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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>. As part of the celebration, drag queens with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ricerockettes/?hl=en\">Rice Rockettes\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gapa.org/\">GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance\u003c/a> led a procession of hundreds of residents throughout the neighborhood on a six-stop tour of places connected to Chinatown’s LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\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>.[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>. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But city leaders noted the exceptional circumstances heading into this year’s festivities that they say warrant a heightened level of vigilance and increased public safety presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My top priority remains making sure everyone feels safe and free to be themselves,” Lurie said, listing a spate of city agencies, including the Fire Department and Department of Emergency Management, that have been working closely to “make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be appropriately staffed and resources effectively deployed throughout the city,” he added. “San Francisco is on the rise, and we’re bringing that momentum into pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who spoke to reporters just hours after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045893/sf-supervisors-preserve-millions-for-homeless-prevention-housing-in-budget\">reaching a hard-fought deal\u003c/a> over his two-year budget proposal, called Pride one of the city’s largest and “most meaningful events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20240630_Pride_GC-29_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20240630_Pride_GC-29_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20240630_Pride_GC-29_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20240630_Pride_GC-29_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators celebrate the Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a true example of San Franciscans coming together for their values,” he said. “And I know our city will show up like we always do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044243/san-francisco-pride-2025-parade-route-times-street-closures-safety-lgbtq\">This year’s festivities\u003c/a>, which include headliner events at Civic Center, marches and parties throughout the city, and Sunday’s culminating Pride Parade, take place against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023784/after-trumps-order-on-two-genders-trans-rights-groups-taking-action\">assault on trans rights\u003c/a> and its aggressive crackdown on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dei\">diversity, equity and inclusion efforts\u003c/a>. Of the 932 reported anti-LGBTQ+ incidents across the United States in the past year, more than half targeted transgender and gender-nonconforming people, a marked increase over the previous year, according to a May \u003ca href=\"https://glaad.org/glaad-alert-desk-data-shows-dramatic-rise-in-anti-trans-hate-incidents/\">report\u003c/a> from the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, the theme of this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/theme/\">event \u003c/a>is “Queer Joy is Resistance,” which organizers said “serves as a unifying message and a reflection of the current social and political climate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebration comes as a growing number of longtime corporate sponsors of the event have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031588/san-francisco-pride-struggles-secure-sponsorships-ahead-2025-parade\">withdrawn their financial support\u003c/a> this year — seemingly to avoid retaliation from the Trump administration — leaving SF Pride about $180,000 short of its $2.3 million fundraising goal, the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/20/sf-pride-fundraising-struggles-donor-dropouts-trump/\">reported\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12044243 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg']SF Pride declined KQED’s request for an interview. In a statement, the group said it has been working closely with the Mayor’s office and Police Department, enlisted scores of volunteers, and invested heavily in safety infrastructure, including private security and barricades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we recognize heightened concerns nationally, our level of preparation this year is consistent with what we do every year to keep our community safe and proud,” Suzanne Ford, SF Pride executive director, said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s press conference, San Francisco Deputy Police Chief Derrick Lew acknowledged the event was a “heavy lift” for law enforcement, but said it was “also an opportunity to show SF is a safe city” and a refuge for the queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As you all are aware, this year also brings new concerns and challenges,” he said. “Tensions are heightened due to national and global events, but our message is clear: San Francisco is ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with increased staffing over the weekend, Lew said his department is prepared to call up additional resources if necessary, in light of the “unknowns coming from the spontaneous protests and whatnot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also know in law enforcement that historically this has been a weekend where we often experience a great deal of crime,” added San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who said her office is ready to prosecute any lawbreakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so I’m here to say that we are setting the tone now, that if you were thinking of committing hate crimes, robberies, breaking into anyone’s car, San Francisco is not the place,” she said. “So celebrate safely, celebrate wisely. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-pride\">San Francisco Pride\u003c/a> organizers face a challenging task: raising $3.2 million to cover the total costs of labor, security, insurance and permits required to produce the two-day festival and parade set for June 28–29. However, reaching that goal has become harder as several corporate sponsors have pulled their financial support, SF Pride executive director Suzanne Ford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected [funding] to increase this year and then the whole world changed on us,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comcast, along with beverage companies Anheuser-Busch and Diageo, were multi-year sponsors but are not supporting this year’s celebration. The news comes after SF Pride \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/san-francisco-pride-2025-meta-excluded-20202757.php\">announced that its relationship with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, had ended\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world’s changed politically, and the environment for sponsorship has changed dramatically,” she said. “And I think these companies have determined that it’s not a good investment in Pride this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, SF Pride has faced financial challenges as production costs rise each year. Both the parade and festival are free to attend, making the event, as currently designed, dependent on corporate sponsorships. Admission to other Pride celebrations in the country, \u003ca href=\"https://lapride.org/event/2024-la-pride-in-the-park/\">like Los Angeles Pride in the Park\u003c/a>, can cost up to hundreds of dollars, depending on the type of ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031750\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two individuals rejoice during the Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ensuring SF Pride remains accessible to all is key to the event’s purpose, said Ford, who grew up in Kentucky during the 1970s watching images of San Francisco’s first Pride marches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a city out there somewhere where people were themselves,” she said. “That’s more important than ever this year. I think the whole country, in fact, the world, will be looking to see if San Francisco still has those values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and Diageo did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. A spokesperson for La Crema, a wine company owned by Jackson Family Wines, said it may not support SF Pride at the same scale as before because of financial trouble in the wine industry. The spokesperson said the company is still negotiating with organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11990430 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-09-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride, which recently announced a partnership with San Francisco International Airport, is now looking for new sponsors. Ford said organizers plan to take a more proactive approach in asking Pride attendees for donations during the celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride’s dependence on corporate sponsorship has been a source of criticism within the city’s LGBTQ+ community for years. Earlier this month, the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club released a statement calling for SF Pride leadership to ban companies that have terminated their diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives and “sold out trans safety in favor of currying political favor with far-right bigots like Donald Trump” from the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride will no longer partner with Meta after CEO Mark Zuckerberg terminated the tech giant’s DEI initiatives and changed its content moderation policies, with some advocates pointing out that now it is easier for users to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/news/metas-new-policies-how-they-endanger-lgbtq-communities-and-our-tips-for-staying-safe-online\">target and demean\u003c/a> transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do sympathize with SF Pride’s financial situation, but these flimsy sponsorships are really just a testament as to why we should be working to create a Pride celebration that is sustained by people,” said Melissa Hernandez, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club co-president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SF Pride should be asking itself, what is its purpose?” Hernandez said. “Is it to provide corporations with an outlet to showcase their rainbow branding, or is it to provide LGBTQ+ people from all over the world with an opportunity to feel safe and seen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pride Weekend in San Francisco is kicking off in just a few hours — and if this will be your first time at this iconic celebration, you are in for a weekend full of music, drag, marches and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\">a deep dive into Bay Area queer history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has a thorough guide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991990/san-francisco-pride-2024-parade-logistics-transportation-and-partying-safely\">with all of the logistics for 2024 Pride weekend in San Francisco\u003c/a>, including transit details, how to get Narcan in the case of an overdose, and ways to reduce the risks of STI exposure. Other guides to keep in mind during Pride Weekend include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878134/bay-area-heat-wave-how-to-stay-safe-during-dangerously-hot-weather\">Bay Area Weather: How to Stay Cool and Safe in the Next California Heat Wave\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">Get Your Free 2024 Mpox Vaccine, Say San Francisco Health Officials\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">COVID Keeps Rising in Bay Area Wastewater. What to Know, From New Variants to Symptoms\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As you get ready for your first Pride, you may feel a lot of happiness and excitement — but you may also be a bit anxious. Oliver EliasTinoco, youth co-facilitator with LYRIC, a center for LGBTQ+ young people based in San Francisco, recalled their hectic first Pride weekend at 17. Between stages, after-parties, performances, crowds, music and more, it’s easy for one to feel the need to do it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be a whole day thing if you choose it to be,” they said. “I was running on fumes by the end of my first time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is a moment they hold dear. EliasTinoco graduated this year from San Francisco State University, a college experience that also included the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I spent two years of my college experience online, one of the biggest things that being able to be at Pride again now means to me is that creation of community,” they said. “I am someone who gets my energy from other people, from seeing my friends, from just being in a community space with other folks who look like me, talk like me, act like me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for advice on navigating all the feelings that come with celebrating Pride for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954009\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954009\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A marcher holds a sign reading “It should not be a crime to be queer” as the Pride parade gets underway in downtown San Francisco on June 25, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A marcher holds a sign reading ‘It should not be a crime to be queer’ as the Pride parade gets underway in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>First things first: Remember the essentials\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some mom-like advice to get out of the way. (It’s important, sorry.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t live in the city, do not drive to San Francisco, said Madisen Ellis, who is also part of LYRIC. “It’s really not going to be a fun time for you. Parking is going to be a nightmare. Just take public transport,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13960283,news_11991990,news_11990430\"]If you do end up driving in, KQED has a guide on how to reduce \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">the risk of your car being broken\u003c/a> into (yes, it happens) and if the unfortunate strikes, KQED has a guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">what to do at that moment\u003c/a>. And for cyclists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985510/what-to-do-when-your-bike-is-stolen-in-the-bay-area\">what to do if your bike is stolen in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wear sunscreen and drink water — \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.777120000000025&lon=-122.41965999999996\">the weather forecast predicts\u003c/a> a sunny weekend in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charge your phone in the morning and try bringing a portable battery to charge it on the go.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wear comfortable shoes — you’ll likely do a lot of walking.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>EliasTinoco’s biggest advice is for young people not to skip breakfast in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know we run up the house because we’re spending the entire morning getting ready … but take 10 minutes to eat some cereal, eat a sandwich, do something because you’re going to be feeling it,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed out vendor food at Pride can be pricey too, so budgeting can help a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918052\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Several people are seen walking down the middle of the street holding up a large rainbow flag.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants carry an oversized rainbow flag during the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>There is a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>to tackle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pride can be three days of back-to-back events — and it will feel \u003cem>packed. \u003c/em>(And there will be a lot of free merchandise you can nab during your time there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year will also have the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfpride_youthstage/\">San Francisco Pride’s Youth Stage\u003c/a>, which is dedicated for LGBTQ+ people ages 18 to 24, on Saturday at Polk and Grove. The stage will feature young performers in that age range, with a special highlight for the ballroom scene in San Francisco. Ellis said a family-friendly area will also be nearby, including balloon artists and face painters for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to do is create a space at Pride where youth feel like this is just as much their celebration as it is anyone else’s,” said EliasTinoco, who is also helping to run the stage. “It’s the youth that’s ultimately going to be who takes over this city like a couple years down. So we want them to know that this is a space that’s nurturing to them — that San Francisco is a safe space for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EliasTinoco also recommended \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/soul\">checking out other stages\u003c/a> with highlight performers — like the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/latin\">Latin Stage\u003c/a>, which will feature RuPaul Drag Race’s Vanessa Vanjie Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be after-parties as well — and KQED Arts has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960283/2024-san-francisco-pride-party-guide\">a lengthy roundup of Pride parties\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992016\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992016\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Drag dancer dance on an outdoor stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag queens Nicki Jizz, Heaven on Earth and Snaxx dance on the Oasis SF float during the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>So don’t feel like you need to do it all\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Something that EliasTinoco remembers from their first Pride weekend is feeling like they needed to be a more “extroverted” version of themselves for their first weekend — and it ended up draining them and taking away some of the fun of the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their biggest advice to other young people is not to pressure yourself to act a certain way or “be anything other than yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EliasTinoco also said that with all of the programming during the weekend, first-time attendees should not feel like they need to see every single thing there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I need to make sure that people know I saw everything, I need to get all my pictures,’” they described the feelings. “And it’s honestly: Don’t feel like you have to be a part of every single thing there because you’re going to learn that some of the things being represented there and some of the groups there maybe don’t really resonate with, or maybe they’re just not as fun for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They explained that Pride is what you make of it — something you would want to return next year and do all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954005\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Shi, 23, of San Francisco waits for the Pride parade to begin in downtown San Francisco on June 25, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Shi, 23, of San Francisco waits for the Pride parade to begin in downtown San Francisco on June 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Understand others celebrate Pride in their own way\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>EliasTinoco said new attendees are going “to be seeing a lot of things, maybe for the first time, that you haven’t seen before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Understand that Pride is a very open space. Pride covers the range of ages, the range of identities, the range of interests and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22463879/kink-at-pride-discourse-lgbtq\">different subcommunities within the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a>,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, you may see someone naked at Pride — which is also a regular occurrence in the Castro District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do not want to be around this, EliasTinoco said you do not have to engage with everything and instead should head to another part of Pride “where you feel a little more comfortable or safer and also just keep an open mind, know that nobody really is there to harm you or to cause you any kind of discomfort or make you feel uneasy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s simply that this is a chance for everyone to express their own interests and their own identity within the queer community, meaning that just as much as we have a right to express ourselves, other people do too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pride Weekend in San Francisco is kicking off in just a few hours — and if this will be your first time at this iconic celebration, you are in for a weekend full of music, drag, marches and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\">a deep dive into Bay Area queer history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has a thorough guide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991990/san-francisco-pride-2024-parade-logistics-transportation-and-partying-safely\">with all of the logistics for 2024 Pride weekend in San Francisco\u003c/a>, including transit details, how to get Narcan in the case of an overdose, and ways to reduce the risks of STI exposure. Other guides to keep in mind during Pride Weekend include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878134/bay-area-heat-wave-how-to-stay-safe-during-dangerously-hot-weather\">Bay Area Weather: How to Stay Cool and Safe in the Next California Heat Wave\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">Get Your Free 2024 Mpox Vaccine, Say San Francisco Health Officials\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">COVID Keeps Rising in Bay Area Wastewater. What to Know, From New Variants to Symptoms\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As you get ready for your first Pride, you may feel a lot of happiness and excitement — but you may also be a bit anxious. Oliver EliasTinoco, youth co-facilitator with LYRIC, a center for LGBTQ+ young people based in San Francisco, recalled their hectic first Pride weekend at 17. Between stages, after-parties, performances, crowds, music and more, it’s easy for one to feel the need to do it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be a whole day thing if you choose it to be,” they said. “I was running on fumes by the end of my first time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is a moment they hold dear. EliasTinoco graduated this year from San Francisco State University, a college experience that also included the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I spent two years of my college experience online, one of the biggest things that being able to be at Pride again now means to me is that creation of community,” they said. “I am someone who gets my energy from other people, from seeing my friends, from just being in a community space with other folks who look like me, talk like me, act like me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for advice on navigating all the feelings that come with celebrating Pride for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954009\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954009\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A marcher holds a sign reading “It should not be a crime to be queer” as the Pride parade gets underway in downtown San Francisco on June 25, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66575_230625-sf-pride-07-ks-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A marcher holds a sign reading ‘It should not be a crime to be queer’ as the Pride parade gets underway in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>First things first: Remember the essentials\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some mom-like advice to get out of the way. (It’s important, sorry.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t live in the city, do not drive to San Francisco, said Madisen Ellis, who is also part of LYRIC. “It’s really not going to be a fun time for you. Parking is going to be a nightmare. Just take public transport,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you do end up driving in, KQED has a guide on how to reduce \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">the risk of your car being broken\u003c/a> into (yes, it happens) and if the unfortunate strikes, KQED has a guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">what to do at that moment\u003c/a>. And for cyclists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985510/what-to-do-when-your-bike-is-stolen-in-the-bay-area\">what to do if your bike is stolen in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wear sunscreen and drink water — \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.777120000000025&lon=-122.41965999999996\">the weather forecast predicts\u003c/a> a sunny weekend in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charge your phone in the morning and try bringing a portable battery to charge it on the go.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wear comfortable shoes — you’ll likely do a lot of walking.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>EliasTinoco’s biggest advice is for young people not to skip breakfast in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know we run up the house because we’re spending the entire morning getting ready … but take 10 minutes to eat some cereal, eat a sandwich, do something because you’re going to be feeling it,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed out vendor food at Pride can be pricey too, so budgeting can help a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918052\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Several people are seen walking down the middle of the street holding up a large rainbow flag.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56869_005_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants carry an oversized rainbow flag during the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>There is a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>to tackle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pride can be three days of back-to-back events — and it will feel \u003cem>packed. \u003c/em>(And there will be a lot of free merchandise you can nab during your time there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year will also have the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfpride_youthstage/\">San Francisco Pride’s Youth Stage\u003c/a>, which is dedicated for LGBTQ+ people ages 18 to 24, on Saturday at Polk and Grove. The stage will feature young performers in that age range, with a special highlight for the ballroom scene in San Francisco. Ellis said a family-friendly area will also be nearby, including balloon artists and face painters for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to do is create a space at Pride where youth feel like this is just as much their celebration as it is anyone else’s,” said EliasTinoco, who is also helping to run the stage. “It’s the youth that’s ultimately going to be who takes over this city like a couple years down. So we want them to know that this is a space that’s nurturing to them — that San Francisco is a safe space for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EliasTinoco also recommended \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/soul\">checking out other stages\u003c/a> with highlight performers — like the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/latin\">Latin Stage\u003c/a>, which will feature RuPaul Drag Race’s Vanessa Vanjie Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be after-parties as well — and KQED Arts has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960283/2024-san-francisco-pride-party-guide\">a lengthy roundup of Pride parties\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992016\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992016\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Drag dancer dance on an outdoor stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag queens Nicki Jizz, Heaven on Earth and Snaxx dance on the Oasis SF float during the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>So don’t feel like you need to do it all\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Something that EliasTinoco remembers from their first Pride weekend is feeling like they needed to be a more “extroverted” version of themselves for their first weekend — and it ended up draining them and taking away some of the fun of the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their biggest advice to other young people is not to pressure yourself to act a certain way or “be anything other than yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EliasTinoco also said that with all of the programming during the weekend, first-time attendees should not feel like they need to see every single thing there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I need to make sure that people know I saw everything, I need to get all my pictures,’” they described the feelings. “And it’s honestly: Don’t feel like you have to be a part of every single thing there because you’re going to learn that some of the things being represented there and some of the groups there maybe don’t really resonate with, or maybe they’re just not as fun for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They explained that Pride is what you make of it — something you would want to return next year and do all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954005\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Shi, 23, of San Francisco waits for the Pride parade to begin in downtown San Francisco on June 25, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66569_230625-sf-pride-03-ks-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Shi, 23, of San Francisco waits for the Pride parade to begin in downtown San Francisco on June 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Understand others celebrate Pride in their own way\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>EliasTinoco said new attendees are going “to be seeing a lot of things, maybe for the first time, that you haven’t seen before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Understand that Pride is a very open space. Pride covers the range of ages, the range of identities, the range of interests and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22463879/kink-at-pride-discourse-lgbtq\">different subcommunities within the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a>,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, you may see someone naked at Pride — which is also a regular occurrence in the Castro District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do not want to be around this, EliasTinoco said you do not have to engage with everything and instead should head to another part of Pride “where you feel a little more comfortable or safer and also just keep an open mind, know that nobody really is there to harm you or to cause you any kind of discomfort or make you feel uneasy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s simply that this is a chance for everyone to express their own interests and their own identity within the queer community, meaning that just as much as we have a right to express ourselves, other people do too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amid the ongoing siege in Gaza, several pro-Palestinian queer activists and artists are \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">calling for a boycott of official San Francisco Pride events\u003c/a> by both performers and attendees. 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Ganuush told KQED that this video was removed by Instagram in the week of June 17, and said that the platform cited reports by other users as the reason for the removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford and President Nguyen Pham responded publicly to the calls for a boycott in \u003ca href=\"http://sfpride.org\">a June 4 statement\u003c/a>, rebuffing what they called “comments and misinformation about our current policies and practices.” San Francisco’s annual Pride celebration, they wrote, “has evolved for more than a half-century, transforming from a protest honoring a riot to a vibrant celebration of the worth and humanity of all queer individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gazetteer.co/calls-to-boycott-sf-pride-pop-up-from-drag-queens-and-activists-in-protest-of-police-presence-and-israel-ties\">several drag artists\u003c/a> and local groups such as \u003ca href=\"https://quitpalestine.org/\">Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism\u003c/a> (QUIT) and the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) have publicly stated their intent to boycott. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7zb0uhPq3g/?hl=en\">BAAITS, in its social post,\u003c/a> characterized its actions as “standing in solidarity with indigenous struggles impacting our kin worldwide.” One performer, The Dragon King, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7xQk3tSO3z/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a> that they were withdrawing from SF Pride appearances “because Pride is a riot. Because I will not be bought.”[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>After months of protest, a call to boycott\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed SF Pride boycott is the latest of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">many pro-Palestinian actions, protests and rallies around the Bay Area\u003c/a> over the last eight months. Israeli forces have killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/10/several-killed-in-israeli-attacks-as-gaza-hospitals-appeal-for-help\">37,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Gazan and Israeli authorities respectively. Israel’s attacks have now displaced about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a#:~:text=The%20war%20in%20Gaza%20has,to%20the%20brink%20of%20famine.\">80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents\u003c/a>, resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/collapse-gazas-health-system\">little to no medical care\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/children-die-malnutrition-rafah-famine-gaza-israeli-troops-aid-strip\">severe malnutrition\u003c/a> for tens of thousands of Gazans.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"gaza\"]Recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">queer communities in the Bay Area and across the country\u003c/a> have ramped up their mobilization for Palestinians. Some of these activists argue that \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerartistsforpalestine.org/\">the LGBTQ+ struggle is often co-opted by those with anti-Arab sentiment\u003c/a> to justify the oppression of Palestinians and ignore queer Palestinians. The proposed SF Pride boycott mirrors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">several protest actions in the local art scene\u003c/a>, in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit\">Jewish artists have played a leading role\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush, the boycott’s originator, has lost family members in Gaza and is currently raising funds to help \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">their surviving relatives\u003c/a> leave for Egypt and the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pride is something that the LGBTQ+ community earned,” Ganuush told KQED, noting the importance of having a month of recognition. But, they added, “Zionist and pro-Israel lobbyists and sponsors … are using SF Pride as a way to normalize genocides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking a closer look at corporate sponsors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ganuush’s initial social media post, the call for a boycott led with criticism of some of \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">SF Pride’s corporate sponsors,\u003c/a> like Amazon and Gilead, and what Ganuush called their “significant business operations in Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">Amazon\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nimbus-and-why-are-google-workers-protesting-israel-deal\">a billion-dollar contract\u003c/a> alongside Google Cloud to provide technology (including artificial intelligence) to the Israeli government and military. Current and former employees at both companies staged protests this year against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986743/the-tech-employees-who-want-to-sever-silicon-valleys-deep-ties-with-israel\">Silicon Valley’s deep ties to Israel\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_11969701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Queer-Palestinian-Artists_2-1020x659.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, queer communities have grappled with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17476850/pride-month-lgbtq-corporate-explained\">increased corporatization of Pride\u003c/a> as companies sponsor events and employees march in the parade. \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/\">Boycotting companies with ties to Israel\u003c/a> has long been a tactic among pro-Palestinian activists, with many citing U.S. schools and universities’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from companies with ties to South Africa\u003c/a> during apartheid as an inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview or comment. However, the nonprofit’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> asserts that “SF Pride’s sponsors, corporate and otherwise, have no influence over the content of our programming or the stance of the organization … Receiving corporate funding and paying it forward to our community reflects our mission to center queer people and is not tied to any programming decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian artist Yaffa A.S., Ganuush’s drag daughter and executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Muslim Alliance for Sexual And Gender Diversity (MASGD)\u003c/a>, said this statement rings hollow for her. Since October, members of Yaffa A.S.’s extended family members in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces. (She has curated a memorial at SOMArts \u003ca href=\"https://somarts.org/exhibition/insolidarity/\">to Palestinians killed in Gaza\u003c/a>, some of whom are queer and trans.) As part of her work with MASGD, she has created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Pride Toolkit\u003c/a> to challenge official parade organizers across the country on their stances on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yaffa A.S., Pride’s funding cannot be separated from its sources. “Our lives do not matter when you are receiving money from the same people who will kill me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian poet Yaffa A.S. was one of the lead curators of the memorial ‘In Solidarity: Queer and Trans Artists for a Free Palestine,’ which opened on June 7 at SOMArts in San Francisco. The memorial includes the names of Gazans killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, some of whom are trans Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yaffa A.S.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The parade in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13834307/new-yorks-drag-ball-scene-strikes-a-pose-in-fx-drama\">\u003cem>Pose\u003c/em>\u003c/a> actor Billy Porter, grand marshal of the SF Pride parade, has made several\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/15/those-friends-people-make-100m-a-year-im-getting-six-cent-cheques-its-not-ok-billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east\"> public statements supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was among the celebrities who signed a support letter for \u003ca href=\"https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/over-200-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel/\">Israel shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks; he also \u003c/a>opposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.jta.org/2021/10/27/israel/mila-kunis-neil-patrick-harris-helen-mirren-and-over-200-other-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel\">a cultural boycott of a Tel Aviv film festival in 2021.\u003c/a> (Porter is slated to portray iconic American writer James Baldwin in an upcoming movie, who was himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-letter-born-again/\">deeply critical of Israel and invested in Palestinian rights\u003c/a>.)[aside postID=news_11976415 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231213-Pinkwashing-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Another point of contention for pro-Palestinian activists like Ganuush is the presence of what they term an “Israeli float” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mamaganuush/reel/C76adimxwPN/\">specifically referring\u003c/a> to the participation of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in the SF Pride parade. “The participation of the Israeli float in Pride is distressing for many, especially Palestinians,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">Ganuush wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “It is seen as a symbol of oppression and a trigger for psychological trauma among those affected by the ongoing conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, SF Pride’s Executive Director Ford and President Pham replied, “There is no Israeli float in the SF Pride Parade.” The organization, they wrote, “values the contributions of Jewish queer individuals in advocating for peace and acknowledge their enduring efforts” and was “careful not to conflate Jewish groups and Jewish people living in America with the state of Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, formerly known as Twitter, JCRC Bay Area said it was “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798483717239050373\">disheartened” by the SF Pride statement\u003c/a>, calling on the organization to “clarify that everyone, including LGBTQ+ Israelis, are welcome at Pride.” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798847995330601399\">JCRC Bay Area later responded with approval\u003c/a> to SF Pride’s subsequent online update titled “\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/all-are-welcome-at-pride\">All are Welcome at Pride\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC Bay Area CEO Tyler Gregory told KQED that the float is a joint effort by several Jewish organizations in the Bay Area and that it will be “a family-friendly Jewish communal float for queer Jews and allies.”[aside label=\"more stories about SF Pride\" tag=\"san-francisco-pride\"]“People are welcome to come as their full selves, but the focus is LGBTQ Jews here in the Bay Area,” Gregory said. “And if that includes Israelis, absolutely, they should come — but this is by no means an Israeli float and anyone that tries to attack our delegation is engaging in antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaffa A.S. said she found the SF Pride statement to be “incredibly malicious,” arguing that \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/bay-area-united-with-israel-resources/\">JCRC has been openly pro-Israel in previous public statements\u003c/a>. She pointed to actions and statements that Jewish Voice for Peace — a pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy group — has issued against JCRC in the last eight months, which include criticizing JCRC Bay Area for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3eHX4BLkgI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">running a cancellation campaign\u003c/a>” against pro-Palestinian advocates. SF Pride’s statement, she said, “basically try to put out there that ‘the trans Palestinian [referring to Mama Ganuush] does not know what they’re talking about.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, Ford and Pham said that SF Pride “welcomed and continue[s] to welcome pro-Palestinian groups to the SF Pride Parade,” suggesting that interested groups could join the parade’s Resistance Contingent with the SF Pride Board or request a fee waiver to have their own float. SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s questions about whether such contingents had indeed requested to appear in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if some, we’ll say, ‘well-intentioned allies’ will try to do a Palestine float on their own,” Yaffa A.S. said. “But I think, from our end, we’ve told people not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Policing at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of police being present at Pride — including as participants in official events — has been a decadeslong point of contention, especially for queer people of color who police officers have targeted. Ganuush’s boycott proposal invoked the origins of Pride in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which started when patrons \u003ca href=\"https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era\">pushed back against a police raid at a gay bar\u003c/a>. A police presence at Pride is an active contradiction, Ganuush wrote, to the “foundational anti-police-brutality ethos of Pride.”[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"pro-palestinian-protest\"]According to \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/lgbq-people-six-times-more-likely-than-general-public-to-be-stopped-by-police/\">a 2021 study by UCLA\u003c/a>, queer people are six times more likely than the general public to be stopped by the police, with “heightened risk” for transgender women of color. At a 2020 SF Pride march, police officers raised their batons at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826511/police-raise-batons-at-sf-pride-marchers-oakland-passes-torch-in-solidarity\">a group of SF Pride marchers and Black Lives Matter protesters\u003c/a>. In 2022, marching queer police officers were asked by SF Pride organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">not to wear their uniforms\u003c/a>. Recently, police officers have also been criticized for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">their intense crackdowns on pro-Palestinian student protesters\u003c/a> on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, SF Pride said it has never called for an increased police presence. “The City of San Francisco required increased police presence in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 and again after the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019,” the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> reads. “SF Pride and San Francisco’s other large events do not dictate law enforcement responses and security strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC CEO Gregory said his organization was worried about their float being targeted and was working with SF Pride to discuss security. Gregory pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://phillypride365.org/\">Philly Pride\u003c/a>, where pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the parade — an action which he called “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/tyegregory/status/1797412053386457119?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">homophobic and transphobic\u003c/a>” on X. (As reported by queer online news site Them, these \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-activists-are-disrupting-pride-events-for-palestine\">pro-Palestinian protesters were themselves part of the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory said that JCRC “wants to be deferential to SF Pride, and also to queer communities of color as to how security can work.” He added that “we have Jews of color that are going to march with us that have the same concerns as queer people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Do I turn down this gig?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before this year’s calls for a pro-Palestinian boycott of SF Pride, some artists planned to avoid official SF Pride events — and turn down paid performance opportunities — due to the organization’s stance on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard ethical thing for drag performers and queer entertainers. … Do I pay my rent this month, or do I turn down this gig?” said Mama Celeste, the executive director of Oaklash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957872/oaklash-drag-festival-oakland-lgtbq-events-2024\">a drag festival based in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King LOTUS BOY, an Oakland drag king who serves on the Oaklash board, wrote in an Instagram story that he has dropped several gigs “due to them having ties to [Israel].” As a result, he said he lost $1,000 in gigs for June — events that he told KQED by email were associated with biotech company Gilead, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gileadisrael.co.il/en/about/gilead-in-israel\">financial ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t attended the SF Pride Parade or any official SF Pride events in over seven years for many reasons — increasingly militarized police presence, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">pinkwashing\u003c/a>, harmful corporate sponsorships — to name a few,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklash is one of the facilitators of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thebadfund/%20\">BAD (Bay Area Drag) Fund\u003c/a>, a mutual aid fund created to support artists who choose to opt out of gigs that may clash with their support of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste, who is Jewish, said the BAD Fund “gives people the ability to say no … because that’s not a luxury that many of us are afforded.” The fund, Celeste points out, is a way to lessen artists’ dependency on the wealthy, especially amid the economic disparity that has pushed many queer and trans artists out of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Celeste said they and their colleagues were not out to shame performers who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> take these gigs. Instead, they wanted people to think about “ where our money comes from and where our money is going to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush is hosting events, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bay2gazamutualaid/p/C7-Dfmzym6C/\">Cabaret Palestina\u003c/a> to assist the BAD Fund, featuring drag artists like King LOTUS BOY and Papi Churro — joining a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C79_Q8eyeUF/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">alternative Pride events this month\u003c/a> that show solidarity with Palestinian activism. For example, during the SF Pride Parade, there will be a pro-Palestinian queer and trans march hosted by Jewish Voices for Peace, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) and the\u003ca href=\"http://brassliberation.org/\"> Brass Liberation Orchestra\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In SF Pride’s statement, Ford and Pham wrote that “while we encourage resistance against oppressive systems and governments that fail to recognize our humanity as queer people, we cannot achieve liberation by fighting other queer and trans people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s a sentiment Celeste pushes back on. “[SF Pride] should be listening rather than resisting these voices who are telling them that they’re doing something wrong,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not listening to the smallest voice in your community,” Celeste said, “you’re not working for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">queer communities in the Bay Area and across the country\u003c/a> have ramped up their mobilization for Palestinians. Some of these activists argue that \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerartistsforpalestine.org/\">the LGBTQ+ struggle is often co-opted by those with anti-Arab sentiment\u003c/a> to justify the oppression of Palestinians and ignore queer Palestinians. The proposed SF Pride boycott mirrors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">several protest actions in the local art scene\u003c/a>, in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit\">Jewish artists have played a leading role\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush, the boycott’s originator, has lost family members in Gaza and is currently raising funds to help \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">their surviving relatives\u003c/a> leave for Egypt and the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pride is something that the LGBTQ+ community earned,” Ganuush told KQED, noting the importance of having a month of recognition. But, they added, “Zionist and pro-Israel lobbyists and sponsors … are using SF Pride as a way to normalize genocides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking a closer look at corporate sponsors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ganuush’s initial social media post, the call for a boycott led with criticism of some of \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">SF Pride’s corporate sponsors,\u003c/a> like Amazon and Gilead, and what Ganuush called their “significant business operations in Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">Amazon\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nimbus-and-why-are-google-workers-protesting-israel-deal\">a billion-dollar contract\u003c/a> alongside Google Cloud to provide technology (including artificial intelligence) to the Israeli government and military. Current and former employees at both companies staged protests this year against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986743/the-tech-employees-who-want-to-sever-silicon-valleys-deep-ties-with-israel\">Silicon Valley’s deep ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, queer communities have grappled with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17476850/pride-month-lgbtq-corporate-explained\">increased corporatization of Pride\u003c/a> as companies sponsor events and employees march in the parade. \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/\">Boycotting companies with ties to Israel\u003c/a> has long been a tactic among pro-Palestinian activists, with many citing U.S. schools and universities’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from companies with ties to South Africa\u003c/a> during apartheid as an inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview or comment. However, the nonprofit’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> asserts that “SF Pride’s sponsors, corporate and otherwise, have no influence over the content of our programming or the stance of the organization … Receiving corporate funding and paying it forward to our community reflects our mission to center queer people and is not tied to any programming decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian artist Yaffa A.S., Ganuush’s drag daughter and executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Muslim Alliance for Sexual And Gender Diversity (MASGD)\u003c/a>, said this statement rings hollow for her. Since October, members of Yaffa A.S.’s extended family members in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces. (She has curated a memorial at SOMArts \u003ca href=\"https://somarts.org/exhibition/insolidarity/\">to Palestinians killed in Gaza\u003c/a>, some of whom are queer and trans.) As part of her work with MASGD, she has created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Pride Toolkit\u003c/a> to challenge official parade organizers across the country on their stances on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yaffa A.S., Pride’s funding cannot be separated from its sources. “Our lives do not matter when you are receiving money from the same people who will kill me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian poet Yaffa A.S. was one of the lead curators of the memorial ‘In Solidarity: Queer and Trans Artists for a Free Palestine,’ which opened on June 7 at SOMArts in San Francisco. The memorial includes the names of Gazans killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, some of whom are trans Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yaffa A.S.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The parade in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13834307/new-yorks-drag-ball-scene-strikes-a-pose-in-fx-drama\">\u003cem>Pose\u003c/em>\u003c/a> actor Billy Porter, grand marshal of the SF Pride parade, has made several\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/15/those-friends-people-make-100m-a-year-im-getting-six-cent-cheques-its-not-ok-billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east\"> public statements supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was among the celebrities who signed a support letter for \u003ca href=\"https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/over-200-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel/\">Israel shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks; he also \u003c/a>opposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.jta.org/2021/10/27/israel/mila-kunis-neil-patrick-harris-helen-mirren-and-over-200-other-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel\">a cultural boycott of a Tel Aviv film festival in 2021.\u003c/a> (Porter is slated to portray iconic American writer James Baldwin in an upcoming movie, who was himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-letter-born-again/\">deeply critical of Israel and invested in Palestinian rights\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another point of contention for pro-Palestinian activists like Ganuush is the presence of what they term an “Israeli float” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mamaganuush/reel/C76adimxwPN/\">specifically referring\u003c/a> to the participation of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in the SF Pride parade. “The participation of the Israeli float in Pride is distressing for many, especially Palestinians,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">Ganuush wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “It is seen as a symbol of oppression and a trigger for psychological trauma among those affected by the ongoing conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, SF Pride’s Executive Director Ford and President Pham replied, “There is no Israeli float in the SF Pride Parade.” The organization, they wrote, “values the contributions of Jewish queer individuals in advocating for peace and acknowledge their enduring efforts” and was “careful not to conflate Jewish groups and Jewish people living in America with the state of Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, formerly known as Twitter, JCRC Bay Area said it was “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798483717239050373\">disheartened” by the SF Pride statement\u003c/a>, calling on the organization to “clarify that everyone, including LGBTQ+ Israelis, are welcome at Pride.” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798847995330601399\">JCRC Bay Area later responded with approval\u003c/a> to SF Pride’s subsequent online update titled “\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/all-are-welcome-at-pride\">All are Welcome at Pride\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC Bay Area CEO Tyler Gregory told KQED that the float is a joint effort by several Jewish organizations in the Bay Area and that it will be “a family-friendly Jewish communal float for queer Jews and allies.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People are welcome to come as their full selves, but the focus is LGBTQ Jews here in the Bay Area,” Gregory said. “And if that includes Israelis, absolutely, they should come — but this is by no means an Israeli float and anyone that tries to attack our delegation is engaging in antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaffa A.S. said she found the SF Pride statement to be “incredibly malicious,” arguing that \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/bay-area-united-with-israel-resources/\">JCRC has been openly pro-Israel in previous public statements\u003c/a>. She pointed to actions and statements that Jewish Voice for Peace — a pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy group — has issued against JCRC in the last eight months, which include criticizing JCRC Bay Area for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3eHX4BLkgI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">running a cancellation campaign\u003c/a>” against pro-Palestinian advocates. SF Pride’s statement, she said, “basically try to put out there that ‘the trans Palestinian [referring to Mama Ganuush] does not know what they’re talking about.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, Ford and Pham said that SF Pride “welcomed and continue[s] to welcome pro-Palestinian groups to the SF Pride Parade,” suggesting that interested groups could join the parade’s Resistance Contingent with the SF Pride Board or request a fee waiver to have their own float. SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s questions about whether such contingents had indeed requested to appear in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if some, we’ll say, ‘well-intentioned allies’ will try to do a Palestine float on their own,” Yaffa A.S. said. “But I think, from our end, we’ve told people not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Policing at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of police being present at Pride — including as participants in official events — has been a decadeslong point of contention, especially for queer people of color who police officers have targeted. Ganuush’s boycott proposal invoked the origins of Pride in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which started when patrons \u003ca href=\"https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era\">pushed back against a police raid at a gay bar\u003c/a>. A police presence at Pride is an active contradiction, Ganuush wrote, to the “foundational anti-police-brutality ethos of Pride.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/lgbq-people-six-times-more-likely-than-general-public-to-be-stopped-by-police/\">a 2021 study by UCLA\u003c/a>, queer people are six times more likely than the general public to be stopped by the police, with “heightened risk” for transgender women of color. At a 2020 SF Pride march, police officers raised their batons at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826511/police-raise-batons-at-sf-pride-marchers-oakland-passes-torch-in-solidarity\">a group of SF Pride marchers and Black Lives Matter protesters\u003c/a>. In 2022, marching queer police officers were asked by SF Pride organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">not to wear their uniforms\u003c/a>. Recently, police officers have also been criticized for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">their intense crackdowns on pro-Palestinian student protesters\u003c/a> on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, SF Pride said it has never called for an increased police presence. “The City of San Francisco required increased police presence in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 and again after the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019,” the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> reads. “SF Pride and San Francisco’s other large events do not dictate law enforcement responses and security strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC CEO Gregory said his organization was worried about their float being targeted and was working with SF Pride to discuss security. Gregory pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://phillypride365.org/\">Philly Pride\u003c/a>, where pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the parade — an action which he called “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/tyegregory/status/1797412053386457119?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">homophobic and transphobic\u003c/a>” on X. (As reported by queer online news site Them, these \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-activists-are-disrupting-pride-events-for-palestine\">pro-Palestinian protesters were themselves part of the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory said that JCRC “wants to be deferential to SF Pride, and also to queer communities of color as to how security can work.” He added that “we have Jews of color that are going to march with us that have the same concerns as queer people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Do I turn down this gig?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before this year’s calls for a pro-Palestinian boycott of SF Pride, some artists planned to avoid official SF Pride events — and turn down paid performance opportunities — due to the organization’s stance on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard ethical thing for drag performers and queer entertainers. … Do I pay my rent this month, or do I turn down this gig?” said Mama Celeste, the executive director of Oaklash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957872/oaklash-drag-festival-oakland-lgtbq-events-2024\">a drag festival based in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King LOTUS BOY, an Oakland drag king who serves on the Oaklash board, wrote in an Instagram story that he has dropped several gigs “due to them having ties to [Israel].” As a result, he said he lost $1,000 in gigs for June — events that he told KQED by email were associated with biotech company Gilead, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gileadisrael.co.il/en/about/gilead-in-israel\">financial ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t attended the SF Pride Parade or any official SF Pride events in over seven years for many reasons — increasingly militarized police presence, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">pinkwashing\u003c/a>, harmful corporate sponsorships — to name a few,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklash is one of the facilitators of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thebadfund/%20\">BAD (Bay Area Drag) Fund\u003c/a>, a mutual aid fund created to support artists who choose to opt out of gigs that may clash with their support of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste, who is Jewish, said the BAD Fund “gives people the ability to say no … because that’s not a luxury that many of us are afforded.” The fund, Celeste points out, is a way to lessen artists’ dependency on the wealthy, especially amid the economic disparity that has pushed many queer and trans artists out of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Celeste said they and their colleagues were not out to shame performers who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> take these gigs. Instead, they wanted people to think about “ where our money comes from and where our money is going to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush is hosting events, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bay2gazamutualaid/p/C7-Dfmzym6C/\">Cabaret Palestina\u003c/a> to assist the BAD Fund, featuring drag artists like King LOTUS BOY and Papi Churro — joining a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C79_Q8eyeUF/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">alternative Pride events this month\u003c/a> that show solidarity with Palestinian activism. 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In honor of Pride events happening throughout the Bay Area, KQED is digging into the history of the city’s Pride festivities and focusing on local efforts to celebrate and protect LGBTQ rights in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tune in to our Pride radio special on Sunday morning to hear from experts, local leaders and community members about what makes this year’s Pride celebrations especially important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump To: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#elders\">Elders speak: ‘It wasn’t a parade, it was a march’\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#travel\">Why California is considering tossing out its state-funded travel ban\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#skaters\">Queer skaters of Rockridge\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#laureate\">San Francisco’s first-ever drag laureate\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#aguilar\">Paul Aguilar: Lifetime Achievement Grand Marshal of San Francisco Pride\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#corporate\">The tension around corporate sponsorship\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#marriage\">The 10th anniversary of the end of Proposition 8 in California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#story\">Drag King story time\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"#elders\">\u003c/a>Elders speak: ‘It wasn’t a parade, it was a march’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The voices of two elder queer people and their memories of early Pride events, how the event has changed over the years, and how they understand the value of the parade today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 1970, gay activists commemorating the uprising at Stonewall in New York, marched down San Francisco’s Polk Street. There wasn’t really a planned route and no one had a permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard about a march. And it’s very important to distinguish it wasn’t a parade, it was a march,” said former state Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, who was in his 30s at the time. He recalls how he had a little sign that said “gay teacher,” and they walked down the street with hardly anybody on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwen Craigg, former president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, was in her twenties and had recently moved from Atlanta. Throughout the 1970s participation in the march grew, and in 1973 an estimated 42,000 people took part. 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She proposes that rescinding this travel ban will enable people who support LGBTQ rights to go to these places and promote a positive message of inclusion. She adds that this would be more effective than trying to punish these states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/TravelBan.mp3\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"skaters\">\u003c/a>Queer skaters of Rockridge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/youth/sports_participation_bans\">In the last two years, 22 states in the U.S.\u003c/a> have passed legislation banning transgender students from participating in a sports team aligned with their gender identity. 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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>\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.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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