds a black and white image of person holding a guitar.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña holds a headshot of herself from 1983 at her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drag couldn’t pay the bills, however. She had to clock in more hours to survive, and, she said, she was a king in a world dominated by queens. RuPaul’s \u003cem>Drag Race\u003c/em> television show eventually launched drag queens to mainstream popularity but notably absent were kings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people ask me, ‘How come drag kings aren’t known?’” said Mo Fischer, co-founder of Drag King History. “My answer is PMS: patriarchy, misogyny, sexism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Saldaña aged, she started to feel like nobody wanted to see her on stage anyway. New kings came onto the scene — including nonbinary and trans performers — whose gender-bending, inventive approaches she didn’t always understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991274\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2.jpg\" alt='A California license plate that reads \"EL DANA\" with cleaning products in the trunk of a vehicle.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After cleaning a client’s home, Elsie Saldaña closes the trunk of her car with a license plate that reads, ‘El Daña,’ her drag king stage name, in Fresno on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, her son Mark died suddenly when he was 29 years old. Saldaña left Fresno and took a break from drag for a decade. It was only when she returned in 2017 and met Fobear, who was working on an \u003ca href=\"https://qistory.org/\">oral history project of LGBTQ elders\u003c/a> that she began to see herself as Fobear saw her: a pioneer in drag long before drag was mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a person wearing a cowboy hat and red shirt.\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1-1025x1536.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña, 79, on April 16, 2024, in her home in Clovis, California, wearing a white Stetson hat. She performed Glen Campbell’s ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ at ‘Fresno Queer West’ last year, a drag show she organized to raise money for scholarships at Fresno State. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, Saldaña realized she still had dreams. Like seeing her name on the marquee at Fresno State’s massive arena. “My heart’s broken in a thousand pieces,” she said. “The only thing that saves me is when I entertain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1.jpg\" alt=\"A wall with vintage images of people and events with a vest on a coat hanger filled with buttons.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña’s bedroom wall on April 16, 2024, in Clovis is adorned with awards, old photos, and memorabilia from her years of performing drag. This year, she was a recipient of a Harvey Milk Award from Fresno City Council for being a trailblazing entertainer. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the dressing room, before she stepped on stage at the Red Lantern, Saldaña said a prayer in hopes the performance would go well. She thought about her son Mark, whose encouragement always gave her strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young drag king with a black cowboy hat who performed before her ran back into the dressing room when their song ended, hands still shaking. Saldaña assured them: “You did good. My first time, I was scared too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991279\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand in a rhinestone cowboy suit.\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1-1025x1536.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña in her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024, wearing one of her favorite drag outfits, a rhinestone cowboy suit. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The emcee introduced “El Dañaaaaaa!” and she stepped on stage to a small but supportive audience, sparkling red curtains behind her. The music started low, and she gestured to turn it up. She was a bit thrown but swiveled her hips to the sultry beats. For those few minutes, everything that had been bothering her disappeared. She also remembered how good it felt to make others forget, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1.jpg\" alt=\"A hand touches an urn sitting on a drawer with pictures and boxes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña touches her son’s urn at her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. Saldaña keeps his ashes close and talks to him regularly. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roaring applause at the end confirmed for Saldaña what she’d always known: The stage is where she belongs. She basked in hugs and high fives and was already thinking about adding new choreography, improving her performance so it could be better. There’s always next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a white rhinestone cowboy costume.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña at her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Celeste Hamilton Dennis originally reported and produced this story in the audio program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Shereen Marisol Meraji was her professor and lead editor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story also had support from UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, where Florence Middleton is a photographer. The SCAN Foundation provided funding.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Saldaña has been performing in the Central Valley since the 1960s and still occasionally graces the stage as El Daña — the oldest drag king in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing dark blue clothing walks in a field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/05_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00072-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña strolls through a field in Fresno on April 16, 2024. For Saldaña, the orchards were not only a place of hard work but of refuge, where she would hang out with her queer friends. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday night earlier this year, she donned all black except for a rhinestone-studded belt as part of her transformation into the chest-baring crooner Tom Jones. She was about to perform his version of “Kiss” at the Red Lantern bar in Fresno and played the song on repeat in preparation, mouthing every word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had to be perfect — after all these years, she’s still one of the few drag kings in the lineup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For as old as I am to do this, I feel I have it in me,” she said. “And if I feel that I still have it in me, why should I stop?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2.jpg\" alt=\"A white costume adorned in rhinestones.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/33_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00487-2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Elsie Saldaña’s drag performance outfits, adorned in rhinestones from top to bottom, rests on her bed in her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 79 years old, she admits she can’t move like she used to. Yet she’s always ready for the next performance opportunity. Her rhinestone and sequin outfits are neatly stacked in her closet and Boot Barn boxes keep her Stetson cowboy hats pristine. She practices lip-synching in the car on her way to work as a house cleaner, driving past the few remaining orchards where she picked figs in her youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991271\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing dark clothing walks toward a screen door while putting on a glove.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/09_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00124-2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña, 79, at a client’s home that she regularly cleans for income in Fresno on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many in the Fresno area, Saldaña grew up in a family of Mexican farmworkers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time she performed for someone other than her reflection in the mirror was in 1965 at the Red Robin, a gay bar in town. The song was Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba.” Her knees were shaking, but the claps and cheers from the audience made her feel like a star. She was hooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing dark clothing and gloves holds a broom in a bathroom.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/12_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00144-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña mops the bathroom of a client’s home in Fresno on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This launched a side career in drag where, for a long time, she was the only “male impersonator” in the area. (The term she preferred then.) In the beginning, Saldaña would stuff her male clothes in a paper bag to sneak past her mother, who she knew wouldn’t approve of drag, nor her being a lesbian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d perform in big stage productions or solo shows at the few LGBTQ-friendly bars such as Girl of the Golden West, The Palace and Red Lantern — the only bar remaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing dark clothing and blue jeans uses a vacuum in a home.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/16_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00254-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña vacuums the living room of a client’s home in Fresno on April 16, 2024. The job requires moving furniture, including flipping over the recliner chairs to vacuum underneath them. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saldaña still gets nervous before a performance. On the night of her recent show, her coif was stiff with hairspray, her shirt sharply ironed, her bowtie snug. Tom Jones was her specialty. When she pushed the swinging door into the Red Lantern, where she performed “It’s Not Unusual” over four decades ago, it was like stepping into the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black-and-white photos of shirtless cowboys on its walls are new, but the dance floor is the same, save for a glittering disco ball — a beacon of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area has a very rich and long history of drag and performance, mostly because of the bar network and Imperial Court,” said Kat Fobear, professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fresno State. “But it is in the face of historically and currently very conservative culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://internationalcourtsystem.org/\">Imperial Court \u003c/a>is one of the oldest LGBTQ organizations in the country and started in 1965 in the Bay Area — a time when homosexuality was considered a mental disorder and laws prohibited cross-dressing. The court was a way to foster pride and expanded to numerous cities, including Fresno, where it thrives to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members compete for royal titles and host fundraising drag balls. In 1980, Saldaña co-founded the Sequoia Empire Court in Visalia, back then a small town. She assumed the emperor’s title three times, raising thousands of dollars for AIDS and other charities. Her mother, eventually accepting who she was, would attend the balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visalia at that time really had a closeted community,” Saldaña said. “And once they found out about the court … they got brave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991281\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person looks down at vintage pictures on the floor of people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/45_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00608-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña looks at old family photos of her and her son Mark at her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the ’80s and ’90s, Saldaña kept busy performing throughout California, working a day job in manufacturing, and being a mother to a son named Mark, who she raised with her partner at the time. Her son was her biggest fan — often giving her notes, always applauding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a red shirt holds a black and white image of person holding a guitar.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/31_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00420-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña holds a headshot of herself from 1983 at her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drag couldn’t pay the bills, however. She had to clock in more hours to survive, and, she said, she was a king in a world dominated by queens. RuPaul’s \u003cem>Drag Race\u003c/em> television show eventually launched drag queens to mainstream popularity but notably absent were kings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people ask me, ‘How come drag kings aren’t known?’” said Mo Fischer, co-founder of Drag King History. “My answer is PMS: patriarchy, misogyny, sexism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Saldaña aged, she started to feel like nobody wanted to see her on stage anyway. New kings came onto the scene — including nonbinary and trans performers — whose gender-bending, inventive approaches she didn’t always understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991274\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2.jpg\" alt='A California license plate that reads \"EL DANA\" with cleaning products in the trunk of a vehicle.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00321-2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After cleaning a client’s home, Elsie Saldaña closes the trunk of her car with a license plate that reads, ‘El Daña,’ her drag king stage name, in Fresno on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, her son Mark died suddenly when he was 29 years old. Saldaña left Fresno and took a break from drag for a decade. It was only when she returned in 2017 and met Fobear, who was working on an \u003ca href=\"https://qistory.org/\">oral history project of LGBTQ elders\u003c/a> that she began to see herself as Fobear saw her: a pioneer in drag long before drag was mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a person wearing a cowboy hat and red shirt.\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/25_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00369-1-1025x1536.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña, 79, on April 16, 2024, in her home in Clovis, California, wearing a white Stetson hat. She performed Glen Campbell’s ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ at ‘Fresno Queer West’ last year, a drag show she organized to raise money for scholarships at Fresno State. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, Saldaña realized she still had dreams. Like seeing her name on the marquee at Fresno State’s massive arena. “My heart’s broken in a thousand pieces,” she said. “The only thing that saves me is when I entertain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1.jpg\" alt=\"A wall with vintage images of people and events with a vest on a coat hanger filled with buttons.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/24_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00436-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña’s bedroom wall on April 16, 2024, in Clovis is adorned with awards, old photos, and memorabilia from her years of performing drag. This year, she was a recipient of a Harvey Milk Award from Fresno City Council for being a trailblazing entertainer. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the dressing room, before she stepped on stage at the Red Lantern, Saldaña said a prayer in hopes the performance would go well. She thought about her son Mark, whose encouragement always gave her strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young drag king with a black cowboy hat who performed before her ran back into the dressing room when their song ended, hands still shaking. Saldaña assured them: “You did good. My first time, I was scared too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991279\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand in a rhinestone cowboy suit.\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/42_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00570-1-1025x1536.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña in her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024, wearing one of her favorite drag outfits, a rhinestone cowboy suit. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The emcee introduced “El Dañaaaaaa!” and she stepped on stage to a small but supportive audience, sparkling red curtains behind her. The music started low, and she gestured to turn it up. She was a bit thrown but swiveled her hips to the sultry beats. For those few minutes, everything that had been bothering her disappeared. She also remembered how good it felt to make others forget, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1.jpg\" alt=\"A hand touches an urn sitting on a drawer with pictures and boxes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/47_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00638-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña touches her son’s urn at her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. Saldaña keeps his ashes close and talks to him regularly. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roaring applause at the end confirmed for Saldaña what she’d always known: The stage is where she belongs. She basked in hugs and high fives and was already thinking about adding new choreography, improving her performance so it could be better. There’s always next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a white rhinestone cowboy costume.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/43_2024.04.16_DragKingDana_00595-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Saldaña at her home in Clovis on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Celeste Hamilton Dennis originally reported and produced this story in the audio program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Shereen Marisol Meraji was her professor and lead editor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Celebration and sorrow often intermix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s with that in mind that Friday, the San Francisco Trans March is commemorating 20 years of trans beauty and resilience. At 6 p.m., marchers will make their way from Dolores Park, down Market Street, to Turk and Taylor streets — the Tenderloin site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot, when trans San Franciscans pushed back against police discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the celebration also comes just two months after the death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950796/banko-brown-family-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-walgreens-security-company\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black transgender man who was shot and killed by Walgreens security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony in late April, after allegedly shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While locally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">the investigation into Brown’s killing has been dropped by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins\u003c/a>, Brown’s death arrives at a time of unprecedented legal attacks on trans lives throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights\">The ACLU is tracking 491 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the U.S.\u003c/a> Those laws target many facets of trans people’s lives, from playing sports to using bathrooms, weakening nondiscrimination laws and banning medically necessary health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation isn’t much better close to home. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ourtranshomesf.org/about\">transgender people are 18 times more likely to be unhoused than cisgender folks\u003c/a>, according to Our Trans Home SF. One out of two trans people have been unhoused, and 70% of them report being harassed when staying in homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown had a similar experience, spending years struggling to find stable housing and at times being unhoused, including in the days leading up to his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Banko Brown' tag='banko-brown']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s in this time of turmoil, hate and hope that KQED reached out to trans people in Brown’s life who were part of his community at the Young Women’s Freedom Center, where Brown sought support and, eventually, became a staff community organizer: Xavier Davenport, 36, a Black transmasculine man who was Brown’s mentor; Kazani Kalani Finao, 33, a Samoan transmasculine man who took the role of community sibling; and Juju Pikes-Prince, 24, a Black transgender woman who was a trans auntie to other trans people at the center, including Brown. Davenport and Kalani Finao were born and raised in San Francisco. Pikes-Prince was born in Daly City and raised in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wide-ranging conversation aimed to find the commonalities in their experiences and Brown’s, navigating homelessness in San Francisco, acceptance in their families, and how trans people can find joy, despite the obstacles that lie in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: We have some weighty topics to talk about today, but people aren’t just defined by trauma. Tell me a bit about how you met Banko Brown and your fond memories of him.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao\u003cem>: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>I met Banko through Young Women’s Freedom Center. We like to call it their “center sibling.” So he’s a center sibling of mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on a personal note, we just had amazing, great conversations personally. Just always sparring with each other, bouncing back with fun ideas. He was a bright, outgoing person. Like conversation was always immaculate, always amazing, and he was a visionary. The struggle not only brought us together, but like I was able to like really build a relationship with him based on his gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11953513 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young Samoan descent man wearing large glasses with a goatee and moustache and curly brown hair leans against a wall in a quilted, lavender bomber jacket and alight gray T-shirt.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kazani Kalani Finao poses for a portrait in San Francisco on June 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>He became my mentee [at Young Women’s Freedom Center]. That was during the pandemic. We were focused on a lot of projects that were going to empower trans masculinity, empower the trans masculine identities that were coming up in [the] community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, I wanted to make sure we had a group during the pandemic, like a peer-to-peer support group. The pandemic was very hard for a lot of transmasculine folks. A lot of them were essential workers. A lot of them lost jobs. A lot of them were creators that lost jobs. Some of them were sex workers that lost jobs. So my focus was to empower those people and make sure that they were heard and make sure that they could have someone to talk to. And so, Banko would come to those groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He enjoyed being able to be around other transmasculine people, focusing on how we can do something different for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You said he felt like a visionary. Do you remember the first time you were sitting across, talking to Banko, and thought, “This person is just so amazing.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao: \u003c/strong>When he was advocating on behalf of himself, nobody would tell him what is best for him. He was always very, very stern, but very confident in what he was telling me about anything, whether it was advocating on behalf of himself or on behalf of others.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kazani Kalani Finao, community sibling\"]‘He was very creative with his swag, his drip. He was a trendsetter to me. He’s definitely inspirational to me.’[/pullquote]He was very creative with his swag, his drip. He was a trendsetter to me. He’s definitely inspirational to me. I always would share with him, you give me so much confidence. You give me so much courage for me to be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I remember of him is drip, sauce, smile, hugs, goofiness. He funny. He hella funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He [also] pushed me to always have hard conversations, being honest for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banko Brown reportedly was unhoused at the time he was killed. He had slept on BART at times and stayed with friends. Is this a familiar experience, both seeing it with Banko and in your own lives and trans communities? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao\u003c/strong>: So I have been homeless a lot in my life. I grew up here [in San Francisco] — you know, my first moments of living life on Earth, my family was experiencing homelessness. And then, when we did kind of get on our feet, and I’m speaking more of like my family, my mother, my grandmother, my great-great-grandmother. You know, those were the people that raised me. We floated in and out of housing, homelessness a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11953512 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with short black hair and a sort of long black beard and a nose-ring holds a small dog and stands against a blank wall. He wears a white T-shirt and a gray cardigan sweater.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xavier Davenport with his dog in San Francisco on June 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s disgusting to live in the shelters. You always end up with some type of bedbug outbreak, MRSA outbreak. You got people fighting. When you put trans people in the shelter process, people talk bad about you. They treat you messed up, but they also use you for their sexual perversions. And that’s all trans people. And then, when you include a transmasculine person into the entire bit, they’re really mistreated. Right. Because then you have people that want to fight you because you think you’re a man. And so, they want to show you that you’re not a man. And so, you have to now deal [with] and navigate that experience as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so I said, the hell with that. I started just staying with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>When I first had met Banko, he was housed at some point. Then later on down the line when we lost another trans sister in the community, that’s when stuff started to come out like, oh, he’s looking for housing. He has nowhere to go. So he was struggling at some point around that time. And there’s only so much a person can do for an individual, you know, and you’re also struggling, too.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Juju Pikes-Prince, community auntie\"]‘Navigating homelessness in San Francisco is hard. It’s hard and it’s expensive, no matter what. … Shelters don’t protect my people either. Our stuff gets stolen. There’s fights that break out.’[/pullquote]Navigating homelessness in San Francisco is hard. It’s hard and it’s expensive, no matter what. Being homeless is still expensive. I was homeless for about two years. I was living with a dude and it just wasn’t working out. But then even shelters, shelters don’t protect you. Shelters don’t protect my people either. Our stuff gets stolen. There’s fights that break out. People look at us like we’re nasty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re mostly impacted [because] we’re probably on drugs, sex-working to find shelter, can’t get jobs because of who we are. It’s hard out here. I’m a sex worker, so I know, I know what it’s like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You all touched on discrimination in the homelessness process, to some extent. But I wonder if you could talk about discrimination in a different context — the day Banko Brown was killed by a security guard in Walgreens, in late April. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Some folks in the trans community said they sensed discrimination at play. Some people pushed back, pointing out that the security guard was also Black. I was hoping you could expand on what you suspect that discrimination could have been, from your own experiences.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>When you are a young Black, transmasculine-identified person, people see that. He walks in, he’s dark-skinned. He has a hat on, a T-shirt. And he looks very masculine. He has a little bit of a goatee growing in. People see that. And as another Black man, or being another man, there is a fight for power. There is a fight for or struggle for who is the man in this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the thought process is, “You look like a little boy, or you’re trying to pretend to be a little boy.” Because let’s be clear. Banko had not had top surgery. He had not been going through that part of medical transitioning. He wasn’t stable enough in his housing to even get through that part of this process and the things that he wanted to do. So you have a masculine person with visible breasts coming at you. You are going to now struggle for your manhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s something that for people that are even lesbians who are more masculine looking, there is a struggle between men and any form of masculinity that, to them, isn’t necessarily real. Because, “You’re a woman. You can’t possibly be as masculine as me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know this. I’ve dealt with this my entire life. I deal with it from police officers. I deal with it from people in my community. I deal with that from people on the streets. I deal with that at all aspects of my life. Somebody always wants to show me who is the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have a person with the gun who’s struggling for masculine power, then you put a powerful piece in his hand. You end up with this situation with Banko and many other situations around the country with transmasculine folks being killed. His is not the first. Unfortunately, it will not be the last. But this is the state of our country and what we live in right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>And these are cases that are not getting covered, of Black trans men getting killed. We need to come together and start putting it out there so we all can be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’ve seen a wave of conversations in public about Banko Brown’s identity since he was killed. And his death comes amid a national wave of anti-trans laws, as conservative lawmakers increasingly target the transgender community. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>So I’d like to talk about acceptance. Let’s start close to home. Were you accepted by your family when you came out? What was that like? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>Me and my mother understand what’s happening. Because my mother birthed me. But my father and my siblings that my father has, my father’s children, they have a bit of a hard time. And so, we don’t necessarily talk the way that people would think family should or relatives should. But my mother respects who I am. My mother understands what has taken place. And she’s accepted that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>My family, they understand, they’re very understanding. At first, it was tough, they just didn’t get it, the lifestyle. But when I told my mom everything and broke it down — you don’t want a dead child, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father, on the other hand, he’s more big on education. He told me, he don’t care what I do. He wants me to graduate. I got it easy, in a way, but I still had it hard and I still struggle. Identity came into play. I’m just trying to come into myself, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know [with] my mom, I was blunt, I do sex work, and I do this and that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And she was understanding?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>I mean, she had to. I’m her child. I think really, partially, where she kind of understood after so long of me having to remind her because it took a time. So just a street life, how the street economy is, and not to put her business out there, but how she had to navigate homelessness herself and how she had to go about business to support about four children at the time or three. She understood: “As long as you’re safe, I love you.” We’ve got a good relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11953511 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66461_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black woman with short black hair, lash extensions, black sunglasses on top of her head and a crop-top black hoodie, with long pink fingernails and sunglasses, sits on a blue sofa in a brightly lit room.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66461_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66461_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66461_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66461_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66461_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66461_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juju Pikes-Prince poses for a portrait in San Francisco on June 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I just want to say this, too, because there was narratives being painted [publicly about Banko’s relationship with his family]. Banko do have family, that do care and love. But there was, at some point, everyone went their own ways. So I do just want to say that on the record he did have family, that did care and love. But he was looking for space in people’s hearts to fill that void that he has been missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao: \u003c/strong>My mother told me straight up, “Be you, son. Be you, son.” And for me, that’s a f—— privilege. Like, you know, for someone who’s being who they are, like me, and for my mom to just show up right away, how she was able to just accept me for me. It was just like a restart of our relationship as a mother and son today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s just a gift to me, you know? And so, what I’ve been doing with my folks is just like sharing my mama with them. Her strength is everything. She’s also someone as a queer being. Coming from a Samoan family and being someone growing up in the ’80s, being this queer, young Samoan girl who also is like exploring identity. And then, also exploring sexuality. She didn’t give a s—. She was like, I am gonna do me.[aside postID=news_11953672 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31561_62418_AW_Pride_09-qut-1180x787.jpg']\u003cstrong>When you say you share your mama, do you mean you share her with other trans people who don’t have that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao: \u003c/strong>Everybody. Trans people, all people. People who struggle. Like, my mom just signs up like, “I love you, I’ll f— with you.” And so, I shared my mama with my folks. And it’s all love. It’s my duty to make sure to create spaces for folks to be themselves. I just have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’ve talked a lot about weighty things. Hardships. But the goal is joy, right? I want you to tell me what your joy looks like.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>I would say living and finding purpose, picking up someone else’s purpose when they couldn’t find their purpose. And knowing that I’m here and I can share some type of story for someone. Getting it out there, and hopefully helping the next person, the next generation, to continue to do this advocacy work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao: \u003c/strong>I’m hella passionate about young folks. We say kids are the future. We got to really mean that s—.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>My joy looks like the rest of the work that I do, working with transmasculine-identified people. I do that even in my leisure time. The Bay Area Trans Masculine Collective is doing a second premiere of a calendar that we started last year with a group of transmasculine folks to continue to ensure that transmasculine folks are seen and can receive joy in seeing and having representation of themselves in all bodies, and different cultures and ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He was very creative with his swag, his drip. He was a trendsetter to me. He’s definitely inspirational to me. I always would share with him, you give me so much confidence. You give me so much courage for me to be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I remember of him is drip, sauce, smile, hugs, goofiness. He funny. He hella funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He [also] pushed me to always have hard conversations, being honest for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banko Brown reportedly was unhoused at the time he was killed. He had slept on BART at times and stayed with friends. Is this a familiar experience, both seeing it with Banko and in your own lives and trans communities? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao\u003c/strong>: So I have been homeless a lot in my life. I grew up here [in San Francisco] — you know, my first moments of living life on Earth, my family was experiencing homelessness. And then, when we did kind of get on our feet, and I’m speaking more of like my family, my mother, my grandmother, my great-great-grandmother. You know, those were the people that raised me. We floated in and out of housing, homelessness a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11953512 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with short black hair and a sort of long black beard and a nose-ring holds a small dog and stands against a blank wall. He wears a white T-shirt and a gray cardigan sweater.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xavier Davenport with his dog in San Francisco on June 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s disgusting to live in the shelters. You always end up with some type of bedbug outbreak, MRSA outbreak. You got people fighting. When you put trans people in the shelter process, people talk bad about you. They treat you messed up, but they also use you for their sexual perversions. And that’s all trans people. And then, when you include a transmasculine person into the entire bit, they’re really mistreated. Right. Because then you have people that want to fight you because you think you’re a man. And so, they want to show you that you’re not a man. And so, you have to now deal [with] and navigate that experience as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so I said, the hell with that. I started just staying with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>When I first had met Banko, he was housed at some point. Then later on down the line when we lost another trans sister in the community, that’s when stuff started to come out like, oh, he’s looking for housing. He has nowhere to go. So he was struggling at some point around that time. And there’s only so much a person can do for an individual, you know, and you’re also struggling, too.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But I wonder if you could talk about discrimination in a different context — the day Banko Brown was killed by a security guard in Walgreens, in late April. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Some folks in the trans community said they sensed discrimination at play. Some people pushed back, pointing out that the security guard was also Black. I was hoping you could expand on what you suspect that discrimination could have been, from your own experiences.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>When you are a young Black, transmasculine-identified person, people see that. He walks in, he’s dark-skinned. He has a hat on, a T-shirt. And he looks very masculine. He has a little bit of a goatee growing in. People see that. And as another Black man, or being another man, there is a fight for power. There is a fight for or struggle for who is the man in this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the thought process is, “You look like a little boy, or you’re trying to pretend to be a little boy.” Because let’s be clear. Banko had not had top surgery. He had not been going through that part of medical transitioning. He wasn’t stable enough in his housing to even get through that part of this process and the things that he wanted to do. So you have a masculine person with visible breasts coming at you. You are going to now struggle for your manhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s something that for people that are even lesbians who are more masculine looking, there is a struggle between men and any form of masculinity that, to them, isn’t necessarily real. Because, “You’re a woman. You can’t possibly be as masculine as me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know this. I’ve dealt with this my entire life. I deal with it from police officers. I deal with it from people in my community. I deal with that from people on the streets. I deal with that at all aspects of my life. Somebody always wants to show me who is the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have a person with the gun who’s struggling for masculine power, then you put a powerful piece in his hand. You end up with this situation with Banko and many other situations around the country with transmasculine folks being killed. His is not the first. Unfortunately, it will not be the last. But this is the state of our country and what we live in right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>And these are cases that are not getting covered, of Black trans men getting killed. We need to come together and start putting it out there so we all can be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’ve seen a wave of conversations in public about Banko Brown’s identity since he was killed. And his death comes amid a national wave of anti-trans laws, as conservative lawmakers increasingly target the transgender community. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>So I’d like to talk about acceptance. Let’s start close to home. Were you accepted by your family when you came out? What was that like? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>Me and my mother understand what’s happening. Because my mother birthed me. But my father and my siblings that my father has, my father’s children, they have a bit of a hard time. And so, we don’t necessarily talk the way that people would think family should or relatives should. But my mother respects who I am. My mother understands what has taken place. And she’s accepted that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>My family, they understand, they’re very understanding. At first, it was tough, they just didn’t get it, the lifestyle. But when I told my mom everything and broke it down — you don’t want a dead child, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father, on the other hand, he’s more big on education. He told me, he don’t care what I do. He wants me to graduate. I got it easy, in a way, but I still had it hard and I still struggle. Identity came into play. I’m just trying to come into myself, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know [with] my mom, I was blunt, I do sex work, and I do this and that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And she was understanding?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>I mean, she had to. I’m her child. I think really, partially, where she kind of understood after so long of me having to remind her because it took a time. So just a street life, how the street economy is, and not to put her business out there, but how she had to navigate homelessness herself and how she had to go about business to support about four children at the time or three. 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"content": "\u003cp>The sun shone down on Market and Noe streets on Saturday, cleared of cars and filled with smiling people. Vendors sold paintings of an idealized Castro neighborhood to passers-by. A drag queen in a yellow jumpsuit sashayed on a stage sporting signage behind her that read \"FAMILY PRIDE\" — this was San Francisco's first annual Family Pride block party. Parents held children on their shoulders and swayed to the beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husbands Maple Chen and Collin Anthony Chen pushed their stroller through it all. But as their 6-month-old son Henry goggled, wide-eyed but calm, at the sights of his very first Pride weekend, a familiar worry were on his fathers' minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade curtailing abortion rights across the country weren't weighty enough, a warning came written in the opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas, a stray few lines amid the 213-page decision that could change the course of the country, and their family's life.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"James Cox, advocacy director, Oakland Black Pride\"]'This is just a start, taking away women's rights. Next it's going to be taking away LGBTQ rights, trans rights, the rights of interracial couples. Like, how far are they going to go with this?'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court ruling on same-sex marriages could be reconsidered by the court next, Justice Thomas wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was a teenager, I never thought having kids would be possible, that our relationships would ever be recognized legally,\" Collin Anthony Chen told KQED. \"So then when I finally was able to have Henry and, of course, Maple as well, the relationship, I just couldn't believe it. 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Wives Luisa Hurtado and Nicole Brown also were at the Family Pride block party. They worried how losing same-sex marriage rights would affect their co-owned business, and their hope to adopt a child from Colombia, where Hurtado hails from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to adopt and kind of have kids that are also part of my culture,\" Hurtado said. They thought there had been enough progress in both countries to make that dream a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse, Brown felt Thomas' warning spurred unanswered questions that could lead to diminished lives. \"What if we can't be gay at work? What if we need to shield ourselves, and be a fraction of who we are?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, Lake Merritt played host to Oakland Black Pride. James Cox, advocacy director for the eponymous organization that sponsors the event, said despite the Pride weekend celebrations, the recent Supreme Court decision was top of everybody's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just a start, taking away women’s rights. Next it’s going to be taking away LGBTQ rights, trans rights, the rights of interracial couples. Like, how far are they going to go with this?\" they asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Friday's decision, Justice Thomas cited three past rulings to revisit, centering on contraception, sodomy and same-sex marriage. 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To the contrary, the Court has linked it for decades to other settled freedoms involving bodily integrity, familial relationships, and procreation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rights, the justices wrote, \"are all part of the same constitutional fabric.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — the self-proclaimed \"Ayatollah of the Assembly,\" a political star-maker and long-respected political watcher — made a similar analysis to KQED on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're full of shit,\" said Brown in regard to the statements by conservative justices assuring people that the Dobbs decision would not affect same-sex marriage. (His opinion was phrased in what was \u003cem>perhaps\u003c/em> a more pointed fashion than that of the liberal Supreme Court justices.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether he thought Justice Thomas is alone on the court in his opinion, Brown replied, \"Not at all. 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But even in her \u003ca href=\"https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein-toklasobit.html\">New York Times obituary\u003c/a>, which was written in 1967, she was described merely as Stein's \"longtime friend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday morning, inside the walls of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Hotel, politicians warned attendees of the Toklas Pride breakfast that conservatives threaten to take the country back to such an era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These laws that they're passing are creating absolute terror for members of our community across this country,\" said State Sen. Scott Wiener, specifically naming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose now-infamous \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-florida-desantis\">Don't Say Gay\u003c/a>\" bill restricts schools from discussing everyday gay life. 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"content": "\u003cp>Given law enforcement’s history of abuses committed against the LGBTQ community and other marginalized and oppressed groups, it should have surprised no one when the issue of uniformed police marching in this year’s San Francisco Pride Parade threatened to disrupt an event organizers hoped would unite people after two years of social distancing driven by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the LGBTQ community simply did not want uniformed officers, even queer ones, marching up Market Street in uniforms Sunday. But LGBTQ police officers, firefighters and sheriff’s deputies announced they would not participate if their uniforms were banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to Pride representatives and queer police officers to get a better understanding of why SFPD officers were initially told not to wear uniforms and why it caused such a controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way Jupiter Peraza, director of social justice and empowerment initiatives of the historic Transgender District in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood sees it, having a uniformed police presence in the parade is antithetical to spirit of Pride events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just the visible connection between police uniforms at a celebration, at an event that is supposed to be a repudiation of suppression perpetuated by police,” she told KQED. “This history and this tension has been brewing for decades and decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Pride organizers in New York City said last month they planned to exclude police from their parade altogether, prompting Mayor Eric Adams, a former NYPD cop, to say he might skip the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the controversy is not whether police officers should march, but what they \u003cem>wear\u003c/em>. The SF Pride Committee said LGBTQ police were welcome to march, but not in full uniform because of the uniform’s connection to systematic mistreatment or violence directed at the queer community for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_11838357 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/Drag-demonstrationCOVER-1180x664.jpg']For example, in May 1979, the gay community was enraged by a light prison sentence given to former Supervisor Dan White, a friend of the police and fire departments, who murdered Mayor George Moscone and gay Supervisor Harvey Milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the so-called White Night Riots, people threw bricks through City Hall windows and lit police cars on fire. SFPD responded with force at a gay bar in the Castro. It was a low point in relations between the LGBTQ community and the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that we are very well aware of with the Stonewall Inn riots of 1969, even in San Francisco’s own Compton’s Cafeteria riots of 1966, these were direct confrontations of trans and queer people with police,” said Peraza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said opposition to uniformed police in the Pride parade was understandable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think of the creation of Pride, it was started by the activism and the resistance of Black and brown trans and queer people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman speaks into microphone she's holding on sidewalk outside building as three Black and brown people listen in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transgender District Director of Social Justice & Empowerment Initiatives Jupiter Peraza speaks outside the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot in San Francisco on March 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And today, after the murder of George Floyd and other fatal encounters with police, the uniform can be fraught for people of color and queer folks. That history, including excessive use of force, fatal shootings, discrimination and harassment, isn’t lost on Carolyn Wysinger, president of SF Pride, which puts on the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she’s had family members in law enforcement – her grandfather was a police officer in Louisiana, and her cousin was a cop across the bay in Richmond – Wysinger, a Black lesbian, has also had more than her share of run-ins with cops. She says her masculine appearance has led to trouble, like the time she was pulled over in Southern California, apparently for an expired registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was kind of pulled out of the car, you know, pushed up against the car stop and frisked,” she recalls. “And when he pushed me up against the car, he basically told me, ‘You know, if I find drugs in here, I’m throwing you in jail.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse, a CHP officer pulled her over on a freeway in Los Angeles County and pulled out a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And to this day, I don’t know why I was pulled over and I don’t know why I had a gun put to my head. But that did happen,” Wysinger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of incidents like those, Wysinger understands where queer police are coming from when they declined to march without uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They felt that by not wearing a uniform that they were dishonoring the struggle of those who were there during [the fight pressing the SFPD to allow LGBTQ officers to march in their uniforms] and that, you know, was kind of diminishing that fight for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black woman smiling broadly and wearing a bright red shirt leans casually against a building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Wysinger, board president of SF Pride, poses for a portrait in San Francisco on June 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police officer Kathryn Winters, a transgender member of the SFPD Pride Alliance, has a different take on the community’s relationship with the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once upon a time, LGBTQ persons weren’t really welcome in law enforcement. And the idea of LGBTQ people wearing a police uniform in a pride parade was unheard of,” Winters said. “The idea of us being out proud and visible was radical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, she and other LGBTQ police officers were reluctant to let go of a hard-fought right both to join the SFPD and then to march in full uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when the Pride Committee told them they could only march in something less than their full uniforms, the cops said no. And in a show of solidarity, Mayor London Breed said she wouldn’t join the parade either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Tracy McCray spoke for many police officers and other first responders when she described the importance of wearing their uniforms in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a part of who we are. And, unfortunately, for some people they have angst when they see that,” McCray told KQED. “We’re identifiable with that. It is who you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56741_002_KQED_TracyMcCraySFPOA_06232022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman smiles broadly, wearing a blue SFPOA shirt in an office with a US flag in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56741_002_KQED_TracyMcCraySFPOA_06232022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56741_002_KQED_TracyMcCraySFPOA_06232022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56741_002_KQED_TracyMcCraySFPOA_06232022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56741_002_KQED_TracyMcCraySFPOA_06232022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56741_002_KQED_TracyMcCraySFPOA_06232022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy McCray, San Francisco Police Officers Association president, poses for a portrait at the SFPOA offices in San Francisco on June 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a 33-year veteran of the SFPD, McCray isn’t just any cop. She’s the new president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, which for years has defended officers accused of excessive use of force, killing unarmed men of color and sending racist texts messages. Despite pledging to reform, SFPD continued to stop and use force against Black people more than any other race in 2021. And earlier this year it was revealed that the department regularly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905239/sf-police-use-dna-from-rape-exams-to-identify-suspects-in-unrelated-cases-da-says\">logged\u003c/a> rape victims’ DNA information into a database to use as evidence in unrelated crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in at least one way, McCray is different from her POA predecessors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, I’m a woman. I’m Black, and I’m actually a lesbian,” she said. “Who saw that coming? No one saw that coming. I didn’t see that coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a Black lesbian, who grew up in public housing in the Western Addition, head up the San Francisco police union might be evidence of impending change. But despite those demographic details, McCray acknowledges she’s still a cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m interested in wages, working conditions and benefits,” she said. “I’m not into playing these political games, so I’m not a politician. It’s about getting what’s best for the members out on the street so they can understand what they can and cannot do when they’re doing their job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pride']The disagreement over uniforms in the parade turned out to be something of a misunderstanding. During a conversation at Manny’s Cafe in the Mission earlier this month, Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford and Officer Winters, both transgender women, it became clear that the SFPD was under the impression they could not wear uniforms at all, while the parade committee merely wanted them to wear \u003cem>some\u003c/em> clothing with SFPD Pride logos rather than their full uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, a compromise was struck where on-duty members of the SFPD Pride Alliance will march in uniform and others will not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt that a common ground would be, ‘Hey, still come be in the parade. But maybe if you made it a little bit more casual, like Pride T-shirts, so it wouldn’t be as bad for some of the people who were asking for you not to be there,'” Wysinger said. “We felt that it was a good common ground for both the demonstrators and for the LGBT officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea of openly gay cops and other law enforcement members marching in the Pride parade brings back memories for Danilo Quintanilla. As a closeted 18-year old growing up in the Central Valley, he came to San Francisco with a friend in 2008 to watch the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His eyes welled up as he recalled how that moment made him realize that a queer, Latino kid could fulfill his dream. Since 2016, he’s been a deputy with the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most profound moments was seeing law enforcement officers walking down the parade, holding hands of their partners, seeing literally the diversity of San Francisco reflected in law enforcement,” Quintanilla said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For example, in May 1979, the gay community was enraged by a light prison sentence given to former Supervisor Dan White, a friend of the police and fire departments, who murdered Mayor George Moscone and gay Supervisor Harvey Milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the so-called White Night Riots, people threw bricks through City Hall windows and lit police cars on fire. SFPD responded with force at a gay bar in the Castro. It was a low point in relations between the LGBTQ community and the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that we are very well aware of with the Stonewall Inn riots of 1969, even in San Francisco’s own Compton’s Cafeteria riots of 1966, these were direct confrontations of trans and queer people with police,” said Peraza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said opposition to uniformed police in the Pride parade was understandable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think of the creation of Pride, it was started by the activism and the resistance of Black and brown trans and queer people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman speaks into microphone she's holding on sidewalk outside building as three Black and brown people listen in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS54874_007_KQED_TenderloinRedistricting_03302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transgender District Director of Social Justice & Empowerment Initiatives Jupiter Peraza speaks outside the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot in San Francisco on March 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And today, after the murder of George Floyd and other fatal encounters with police, the uniform can be fraught for people of color and queer folks. That history, including excessive use of force, fatal shootings, discrimination and harassment, isn’t lost on Carolyn Wysinger, president of SF Pride, which puts on the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she’s had family members in law enforcement – her grandfather was a police officer in Louisiana, and her cousin was a cop across the bay in Richmond – Wysinger, a Black lesbian, has also had more than her share of run-ins with cops. She says her masculine appearance has led to trouble, like the time she was pulled over in Southern California, apparently for an expired registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was kind of pulled out of the car, you know, pushed up against the car stop and frisked,” she recalls. “And when he pushed me up against the car, he basically told me, ‘You know, if I find drugs in here, I’m throwing you in jail.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse, a CHP officer pulled her over on a freeway in Los Angeles County and pulled out a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And to this day, I don’t know why I was pulled over and I don’t know why I had a gun put to my head. But that did happen,” Wysinger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of incidents like those, Wysinger understands where queer police are coming from when they declined to march without uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They felt that by not wearing a uniform that they were dishonoring the struggle of those who were there during [the fight pressing the SFPD to allow LGBTQ officers to march in their uniforms] and that, you know, was kind of diminishing that fight for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a Black woman smiling broadly and wearing a bright red shirt leans casually against a building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56765_015_KQED_CarolynWysingerSFPride_06232022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Wysinger, board president of SF Pride, poses for a portrait in San Francisco on June 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police officer Kathryn Winters, a transgender member of the SFPD Pride Alliance, has a different take on the community’s relationship with the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once upon a time, LGBTQ persons weren’t really welcome in law enforcement. And the idea of LGBTQ people wearing a police uniform in a pride parade was unheard of,” Winters said. “The idea of us being out proud and visible was radical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, she and other LGBTQ police officers were reluctant to let go of a hard-fought right both to join the SFPD and then to march in full uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when the Pride Committee told them they could only march in something less than their full uniforms, the cops said no. And in a show of solidarity, Mayor London Breed said she wouldn’t join the parade either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Tracy McCray spoke for many police officers and other first responders when she described the importance of wearing their uniforms in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a part of who we are. And, unfortunately, for some people they have angst when they see that,” McCray told KQED. “We’re identifiable with that. 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