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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Philz Coffee’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pride\">pride\u003c/a> flags aren’t going anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area-based company said Friday that it is reversing its decision to remove the rainbow flags from stores after backlash from baristas and others — and will put every flag taken down back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made a mistake, and I am sincerely sorry,” CEO Mahesh Sadarangani said in a statement on the company’s website. “To our Team Members, to our customers, and to the LGBTQIA+ community that has been with us since the very beginning, the confusion and hurt we caused around our new policy for Pride flags failed you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-philz-coffee-to-keep-pride-flags-up\">a Change.org petition \u003c/a>started by Philz baristas said the company had decided to remove the flags, gathering thousands of signatures against the move. Sadarangani confirmed the decision in an emailed statement to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/philz-coffee-pride-flags-ban-22195803.php\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on April 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working toward creating a more consistent, inclusive experience across all our stores, including removing a variety of flags and other decor,” Sadarangani said in the statement. “This is a change in how our stores look, not in who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/PhilzCoffeeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/PhilzCoffeeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/PhilzCoffeeGetty-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/PhilzCoffeeGetty-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside a Philz Coffee shop at Bay Street in Emeryville, a Progress Pride flag hangs above the counter on July 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next day, San Francisco Pride and other groups led a protest outside the company’s shop in the Castro neighborhood, where pride flags are a major part of the community’s self-expression and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ford, executive director of SF Pride, said Sadarangani reached out to her and Jupiter Peraza, an activist and a member of the city’s Trans Advisory Committee, the next week for a conversation about what had happened and how it affected the neighborhood and queer Philz workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">How We Get By\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a KQED series exploring how people are coping with rising costs in the Bay Area and California. Find the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">full series here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a young age, Liam Chavez felt different from the people around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Thousand Oaks, he got bullied. In high school, he didn’t know anyone who was openly gay or queer. “I didn’t really fit in,” said Chavez, 28. “It was really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was sure something was wrong with him. It wasn’t until he moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley \u003c/a>a decade ago for college that he felt like he was home. “A lot of people I meet are surprised to learn I didn’t grow up here because I enjoy it so much and fit in so well,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time, he’d found the language and the identity that matched his experience. “Basically, the day that I found out that trans men existed, I realized I was a trans man,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But staying here has come at a real cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he came out to his family, they cut him off. His parents told him it was Berkeley’s fault, “that I’ve been brainwashed,” he said. His father refused to come to his graduation, and he said he’s hardly spoken to either parent since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresh out of school, he felt overwhelmed. He struggled to find his financial footing, knowing nobody was there to catch him if he fell. At the same time, he was trying to heal from the trauma of a sexual assault by another college student, and he had developed chronic migraines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I go back to that time, I just remember terror,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_003_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_003_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_003_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_003_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez examines yarn for an upcoming artisans fair on April 8, 2026, at Avenue Yarn in Albany, California. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With no family support and significant medical expenses, including medication for his migraines and therapy, in part for the assault, the gap between what he earned and what he needed to live widened fast. But he couldn’t go home, and leaving the state for somewhere cheaper didn’t feel like an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chavez was transitioning, his doctor sat him down and issued some advice: Don’t leave California, at least not for a while. “I think she was right,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bay Area is one of the most expensive places to live in the country, transgender Californians like Chavez have found that the calculation of whether to stay or go is about more than rent prices.[aside postID=news_12078915 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/012426_FREEOAKLANDUP_GH_011-KQED.jpg']In \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/transgender-moving-desire/\">a national survey\u003c/a> conducted following the 2024 presidential election, nearly half of trans respondents said they had already moved, or were considering moving, in search of a more trans-friendly community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To afford life here, Chavez patched together part-time work as a tutor and dog sitter and picked up random gigs on Craigslist. His friends joked that he was always hustling. “I had no choice,” he said. “I had to, and it was exhausting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it still wasn’t enough, he turned to credit cards. He charged food, gas and rent until he owed close to $15,000, on top of his student loan debt. “It felt crushing,” he said. “It felt like I could never get out from under that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-poverty-us/\">Research has found\u003c/a> that nearly 1 in 3 transgender Americans lives in poverty — double the rate of cisgender straight people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether you’re looking at individual income, household income, food insecurity or housing instability, what you’ll see among trans people are much higher rates of economic vulnerability,” said Brad Sears, a distinguished scholar at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason for these discrepancies lies, in part, in demographics. Research from the Williams Institute found that, compared with cisgender straight men, transgender people are more likely to be young and people of color, and almost twice as likely to be living with a disability — all factors that can make it more difficult to achieve financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_007_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_007_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_007_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_007_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez and Avenue Yarn employee Leti Iversen compare yarn colors on April 8, 2026, in Albany, California. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even when researchers compared people with the same education, age, race and disability status, they found that transgender people still have 70% higher odds of living in poverty than cisgender straight men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sears attributes this to the unique layer of discrimination that transgender people face. “The pathways to poverty really start with [family] rejection, over-criminalization, homelessness … while trans people are still young,” he said. “That continues into adult life, where you continue to see high rates of discrimination in all parts of life, including housing, but particularly in the workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing these disparities, he said, means working with parents to decrease family rejection, and with law enforcement — “so it’s not a crime to be walking while trans” — in order to keep trans people out of the foster care and criminal justice systems, “which are just huge predictors for future poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez speaks with Avenue Yarn employee Leti Iversen on April 8, 2026, in Albany, California. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workplace protections also make a big difference. Although federal employment protections prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, the Trump administration has sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trumps-executive-orders-promoting-sex-discrimination-explained\">limit and roll back safeguards\u003c/a> for transgender Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, meanwhile, has one of the country’s strongest \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/employment/know-your-rights/faq-the-gender-nondiscrimination-act/\">nondiscrimination frameworks for transgender people\u003c/a>, and some Bay Area cities add \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/san-francisco-all-gender-restroom-ordinance?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">additional\u003c/a> protection \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/your-government/our-work/title-vi-nondiscrimination-policy#:~:text=The%20City%20of%20Berkeley%20is,Rights%20Restoration%20Act%20of%201987\">through\u003c/a> local \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets/city/v/1/employment-investigations-and-civil-rights-compliance/documents/working-for-oakland/workplace-amp-employment-standards/employment-investigations-and-civil-rights-compliance/city-of-oakland-gender-inclusion-policy-ai-73.pdf\">policies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sears said having a gender identity nondiscrimination policy is a good start, but workplaces should also have a plan in place to support employees who want to transition by doing things like ensuring there’s an appropriate bathroom available and providing colleagues with training. “Visible support from leadership at the top is one of the biggest things that make a difference,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A whole future that I can think about’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Chavez, the turning point came when, out of desperation, he called the free, 24-hour 211 helpline that connects callers to social services. The operator referred him to a nonprofit credit counseling agency, Money Management International, where a counselor helped him build a monthly budget and negotiated with his creditors to cut his interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency consolidated his debt into a single monthly payment automatically drafted from his bank account — something that credit counseling agencies have set up in agreements with major creditors to help close accounts and dig borrowers out of crushing debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_001_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_001_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_001_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_001_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez opens the trunk of his car as he prepares for a morning swim at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach on March 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These creditors know that when people come to us, they’re not just getting plugged into this affordable repayment plan, but they’re also getting budgeting advice and advice that helps people achieve financial stability, which makes it more likely that they will repay the debt that they owe when presented with more affordable repayment terms,” said Bruce McClary, a spokesperson for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez said the counselor’s debt management plan helps hold him accountable, and the low monthly payment has allowed him to chip away at his balance. “That’s really helped because it’s really the interest that is just like a killer,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, he has paid off more than $10,000. “I really want to be debt-free,” he said. “And I’m so close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Chavez’s life today is structured around that goal.[aside postID=news_12075761 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260401-AFFORDABILITYCHILDCARE00263_TV-KQED.jpg']At home in Oakland, he tracks every dollar in a spreadsheet: rent, insurance, groceries, savings, income from his job and side gigs like a pet-sitting job he recently took on. “I’m actually pretty comfortable this month, which I’m kind of like, whoa, this is new,” he said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cut costs, he keeps his heater off and uses an electric blanket. He buys clothes, furniture and appliances secondhand. Groceries come from a mix of bulk purchases, discount markets and Trader Joe’s. When money gets tight, he turns to food pantries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just visited a couple weeks ago because I had some unexpected expenses and I was really hungry and I needed to eat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shares a one-bedroom apartment with Erasmo, a 7-year-old Greek tortoise he got during a difficult stretch in college. “I thought to myself, it might be good to have somebody to be responsible to, another creature,” Chavez said. “In order to take care of him, I have to take care of myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tortoise’s name means “beloved” in Greek, and Chavez has a custom bumper sticker on his car that reads: My tortoise is smarter than your honor student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Chavez has a full-time job at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, where he administers grant funding to students working on community health projects and helps them manage budgets — skills he’s honed through hard experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, he ran his salary through an online calculator and was surprised to find himself labeled middle class, like his family had been growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_012_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_012_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_012_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_012_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez swims in the bay at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda on March 30, 2026. He says open water swimming helps him manage stress and reconnect with his body. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was like, really?” he said. “Because … I think about my family, they could go out and buy their RV, and they could go on vacations. But I don’t do any of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even small splurges require planning. Instead of credit cards, Chavez sometimes uses “buy now, pay later services” to spread out costs, like when he bought a hot pink inflatable flamingo-shaped buoy that he named Chorizo, which bobs along behind him to keep him safe on his open-water swims off Crown Beach in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been swimming since he was a kid. As an adult, it’s become a kind of therapy. “Sport has been such an instrumental way of me reclaiming my bodily autonomy and my power,” he said. It’s one of the small, hard-won pleasures that make staying in the Bay Area feel worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_013_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_013_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_013_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_013_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez swims across the bay with “Chorizo” trailing behind him at Robert W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/transgender-moving-desire/\">a national survey\u003c/a> conducted following the 2024 presidential election, nearly half of trans respondents said they had already moved, or were considering moving, in search of a more trans-friendly community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To afford life here, Chavez patched together part-time work as a tutor and dog sitter and picked up random gigs on Craigslist. His friends joked that he was always hustling. “I had no choice,” he said. “I had to, and it was exhausting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it still wasn’t enough, he turned to credit cards. 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Research from the Williams Institute found that, compared with cisgender straight men, transgender people are more likely to be young and people of color, and almost twice as likely to be living with a disability — all factors that can make it more difficult to achieve financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_007_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_007_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_007_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_007_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez and Avenue Yarn employee Leti Iversen compare yarn colors on April 8, 2026, in Albany, California. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even when researchers compared people with the same education, age, race and disability status, they found that transgender people still have 70% higher odds of living in poverty than cisgender straight men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sears attributes this to the unique layer of discrimination that transgender people face. “The pathways to poverty really start with [family] rejection, over-criminalization, homelessness … while trans people are still young,” he said. “That continues into adult life, where you continue to see high rates of discrimination in all parts of life, including housing, but particularly in the workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing these disparities, he said, means working with parents to decrease family rejection, and with law enforcement — “so it’s not a crime to be walking while trans” — in order to keep trans people out of the foster care and criminal justice systems, “which are just huge predictors for future poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/040826TransAffordability-_GH_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez speaks with Avenue Yarn employee Leti Iversen on April 8, 2026, in Albany, California. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workplace protections also make a big difference. Although federal employment protections prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, the Trump administration has sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trumps-executive-orders-promoting-sex-discrimination-explained\">limit and roll back safeguards\u003c/a> for transgender Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, meanwhile, has one of the country’s strongest \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/employment/know-your-rights/faq-the-gender-nondiscrimination-act/\">nondiscrimination frameworks for transgender people\u003c/a>, and some Bay Area cities add \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/san-francisco-all-gender-restroom-ordinance?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">additional\u003c/a> protection \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/your-government/our-work/title-vi-nondiscrimination-policy#:~:text=The%20City%20of%20Berkeley%20is,Rights%20Restoration%20Act%20of%201987\">through\u003c/a> local \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets/city/v/1/employment-investigations-and-civil-rights-compliance/documents/working-for-oakland/workplace-amp-employment-standards/employment-investigations-and-civil-rights-compliance/city-of-oakland-gender-inclusion-policy-ai-73.pdf\">policies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sears said having a gender identity nondiscrimination policy is a good start, but workplaces should also have a plan in place to support employees who want to transition by doing things like ensuring there’s an appropriate bathroom available and providing colleagues with training. “Visible support from leadership at the top is one of the biggest things that make a difference,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A whole future that I can think about’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Chavez, the turning point came when, out of desperation, he called the free, 24-hour 211 helpline that connects callers to social services. 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When money gets tight, he turns to food pantries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just visited a couple weeks ago because I had some unexpected expenses and I was really hungry and I needed to eat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shares a one-bedroom apartment with Erasmo, a 7-year-old Greek tortoise he got during a difficult stretch in college. “I thought to myself, it might be good to have somebody to be responsible to, another creature,” Chavez said. “In order to take care of him, I have to take care of myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tortoise’s name means “beloved” in Greek, and Chavez has a custom bumper sticker on his car that reads: My tortoise is smarter than your honor student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Chavez has a full-time job at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, where he administers grant funding to students working on community health projects and helps them manage budgets — skills he’s honed through hard experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, he ran his salary through an online calculator and was surprised to find himself labeled middle class, like his family had been growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_012_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_012_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_012_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_012_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez swims in the bay at Robert W. 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It’s one of the small, hard-won pleasures that make staying in the Bay Area feel worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_013_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_013_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_013_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/033026Trans-affordability-_GH_013_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Chavez swims across the bay with “Chorizo” trailing behind him at Robert W. 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"content": "\u003cp>Anita Lofton and Veronica Savage have made noise in the Bay for more than a decade with their bands Sistas In The Pit and The Hail Marys – notable not just for their energy, but for the ways their identities intersect with their music. The two women are proudly Black, fiercely punk, unapologetically raw and have recently coalesced (along with drummer Q) into \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blackgoldsun1/\">Black Gold Sun\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After watching the 2024 election results, Anita paused all her other projects and, as “an act of public service,” decided to start a Black girl punk band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew the communities I belong to would be grieving — sad, devastated, overwhelmed,” she tells KQED via email. “I wanted to build a safe space for us. A place to rage, to dance, to scream and to let it all out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, Black Gold Sun will perform in another space designed to let it all out: \u003ca href=\"https://www.dollfest.net/home\">Doll Fest\u003c/a>, the two-day festival dedicated to femme-fronted bands from across the country. This year’s event will be held at Oakland’s California Ballroom on March 28 and 29, with a \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/doll-fest-vol-ii-pre-party-w-skip-the-needle-2026-03-27-ivy-room-albany-5b86b9\">pre-party\u003c/a> on March 27 at the female-owned Ivy Room in Albany. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/vial_by_katy_kelly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"903\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987971\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/vial_by_katy_kelly.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/vial_by_katy_kelly-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/vial_by_katy_kelly-768x694.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minneapolis punk trio VIAL plays this year’s Doll Fest. \u003ccite>(Katy Kelly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now in its second year, the homegrown festival is dedicated to smashing the patriarchy, amplifying feminine power through music. In addition to local groups at the vanguard such as Black Gold Sun, this year’s headliners include Minneapolis bratpunk trio \u003ca href=\"https://www.vialband.com/\">VIAL\u003c/a> and Fat Wreck Chords’ \u003ca href=\"https://badcopbadcopmusic.com/\">Bad Cop Bad Cop\u003c/a>. Also on the lineup are Denver beatmaker and MC \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wheelchairsportscamp/\">Wheelchair Sportscamp\u003c/a>, trans alt-hip-hop artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.itsdamag3.com/\">DAMAG3\u003c/a>, and nine-piece all-female ska band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/colectivosabinas/\">El Colectivo Sabinas\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that uplifts, empowers, or highlights women’s creativity is a yes for me. The current state of the world is doing a number on women, and I want to contribute to their joy,” says Anita, who plays guitar and sings for Black Gold Sun. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doll Fest founder Maria Chaos was similarly fed up with the status quo, and grew determined to create the change she wanted to see in punk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became really tired of watching old white man bands hogging the stages and making these empty promises of tokenized statements,” she tells KQED via email. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/421523652_921050173114647_7186941386879221908_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987972\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/421523652_921050173114647_7186941386879221908_n.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/421523652_921050173114647_7186941386879221908_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/421523652_921050173114647_7186941386879221908_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/421523652_921050173114647_7186941386879221908_n-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/421523652_921050173114647_7186941386879221908_n-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All-female ska band El Colectivo Sabinas. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria stepped up to the plate and built Doll Fest from the ground up alongside general manager and art director Freya Hausman, who until recently was the general manager of the Bay Area record label Alternative Tentacles. The two booked femme-led bands across the punk spectrum – from riot grrrl legends to ska-punk and alt-rock – \u003ca href=\"https://thebadcopy.com/interviews/maria-chaos-shares-the-birth-of-doll-fest-how-its-a-response-the-experience-of-booking-her-first-festival/\">prioritizing\u003c/a> a group’s enjoyment, draw and morals relative to the fest’s local audience and ethos. The inaugural Doll Fest took over Cornerstone in Berkeley, a city chosen for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/doll-fest-amps-up-for-2-day-takeover-in-berkeley-we-want-people-to-feel-like-this-was-made-for-them/\">history of radical art and activism\u003c/a>, with headliners Tsunami Bomb and Naked Aggression. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica, Black Gold Sun’s bassist, has exclusively played in all-female bands, and performed at multiple women-focused events. “Punk music has always been about challenges, rebellion, DIY culture. This festival gives space for female-fronted bands to be seen and heard, and for folks to experience a range of styles and messages that can keep the scene fresh and energized,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy is contagious – and expansive. Doll Fest has grown to include multiple auxiliary events including a comedy night, boxing meet-up, a vinyl compilation, multiple fundraisers, and a two-day festival in Mexico City headlined by legendary L.A. punk Alice Bag. “Before anyone asks, no this is not going to be Vans Warped Tour 2.0,” Maria adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having bands come from other areas to the Bay Area can be quite costly or difficult,” she continues. “This is a family, a community. If they can’t come to us then I want to go to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE3G38gLO4s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doll Fest has a nationwide community of supporters. Just a few months after the first Doll Fest, Maria was at Florida’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/thefestfl/\">Fest\u003c/a> and spoke with many people who knew about her event. “They thought it was so cool and had been yearning for an event like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DP6kJbwEdIO/\">Doll Fest benefit show\u003c/a> in November featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935330/frightwig-40th-anniversary-album-san-francisco-punk-rock-riot-grrrl\">San Francisco OGs Frightwig\u003c/a>, a performer recalled becoming jaded with life and music. “[She said] this event had given her a spark that she hadn’t felt in years,” Maria remembered. “I was in tears at one point…because the room felt like you were walking into a giant hug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Gold Sun’s Anita Lofton considers a femme-focused festival to be a powerful acknowledgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plain and simple truth is that seeing something makes it possible,” she says. “When you see women performing punk music, you know it’s real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/BCBC-portrait-4784_credit_SoFinchPhotography-2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987974\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/BCBC-portrait-4784_credit_SoFinchPhotography-2025-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/BCBC-portrait-4784_credit_SoFinchPhotography-2025-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/BCBC-portrait-4784_credit_SoFinchPhotography-2025-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/BCBC-portrait-4784_credit_SoFinchPhotography-2025-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bad Cop Bad Cop, from Southern California, play this weekend’s Doll Fest. \u003ccite>(So Finch Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like any production, putting on Doll Fest comes with logistical and emotional challenges. 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The two booked femme-led bands across the punk spectrum – from riot grrrl legends to ska-punk and alt-rock – \u003ca href=\"https://thebadcopy.com/interviews/maria-chaos-shares-the-birth-of-doll-fest-how-its-a-response-the-experience-of-booking-her-first-festival/\">prioritizing\u003c/a> a group’s enjoyment, draw and morals relative to the fest’s local audience and ethos. The inaugural Doll Fest took over Cornerstone in Berkeley, a city chosen for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/doll-fest-amps-up-for-2-day-takeover-in-berkeley-we-want-people-to-feel-like-this-was-made-for-them/\">history of radical art and activism\u003c/a>, with headliners Tsunami Bomb and Naked Aggression. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica, Black Gold Sun’s bassist, has exclusively played in all-female bands, and performed at multiple women-focused events. “Punk music has always been about challenges, rebellion, DIY culture. This festival gives space for female-fronted bands to be seen and heard, and for folks to experience a range of styles and messages that can keep the scene fresh and energized,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy is contagious – and expansive. Doll Fest has grown to include multiple auxiliary events including a comedy night, boxing meet-up, a vinyl compilation, multiple fundraisers, and a two-day festival in Mexico City headlined by legendary L.A. punk Alice Bag. “Before anyone asks, no this is not going to be Vans Warped Tour 2.0,” Maria adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having bands come from other areas to the Bay Area can be quite costly or difficult,” she continues. “This is a family, a community. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the 1970s, Valencia Street in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Mission District became a lesbian cultural corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women could openly hold hands at Artemis Cafe, clink glasses at Amelia’s and debate politics at the Old Wives’ Tales bookstore. Lesbian hairstylists and mechanics offered basic goods and services without harassment. Flyers advertised apprenticeships in male-dominated trades and legal help for navigating divorces from men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more than 50 years later, San Francisco boasts only a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/sf-lesbian-bars-girls-and-gays/\">small handful of lesbian bars\u003c/a>. Nationwide, experts say establishments serving women-loving women are \u003ca href=\"https://www.autostraddle.com/lesbian-bars-disappearing/\">in danger of going extinct\u003c/a>. It’s a drastic change from the vast lesbian ecosystem that once offered a supportive lifeline in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to remember that many women who were identifying as lesbians were excluded from mainstream society — they couldn’t get jobs, couldn’t really be in formal education spaces,” says Dr. Kerby Lynch, the interim director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayarealesbianarchives.org/\">Bay Area Lesbian Archives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the GLBT Historical Society Museum in the Castro, Bay Area Lesbian Archives presents a new exhibit, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/dreams\">Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care, 1970–1995\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> which traces the history of an organized, self-sustaining community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kerby Lynch, lead curator of the exhibit ‘Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,’ poses for a portrait at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid today’s resurgence of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands\">conservative gender politics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://prismreports.org/2026/02/09/anti-transgender-bills-2026/\">anti-LGBTQ+ legislation\u003c/a>, Lynch wants to provide an example to young queer people on how to thrive in spite of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we are once again, in the contemporary,” Lynch says, “needing to rely on each other and create these mutual aid networks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The women’s liberation movement left lesbians behind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the walls of the GLBT Historical Society Museum, carefully arranged flyers, maps and business directories offer a glimpse of the lesbian scene that once flourished along Valencia Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so much about having community. Lesbians had been so invisible for so long, and so harassed,” Carol Seajay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1976, Seajay co-founded the feminist bookstore Old Wives’ Tales, a flyer for which hangs in the exhibit. It was a narrow storefront that carried novels by women authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Mahoney (left) and Carol Seajay (right) pose for a portrait at the exhibit ‘Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,’ on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. Seajay co-founded Old Wives’ Tales bookstore in 1976. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tucked in the back were shelves of lesbian books where one could browse away from prying eyes. Every weekend, the store would fill up with women who’d stop in between errands at the laundromat and grocery co-op to have spirited discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed a place for women to go, to be able to talk with each other about this women’s liberation stuff, gay liberation stuff,” Seajay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, the women’s liberation movement made many important legal gains. “On paper, we were getting more freedoms,” Lynch says. “But for lesbians, they were largely still feeling excluded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13987659 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Directory of Dreams,” an archival exhibit of lesbian history in the Bay Area, is installed in the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roe v. Wade gave women the right to end unwanted pregnancies, and the Equal Opportunity Credit Act allowed women to acquire loans and credit without male co-signers. Women began to buy homes and start businesses for the first time. Yet many straight women saw lesbians as a threat to the women’s liberation movement, and job and housing discrimination against LGBTQ+ people remained rampant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’70s, you’re in a time period of, really, lesbians coming together and being like, ‘You know, if we’re gonna be excluded by these dominant societies, let’s create some counterculture,’” Lynch says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crucial connector for the Bay Area’s lesbian community was Gloria Pell, known to friends simply as Pell. She became active on Valencia Street while working at Old Wives’ Tales. In the early ’80s, she opened Woman Crafts West, a small boutique that carried work by hundreds of female artisans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pell (right), known to friends simply as Pell, was a crucial connector of the lesbian community on Valencia Street in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lesbian Archives/Pell Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the GLBT Historical Society, \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> features a display of crafts from Pell’s collection: shapely goddess statues, a flower-like labia sculpture and ceramic earrings in the shape of breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pell didn’t just break barriers so she could succeed; she also helped build the infrastructure that allowed other lesbians to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was the central part of organizing different business owners being tenants on that street,” Lynch says. “She was a part of a feminist credit union helping women open up their own bank accounts, coming up with pool funds — like, really, startup funding — for other women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lesbians strengthened the LGBTQ+ community during crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the ’80s, lesbian-owned businesses offered crucial support for gay men during the AIDS epidemic. Featured prominently in the exhibit is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/29308/lgbt-pride-remembering-the-brick-hut-cafe-part-1\">Brick Hut Cafe\u003c/a>, a Berkeley institution that drew lines down the block for coffee and muffins, as well as returning customers like Angela Davis and a free-spirited crew of gay men nicknamed the Shattuck Street Fairies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the wall of GBLT Historical Society, a 1992 poem by a customer named Cynthia describes the scene: “Flannel shirted wimmin / pierced and tattooed dykes / Bitchin’ dreadlocks, cool shaved heads / Feeding old folks and young tikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987678\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Davenport and Joan Antonuccio at The Brick Hut Cafe in the ’90s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ace Morgan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As AIDS began to decimate the gay community, and government officials ignored and stigmatized the disease, queer institutions like the Brick Hut became crucial resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put up information, and we talked to people,” Brick Hut co-founder Sharon Davenport says. “You know, like, ‘Am I going to get AIDS from a toilet seat?’ No. ‘If I sit next to a gay guy, am I gonna get AIDS?’ No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this era, lesbians across the country stepped up as advocates. They organized blood drives, protested for better public health policies, and even offered bedside care for gay men with AIDS whose families were afraid to come near them. At the Brick Hut, they also offered social support. “The important part was the personal interaction with people,” Davenport says. “So they wouldn’t be afraid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lynch of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, it’s stories like these that show that the establishments honored in \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> are much more than just businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sustaining ourselves, providing for ourselves,” she says. “But we’re also at the same time organizing ourselves, collectivizing ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Younger generations take notes from lesbian herstory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it celebrates visionary lesbian activists and community builders, \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> is also honest about where the movement fell short. The exhibition’s wall text notes that racism at times alienated women of color from lesbian spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was messy,” Lynch says. “I mean, [white women] were coming into consciousness that they’re racist for the first time. Black women are coming into the consciousness that, ‘Oh my god, we’ve been serving Black men and the Black power movement, and we haven’t thought about our needs for ourselves.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests observe the exhibit, “Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,” on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Absent from the exhibit are the lesbian separatists who discriminated against trans women and wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977595/sandy-stone-olivia-records-jimi-hendrix-girl-island-documentary\">exclude them\u003c/a>. In the ’70s, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976295/1970s-gay-transgender-rights-movement-san-francisco-pride\">gays and lesbians seeking mainstream acceptance\u003c/a> sought to distance themselves from trans people, who faced even worse discrimination. During our interview, Lynch acknowledged that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the good, the bad, the ugly, but I love how those women got the conversation started for us to continue today,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1990s, as an influx of young artists began to transform the Mission District, long-running women’s spaces like Woman Crafts West and Old Wives’ Tales shut their doors. Many of the reasons were economic: Rising rents on Valencia Street meant that people could no longer afford to run radical spaces. In Berkeley, the Brick Hut shuttered because it was $30,000 in debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests observe the exhibit, “Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,” on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think some of the generations since then are kind of pissed that we let it go,” Seajay of Old Wives’ Tales says. “I am, too. I share that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, she wants this history to inspire young people to carry on that legacy. “You want something, make it happen,” she says. “You can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the opening reception of \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> on March 11, lesbians and queer people in their 20s, 30s and 40s mingled alongside elders who shaped this golden era. Among those taking in the display of Pell’s goddess-themed jewelry and sculptures were Stephanie and Etecia Burrell, a couple who run The Sanctuary, an eclectic shop in Oakland that offers wellness services rooted in West African spiritual traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1974px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1974\" height=\"1559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival.jpg 1974w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-768x607.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-1536x1213.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1974px) 100vw, 1974px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pell (fourth from right) and friends pose in front of her shop, Woman Crafts West. In the 1980s and ’90s, it was a prominent fixture of the lesbian cultural corridor on Valencia Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lesbian Archives/Pell Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Burrells are both especially inspired by Pell’s legacy as a Black lesbian community builder. “It actually makes me feel like, ‘Wow, I can relax, I can feel more of what I’m doing and the power of it because someone else did it,’” Stephanie says. “And it gives me a sense of relief, a sense of calm. A sense like, ‘You got this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lesbian community in today’s Bay Area looks much different than it did during the second-wave feminist movement. Many millennials and Gen Z-ers opt for terms like “queer” and “sapphic” when throwing parties and events, so as not to exclude trans, nonbinary, bisexual or pansexual people. At queer parties raising money for immigration defense or humanitarian aid in Gaza, there’s a greater mindfulness around the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability and immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Lynch says it’s crucial to learn from those who paved the way. As conservative legislators continue to attack LGBTQ+ rights and civil liberties more broadly, she wants \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> to spark people’s imaginations for how to thrive, even amid a hostile political climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a mausoleum — these are instructions,” Lynch told the crowd at the opening. “Each flyer, each menu, each business card tucked away is a small declaration. ‘We were here, we built this, and you can build it too.’ Because the question is not whether these women were extraordinary. Of course they were. The real question is, what happens when we remember that survival has always been collective?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to remember that many women who were identifying as lesbians were excluded from mainstream society — they couldn’t get jobs, couldn’t really be in formal education spaces,” says Dr. Kerby Lynch, the interim director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayarealesbianarchives.org/\">Bay Area Lesbian Archives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the GLBT Historical Society Museum in the Castro, Bay Area Lesbian Archives presents a new exhibit, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/dreams\">Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care, 1970–1995\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> which traces the history of an organized, self-sustaining community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kerby Lynch, lead curator of the exhibit ‘Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,’ poses for a portrait at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid today’s resurgence of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands\">conservative gender politics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://prismreports.org/2026/02/09/anti-transgender-bills-2026/\">anti-LGBTQ+ legislation\u003c/a>, Lynch wants to provide an example to young queer people on how to thrive in spite of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we are once again, in the contemporary,” Lynch says, “needing to rely on each other and create these mutual aid networks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The women’s liberation movement left lesbians behind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the walls of the GLBT Historical Society Museum, carefully arranged flyers, maps and business directories offer a glimpse of the lesbian scene that once flourished along Valencia Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so much about having community. Lesbians had been so invisible for so long, and so harassed,” Carol Seajay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1976, Seajay co-founded the feminist bookstore Old Wives’ Tales, a flyer for which hangs in the exhibit. It was a narrow storefront that carried novels by women authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Mahoney (left) and Carol Seajay (right) pose for a portrait at the exhibit ‘Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,’ on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. Seajay co-founded Old Wives’ Tales bookstore in 1976. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tucked in the back were shelves of lesbian books where one could browse away from prying eyes. Every weekend, the store would fill up with women who’d stop in between errands at the laundromat and grocery co-op to have spirited discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed a place for women to go, to be able to talk with each other about this women’s liberation stuff, gay liberation stuff,” Seajay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, the women’s liberation movement made many important legal gains. “On paper, we were getting more freedoms,” Lynch says. “But for lesbians, they were largely still feeling excluded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13987659 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Directory of Dreams,” an archival exhibit of lesbian history in the Bay Area, is installed in the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roe v. Wade gave women the right to end unwanted pregnancies, and the Equal Opportunity Credit Act allowed women to acquire loans and credit without male co-signers. Women began to buy homes and start businesses for the first time. Yet many straight women saw lesbians as a threat to the women’s liberation movement, and job and housing discrimination against LGBTQ+ people remained rampant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’70s, you’re in a time period of, really, lesbians coming together and being like, ‘You know, if we’re gonna be excluded by these dominant societies, let’s create some counterculture,’” Lynch says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crucial connector for the Bay Area’s lesbian community was Gloria Pell, known to friends simply as Pell. She became active on Valencia Street while working at Old Wives’ Tales. In the early ’80s, she opened Woman Crafts West, a small boutique that carried work by hundreds of female artisans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pell (right), known to friends simply as Pell, was a crucial connector of the lesbian community on Valencia Street in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lesbian Archives/Pell Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the GLBT Historical Society, \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> features a display of crafts from Pell’s collection: shapely goddess statues, a flower-like labia sculpture and ceramic earrings in the shape of breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pell didn’t just break barriers so she could succeed; she also helped build the infrastructure that allowed other lesbians to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was the central part of organizing different business owners being tenants on that street,” Lynch says. “She was a part of a feminist credit union helping women open up their own bank accounts, coming up with pool funds — like, really, startup funding — for other women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lesbians strengthened the LGBTQ+ community during crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the ’80s, lesbian-owned businesses offered crucial support for gay men during the AIDS epidemic. Featured prominently in the exhibit is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/29308/lgbt-pride-remembering-the-brick-hut-cafe-part-1\">Brick Hut Cafe\u003c/a>, a Berkeley institution that drew lines down the block for coffee and muffins, as well as returning customers like Angela Davis and a free-spirited crew of gay men nicknamed the Shattuck Street Fairies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the wall of GBLT Historical Society, a 1992 poem by a customer named Cynthia describes the scene: “Flannel shirted wimmin / pierced and tattooed dykes / Bitchin’ dreadlocks, cool shaved heads / Feeding old folks and young tikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987678\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Davenport and Joan Antonuccio at The Brick Hut Cafe in the ’90s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ace Morgan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As AIDS began to decimate the gay community, and government officials ignored and stigmatized the disease, queer institutions like the Brick Hut became crucial resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put up information, and we talked to people,” Brick Hut co-founder Sharon Davenport says. “You know, like, ‘Am I going to get AIDS from a toilet seat?’ No. ‘If I sit next to a gay guy, am I gonna get AIDS?’ No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this era, lesbians across the country stepped up as advocates. They organized blood drives, protested for better public health policies, and even offered bedside care for gay men with AIDS whose families were afraid to come near them. At the Brick Hut, they also offered social support. “The important part was the personal interaction with people,” Davenport says. “So they wouldn’t be afraid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lynch of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, it’s stories like these that show that the establishments honored in \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> are much more than just businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sustaining ourselves, providing for ourselves,” she says. “But we’re also at the same time organizing ourselves, collectivizing ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Younger generations take notes from lesbian herstory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it celebrates visionary lesbian activists and community builders, \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> is also honest about where the movement fell short. The exhibition’s wall text notes that racism at times alienated women of color from lesbian spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was messy,” Lynch says. “I mean, [white women] were coming into consciousness that they’re racist for the first time. Black women are coming into the consciousness that, ‘Oh my god, we’ve been serving Black men and the Black power movement, and we haven’t thought about our needs for ourselves.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests observe the exhibit, “Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,” on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Absent from the exhibit are the lesbian separatists who discriminated against trans women and wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977595/sandy-stone-olivia-records-jimi-hendrix-girl-island-documentary\">exclude them\u003c/a>. In the ’70s, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976295/1970s-gay-transgender-rights-movement-san-francisco-pride\">gays and lesbians seeking mainstream acceptance\u003c/a> sought to distance themselves from trans people, who faced even worse discrimination. During our interview, Lynch acknowledged that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the good, the bad, the ugly, but I love how those women got the conversation started for us to continue today,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1990s, as an influx of young artists began to transform the Mission District, long-running women’s spaces like Woman Crafts West and Old Wives’ Tales shut their doors. Many of the reasons were economic: Rising rents on Valencia Street meant that people could no longer afford to run radical spaces. In Berkeley, the Brick Hut shuttered because it was $30,000 in debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests observe the exhibit, “Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,” on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think some of the generations since then are kind of pissed that we let it go,” Seajay of Old Wives’ Tales says. “I am, too. I share that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, she wants this history to inspire young people to carry on that legacy. “You want something, make it happen,” she says. “You can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the opening reception of \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> on March 11, lesbians and queer people in their 20s, 30s and 40s mingled alongside elders who shaped this golden era. Among those taking in the display of Pell’s goddess-themed jewelry and sculptures were Stephanie and Etecia Burrell, a couple who run The Sanctuary, an eclectic shop in Oakland that offers wellness services rooted in West African spiritual traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1974px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1974\" height=\"1559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival.jpg 1974w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-768x607.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-1536x1213.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1974px) 100vw, 1974px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pell (fourth from right) and friends pose in front of her shop, Woman Crafts West. In the 1980s and ’90s, it was a prominent fixture of the lesbian cultural corridor on Valencia Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lesbian Archives/Pell Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Burrells are both especially inspired by Pell’s legacy as a Black lesbian community builder. “It actually makes me feel like, ‘Wow, I can relax, I can feel more of what I’m doing and the power of it because someone else did it,’” Stephanie says. “And it gives me a sense of relief, a sense of calm. A sense like, ‘You got this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lesbian community in today’s Bay Area looks much different than it did during the second-wave feminist movement. Many millennials and Gen Z-ers opt for terms like “queer” and “sapphic” when throwing parties and events, so as not to exclude trans, nonbinary, bisexual or pansexual people. At queer parties raising money for immigration defense or humanitarian aid in Gaza, there’s a greater mindfulness around the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability and immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Lynch says it’s crucial to learn from those who paved the way. As conservative legislators continue to attack LGBTQ+ rights and civil liberties more broadly, she wants \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> to spark people’s imaginations for how to thrive, even amid a hostile political climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a mausoleum — these are instructions,” Lynch told the crowd at the opening. “Each flyer, each menu, each business card tucked away is a small declaration. ‘We were here, we built this, and you can build it too.’ Because the question is not whether these women were extraordinary. Of course they were. The real question is, what happens when we remember that survival has always been collective?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San José State University is challenging the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071407/trump-officials-say-san-jose-state-broke-civil-rights-law-by-letting-trans-athlete-play\">threats to withhold funding\u003c/a> over policies supporting transgender student-athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit filed in federal court last week by the California State University system comes after the U.S. Department of Education presented San José State with an ultimatum in January, saying that if the school does not make a set of sweeping policy changes and public statements barring transgender students from athletic programs, it could risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal financial aid and research funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is no choice at all,” the lawsuit reads. “SJSU has filed this action to defend the rule of law and protect itself and its community against such lawless acts by the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school made national headlines when a series of opponents forfeited games against its women’s volleyball team, which had a transgender player, in 2024. Shortly after, the department’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into San José State University in February 2025, alleging the school violated federal Title IX law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order barring transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, and the NCAA said it would change its policies in line with the directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2262729717-scaled-e1773182284895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Feb. 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The moves followed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015114/anti-trans-lawsuit-seeks-ban-san-jose-state-volleyball-player-tournament\">lawsuit filed during the 2024 season\u003c/a> by San José State’s co-captain, Brooke Slusser and a slew of players on teams that had forfeited attempting to bar the transgender athlete from playing on San José State’s team, alleging that the school and the Big Mountain West athletic conference violated the rights of women by allowing transgender players to compete. At the time, the university had not acknowledged publicly whether a transgender athlete played on the team, and the player had not yet publicly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/magazine/trans-athletes-women-college-sports.html\">come out\u003c/a> as trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the federal government threatened to withhold federal funding if it didn’t make changes to school policies that state that there are only two sexes and that “the sex of a human — female or male — is unchangeable,” issue public and personal apologies to women who forfeited games against the volleyball team and bar transgender women from women’s sports teams and gendered facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school receives nearly $200 million in research funding from the federal government. About two-thirds of its students also rely on a total of about $130 million in federal financial aid, according to the lawsuit. Without the funding, the lawsuit states, those students, many of whom are the first in their families to go to college, could lose necessary financial support and may not be able to afford tuition.[aside postID=news_12071407 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1020x680.jpg']Still, the CSU rejected the proposed resolution agreement from the Department of Education last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the school said that its policies allowing transgender players to participate on the team between 2022 and 2024 were in line with federal law, and the DOE’s own interpretation of Title IX at the time. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also issued rulings in 2023 and 2024 upholding the rights of transgender athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our position is simple: We have followed the law and cannot be punished for doing so,” SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the CSU added that any future change cannot be applied retroactively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The President does not have the authority to override judicial decisions interpreting the Constitution or federal statutes — much less to go back in time and change the rules that applied before he took office,” the suit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on its website, the CSU said its policies supporting transgender students and prohibiting gender identity discrimination remain in place, and “remains unwavering in its commitment to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and safe environment for all students, faculty, and staff — including LGBTQ+ community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the question of whether transgender athletes could be barred from competing in women’s sports more broadly in the future remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016237\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/AP24306173842056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a gym with players in yellow uniforms.\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/AP24306173842056_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/AP24306173842056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/AP24306173842056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/AP24306173842056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San José State University is challenging the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071407/trump-officials-say-san-jose-state-broke-civil-rights-law-by-letting-trans-athlete-play\">threats to withhold funding\u003c/a> over policies supporting transgender student-athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit filed in federal court last week by the California State University system comes after the U.S. Department of Education presented San José State with an ultimatum in January, saying that if the school does not make a set of sweeping policy changes and public statements barring transgender students from athletic programs, it could risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal financial aid and research funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is no choice at all,” the lawsuit reads. “SJSU has filed this action to defend the rule of law and protect itself and its community against such lawless acts by the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, the CSU rejected the proposed resolution agreement from the Department of Education last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the school said that its policies allowing transgender players to participate on the team between 2022 and 2024 were in line with federal law, and the DOE’s own interpretation of Title IX at the time. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also issued rulings in 2023 and 2024 upholding the rights of transgender athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our position is simple: We have followed the law and cannot be punished for doing so,” SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the CSU added that any future change cannot be applied retroactively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The President does not have the authority to override judicial decisions interpreting the Constitution or federal statutes — much less to go back in time and change the rules that applied before he took office,” the suit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on its website, the CSU said its policies supporting transgender students and prohibiting gender identity discrimination remain in place, and “remains unwavering in its commitment to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and safe environment for all students, faculty, and staff — including LGBTQ+ community 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During oral arguments in January, the court appeared poised to uphold the bans, though depending on how narrowly the court chooses to 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"content": "\u003cp>An emergency Supreme Court ruling to temporarily bar California from enforcing a state law that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021521/new-year-new-law-know-more-about-your-rights-as-a-trans-student-in-california-schools\">prevents public schools from outing transgender students\u003c/a> has advocates raising concerns about its potential to further roll back protections for transgender youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s conservative majority on Monday sided with a group of Christian parents who alleged that the law violates their religious and due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes as the court also considers this spring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069570/california-advocates-fearful-as-supreme-court-weighs-bans-of-trans-student-athletes\">whether to bar transgender girls\u003c/a> from participating in public school sports and strike down a law \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-539_3f14.pdf\">banning conversion therapy\u003c/a> for minors in Colorado. Last year, the court upheld a law barring some gender-affirming care for minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the fifth anti-trans decision that the Supreme Court has done,” said Jorge Reyes Salinas, the communications director for Equality California. “It is disappointing, and it is alarming that the Supreme Court has chosen to do this and once again disregard the safety and well-being and privacy of transgender people, specifically transgender youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is very clear to the American people that the Supreme Court is going after the transgender community deliberately,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230806-Kids-Pronouns-Protest-Getty-WL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960230\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230806-Kids-Pronouns-Protest-Getty-WL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people in an indoor setting including some holding signs, one of which reads \"Let Queer & Trans Kids Be Kids Too!\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230806-Kids-Pronouns-Protest-Getty-WL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230806-Kids-Pronouns-Protest-Getty-WL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230806-Kids-Pronouns-Protest-Getty-WL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230806-Kids-Pronouns-Protest-Getty-WL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230806-Kids-Pronouns-Protest-Getty-WL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230806-Kids-Pronouns-Protest-Getty-WL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold up signs in support of gay and transgender student rights during the Chino Valley Unified School District board meeting at Don Lugo High School in Chino on Thursday night, July 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Will Lester/MediaNews Group/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California law in question, enacted in 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019618/california-bans-schools-from-forcing-teachers-to-out-lgbtq-students\">prevents schools\u003c/a> from automatically fulfilling parents’ requests for information if their child changes their pronouns or gender expression at school. This week’s ruling blocks the state from enforcing the law as it is challenged in lower courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, a group of parents and teachers opposed the policy in District Court, and in December, a federal judge ruled that school officials cannot withhold such information about students if parents request it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, a three-judge panel of appellate judges temporarily blocked that District Court order pending a challenge by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who said the lower court misunderstood state law. 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Other parents say it violates their 14th Amendment right to “have primary authority with respect to ‘the upbringing and education of children.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s nondisclosure policy thus quite obviously excludes parents from highly important decisions about their child’s mental health … and is unlikely to satisfy heightened scrutiny. Our resolution of the parents’ likelihood of success on this claim is dictated by existing law,” the decision reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Elena Kagan dissented, along with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Kagan cautioned that the court’s decision, before hearing any oral arguments in the case or a full decision by the appellate court, is hasty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Court is impatient: It already knows what it thinks, and insists on getting everything over quickly,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also criticized the court’s decision to use “shortcut procedures” to vacate the appeals court decision more quickly — pointing to a similar case out of Massachusetts that the Supreme Court is considering hearing.[aside postID=news_12069570 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Instead of adding that case to its docket to decide on the merits, the court elected to intervene on the California matter under an emergency basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in this case is deeply disturbing,” Equality California’s Executive Director Tony Hoang said in a statement after the ruling. “By stepping in on an emergency basis, the Court has effectively upended California’s student privacy protections without hearing full arguments and before the judicial process has run its course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While not surprising, this move reflects a dangerous willingness to short-circuit the established judicial process to dismantle protections for transgender youth,” Hoang continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many have expressed outrage with the way the court went about its ruling, Greenesmith said that the Transgender Law Center, which is involved with multiple cases arguing to expand protections for trans people in state courts across the country, isn’t exactly hoping that the high court takes up more cases regarding transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t say with full certainty that we are looking for any of these cases to go to the Supreme Court under circumstances in which they have shown a reluctance to understand basic constitutional principles like substantive due process, for example, from which our understanding of protections and sexual orientation and gender identity bases have sprung,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s other rulings affecting transgender youth are expected this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I’m alone in saying that I am not expecting the court to support the rights of trans students to be able to access sports and teams and fun with their friends in the spring,” Greenesmith told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the court’s decision blocking California’s law will be applicable until the appellate court reaches a final decision. The timeline of that case is not yet known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s heartbreaking for us to hear stories from transgender youth and their families who really just want to have a day where they’re able to breathe and they’re to enjoy their lives and their privacy,” said Reyes Salinas, with Equality California. “And it’s unfortunate that their own government is doing everything in their power to not let that happen for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Yosemite National Park ranger and biologist who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053078/yosemite-biologist-fired-after-hanging-transgender-pride-flag-from-el-capitan\">fired last year\u003c/a> after hanging a transgender pride flag on El Capitan has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Department of the Interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, SJ Joslin and several others lugged the 58-pound flag up the imposing granite wall and flew it on a heart-shaped feature of the rock for several hours. Joslin did so in an off-duty capacity, they said in an interview with KQED last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in August, Joslin received a termination letter, which said they had “failed to demonstrate acceptable conduct.” At the time, a National Park Service representative told KQED it was “pursuing administrative action against multiple employees for failing to follow National Park Service regulations” and that there had been multiple “unauthorized demonstrations involving El Capitan,” which require a permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joslin told KQED in August that flying the flag was not a demonstration but a celebration of their transgender identity. They criticized the park service for taking action against them but not others who have similarly displayed flags on the prominent rock wall facing Yosemite Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2_23_26-Joslin-v-DOI-Complaint.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a>, filed on Monday, points out a “tradition” of flying flags across Yosemite — none of which, to Joslin and her team’s knowledge, have led to any legal or other consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947774\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view of El Capitan in Yosemite, a sheer rock face with a bright blue sky behind it. An orange car drives on the road in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Oct. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody had ever been disciplined before, much less fired and subject to criminal investigation,” said Paula Dinerstein, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is representing Joslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of whether or not it was a demonstration also doesn’t matter, Dinerstein said, because Joslin’s First Amendment rights were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our claim is that the only reason that SJ and their fellow climbers were singled out was because of the message affirming transgender rights,” she said.[aside postID=news_12053078 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/YosemiteTransFlagGetty.jpg']The lawsuit also alleges that Joslin’s rights under the Privacy Act were violated, stemming from claims that the National Park Service’s records describing Joslin’s actions include false or harmful information, Dinerstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Department of the Interior would not comment on the specific case, a spokesperson emphasized in a statement to KQED that department officials “take the protection of the park’s resources and the experience of our visitors very seriously and will not tolerate violations of laws and regulations that impact those resources and experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter the cause, demonstrating without a permit outside of designated First-Amendment areas detracts from the visitor experience and the protection of the park,” the statement said. “To safeguard the protection of visitors, visitor experiences, and park resources, many demonstrations require a permit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinerstein also noted that the National Park Service told Joslin it had opened a criminal investigation, which the complaint in the suit calls part of a “vindictive campaign” that “continues to chill their expressive conduct and speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinerstein said that because they filed a preliminary injunction, the parties are meeting now with lawyers from the Department of the Interior to set a schedule to begin legal proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s no secret that the gals, gays and theys can’t stop talking about Canadian sports romance \u003cem>Heated Rivalry\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much so, the fandom is bursting with an energy many of us haven’t experienced since our early teens. I’m talking peak \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> saga, or maybe even the same feral obsession many of us felt for *NSYNC or the Spice Girls. If this feels like an exaggeration, might I recommend falling down the \u003ca href=\"https://www.today.com/popculture/boy-aquarium-tiktok-slang-explained-rcna257032\">“Boy aquarium” rabbit hole\u003c/a> on TikTok?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>Heated Rivalry\u003c/em> raves popping up across the country, including many here in the Bay Area, hopeless romantics are coming out in droves to celebrate the show’s portrayal of yearning, intimacy and consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just love the intimacy outside of the sex. It’s in the micro expressions, it’s in the consensual tension. Oh, my goodness, yes!” said Ahlea Castro, 30, who attended Klip Klop Productions’ \u003cem>Heaved Rivalry\u003c/em> Rave at The Stud in San Francisco on Feb. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Pineda, left, claps as Heiress Throttle Cakes performs at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. 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Diallo said she relates to Shane Hollander’s character because, at the end of the day, he’s a “total lover boy.” “I think sometimes people think gay sex is very, like, pornographic, but I’m always like, ‘No, that’s genuine love,’” Diallo said. “All of us hook up with people randomly, and then we slowly started falling in love with each other. So what does it matter if it’s two men doing that?” \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rimsha Abid, center left, 27, poses for a portrait with her friends during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Abid is a big fan of the show and bought tickets for herself and her friends weeks in advance because she was so excited about the event. She enjoys that the show features characters from communities that aren’t often represented on television and portrays how deeply they grow to care for each other. “I think it’s one of the reasons why I love this show so much, because there’s so much yearning, but there’s also so much love between these characters,” Abid said.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Berry, center, poses for a portrait during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Berry is a member of the San Francisco Earthquakes. He enjoyed the show for several reasons. “I love hockey, and I’m gay, so it aligns with my interests, but mostly because it’s a love story, also because I feel like it’ll make a difference in professional sports, ” Berry said.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_22_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_22_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_22_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The members of San Francisco Earthquakes pose for a portrait during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. The San Francisco Earthquakes is a LGBTQ+ ice hockey team, founded in 1998 and currently playing at Yerba Buena Ice in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees cheer as Heiress performs during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave as scenes from the television show project for the audience at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The audience cheers as Heiress Throttle Cakes pretends to take a call from “the cottage” during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave as scenes from the television show project for the audience at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heiress Throttle Cakes performs during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave as scenes from the television show project for the audience at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizzy Trueblood, left, and her partner Sarah Benjamin wear a couples costume during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. The pair styled their outfits to mimic Kip and Scott’s, mostly going for a loose interpretation. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efrain Balbuena, center, wears a cropped hockey jersey during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s no secret that the gals, gays and theys can’t stop talking about Canadian sports romance \u003cem>Heated Rivalry\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much so, the fandom is bursting with an energy many of us haven’t experienced since our early teens. I’m talking peak \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> saga, or maybe even the same feral obsession many of us felt for *NSYNC or the Spice Girls. If this feels like an exaggeration, might I recommend falling down the \u003ca href=\"https://www.today.com/popculture/boy-aquarium-tiktok-slang-explained-rcna257032\">“Boy aquarium” rabbit hole\u003c/a> on TikTok?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>Heated Rivalry\u003c/em> raves popping up across the country, including many here in the Bay Area, hopeless romantics are coming out in droves to celebrate the show’s portrayal of yearning, intimacy and consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just love the intimacy outside of the sex. It’s in the micro expressions, it’s in the consensual tension. Oh, my goodness, yes!” said Ahlea Castro, 30, who attended Klip Klop Productions’ \u003cem>Heaved Rivalry\u003c/em> Rave at The Stud in San Francisco on Feb. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_02_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Pineda, left, claps as Heiress Throttle Cakes performs at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Pineda enjoys the emotional intimacy of ‘Heated Rivalry.’ “Love should be vulnerable. I feel like with love now it’s like, you have to be stoic and kind of like you don’t care… but they’re showing, ‘I love you. I’m here for you,’” said Pineda. “The vulnerability, the passion, and it’s all that is brought into ‘Heated Rivalry.’ It’s a cult.” \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castro eagerly bought tickets a month in advance and attended it with Amanda Pineda; they dressed as characters from \u003cem>Ember and Ice\u003c/em>, an audio erotica story narrated by \u003cem>Heated Rivalry\u003c/em> stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With several go-go dancers, intricate drag numbers and clips of the show playing the the background, the night also paid homage to the San Francisco Earthquakes, an LGBTQ+ hockey team that’s been out and proud since the ’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’ll make a difference for a lot of younger people, and also people that play professional sports that are gay but don’t necessarily feel comfortable coming out,” said Mike Berry, a member of the San Francisco Earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Earthquakes were among the dozens of people dressed on theme and ready for to take a \u003ca href=\"https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/heated-rivalry-filming-location-connor-storrie-hudson-williams/\">trip to the cottage\u003c/a> during Super Bowl weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_05_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rougui Diallo poses for a portrait during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Diallo said she relates to Shane Hollander’s character because, at the end of the day, he’s a “total lover boy.” “I think sometimes people think gay sex is very, like, pornographic, but I’m always like, ‘No, that’s genuine love,’” Diallo said. “All of us hook up with people randomly, and then we slowly started falling in love with each other. So what does it matter if it’s two men doing that?” \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rimsha Abid, center left, 27, poses for a portrait with her friends during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Abid is a big fan of the show and bought tickets for herself and her friends weeks in advance because she was so excited about the event. She enjoys that the show features characters from communities that aren’t often represented on television and portrays how deeply they grow to care for each other. “I think it’s one of the reasons why I love this show so much, because there’s so much yearning, but there’s also so much love between these characters,” Abid said.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Berry, center, poses for a portrait during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Berry is a member of the San Francisco Earthquakes. He enjoyed the show for several reasons. “I love hockey, and I’m gay, so it aligns with my interests, but mostly because it’s a love story, also because I feel like it’ll make a difference in professional sports, ” Berry said.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_22_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_22_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_22_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The members of San Francisco Earthquakes pose for a portrait during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. The San Francisco Earthquakes is a LGBTQ+ ice hockey team, founded in 1998 and currently playing at Yerba Buena Ice in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees cheer as Heiress performs during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave as scenes from the television show project for the audience at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The audience cheers as Heiress Throttle Cakes pretends to take a call from “the cottage” during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave as scenes from the television show project for the audience at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heiress Throttle Cakes performs during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave as scenes from the television show project for the audience at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizzy Trueblood, left, and her partner Sarah Benjamin wear a couples costume during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. The pair styled their outfits to mimic Kip and Scott’s, mostly going for a loose interpretation. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efrain Balbuena, center, wears a cropped hockey jersey during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Balbuena was one of the many people dressed on theme for the rave. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_14_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_14_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The word “YEARN” decorates the DJ Booth at the Stud during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_23_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_23_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_23_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_23_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Day, left, dances with John Flanagan during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_19_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_19_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_19_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoebe Cakes performs during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_27_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_27_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_27_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260205_HeatedRivalryRave_EG_27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dancer performs in a jockstrap during the ‘Heated Rivalry’ Rave at The Stud on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]irst things first: \u003cem>Priscilla, Queen of the Desert\u003c/em> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/castro-theatre\">Castro Theatre\u003c/a> is not, strictly speaking, a “film event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a film, sure. But it also doubles as the Castro Theatre’s long-awaited reopening after a two-year closure. It’s a celebration. It’s not Film 101 like \u003cem>Stalker\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Ikiru\u003c/em> or \u003cem>In the Mood for Love\u003c/em>; it’s \u003cem>Priscilla\u003c/em> — a communion, a camp fest, and a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, since it is the first movie shown at the newly renovated Castro, once my favorite movie theater in the entire world, I am duty-bound to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See, I have been talking my head off about the Castro to anyone who will listen for the past four years, ever since Another Planet Entertainment, the live music promoter, announced plans to convert it into a multi-use venue. I’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908311/castro-theatre-to-become-live-music-and-events-venue-after-renovation\">reported\u003c/a> on the story \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/theres-only-one-castro-theatre-why-change-it-now\">publicly\u003c/a>, and also, as my coworkers will attest, ranted pessimistically about it in private. I have been “that guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986461\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-2000x1500.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ceiling in the balcony of the Castro Theatre is readied for reopening on Feb. 5, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like thousands of others, I’d loyally seen movies there for 30 years. I \u003cem>loved\u003c/em> the Castro. It was reasonable to be worried. Another Planet does not operate any other venue that shows film — how could they possibly uphold their requirement by the Planning Commission to do so, for 75 days out of each calendar year? And how could they destroy a beloved institution’s original floor seating to become yet another music venue, with a tacked-on film element, in a city with no other movie palaces? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, I never minded the run-down look of the Castro. While it was hard to argue with restoring the ceiling, upgrading the sound, fixing the roof and adding ADA compliance, was it a fair trade-off for losing around-the-clock film programming?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole thing felt like someone walking into \u003ca href=\"https://tommysjoynt.com/about\">Tommy’s Joynt\u003c/a> and saying, “Nice place, good potential. But let’s take all this garbage off the walls and repaint it. And say, why don’t we put in a matcha bar?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newly renovated interior at the Castro Theatre during its grand reopening on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]o while touring the theater the day before it opened, I was mainly fixated on how it would show movies. Another Planet needed to appease three contingents with this project: the LGBTQ community, the Castro neighborhood, and the film community. Their bookings so far lean very queer, a good thing, and they’ll easily bring people, and money, to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Film, though, was still an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13917362']I was glad to learn that the projection booth retains both a 35mm and 70mm film projector, along with a new digital 4K BARCO projector. The screen is 36 feet by 25 feet, similar in size to the old one. There’s a new sound system, and in classic movie-palace style, the speakers sit behind the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a bar at the back of the auditorium for concerts, but it’s fully removable and will be absent for film screenings. Film booking is done in-house, and festivals like Berlin & Beyond, the SF Silent Film Festival and Frameline are all returning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New seats await filmgoers at the Castro Theatre during its grand reopening on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The seats are ugly. There’s no other way to say it. The point of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952358/sf-supes-ok-effort-renovate-castro-theater\">so much debate\u003c/a>, anger and town halls, the new seats aren’t technically folding chairs, but to me they still look like seats at a school assembly, with toothpick legs. They’re on six-inch risers with improved sight lines, and they’re padded and have cup holders, but if AMC installed these seats at their theaters they’d go out of business immediately. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in the seats with Mary Conde, the senior vice president of Another Planet, I ask: you must know that some people will complain about this, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She nods. “We are prepared for that,” Conde says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Another Planet Entertainment Senior Vice President Mary Conde, Senator Scott Wiener, drag artist D’Arcy Drollinger and Mayor Daniel Lurie help cut the ribbon during the Castro Theatre’s grand reopening on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he cops are milling around on Castro Street, trying to keep the teeming crowd on the sidewalk. It’s the Castro’s grand re-opening on Friday night, and politicians, drag queens, a marching band, a guy with a sign reading “\u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/gmeline.bsky.social/post/3mead4xikds26\">THIS SUCKS\u003c/a>,” security workers, lookie-loos, local merchants and movie fans have all congealed in front of the theater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s Sam Smith?” one of the cops asks, looking up at the marquee. “Some singer,” another replies, disinterestedly. “Here for two weeks, they say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby Day from Beach Blanket Babylon sings “our national anthem,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/dv6mHsXKI2c?si=0ZOJwbwF341-ijm2\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.” Castro Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says “Go queers in construction!” Mayor Lurie does his we’re-so-back Lurie thing. The ribbon gets cut, the marching band strikes up, and we’re off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newly renovated ceiling at the Castro Theatre during its grand reopening on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People enter the theater and immediately look upward at the stunning new ceiling. One remembers “the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-1920x1281.jpe\">brown expanse that it used to be\u003c/a>.” The new 2,000-pound digital organ emerges from the stage, and a standing ovation ensues for David Hegarty, the Castro’s organist since 1978. He’s canonized as “St. Mellifluous” by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. There’s a sing-along to “Mamma Mia” with 14 drag queens on stage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, after 42 minutes of pre-show, the movie starts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is my show-me-what-you-got moment. And, after the masking is adjusted, I have to say: the movie looks \u003cem>good\u003c/em>. The film print is clean, the focus is sharp and the presentation is bright, with a strong bulb in the projector. I also find that I don’t mind my seat at all, or how it feels. I am back at the Castro, this cathedral for film, watching a movie again. Could it be that all my worries were unfounded? What’s happening here?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I will forever miss the old interior, and the sound system needs some fine-tuning. But I think to myself: I can live with this. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1447px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1447\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986465\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955.jpg 1447w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955-768x1062.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955-1111x1536.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1447px) 100vw, 1447px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organist Dave Hegarty is honored at the grand reopening of the Castro Theatre on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At my age, I am trying to accept change. While \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13965624/oakland-as-last-game-songs-played-coliseum\">watching my last A’s game\u003c/a> at the Oakland Coliseum, another Bay Area cathedral, I considered the possibility that what makes a place special isn’t the place so much as the people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seared into my memory is the first movie I ever saw at the Castro: \u003cem>Grey Gardens\u003c/em>, which amazed me not only for its story but for the audience interaction. During \u003cem>Priscilla\u003c/em>, people cheer for Terence Stamp, who recently died, in the opening credits. They recite lines like “a cock in a frock on a rock” back to the screen. They laugh at the jokes, sing along to the drag numbers, and get silent for the emotional scenes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And me? For 104 minutes, I get lost in the film, forget about the past four years, and realize that when the lights go down, it’s still the same Castro magic. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>irst things first: \u003cem>Priscilla, Queen of the Desert\u003c/em> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/castro-theatre\">Castro Theatre\u003c/a> is not, strictly speaking, a “film event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a film, sure. But it also doubles as the Castro Theatre’s long-awaited reopening after a two-year closure. It’s a celebration. It’s not Film 101 like \u003cem>Stalker\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Ikiru\u003c/em> or \u003cem>In the Mood for Love\u003c/em>; it’s \u003cem>Priscilla\u003c/em> — a communion, a camp fest, and a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, since it is the first movie shown at the newly renovated Castro, once my favorite movie theater in the entire world, I am duty-bound to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See, I have been talking my head off about the Castro to anyone who will listen for the past four years, ever since Another Planet Entertainment, the live music promoter, announced plans to convert it into a multi-use venue. I’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908311/castro-theatre-to-become-live-music-and-events-venue-after-renovation\">reported\u003c/a> on the story \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/theres-only-one-castro-theatre-why-change-it-now\">publicly\u003c/a>, and also, as my coworkers will attest, ranted pessimistically about it in private. I have been “that guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986461\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-2000x1500.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0897-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ceiling in the balcony of the Castro Theatre is readied for reopening on Feb. 5, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like thousands of others, I’d loyally seen movies there for 30 years. I \u003cem>loved\u003c/em> the Castro. It was reasonable to be worried. Another Planet does not operate any other venue that shows film — how could they possibly uphold their requirement by the Planning Commission to do so, for 75 days out of each calendar year? And how could they destroy a beloved institution’s original floor seating to become yet another music venue, with a tacked-on film element, in a city with no other movie palaces? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, I never minded the run-down look of the Castro. While it was hard to argue with restoring the ceiling, upgrading the sound, fixing the roof and adding ADA compliance, was it a fair trade-off for losing around-the-clock film programming?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole thing felt like someone walking into \u003ca href=\"https://tommysjoynt.com/about\">Tommy’s Joynt\u003c/a> and saying, “Nice place, good potential. But let’s take all this garbage off the walls and repaint it. And say, why don’t we put in a matcha bar?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newly renovated interior at the Castro Theatre during its grand reopening on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>o while touring the theater the day before it opened, I was mainly fixated on how it would show movies. Another Planet needed to appease three contingents with this project: the LGBTQ community, the Castro neighborhood, and the film community. Their bookings so far lean very queer, a good thing, and they’ll easily bring people, and money, to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Film, though, was still an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I was glad to learn that the projection booth retains both a 35mm and 70mm film projector, along with a new digital 4K BARCO projector. The screen is 36 feet by 25 feet, similar in size to the old one. There’s a new sound system, and in classic movie-palace style, the speakers sit behind the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a bar at the back of the auditorium for concerts, but it’s fully removable and will be absent for film screenings. Film booking is done in-house, and festivals like Berlin & Beyond, the SF Silent Film Festival and Frameline are all returning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New seats await filmgoers at the Castro Theatre during its grand reopening on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The seats are ugly. There’s no other way to say it. The point of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952358/sf-supes-ok-effort-renovate-castro-theater\">so much debate\u003c/a>, anger and town halls, the new seats aren’t technically folding chairs, but to me they still look like seats at a school assembly, with toothpick legs. They’re on six-inch risers with improved sight lines, and they’re padded and have cup holders, but if AMC installed these seats at their theaters they’d go out of business immediately. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in the seats with Mary Conde, the senior vice president of Another Planet, I ask: you must know that some people will complain about this, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She nods. “We are prepared for that,” Conde says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-5_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Another Planet Entertainment Senior Vice President Mary Conde, Senator Scott Wiener, drag artist D’Arcy Drollinger and Mayor Daniel Lurie help cut the ribbon during the Castro Theatre’s grand reopening on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he cops are milling around on Castro Street, trying to keep the teeming crowd on the sidewalk. It’s the Castro’s grand re-opening on Friday night, and politicians, drag queens, a marching band, a guy with a sign reading “\u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/gmeline.bsky.social/post/3mead4xikds26\">THIS SUCKS\u003c/a>,” security workers, lookie-loos, local merchants and movie fans have all congealed in front of the theater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s Sam Smith?” one of the cops asks, looking up at the marquee. “Some singer,” another replies, disinterestedly. “Here for two weeks, they say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby Day from Beach Blanket Babylon sings “our national anthem,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/dv6mHsXKI2c?si=0ZOJwbwF341-ijm2\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.” Castro Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says “Go queers in construction!” Mayor Lurie does his we’re-so-back Lurie thing. The ribbon gets cut, the marching band strikes up, and we’re off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/20260206_CastroTheatreGrandReopening-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newly renovated ceiling at the Castro Theatre during its grand reopening on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People enter the theater and immediately look upward at the stunning new ceiling. One remembers “the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-1920x1281.jpe\">brown expanse that it used to be\u003c/a>.” The new 2,000-pound digital organ emerges from the stage, and a standing ovation ensues for David Hegarty, the Castro’s organist since 1978. He’s canonized as “St. Mellifluous” by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. There’s a sing-along to “Mamma Mia” with 14 drag queens on stage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, after 42 minutes of pre-show, the movie starts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is my show-me-what-you-got moment. And, after the masking is adjusted, I have to say: the movie looks \u003cem>good\u003c/em>. The film print is clean, the focus is sharp and the presentation is bright, with a strong bulb in the projector. I also find that I don’t mind my seat at all, or how it feels. I am back at the Castro, this cathedral for film, watching a movie again. Could it be that all my worries were unfounded? What’s happening here?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I will forever miss the old interior, and the sound system needs some fine-tuning. But I think to myself: I can live with this. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1447px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1447\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986465\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955.jpg 1447w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955-768x1062.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_0955-1111x1536.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1447px) 100vw, 1447px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organist Dave Hegarty is honored at the grand reopening of the Castro Theatre on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At my age, I am trying to accept change. 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The player had not spoken publicly about her gender identity. Other plaintiffs included players from conference rivals such as the University of Wyoming and Boise State University, which forfeited games against San José State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Education Department also accused San José State of retaliating against players who spoke out and “subjecting one female SJSU athlete to a Title IX complaint for allegedly ‘misgendering’” a teammate, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not relent until SJSU is held to account for these abuses and commits to upholding Title IX to protect future athletes from the same indignities,” Richey said.[aside postID=news_12026277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg']Title IX is a landmark 1979 law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. 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"content": "\u003cp>This weekend, the absence of an official San Francisco Pride Parade made room for things to get a lot weirder, more political and more D.I.Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of corporate-sponsored floats with rainbow advertisements, a People’s March organized by artists and activists took over the streets on Sunday, June 27, connecting the celebration back to its radical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, this feels like my people, everyone is so beautiful,” Gia Loving, a community organizer with the Transgender Law Center, told the crowd. “[This feels like] 51 years ago when we were kicking the pigs out of the bar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was referring to the Stonewall Riots in 1969, when New York’s gay and trans community rioted against abusive police officers who would routinely raid their safe spaces and arrest people based on gender presentation and sexuality. Loving reminded the audience that the fight isn’t over: State legislatures across the country have introduced over \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pride-2021-has-set-a-record-in-anti-trans-bills-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 bills to restrict trans rights\u003c/a> just this year alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be clear that there would be no Pride without trans youth,” she said before leading the demonstrators in a chant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers focused on Pride as an antidote to the isolation and trauma Americans experienced over the last year-plus of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, there was a moment when I felt as though I was stuck. I couldn’t be on Facebook, I couldn’t be on social media, I couldn’t interact,” said renowned drag queen and activist Juanita MORE! “And then, recently, I felt as though I woke up again, and I knew that I was again creating space for me to grow. All of you being here today is so important because this is what the first Pride felt like. So I want to thank you all for being a part of the march and rally today, because your presence here today is proof that inclusiveness is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spirit of inclusiveness was deeply felt throughout the weekend as different LGBTQ+ communities reunited, fully vaccinated and ready to hug, march, dance, flirt and celebrate in person. KQED’s Beth LaBerge was there to capture it all with her camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Black plays music from a bus during the People’s March and Rally on Polk Street heading toward City Hall in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899477\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The People’s March and Rally depart from Polk and Sacramento Streets to City Hall in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of marchers head down Polk Street towards City Hall during the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaylah Paige Williams raises her fist during the People’s March Rally in front of City Hall in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. “This is what Pride should be about, community coming together,” she said during a speech. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899480\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita MORE! and Alex U. Inn speak during the People’s March and Rally in front of City Hall in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators arrive at City Hall during the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The One and Only Rexy performs during T4T, the official Trans March After Party, in San Francisco on June 25, 2021. “For us at Trans March, Pride is about liberation,” she said. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899503\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899503\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallery Jenna Robinson, organizer of Long Beach Trans Pride, dances during T4T, the official Trans March After Party, in San Francisco on June 25, 2021. Robinson drove from Los Angeles to attend the event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Just Shannon, the co-founder of the event T4T, talks with Clive Maxx backstage during the Official Trans March After Party at El Rio in San Francisco on June 25, 2021. “We don’t have events that are for trans people specifically. We are very open, and we want our allies and our friends and supporters and our lovers to come, but it’s the only party that fully centers trans folks,” Just Shannon said, speaking about the event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laine B and Teter hug during T4T, the Official Trans March After Party, at El Rio in San Francisco on June 25, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monique and Remy talk with friends during the event Skate for Pride, a part of Oakland Black Pride, at 7th West in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Ninasol plays music during Skate for Pride, an Oakland Black Pride event, at 7th West on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Cox, Advocacy Director for Oakland Black Pride, poses for a portrait with her rollerskates during a Skate for Pride party at 7th West in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899509\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">André greets attendees as they arrive for Skate for Pride at 7th West in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People dance during the drag show intermission during Princess at Oasis in San Francisco on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Militia Scunt sits on a throne during Princess, a disco dance party and drag show, at Oasis in San Francisco on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jota Mercury performs during Princess, a disco dance party and drag show, at Oasis in San Francisco on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899491\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D’Arcy Drollinger, owner of 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This weekend, the absence of an official San Francisco Pride Parade made room for things to get a lot weirder, more political and more D.I.Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of corporate-sponsored floats with rainbow advertisements, a People’s March organized by artists and activists took over the streets on Sunday, June 27, connecting the celebration back to its radical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, this feels like my people, everyone is so beautiful,” Gia Loving, a community organizer with the Transgender Law Center, told the crowd. “[This feels like] 51 years ago when we were kicking the pigs out of the bar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was referring to the Stonewall Riots in 1969, when New York’s gay and trans community rioted against abusive police officers who would routinely raid their safe spaces and arrest people based on gender presentation and sexuality. Loving reminded the audience that the fight isn’t over: State legislatures across the country have introduced over \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pride-2021-has-set-a-record-in-anti-trans-bills-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 bills to restrict trans rights\u003c/a> just this year alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be clear that there would be no Pride without trans youth,” she said before leading the demonstrators in a chant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers focused on Pride as an antidote to the isolation and trauma Americans experienced over the last year-plus of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, there was a moment when I felt as though I was stuck. I couldn’t be on Facebook, I couldn’t be on social media, I couldn’t interact,” said renowned drag queen and activist Juanita MORE! “And then, recently, I felt as though I woke up again, and I knew that I was again creating space for me to grow. All of you being here today is so important because this is what the first Pride felt like. So I want to thank you all for being a part of the march and rally today, because your presence here today is proof that inclusiveness is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spirit of inclusiveness was deeply felt throughout the weekend as different LGBTQ+ communities reunited, fully vaccinated and ready to hug, march, dance, flirt and celebrate in person. KQED’s Beth LaBerge was there to capture it all with her camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Black plays music from a bus during the People’s March and Rally on Polk Street heading toward City Hall in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899477\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The People’s March and Rally depart from Polk and Sacramento Streets to City Hall in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/016_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of marchers head down Polk Street towards City Hall during the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaylah Paige Williams raises her fist during the People’s March Rally in front of City Hall in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. “This is what Pride should be about, community coming together,” she said during a speech. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899480\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/031_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita MORE! and Alex U. Inn speak during the People’s March and Rally in front of City Hall in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/028_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators arrive at City Hall during the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The One and Only Rexy performs during T4T, the official Trans March After Party, in San Francisco on June 25, 2021. “For us at Trans March, Pride is about liberation,” she said. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899503\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899503\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/022_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallery Jenna Robinson, organizer of Long Beach Trans Pride, dances during T4T, the official Trans March After Party, in San Francisco on June 25, 2021. Robinson drove from Los Angeles to attend the event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/017_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Just Shannon, the co-founder of the event T4T, talks with Clive Maxx backstage during the Official Trans March After Party at El Rio in San Francisco on June 25, 2021. “We don’t have events that are for trans people specifically. We are very open, and we want our allies and our friends and supporters and our lovers to come, but it’s the only party that fully centers trans folks,” Just Shannon said, speaking about the event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/024_SanFrancisco_T4TElRio_06252021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laine B and Teter hug during T4T, the Official Trans March After Party, at El Rio in San Francisco on June 25, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/030_Oakland_SkateforPride_06252021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monique and Remy talk with friends during the event Skate for Pride, a part of Oakland Black Pride, at 7th West in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/007_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Ninasol plays music during Skate for Pride, an Oakland Black Pride event, at 7th West on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/012_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Cox, Advocacy Director for Oakland Black Pride, poses for a portrait with her rollerskates during a Skate for Pride party at 7th West in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899509\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/008_Oakland_SkateforPride_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">André greets attendees as they arrive for Skate for Pride at 7th West in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/001_SanFrancisco_Oasis_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People dance during the drag show intermission during Princess at Oasis in San Francisco on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Militia Scunt sits on a throne during Princess, a disco dance party and drag show, at Oasis in San Francisco on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/018_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jota Mercury performs during Princess, a disco dance party and drag show, at Oasis in San Francisco on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899491\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/006_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D’Arcy Drollinger, owner of Oasis nightclub, performs during Princess, a disco dance party and drag show, at Oasis in San Francisco on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This article is part of KQED Arts’ story series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride as Protest\u003c/a>, which chronicles the past and present of LGBTQ+ activism in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Learn more about the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858609/welcome-to-pride-as-protest-a-new-kqed-arts-story-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day that came to be known as “Friday of the Purple Hand” ended in 15 arrests, a broken rib, one set of knocked-out teeth and purple handprints scattered across the \u003ci>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/i>’s exterior walls. [aside postid='arts_13858167']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four months after the infamous Stonewall riots in New York City, the Bay Area’s more radical LGBTQ+ organizations of 1969 refused to passively accept negative depictions of their community in the local news. So on Oct. 25, when the \u003ci>Examiner\u003c/i> published an article by reporter Robert Patterson under the headline “The Dreary Revels of S.F. ‘Gay’ Clubs,” the newspaper unknowingly issued a powerful call to arms—to the very people it had derided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events of that day show that the battleground for the burgeoning gay liberation movement wasn’t just on the streets or in the bars—where LGBTQ+ people demanded the right to live openly and unmolested by police—but within the pages of America’s newspapers and magazines. There, mainstream media’s dismissive adjectives, ironic scare quotes and defamatory headlines had the power to shape public opinion of an increasingly vocal and visible minority group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they definitely weren’t expecting a coalition of gay liberation groups to strike back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ExaminerHED_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The headline of Robert Patterson's Oct. 25, 1969 article about gay breakfast clubs in the 'San Francisco Examiner.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ExaminerHED_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ExaminerHED_1200-160x61.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ExaminerHED_1200-800x305.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ExaminerHED_1200-768x293.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ExaminerHED_1200-1020x389.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The headline of Robert Patterson’s Oct. 25, 1969 article about gay breakfast clubs in the ‘San Francisco Examiner.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the SF Examiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A community mobilizes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By today’s standards, Patterson’s article, ostensibly about after-hours “‘gay’ breakfast clubs” (note the scare quotes around the word “gay”), reads like a hit piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He described the clientele of these so-called “deviate establishments” in as many grossly homophobic ways as possible, all well beyond the pale: “semi-males with flexible wrists and hips,” “the pseudo fair sex,” and “women who aren’t exactly women.” (In a testament to Patterson’s ‘credibility,’ he was fired by the \u003ci>Examiner\u003c/i> in 1972 for a series of stories he wrote about visiting China; the paper concluded he had not actually visited the country.) [aside postid='arts_13857994']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community he described was outraged. “\u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> has surpassed its traditional standard of tastelessness and its predictable appeal for redneck hysteria,” the newly formed gay liberation group, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF) wrote in a \u003ci>Berkeley Barb\u003c/i> response piece. “The entire gay community and all those actively working for true liberation must mobilize to confront the brutal suppression of freedom that the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> consistently exemplifies and encourages.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A date was set after several attempts to engage with the paper’s editor and Patterson directly: a large-scale protest would take place on Oct. 31, starting at 12pm on the sidewalk outside the \u003ci>Examiner\u003c/i>’s Fifth Street building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “melee,” as the \u003ci>Examiner\u003c/i> described it the next day, started when two unknown persons (widely thought to be newspaper employees) dropped bags of purple printer’s ink from the building rooftop onto the peaceful picketers below. “Indignation turned to anger,” one of the protesters later wrote in \u003ci>The San Francisco Free Press\u003c/i>. “Feet stepped in the ink. It appeared all around the sidewalks. One or two hands dipped into the ink and a new symbol was born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BD0yb3bsM1k/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police initially apprehended just one demonstrator, the first one to put his inky hand on the building walls, but as others protested his arrest, the “Tac Squad” (sardonically described as “close by and ever on the ready”) moved in, raising their batons and declaring the picket line an illegal assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ensuing “fracas” (another great 1969 word), a dozen protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct and thrown in the paddy wagon—several on felony charges that were eventually dropped (except for one instance of allegedly biting a police officer). Other protesters took the issue to City Hall, where an additional three were arrested for trespassing, unlawful assembly and remaining at the site of a riot (essentially, staying in the building past closing time). [aside postid='arts_13859408']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, the SFPD’s heavy-handed response—and the ensuing cases against the arrested protesters—galvanized not just the members of more radical LGBTQ+ groups, but the old guard they initially sought to distance themselves from, creating a network of support that would propel the Bay Area’s gay liberation movement in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Robert Stein, professor of history at San Francisco State University and editor of \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://nyupress.org/9781479816859/the-stonewall-riots/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, thinks the timing of Patterson’s article wasn’t coincidental, and reflected the era’s homophobic attitudes to burgeoning gay organizing. “October was the month when mainstream magazines first covered Stonewall,” he says. “The movement is really growing. And it’s at that moment that there’s this incredibly hostile story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/BarbCOMBO_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Back-to-back issues of the 'Berkeley Barb' on March 28 and April 4, 1969, featuring Leo Laurence and Gale Whittington.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/BarbCOMBO_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/BarbCOMBO_1200-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/BarbCOMBO_1200-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/BarbCOMBO_1200-768x584.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/BarbCOMBO_1200-1020x776.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back-to-back issues of the ‘Berkeley Barb’ on March 28 and April 4, 1969, featuring Leo Laurence and Gale Whittington. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Independent Voices)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Join the gay revolution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before the events of the Purple Hand and before the creation of the CHF, the largest gay organization in San Francisco was the Society for Individual Rights (S.I.R.), a homophile society (to use the language of the time) founded in 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the women’s rights, anti-war and Black power movements swept the country, some younger members of the LGBTQ+ community considered S.I.R. to be too conservative. In an April 1969 editorial, Leo Laurence, editor of \u003ci>Vector\u003c/i>, S.I.R.’s monthly magazine, broke ranks with the mostly white, middle-class and nonconfrontational members of S.I.R., calling them “timid, uptight, conservative, and afraid to act for the good of the whole homosexual community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time had come, Laurence argued, for everyone to come out to their friends, family and employers, and to be proud of their sexuality. They should be joining forces with other social causes, like the Black Panthers and local unions, and standing up for everyone’s rights. [aside postid='arts_13859162']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To illustrate his idea of LGBTQ+ freedom in a subsequent \u003ci>Berkeley Barb\u003c/i> interview, Laurence supplied the alt weekly with a picture of two men smiling: Laurence with his arms around his friend Gale Whittington. In no short order, S.I.R. asked Laurence to resign, and Whittington was fired from his job at the States Steamship Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHF, co-founded by Laurence, Whittington and a few others, was a direct reaction to this double rejection from both “straight” society and the existing gay establishment. And with this effort, they would be all about coalition-building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GaysRisingUp.jpg\" alt=\"Headline from an article by Leo Laurence in the Nov. 7 issue of the 'Berkeley Tribe.'\" width=\"1020\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GaysRisingUp.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GaysRisingUp-160x68.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GaysRisingUp-800x340.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GaysRisingUp-768x326.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Headline from an article by Leo Laurence in the Nov. 7 issue of the ‘Berkeley Tribe.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Independent Voices)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Purple Hand events were co-organized by at least three like-minded groups, including Gay Guerrilla Theater and the Gay Liberation Front. But despite the fracture between Laurence and S.I.R. that precipitated the creation of the CHF months earlier, the old-guard emerged as surprising supporters of the younger demonstrators as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Nov. 7 \u003ci>Berkeley Tribe\u003c/i> piece reflecting on the demonstration and its aftermath, Laurence writes, “I was scared and felt alone in jail, until I learned of the help mobilized ‘outside.’” The Red Mountain Tribe gathered bail money, S.I.R.’s president saved Laurence’s camera film before he was thrown in the paddy wagon, Del Martin (co-founder in 1955 of the lesbian group Daughters of Bilitis) helped CHF find lawyers, writing several sympathetic articles for \u003ci>Vector\u003c/i> in the months to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Gale Whittington and I founded the CHF last spring, we dreamed of a nationwide movement,” Laurence writes in the \u003ci>Tribe\u003c/i>. “It’s no longer a fantasy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>After the Purple Hand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Protests against mainstream media’s depictions of the LGBTQ+ community would continue for years to come. The Purple Hand events, Stein says, are just one example of protests across the country against newspapers and magazines in ’69 and ’70, along with a second wave of protests against television stations and individual shows in ’73. [aside postid='arts_13858290']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.avicollimecca.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommi Avicolli Mecca\u003c/a>, who joined the Gay Liberation Front in Philadelphia when he was a 19-year-old student at Temple University, remembers those times well. “Back in the ’70s especially pretty much any time they did a feature on the community it would be very negative,” he remembers. The GLF would picket or actually enter the newspaper offices, confronting editors and writers of the specific stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a combination of direct action, face-to-face conversations and larger shifts in society, Mecca says, things gradually changed, fulfilling in many ways Laurence’s early 1969 call-to-arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the greatest things we did as a community was to come out of the closet,” Mecca says. “By being visible, we broke all the stereotypes. We forced people to engage with us, we forced our families to deal with us, we forced people to see we were just like them.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Since at least the ’60s, drag houses functioned as chosen families that kept young people off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That legacy is what \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/TheRexyProject/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The One and Only Rexy\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thegracetowers/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grace Towers\u003c/a> decided to channel when they teamed up to create DragTivism, a mentorship program for LGBTQ+ youth that uses drag makeup as an art therapy tool, building community through carefully applied rhinestones, false lashes and contouring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='The One and Only Rexy']\u003c/span>“Eventually for me, my drag turned into my source of power.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first DragTivism event took place last year during Pride Month at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco LGBT Center\u003c/a>, when about a dozen young people in their late teens and early 20s came for a weekend of food, performances and workshops. Some of the youth were housing-insecure; others had supportive families but were still figuring out their identity labels and transitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point, drag is cheaper than therapy,” says Towers. “What we leave on the stage is the processing of emotional, mental and just,” she sighs, “life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of last year’s attendees, DragTivism was also an entry point into the SF LGBT Center, which offers a variety of social services, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/employment_services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an employment program\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/housing-financial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financial literacy training\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/housing-financial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affordable housing clinic\u003c/a> for renters. 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Feeling seen for the first time, she came out as queer the same day. That whirlwind formative experience emboldened Tapia to become one of Mission High School’s fiercest student activists in the years that followed. By junior year, she became president of the school’s GSA Network and designed an LGBTQ+ history curriculum (in her free time, during spring break!) that’s now being taught at several San Francisco public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this period of honing her skills as an artist and leader, Tapia noticed herself wearing drag more and more, and that she felt her best presenting as a woman. After graduating in 2015, she came out as trans. [aside postid='arts_13858290']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing drag gave me the ability to express myself and find myself when I didn’t have any other way of doing so,” reflects Tapia, whose drag looks are high-femme and all about showing leg. “That’s really I hope what youths find in drag. Eventually for me, my drag turned into my source of power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea for DragTivism came in 2018 when Tapia met Towers, one of her drag idols. Towers, a bold performer who often rocks dramatic eye makeup, chest hair and a beard, is a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.queensofthecastro.com/grace-towers-scholarship-for-the-arts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queens of the Castro\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that gives scholarships to LGBTQ+ youth. Her and Tapia’s backgrounds in education are a big reason why mentorship is such an important aspect of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BxO4LIEHsZM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a queer mentor of some sort is something that I wish I would have had when I was going through my troubled youth,” says Towers. “It’s been really beautiful to see mentorship on both ends, not just what we’re curating for the youth to come and partake in, but me and Rexy are actively engaged in this mentorship dynamic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapia says that not all drag spaces are trans-friendly—as evinced by RuPaul’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/6/17085244/rupaul-trans-women-drag-queens-interview-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial 2018 comments\u003c/a> suggesting that he wouldn’t allow a transitioning trans woman to compete on \u003cem>Drag Race \u003c/em>(though that changed this year with trans performer Gia Gunn’s inclusion). That’s why Tapia and Towers take care to ensure that DragTivism is welcoming to all the identities under the LGBTQ+ umbrella—including those who are gender-nonconforming or have a performance style that doesn’t fit the pageant-ready drag queen mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to be at a point in the drag scene where drag is not political anymore, or in many spaces it’s even more hostile to trans people and anyone who’s not a cis, gay man,” says Tapia. “That’s another reason why it’s important for me as a trans woman, as a woman, as a person of color, to continue creating this ability for youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQggqMh-8A/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapia says drag taught her about the history of LGBTQ+ activism. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This article is part of KQED Arts’ story series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride as Protest\u003c/a>, which chronicles the past and present of LGBTQ+ activism in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Learn more about the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858609/welcome-to-pride-as-protest-a-new-kqed-arts-story-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the Surgeon General of the United States published the office’s \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/NN/p-nid/62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first report\u003c/a> on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 27,000 Americans were already dead or dying of AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13859162,arts_13858167,arts_13854639' label='More Queer History']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issued in late October 1986, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop’s slim pamphlet contained much-needed public health information stripped of the political rhetoric that characterized nearly all of Washington’s conversations about AIDS—but it was not timely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report appeared nearly five and a half years after the Centers for Disease Control identified the first patients of what would come to be known as AIDS. In 1981. In the meantime, national media coverage had alternately ignored and sensationalized the epidemic, often repeating misinformation about the disease’s communicability or paying attention only to patients from “the general population” instead of the gay men who were the majority of the early stricken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t make his first public address on the subject until the end of May 1987.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with a lack of either federal leadership or journalistic accountability between the years of the CDC’s first report and Koop’s belated one (and for years after), the task of warning against AIDS, agitating for research funding and educating the public about the epidemic fell to individuals living with AIDS or those caring for them. They created their own support structures, their own pamphlets, benefit parties, newsletters and vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traces of these efforts can be found in the ephemera collections of various Bay Area archives, including the San Francisco Public Library, home to the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000003701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center\u003c/a>. While the posters in these collection—along with flyers, pamphlets, stickers and mailings—in no way tell a complete story of local AIDS activism in the 1980s, they do provide a sense of the material that was circulating during the time, offering tangible proof of a community fighting for its life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82.jpg\" alt=\"Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day parade and celebration guide. The year's theme was "Out of Many...One."\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of the 1982 International Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day parade and celebration guide. The year’s theme was “Out of Many…One.” \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The KS Poster Boy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before people suffering from weakened immune systems and opportunistic infections were grouped under the moniker of AIDS (the CDC would first use this term in September 1982), a unifying diagnosis for many early patients was \u003ca href=\"https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/education-materials/glossary/401/kaposi-sarcoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaposi’s sarcoma\u003c/a> (KS), a rare and unusually aggressive skin cancer that appeared as purplish lesions. San Francisco resident and registered nurse \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi_Campbell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobbi Campbell\u003c/a> was the first KS patient to go public with his condition, with a December 1981 article in the nationally syndicated gay newspaper \u003ci>San Francisco Sentinel\u003c/i>. At the same time, he convinced a Castro drugstore to hang photographs of his lesions in the window, showing other men what to look for as he alerted them to the reality of this new disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell appears in the 1982 International Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day guide (as the Pride parade was then known) under the headline “What’s it like to have Kaposi’s sarcoma?,” the first mention of the AIDS in the annual celebration’s materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his short column, the self-proclaimed “KS Poster Boy” strikes an optimistic tone of warning: “Are you thinking ‘This can’t happen to me’? I didn’t think it could happen to me, either. But it did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside Campbell’s feature is a dry, much more clinical text authored by two registered nurses. “Something is breaking down the immune systems of certain gay men, leaving them susceptible to disease,” they write. “In general it is crucial to take care of yourself, in this time when far too many gay men are dying of unexplained causes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1985, the parade would be dedicated to Campbell, who died in August 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B.jpg\" alt='\"Can we talk?\" brochure developed by the AIDS Education and Information Committee of the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic club with information from Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, 1983.' width=\"1200\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B-160x77.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B-800x384.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B-768x369.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B-1020x490.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Can we talk?” brochure developed by the AIDS Education and Information Committee of the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic club with information from Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, 1983. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘We are fighting for our lives’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early 1983, with San Francisco’s Department of Public Health yet to produce a single piece of informational literature on AIDS, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkclub.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club\u003c/a> took matters into its own hands. Developed with information from Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, this frank and simple brochure provided what was, at the time, the best risk-reduction guidelines available to the gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have to give up sex, but we do have to be careful,” the brochure reads. It then proceeds to go step by step through various sex acts, defining them as “very risky,” “minimal risk” or “yes! yes! yes!” (hugging and other sensual, yet nonsexual, activities), all of which is illustrated by a series of charmingly cheeky cartoons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this time of crisis, it is essential that we reexamine our ways of sexual expression,” the brochure says. “The issue is not a moral one, but a practical one. We have fought for our freedom and intend to continue that fight, but this struggle is even more basic. We are fighting for our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets.jpg\" alt=\"Sex education and risk-reduction pamphlets from the 1980s, many produced by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sex education and risk-reduction pamphlets from the 1980s, many produced by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Spreading the word\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The archives are filled with pamphlets and brochures, many targeting specific demographics affected by the AIDS epidemic, but not necessarily those seen in earliest media reports: white gay men. Most of the above pamphlets come from the late ’80s, well after the early days of panic, disinformation and denial, when safe sex suggestions might be dismissed as moralistic, homophobic messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the above were published by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco AIDS Foundation\u003c/a>, co-founded by Cleve Jones in 1982 (as the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Foundation) in response to the city’s emerging health crisis. Described in Randy Shilts’ seminal text on the AIDS epidemic, \u003ci>And the Band Played On\u003c/i>, the early days of the SF AIDS Foundation “started with one beat-up typewriter donated by a local gay bartender, office supplies pilfered from volunteers’ various employers, and one telephone that started ringing within an hour of hits installation. And it never stopped ringing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it grew, the SF AIDS Foundation sponsored condom distribution during Pride, the first public demonstration of people with AIDS (a candlelight vigil in March 1983), the first AIDS bike-a-thon, the creation of a food bank, a needle exchange and many, many trifolded pieces of educational literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the ACT UP San Francisco newsletter, March 1989, featuring a short announcement of a Jan. 31 action on the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction-768x476.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction-1020x632.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of the ACT UP San Francisco newsletter, March 1989, featuring a short announcement of a Jan. 31 action on the Golden Gate Bridge. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>ACT UP/San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Formed in New York in 1987 after a galvanizing speech by Larry Kramer at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.actupny.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power\u003c/a> (ACT UP), was a leaderless, anarchic network of direct action protest groups that eventually spread around the world. In San Francisco, an existing activist group, AIDS Action Pledge, merged with ACT UP and changed its name to become ACT UP/San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an undated pamphlet titled “Our Goals and Demands,” the group, “united in anger and hope,” argues for “massive governmental funding for research, health care, education, anonymous testing, and treatment.” That funding, they reason, should be taken from the military budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, 1989, ACT UP/SF members staged \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zefhq9Ql4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a die-in\u003c/a> at the Pacific Stock Exchange, timed to George H.W. Bush’s inauguration in Washington, D.C. As activists sprawled on the ground, fellow members traced their outlines in chalk. Speaking through a megaphone, an ACT UP member named Brigid spoke to the assembled crowd, “This government, for the past eight years, has been known for what it has not done. It has not cared about people with AIDS. We have been expendable.” The question was: What, if anything, would President Bush do differently?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACT UP/San Francisco would stage many other demonstrations, including a week of actions timed to the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, which took place in San Francisco in June 1990. Journalist and activist Tim Kingston, who participated in these events, told \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2015/06/the-week-act-up-shut-sf-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">48 Hills\u003c/a>\u003c/i> in 2015, “If ACT UP hadn’t pushed so hard, AIDS medical research would be 20 years behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In ’87, no one had heard of ACT UP. In ’89, we were banging on the door. And in ’90, we had arrived full-scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject.jpg\" alt=\"An undated Shanti Project pamphlet; the summer 1984 issue of 'Eclipse,' the Shanti Project newsletter; a flyer for a 1989 comedy showcase benefitting the Shanti Project, featuring Margaret Cho.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject-768x554.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject-1020x735.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated Shanti Project pamphlet; the summer 1984 issue of ‘Eclipse,’ the Shanti Project newsletter; a flyer for a 1989 comedy showcase benefitting the Shanti Project, featuring Margaret Cho. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Shanti Project\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Callers to the SF AIDS Foundation hotline might be directed to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.shanti.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shanti Project\u003c/a>, a Berkeley organization founded in 1974 to enhance the health, quality of life and well-being of people with terminal, life-threatening or disabling illnesses. In 1982, Bobbi Campbell and Jim Geary, a volunteer grief counselor with the Shanti Project, offered weekly meetings for Karposi’s sarcoma patients, one of the only services available at the time to those who would later be understood as people with AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 1983, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved $2.1 million for the city’s early AIDS programs, providing enough money to the Shanti Project to create residences for 48 homeless AIDS patients. (This amount, Shilts wrote in \u003ci>And the Band Played On\u003c/i>, combined with an additional $1 million enacted for AIDS in 1982, meant spending by the city of San Francisco “exceeded the funds released to the entire country by the National Institutes of Health for extramural AIDS research.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the above 1984 issue of \u003ci>Eclipse\u003c/i>, the Shanti Project newsletter, registered nurse Helen Schietinger writes of the project’s success in helping people approach the end of their lives with dignity: “For many, the Shanti Residence Program has provided the stability and security which enables them to continue living their lives focused on what is important to them, rather than worrying about whether they have a roof over their heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859422\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84.jpg\" alt=\"Pamphlet announcing the National March for Lesbian/Gay Rights, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, 1984.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84-768x493.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84-1020x655.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamphlet announcing the National March for Lesbian/Gay Rights, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, 1984. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Confronting the Democratic Party\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1984, the Democratic National Convention took place in San Francisco, and the city’s LGBTQ+ population marched for their core issues. At the top of their list? “Immediate and massive federal funding to end the AIDS epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a two-mile march from the Castro to the Moscone Center, 100,000 people filled the street, hoping to create a scene that would reach the national media and bring gay and lesbian issues to the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the 1984 Convention,” the organizing documents read, “we have an opportunity to define our own issues and choose our own spokespeople. If we do not do this, the media, which will surely write ‘the gay story’ of this convention, will make our choices for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a classic San Francisco note, alongside route logistics and an entertainment lineup (comedy from Tom Ammiano), is the following: “Bring a sweater—weather changes quickly in S.F.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES.jpg\" alt=\"A NAMES Project flyer from 1988 and the NAMES newsletter from fall 1989.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A NAMES Project flyer from 1988 and the NAMES newsletter from fall 1989. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The AIDS Memorial Quilt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13856309/how-the-aids-memorial-grove-became-the-true-heart-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIDS Memorial Grove\u003c/a> in Golden Gate Park is the nation’s official site of remembrance, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsquilt.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIDS Memorial Quilt\u003c/a>, a project that began in 1987 and now numbers over 48,000 individual panels, is its peripatetic one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each panel measures 3 by 6 feet, the approximate size of a grave. And each commemorates a family member or loved one lost to AIDS, hand-stitched with personal symbols, objects, names and dates. The first public display, in October 1987, took place on the Capitol Mall in Washington, D.C. with 1,920 panels. A year later, the quilt returned to Washington with more than 8,000 panels. Its goal was to impress upon the federal government—and the American people—the scale of the AIDS epidemic, and the desperate need for increased federal funds in the fight against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brochure reads, “With the Quilt, we’re able to touch people in a new way and open their hearts so that they no longer turn away, but rather understand the value of all these lost lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the 1980s, nine years after the CDC’s first reported cases, nearly 90,000 Americans had died of AIDS. Many more groups would form in the years to come to fight for more effective AIDS treatments and against the slow-moving bureaucracy that stifled such research. And many more actions would \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hvKAIPOBWlY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">directly confront the American public\u003c/a> with the scale of the crisis, skillfully using media coverage to amplify their message. But when no one was watching—or seemingly caring—the efforts of individuals and groups like those documented above made sure the American people and their government could no longer turn away from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t make his first public address on the subject until the end of May 1987.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with a lack of either federal leadership or journalistic accountability between the years of the CDC’s first report and Koop’s belated one (and for years after), the task of warning against AIDS, agitating for research funding and educating the public about the epidemic fell to individuals living with AIDS or those caring for them. They created their own support structures, their own pamphlets, benefit parties, newsletters and vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traces of these efforts can be found in the ephemera collections of various Bay Area archives, including the San Francisco Public Library, home to the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000003701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center\u003c/a>. While the posters in these collection—along with flyers, pamphlets, stickers and mailings—in no way tell a complete story of local AIDS activism in the 1980s, they do provide a sense of the material that was circulating during the time, offering tangible proof of a community fighting for its life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82.jpg\" alt=\"Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day parade and celebration guide. The year's theme was "Out of Many...One."\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Pride_82-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of the 1982 International Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day parade and celebration guide. The year’s theme was “Out of Many…One.” \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The KS Poster Boy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before people suffering from weakened immune systems and opportunistic infections were grouped under the moniker of AIDS (the CDC would first use this term in September 1982), a unifying diagnosis for many early patients was \u003ca href=\"https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/education-materials/glossary/401/kaposi-sarcoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaposi’s sarcoma\u003c/a> (KS), a rare and unusually aggressive skin cancer that appeared as purplish lesions. San Francisco resident and registered nurse \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi_Campbell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobbi Campbell\u003c/a> was the first KS patient to go public with his condition, with a December 1981 article in the nationally syndicated gay newspaper \u003ci>San Francisco Sentinel\u003c/i>. At the same time, he convinced a Castro drugstore to hang photographs of his lesions in the window, showing other men what to look for as he alerted them to the reality of this new disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell appears in the 1982 International Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day guide (as the Pride parade was then known) under the headline “What’s it like to have Kaposi’s sarcoma?,” the first mention of the AIDS in the annual celebration’s materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his short column, the self-proclaimed “KS Poster Boy” strikes an optimistic tone of warning: “Are you thinking ‘This can’t happen to me’? I didn’t think it could happen to me, either. But it did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside Campbell’s feature is a dry, much more clinical text authored by two registered nurses. “Something is breaking down the immune systems of certain gay men, leaving them susceptible to disease,” they write. “In general it is crucial to take care of yourself, in this time when far too many gay men are dying of unexplained causes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1985, the parade would be dedicated to Campbell, who died in August 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B.jpg\" alt='\"Can we talk?\" brochure developed by the AIDS Education and Information Committee of the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic club with information from Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, 1983.' width=\"1200\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B-160x77.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B-800x384.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B-768x369.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/HarveyMilkDemClub_Flyer_83B-1020x490.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Can we talk?” brochure developed by the AIDS Education and Information Committee of the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic club with information from Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, 1983. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘We are fighting for our lives’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early 1983, with San Francisco’s Department of Public Health yet to produce a single piece of informational literature on AIDS, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkclub.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club\u003c/a> took matters into its own hands. Developed with information from Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, this frank and simple brochure provided what was, at the time, the best risk-reduction guidelines available to the gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have to give up sex, but we do have to be careful,” the brochure reads. It then proceeds to go step by step through various sex acts, defining them as “very risky,” “minimal risk” or “yes! yes! yes!” (hugging and other sensual, yet nonsexual, activities), all of which is illustrated by a series of charmingly cheeky cartoons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this time of crisis, it is essential that we reexamine our ways of sexual expression,” the brochure says. “The issue is not a moral one, but a practical one. We have fought for our freedom and intend to continue that fight, but this struggle is even more basic. We are fighting for our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets.jpg\" alt=\"Sex education and risk-reduction pamphlets from the 1980s, many produced by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/AssortedPamphlets-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sex education and risk-reduction pamphlets from the 1980s, many produced by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Spreading the word\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The archives are filled with pamphlets and brochures, many targeting specific demographics affected by the AIDS epidemic, but not necessarily those seen in earliest media reports: white gay men. Most of the above pamphlets come from the late ’80s, well after the early days of panic, disinformation and denial, when safe sex suggestions might be dismissed as moralistic, homophobic messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the above were published by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco AIDS Foundation\u003c/a>, co-founded by Cleve Jones in 1982 (as the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Foundation) in response to the city’s emerging health crisis. Described in Randy Shilts’ seminal text on the AIDS epidemic, \u003ci>And the Band Played On\u003c/i>, the early days of the SF AIDS Foundation “started with one beat-up typewriter donated by a local gay bartender, office supplies pilfered from volunteers’ various employers, and one telephone that started ringing within an hour of hits installation. And it never stopped ringing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it grew, the SF AIDS Foundation sponsored condom distribution during Pride, the first public demonstration of people with AIDS (a candlelight vigil in March 1983), the first AIDS bike-a-thon, the creation of a food bank, a needle exchange and many, many trifolded pieces of educational literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the ACT UP San Francisco newsletter, March 1989, featuring a short announcement of a Jan. 31 action on the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction-768x476.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ACTUP_GGBridgeAction-1020x632.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of the ACT UP San Francisco newsletter, March 1989, featuring a short announcement of a Jan. 31 action on the Golden Gate Bridge. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>ACT UP/San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Formed in New York in 1987 after a galvanizing speech by Larry Kramer at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.actupny.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power\u003c/a> (ACT UP), was a leaderless, anarchic network of direct action protest groups that eventually spread around the world. In San Francisco, an existing activist group, AIDS Action Pledge, merged with ACT UP and changed its name to become ACT UP/San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an undated pamphlet titled “Our Goals and Demands,” the group, “united in anger and hope,” argues for “massive governmental funding for research, health care, education, anonymous testing, and treatment.” That funding, they reason, should be taken from the military budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, 1989, ACT UP/SF members staged \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zefhq9Ql4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a die-in\u003c/a> at the Pacific Stock Exchange, timed to George H.W. Bush’s inauguration in Washington, D.C. As activists sprawled on the ground, fellow members traced their outlines in chalk. Speaking through a megaphone, an ACT UP member named Brigid spoke to the assembled crowd, “This government, for the past eight years, has been known for what it has not done. It has not cared about people with AIDS. We have been expendable.” The question was: What, if anything, would President Bush do differently?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACT UP/San Francisco would stage many other demonstrations, including a week of actions timed to the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, which took place in San Francisco in June 1990. Journalist and activist Tim Kingston, who participated in these events, told \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2015/06/the-week-act-up-shut-sf-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">48 Hills\u003c/a>\u003c/i> in 2015, “If ACT UP hadn’t pushed so hard, AIDS medical research would be 20 years behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In ’87, no one had heard of ACT UP. In ’89, we were banging on the door. And in ’90, we had arrived full-scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject.jpg\" alt=\"An undated Shanti Project pamphlet; the summer 1984 issue of 'Eclipse,' the Shanti Project newsletter; a flyer for a 1989 comedy showcase benefitting the Shanti Project, featuring Margaret Cho.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject-768x554.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/ShantiProject-1020x735.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated Shanti Project pamphlet; the summer 1984 issue of ‘Eclipse,’ the Shanti Project newsletter; a flyer for a 1989 comedy showcase benefitting the Shanti Project, featuring Margaret Cho. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Shanti Project\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Callers to the SF AIDS Foundation hotline might be directed to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.shanti.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shanti Project\u003c/a>, a Berkeley organization founded in 1974 to enhance the health, quality of life and well-being of people with terminal, life-threatening or disabling illnesses. In 1982, Bobbi Campbell and Jim Geary, a volunteer grief counselor with the Shanti Project, offered weekly meetings for Karposi’s sarcoma patients, one of the only services available at the time to those who would later be understood as people with AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 1983, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved $2.1 million for the city’s early AIDS programs, providing enough money to the Shanti Project to create residences for 48 homeless AIDS patients. (This amount, Shilts wrote in \u003ci>And the Band Played On\u003c/i>, combined with an additional $1 million enacted for AIDS in 1982, meant spending by the city of San Francisco “exceeded the funds released to the entire country by the National Institutes of Health for extramural AIDS research.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the above 1984 issue of \u003ci>Eclipse\u003c/i>, the Shanti Project newsletter, registered nurse Helen Schietinger writes of the project’s success in helping people approach the end of their lives with dignity: “For many, the Shanti Residence Program has provided the stability and security which enables them to continue living their lives focused on what is important to them, rather than worrying about whether they have a roof over their heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859422\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84.jpg\" alt=\"Pamphlet announcing the National March for Lesbian/Gay Rights, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, 1984.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84-768x493.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/DNCMarch_84-1020x655.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamphlet announcing the National March for Lesbian/Gay Rights, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, 1984. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Confronting the Democratic Party\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1984, the Democratic National Convention took place in San Francisco, and the city’s LGBTQ+ population marched for their core issues. At the top of their list? “Immediate and massive federal funding to end the AIDS epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a two-mile march from the Castro to the Moscone Center, 100,000 people filled the street, hoping to create a scene that would reach the national media and bring gay and lesbian issues to the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the 1984 Convention,” the organizing documents read, “we have an opportunity to define our own issues and choose our own spokespeople. If we do not do this, the media, which will surely write ‘the gay story’ of this convention, will make our choices for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a classic San Francisco note, alongside route logistics and an entertainment lineup (comedy from Tom Ammiano), is the following: “Bring a sweater—weather changes quickly in S.F.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES.jpg\" alt=\"A NAMES Project flyer from 1988 and the NAMES newsletter from fall 1989.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/NAMES-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A NAMES Project flyer from 1988 and the NAMES newsletter from fall 1989. \u003ccite>(Material from the Gay and Lesbian Center ephemera collection and the San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco Public Library; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The AIDS Memorial Quilt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13856309/how-the-aids-memorial-grove-became-the-true-heart-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIDS Memorial Grove\u003c/a> in Golden Gate Park is the nation’s official site of remembrance, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsquilt.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIDS Memorial Quilt\u003c/a>, a project that began in 1987 and now numbers over 48,000 individual panels, is its peripatetic one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each panel measures 3 by 6 feet, the approximate size of a grave. And each commemorates a family member or loved one lost to AIDS, hand-stitched with personal symbols, objects, names and dates. The first public display, in October 1987, took place on the Capitol Mall in Washington, D.C. with 1,920 panels. A year later, the quilt returned to Washington with more than 8,000 panels. Its goal was to impress upon the federal government—and the American people—the scale of the AIDS epidemic, and the desperate need for increased federal funds in the fight against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brochure reads, “With the Quilt, we’re able to touch people in a new way and open their hearts so that they no longer turn away, but rather understand the value of all these lost lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This article is part of KQED Arts’ story series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride as Protest\u003c/a>, which chronicles the past and present of LGBTQ+ activism in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Learn more about the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858609/welcome-to-pride-as-protest-a-new-kqed-arts-story-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pride season is upon us, with its parties, parades and rainbow regalia. But none of it would be possible without the tireless advocacy and protest power of our LGBTQ+ elders. Their stories of fighting for queer and trans rights should be permanently ingrained in our memories and the memories of those to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Mason Funk comes in. In 2014, a question kept buzzing around his head: “How did I and millions of other LGBTQ+ people get from there to here?” Funk answered it by creating \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUTWORDS\u003c/a>, a multi-media archive, and its accompanying \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/bookofpride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Book of Pride\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to tell the stories of LGBTQ+ pioneers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project includes over one hundred powerful interviews with subjects from all across the country. Here, we take a look at the stories of five changemakers featured in OUTWORDS, including a survivor of the Stonewall riots who isn’t afraid to curse; an activist who won marriage rights from the California Supreme Court; a housewife who turned in her white picket fence for the March on Washington stage; a Two-Spirit activist who battled prejudice on the ballot and within the medical community and won; and a Yoruba priest who devoted himself to educating his community about AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Miss Major Griffin-Gracy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13859269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-1020x572.png\" alt=\"Miss Major at a Pride Parade in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-1020x572.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-800x449.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-768x431.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-1200x673.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-1920x1077.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss Major at a Pride Parade in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Miss Major)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never heard Miss Major’s name, where have you been? The veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion has been making waves for over 40 years, fighting for incarcerated trans people through San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.tgijp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trans, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project\u003c/a> until her recent retirement. Her impact has been so—um—major that there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.missmajorfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an entire film\u003c/a> about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fighting spirit that made Miss Major famous has been with her since she was born so premature that she could fit in the palm of her father’s hand. “I’ve been a struggling bitch from the moment I took breath, fighting to hang in there and survive and be here, and make myself known,” she told OUTWORDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Chicago, Miss Major started secretly wearing her mother’s clothes and clip-clopping around the house in her heels around the age of 15. When her mother found out, she was beaten. When her school found out, she was expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859270\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-1020x704.jpg\" alt=\"An elated Miss Major.\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-1920x1326.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4.jpg 1974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elated Miss Major. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Miss Major)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the ’60s, Miss Major found her way to New York, where the city’s rich diversity instantly proved to be a balm. Soon, she found a sense of community on the streets with fellow working girls. “Hooking at that time was a f-cking blessing,” she said. “The money was good. The johns were great.” But things eventually took a turn for the dangerous around 1967. Girls were turning up dead, and the police didn’t value their lives enough to investigate. So Miss Major and her friends started taking down license plate numbers, memorizing faces and crafting other methods of ensuring each other’s safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859271\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-1020x1328.jpg\" alt=\"Miss Major serving a look.\" width=\"300\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-1020x1328.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-800x1042.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-768x1000.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-922x1200.jpg 922w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1.jpg 1573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss Major serving a look. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Miss Major)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sick of the mistreatment, Miss Major started carrying a hammer for protection; other girls carried knives. As she recalls, if a scuffle broke out, police let male instigators free and arrested the women for defending themselves. Miss Major became known as someone who would reliably accompany girls in trouble with the law to court (something she continued to do into her 70s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, Miss Major frequented a Cheers-esque bar called Stonewall, where everyone knew her name and where she and her friends felt seen and understood. At the time, many aspects of queer and trans life were illegal, and police regularly raided the bar. They got more than they bargained for on June 28, 1969, when a group of fed-up people fought back. Miss Major was there. “I don’t remember a shoe, a brick, a bottle, a body, a garbage can,” she told OUTWORDS. “All I know is we were fighting for our life and we were kicking the cops’ ass.” That moment became the spark that ignited the modern-day LGBTQ+ rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Until her recent retirement to Arizona, Miss Major continued to make a difference in the lives of working women in Oakland, whom she calls her babies. “I’ll take my cane and hobble across the street … and sit on the bench and talk to them,” she said. “The world doesn’t care about us. I want them all to know that somebody does.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Marcus Arana\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBwvns4XH6g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcus Arana’s journey to becoming a Two-Spirit activist fighting for the rights of trans and intersex people can be traced all the way back to a movie theater. At four-years-old, he saw a blue fairy turn Pinocchio into a real boy. Assigned female at birth, Arana turned to his mother and asked for his own blue fairy. She explained that girls could never be boys. In that moment, Arana learned two things: that he was different and that he shouldn’t talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-1020x746.jpg\" alt=\"Arana at age 25 at a Halloween dance as a persona called Dread Weatherly.\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-800x585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-768x562.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-1200x878.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arana at age 25 at a Halloween dance as a persona called Dread Weatherly. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Marcus Arana)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he didn’t throughout a lonely and rough childhood, which forced him to leave home at age 14. He eventually came out as queer and moved to San Francisco in 1976, which felt “like the sun coming out and you can hear the munchkins singing as we all went down the yellow brick road.” But, just as Dorothy and her pals had to contend with the Wicked Witch of the West, Arana and other California gays faced off against their own villain: the Briggs Initiative, a \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">1978\u003c/span> ballot measure that, if passed, would ban gays and lesbians from working in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by California’s first openly gay public official, Harvey Milk, Arana committed himself to fighting back through protest, grassroots organizing and visibility, and the Briggs Initiative was defeated at the ballot box by 16.8 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wouldn’t be the last bit of change Arana had a hand in crafting. When he was 37 years old and working at Community United Against Violence, an organization dedicated to addressing violence against the LGBTQ+ community, Arana finally gave into the feeling that had been nagging him since he first saw \u003cem>Pinnochio\u003c/em>. In a staff meeting, he blurted out that he’s trans. “It was like squeezing a tube of toothpaste where all of this stuff comes out and you can’t cram it back in again, you can’t unring the bell,” he told OUTWORDS. “It was liberating, it was magic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859276\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"Arana at age 38, early in his transition, when he began to smile in pictures for the first time.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6.jpg 1785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arana at age 38, early in his transition, when he began to smile in pictures for the first time. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Marcus Arana)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time of his transition, being trans was considered a gender identity disorder and treated like a psychological problem. Arana got back in the fight, educating commissioners, the Health Service Board, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and ultimately, through television appearances, the American public about discrimination against trans people in the health industry. Through his education, hearts and minds slowly began to change, and with them, policies and laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arana’s proudest achievement as an advocate came in 2003 when he was working at the San Francisco Human Rights Commission as a discrimination investigator. Intersex activists came to him with stories of how those born with bodies that don’t readily fit into what society considers male or female were assigned a gender through non-consensual surgery at birth or during childhood (often without the input of the parents, let alone the patient). This usually necessitated even more surgeries down the line and spawned all kinds of future physical and mental issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to prevent any more suffering, Arana wrote a report for the HRC that declared the non-consensual “medical normalization” of intersex people a human rights violation. The report is now used internationally and has helped change the way the medical community views and supports intersex children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lani Ka’ahumanu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwG1NOG2y_Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lani Ka’ahumanu had to come out multiple times: first as someone who no longer wanted a white picket fence and a husband, then as a lesbian activist and finally as a bisexual carving out a space for people like her within the gay rights movement. The unexpected zigs and zags of her life shocked her friends and family, and even herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka%E2%80%99ahumanu_Lani_photo5-1020x1081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-1020x1081.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-160x170.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-800x848.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-768x814.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-1132x1200.jpg 1132w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-1920x2035.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5.jpg 1932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ka’ahumanu’s junior prom in 1959 with future husband, captain of the football team and champion wrestler. (That’s a mat burn from a wrestling match on his face.) \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Lani Ka'ahumanu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Ka’ahumanu always knew what was expected of her: marry a man and have kids. And she played along for a while, falling in love with the captain of the football team, marrying him at 19 and having two kids by the time she was 24. But then she met a new friend who didn’t shave her legs and shared stories of the women’s rights movement. It wasn’t long before Ka’ahumanu changed her honorific from Mrs. to Ms., got involved with the anti-Vietnam War movement, started collecting food for the Black Panther Breakfast Program and boycotting grapes alongside the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late ’60s and early ’70s, Ka’ahumanu started crying a lot and couldn’t figure out why. She had the cookie-cutter picture of a full heterosexual life,\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">but something was missing.\u003c/span> \u003c/span>As hard as it was, with her husband’s support, she made the difficult decision to leave him and their kids behind and move to San Francisco. She enrolled at San Francisco State University, where she helped found the women’s studies department and came out as a lesbian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13859278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka%E2%80%99ahumanu_Lani_photo1-1020x753.jpg\" alt=\"Ka'ahumanu with BiPOL’s contingent at the 1984 SF Pride Parade, led by a red convertible w/ Mayor “Bi-anne Feinstein” and “Princess Bi” from UK waving.\" width=\"640\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-768x567.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-1200x886.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ka’ahumanu with BiPOL’s contingent at the 1984 SF Pride Parade, led by a red convertible with Mayor “Bi-anne Feinstein” and “Princess Bi” from UK waving. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Lani Ka'ahumanu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You were becoming part of this growing community, this giant wave, and there was so much support, and a cheering section, literally,” she told OUTWORDS. But there were limits to that support when it came to people who identified as bisexual. Ka’ahumanu realizes now that, back then, she was part of the biphobia problem within the queer community, actively shunning bi women for having “too much privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, while working as a chef at a new age, clothing-optional resort in Mendocino County, Ka’ahumanu met a younger man who wanted to chat about Adrienne Rich’s poetry. Cut to them hooking up in the storage room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859281\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-1020x1397.jpg\" alt=\"Ka'ahumanu was the only out bisexual invited to speak on the main stage at the 1993 March on Washington.\" width=\"300\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-1020x1397.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-160x219.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-800x1096.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-768x1052.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-876x1200.jpg 876w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9.jpg 1495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ka’ahumanu was the only out bisexual invited to speak on the main stage at the 1993 March on Washington. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Lani Ka'ahumanu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coming out as bisexual to her newfound community back in San Francisco was rough. Ka’ahumanu felt like “the lesbian who fell from grace” and that she had to prove that she wasn’t a traitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This experience inspired Ka’ahumanu to dedicate her activist muscle to organizing the bisexual community. She spent the latter part of the ’80s establishing an organization called BiPol to bring bi people from across the country together. From there, she planned the 1990 National Bisexual Conference and pushed for more visibility within the queer community, specifically having the word “bisexual” baked into the name of the March on Washington. In 1993, Ka’ahumanu and her cohorts won a partial victory. The word “bi” would be included, but only if the “sexual” was lopped off. When it came time to speak at the march, Ka’ahumanu realized she was delegated to the last slot out of 18 speakers. As she took the mic and said, “Aloha. It ain’t over ’til the bisexual speaks,” the stage behind her was actively being dismantled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though that March on Washington wasn’t perfect, Ka’ahumanu still takes pride in all that she and her organization achieved. “We were at that national table. We did the work. We were there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blackberri\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoo0BIzkXWM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIDS educator. History-making musician. Uplifter of queer Black men. Yoruba priest. Blackberri is all of those things and more, and the seeds of his multi-faceted personality sprouted from the very beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Growing up, Blackberri couldn’t get enough of music. He spent his time pretending to be a conductor in front of the radio, playing the harmonica or singing pop songs from his front stoop to the kids in his neighborhood. He also couldn’t get enough of sex. After his mom caught Blackberri and a friend with nothing but pillows in their laps, the mother and son had a heart-to-heart. “From that day on, that was my liberation notice,” Blackberri remembered in his OUTWORDS interview. “I became more flamboyant and more out and just totally unafraid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859282\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo5.jpeg\" alt=\"Blackberri in the Navy.\" width=\"300\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo5.jpeg 758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo5-160x214.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackberri in the Navy. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Blackberri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years later, Blackberri was drafted into the military. He was initially interested in going into the Air Force, but changed his mind when he saw all the Navy boys’ bell bottoms and “nice round butts.” Dry-docked on the East Coast, there was plenty of time to get down. Blackberri narrowly avoided a dishonorable discharge for expressing his sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his time in the military, Blackberri moved around, performing in Wales and spending some time at a feminist collective in Tuscon, Arizona where a lesbian called Hummingbird anointed him with his name (she thought he was dark and sweet).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859283\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-1020x1495.jpg\" alt=\"Blackberri performing at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.\" width=\"300\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-1020x1495.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-160x234.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-800x1172.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-768x1126.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-819x1200.jpg 819w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackberri performing at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Blackberri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Music eventually brought him to the Bay Area, where he wrote songs with lyrics like, “You’re such a beautiful black man / But you walk with your head bent and low / Don’t do that anymore / I see the beauty I wish that you knew.” In 1975, he made history on KQED airwaves by starring in a concert called \u003cem>Two Songmakers\u003c/em>, which marked the first time music about the gay experience was featured on public television in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackberri’s career as a singer-songwriter eventually took a back seat due to the AIDS epidemic. Blackberri worked in the AIDS ward at San Francisco General as a death and dying counselor with \u003ca href=\"http://www.shanti.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Shanti Project\u003c/a>. Witnessing the effects of the disease inspired Blackberri to shift his focus to prevention, specifically as it pertained to the black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859284\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-1020x1292.jpg\" alt=\"Blackberri and his guitar.\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-1020x1292.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-800x1013.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-768x973.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-947x1200.jpg 947w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7.jpg 1617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackberri and his guitar. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Blackberri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Black people have always been negroes, always been considered ugly,” he said to OUTWORDS. “So there’s a lot of internalized stuff around how we look, how we are, our hair, our lips. Some people buy into it and that internalized self-hatred has driven the AIDS epidemic. People didn’t feel they were important enough to take care of themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through workshops, field trips, film screenings, meals, affirmations, meditations and visualizations, Blackberri helped build people up, made them feel special and convinced them that they were worth saving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the work of Blackberri and people like him, the LGBTQ+ community is in a better place than it was during the worst days of the AIDS epidemic. But we still have fights ahead. And the only way we win them, according to Blackberri, is if all marginalized communities stick together and show up for each other. “Until we build alliances, we’re not gonna go anywhere,” he said. “When all the fingers close, then you have a fist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Jewelle Gomez\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859285\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13859285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-1020x1450.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelle Gomez at NYC Pride in 1989.\" width=\"640\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-1020x1450.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-160x227.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-800x1137.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-768x1092.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-844x1200.jpg 844w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3.jpg 1441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelle Gomez at NYC Pride in 1989. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jewelle Gomez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From combatting media bias against gay men during the AIDS crisis to challenging discriminatory marriage laws, Jewelle Gomez has dedicated her life to standing up against injustice. She got her first up-close look at bigotry in her youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, Gomez lived a quiet, happy childhood with her great-grandmother in Massachusetts. But that changed when Gomez visited her mother’s home in a faraway mill town and learning an ugly truth about this country. Because of her mother’s lighter complexion, her neighbors assumed she was white. When they saw Gomez, her grandmother and her great-grandmother, “it became this horror show,” she told OUTWORDS. “People burned trash on their front yard, threw bricks through their window, called with threatening phone calls day and night.” The harassment continued until the 95 Interstate cut through the neighborhood, forcing everyone to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience instilled an internalized racism in her mother, who didn’t approve when Gomez stopped straightening her hair and got involved with African-American culture. But for Gomez, it was a call to fight back against intolerance by being fully herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859286\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-1020x664.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelle Gomez with family in Boston in 1948.\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-768x500.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-1200x782.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-1920x1251.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelle Gomez with family in Boston in 1948. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jewelle Gomez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After defending herself from a particularly egregious instance of street harassment, Gomez channeled her rage into a novel called \u003cem>The Gilda Stories\u003c/em> about a queer vampire, which was published in 1991 with the help of mentor Audre Lorde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859287\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859287\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--1020x847.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelle Gomez with Audre Lorde, filming 'Before Stonewall' in 1984.\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--1020x847.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--800x664.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--768x638.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--1200x997.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--1920x1595.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2-.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelle Gomez with Audre Lorde, filming ‘Before Stonewall’ in 1984. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jewelle Gomez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">In the 1985, Gomez became one of the founders of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), now one of the country’s most prominent LGBTQ+ organizations. \u003c/span>When the mainstream media covered the AIDS epidemic by focusing on what was “wrong” with gay culture—the sex, the bathhouses—Gomez and other GLAAD founders protested the demonization. In 1987, they landed the first editorial meeting that \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> held with a gay organization, and worked with them on changing the national conversation. For Gomez, that moment was proof of the LGBTQ+ community’s capacity to join together and take back power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, another battle was brewing: the one around marriage equality. While Gomez always had misgiving around the institution of marriage, as it was designed to keep women in their place, she and her partner agreed to become litigants in the ACLU and NCLR suit against the State of California. After spending four years on the campaign trail, telling her story and advocating for equal treatment under the law, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor in 2008, a feat that had seemed impossible just a few years prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859288\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-1020x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelle Gomez with spouse Diane Sabin in 2013. \" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-1200x803.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelle Gomez with spouse Diane Sabin in 2013. \u003ccite>(Irene Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Through her fiction, her advocacy and sharing her life story through projects like OUTWORDS, Gomez hopes to continue bridging the gaps between communities, “whether that means a person who lives in Idaho who’s never met a black lesbian or a person who lives in New York City who’s too cool to hang out with an old lesbian.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More information on Mason Funk’s The Book of Pride and OUTWORDS’ digital platform can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This article is part of KQED Arts’ story series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride as Protest\u003c/a>, which chronicles the past and present of LGBTQ+ activism in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Learn more about the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858609/welcome-to-pride-as-protest-a-new-kqed-arts-story-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pride season is upon us, with its parties, parades and rainbow regalia. But none of it would be possible without the tireless advocacy and protest power of our LGBTQ+ elders. Their stories of fighting for queer and trans rights should be permanently ingrained in our memories and the memories of those to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Mason Funk comes in. In 2014, a question kept buzzing around his head: “How did I and millions of other LGBTQ+ people get from there to here?” Funk answered it by creating \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUTWORDS\u003c/a>, a multi-media archive, and its accompanying \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/bookofpride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Book of Pride\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to tell the stories of LGBTQ+ pioneers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project includes over one hundred powerful interviews with subjects from all across the country. Here, we take a look at the stories of five changemakers featured in OUTWORDS, including a survivor of the Stonewall riots who isn’t afraid to curse; an activist who won marriage rights from the California Supreme Court; a housewife who turned in her white picket fence for the March on Washington stage; a Two-Spirit activist who battled prejudice on the ballot and within the medical community and won; and a Yoruba priest who devoted himself to educating his community about AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Miss Major Griffin-Gracy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13859269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-1020x572.png\" alt=\"Miss Major at a Pride Parade in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-1020x572.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-800x449.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-768x431.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-1200x673.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM-1920x1077.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-01-at-12.49.26-AM.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss Major at a Pride Parade in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Miss Major)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never heard Miss Major’s name, where have you been? The veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion has been making waves for over 40 years, fighting for incarcerated trans people through San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.tgijp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trans, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project\u003c/a> until her recent retirement. Her impact has been so—um—major that there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.missmajorfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an entire film\u003c/a> about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fighting spirit that made Miss Major famous has been with her since she was born so premature that she could fit in the palm of her father’s hand. “I’ve been a struggling bitch from the moment I took breath, fighting to hang in there and survive and be here, and make myself known,” she told OUTWORDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Chicago, Miss Major started secretly wearing her mother’s clothes and clip-clopping around the house in her heels around the age of 15. When her mother found out, she was beaten. When her school found out, she was expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859270\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-1020x704.jpg\" alt=\"An elated Miss Major.\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4-1920x1326.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo4.jpg 1974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elated Miss Major. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Miss Major)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the ’60s, Miss Major found her way to New York, where the city’s rich diversity instantly proved to be a balm. Soon, she found a sense of community on the streets with fellow working girls. “Hooking at that time was a f-cking blessing,” she said. “The money was good. The johns were great.” But things eventually took a turn for the dangerous around 1967. Girls were turning up dead, and the police didn’t value their lives enough to investigate. So Miss Major and her friends started taking down license plate numbers, memorizing faces and crafting other methods of ensuring each other’s safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859271\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-1020x1328.jpg\" alt=\"Miss Major serving a look.\" width=\"300\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-1020x1328.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-800x1042.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-768x1000.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1-922x1200.jpg 922w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Griffin-Gracy_Miss-Major_photo1.jpg 1573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss Major serving a look. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Miss Major)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sick of the mistreatment, Miss Major started carrying a hammer for protection; other girls carried knives. As she recalls, if a scuffle broke out, police let male instigators free and arrested the women for defending themselves. Miss Major became known as someone who would reliably accompany girls in trouble with the law to court (something she continued to do into her 70s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, Miss Major frequented a Cheers-esque bar called Stonewall, where everyone knew her name and where she and her friends felt seen and understood. At the time, many aspects of queer and trans life were illegal, and police regularly raided the bar. They got more than they bargained for on June 28, 1969, when a group of fed-up people fought back. Miss Major was there. “I don’t remember a shoe, a brick, a bottle, a body, a garbage can,” she told OUTWORDS. “All I know is we were fighting for our life and we were kicking the cops’ ass.” That moment became the spark that ignited the modern-day LGBTQ+ rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Until her recent retirement to Arizona, Miss Major continued to make a difference in the lives of working women in Oakland, whom she calls her babies. “I’ll take my cane and hobble across the street … and sit on the bench and talk to them,” she said. “The world doesn’t care about us. I want them all to know that somebody does.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Marcus Arana\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dBwvns4XH6g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/dBwvns4XH6g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Marcus Arana’s journey to becoming a Two-Spirit activist fighting for the rights of trans and intersex people can be traced all the way back to a movie theater. At four-years-old, he saw a blue fairy turn Pinocchio into a real boy. Assigned female at birth, Arana turned to his mother and asked for his own blue fairy. She explained that girls could never be boys. In that moment, Arana learned two things: that he was different and that he shouldn’t talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-1020x746.jpg\" alt=\"Arana at age 25 at a Halloween dance as a persona called Dread Weatherly.\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-800x585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-768x562.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12-1200x878.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Mary_Photo12.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arana at age 25 at a Halloween dance as a persona called Dread Weatherly. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Marcus Arana)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he didn’t throughout a lonely and rough childhood, which forced him to leave home at age 14. He eventually came out as queer and moved to San Francisco in 1976, which felt “like the sun coming out and you can hear the munchkins singing as we all went down the yellow brick road.” But, just as Dorothy and her pals had to contend with the Wicked Witch of the West, Arana and other California gays faced off against their own villain: the Briggs Initiative, a \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">1978\u003c/span> ballot measure that, if passed, would ban gays and lesbians from working in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by California’s first openly gay public official, Harvey Milk, Arana committed himself to fighting back through protest, grassroots organizing and visibility, and the Briggs Initiative was defeated at the ballot box by 16.8 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wouldn’t be the last bit of change Arana had a hand in crafting. When he was 37 years old and working at Community United Against Violence, an organization dedicated to addressing violence against the LGBTQ+ community, Arana finally gave into the feeling that had been nagging him since he first saw \u003cem>Pinnochio\u003c/em>. In a staff meeting, he blurted out that he’s trans. “It was like squeezing a tube of toothpaste where all of this stuff comes out and you can’t cram it back in again, you can’t unring the bell,” he told OUTWORDS. “It was liberating, it was magic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859276\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"Arana at age 38, early in his transition, when he began to smile in pictures for the first time.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Arana_Marcus_Photo6.jpg 1785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arana at age 38, early in his transition, when he began to smile in pictures for the first time. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Marcus Arana)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time of his transition, being trans was considered a gender identity disorder and treated like a psychological problem. Arana got back in the fight, educating commissioners, the Health Service Board, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and ultimately, through television appearances, the American public about discrimination against trans people in the health industry. Through his education, hearts and minds slowly began to change, and with them, policies and laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arana’s proudest achievement as an advocate came in 2003 when he was working at the San Francisco Human Rights Commission as a discrimination investigator. Intersex activists came to him with stories of how those born with bodies that don’t readily fit into what society considers male or female were assigned a gender through non-consensual surgery at birth or during childhood (often without the input of the parents, let alone the patient). This usually necessitated even more surgeries down the line and spawned all kinds of future physical and mental issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to prevent any more suffering, Arana wrote a report for the HRC that declared the non-consensual “medical normalization” of intersex people a human rights violation. The report is now used internationally and has helped change the way the medical community views and supports intersex children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lani Ka’ahumanu\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LwG1NOG2y_Q'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LwG1NOG2y_Q'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Lani Ka’ahumanu had to come out multiple times: first as someone who no longer wanted a white picket fence and a husband, then as a lesbian activist and finally as a bisexual carving out a space for people like her within the gay rights movement. The unexpected zigs and zags of her life shocked her friends and family, and even herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka%E2%80%99ahumanu_Lani_photo5-1020x1081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-1020x1081.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-160x170.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-800x848.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-768x814.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-1132x1200.jpg 1132w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5-1920x2035.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo5.jpg 1932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ka’ahumanu’s junior prom in 1959 with future husband, captain of the football team and champion wrestler. (That’s a mat burn from a wrestling match on his face.) \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Lani Ka'ahumanu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Ka’ahumanu always knew what was expected of her: marry a man and have kids. And she played along for a while, falling in love with the captain of the football team, marrying him at 19 and having two kids by the time she was 24. But then she met a new friend who didn’t shave her legs and shared stories of the women’s rights movement. It wasn’t long before Ka’ahumanu changed her honorific from Mrs. to Ms., got involved with the anti-Vietnam War movement, started collecting food for the Black Panther Breakfast Program and boycotting grapes alongside the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late ’60s and early ’70s, Ka’ahumanu started crying a lot and couldn’t figure out why. She had the cookie-cutter picture of a full heterosexual life,\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">but something was missing.\u003c/span> \u003c/span>As hard as it was, with her husband’s support, she made the difficult decision to leave him and their kids behind and move to San Francisco. She enrolled at San Francisco State University, where she helped found the women’s studies department and came out as a lesbian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13859278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka%E2%80%99ahumanu_Lani_photo1-1020x753.jpg\" alt=\"Ka'ahumanu with BiPOL’s contingent at the 1984 SF Pride Parade, led by a red convertible w/ Mayor “Bi-anne Feinstein” and “Princess Bi” from UK waving.\" width=\"640\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-768x567.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1-1200x886.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka’ahumanu_Lani_photo1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ka’ahumanu with BiPOL’s contingent at the 1984 SF Pride Parade, led by a red convertible with Mayor “Bi-anne Feinstein” and “Princess Bi” from UK waving. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Lani Ka'ahumanu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You were becoming part of this growing community, this giant wave, and there was so much support, and a cheering section, literally,” she told OUTWORDS. But there were limits to that support when it came to people who identified as bisexual. Ka’ahumanu realizes now that, back then, she was part of the biphobia problem within the queer community, actively shunning bi women for having “too much privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, while working as a chef at a new age, clothing-optional resort in Mendocino County, Ka’ahumanu met a younger man who wanted to chat about Adrienne Rich’s poetry. Cut to them hooking up in the storage room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859281\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-1020x1397.jpg\" alt=\"Ka'ahumanu was the only out bisexual invited to speak on the main stage at the 1993 March on Washington.\" width=\"300\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-1020x1397.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-160x219.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-800x1096.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-768x1052.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9-876x1200.jpg 876w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Ka_ahumanu_Lani_photo9.jpg 1495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ka’ahumanu was the only out bisexual invited to speak on the main stage at the 1993 March on Washington. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Lani Ka'ahumanu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coming out as bisexual to her newfound community back in San Francisco was rough. Ka’ahumanu felt like “the lesbian who fell from grace” and that she had to prove that she wasn’t a traitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This experience inspired Ka’ahumanu to dedicate her activist muscle to organizing the bisexual community. She spent the latter part of the ’80s establishing an organization called BiPol to bring bi people from across the country together. From there, she planned the 1990 National Bisexual Conference and pushed for more visibility within the queer community, specifically having the word “bisexual” baked into the name of the March on Washington. In 1993, Ka’ahumanu and her cohorts won a partial victory. The word “bi” would be included, but only if the “sexual” was lopped off. When it came time to speak at the march, Ka’ahumanu realized she was delegated to the last slot out of 18 speakers. As she took the mic and said, “Aloha. It ain’t over ’til the bisexual speaks,” the stage behind her was actively being dismantled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though that March on Washington wasn’t perfect, Ka’ahumanu still takes pride in all that she and her organization achieved. “We were at that national table. We did the work. We were there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blackberri\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Aoo0BIzkXWM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Aoo0BIzkXWM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>AIDS educator. History-making musician. Uplifter of queer Black men. Yoruba priest. Blackberri is all of those things and more, and the seeds of his multi-faceted personality sprouted from the very beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Growing up, Blackberri couldn’t get enough of music. He spent his time pretending to be a conductor in front of the radio, playing the harmonica or singing pop songs from his front stoop to the kids in his neighborhood. He also couldn’t get enough of sex. After his mom caught Blackberri and a friend with nothing but pillows in their laps, the mother and son had a heart-to-heart. “From that day on, that was my liberation notice,” Blackberri remembered in his OUTWORDS interview. “I became more flamboyant and more out and just totally unafraid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859282\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo5.jpeg\" alt=\"Blackberri in the Navy.\" width=\"300\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo5.jpeg 758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo5-160x214.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackberri in the Navy. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Blackberri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years later, Blackberri was drafted into the military. He was initially interested in going into the Air Force, but changed his mind when he saw all the Navy boys’ bell bottoms and “nice round butts.” Dry-docked on the East Coast, there was plenty of time to get down. Blackberri narrowly avoided a dishonorable discharge for expressing his sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his time in the military, Blackberri moved around, performing in Wales and spending some time at a feminist collective in Tuscon, Arizona where a lesbian called Hummingbird anointed him with his name (she thought he was dark and sweet).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859283\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-1020x1495.jpg\" alt=\"Blackberri performing at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.\" width=\"300\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-1020x1495.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-160x234.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-800x1172.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-768x1126.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4-819x1200.jpg 819w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo4.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackberri performing at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Blackberri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Music eventually brought him to the Bay Area, where he wrote songs with lyrics like, “You’re such a beautiful black man / But you walk with your head bent and low / Don’t do that anymore / I see the beauty I wish that you knew.” In 1975, he made history on KQED airwaves by starring in a concert called \u003cem>Two Songmakers\u003c/em>, which marked the first time music about the gay experience was featured on public television in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackberri’s career as a singer-songwriter eventually took a back seat due to the AIDS epidemic. Blackberri worked in the AIDS ward at San Francisco General as a death and dying counselor with \u003ca href=\"http://www.shanti.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Shanti Project\u003c/a>. Witnessing the effects of the disease inspired Blackberri to shift his focus to prevention, specifically as it pertained to the black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859284\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-1020x1292.jpg\" alt=\"Blackberri and his guitar.\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-1020x1292.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-800x1013.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-768x973.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7-947x1200.jpg 947w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blackberri_Photo7.jpg 1617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackberri and his guitar. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Blackberri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Black people have always been negroes, always been considered ugly,” he said to OUTWORDS. “So there’s a lot of internalized stuff around how we look, how we are, our hair, our lips. Some people buy into it and that internalized self-hatred has driven the AIDS epidemic. People didn’t feel they were important enough to take care of themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through workshops, field trips, film screenings, meals, affirmations, meditations and visualizations, Blackberri helped build people up, made them feel special and convinced them that they were worth saving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the work of Blackberri and people like him, the LGBTQ+ community is in a better place than it was during the worst days of the AIDS epidemic. But we still have fights ahead. And the only way we win them, according to Blackberri, is if all marginalized communities stick together and show up for each other. “Until we build alliances, we’re not gonna go anywhere,” he said. “When all the fingers close, then you have a fist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Jewelle Gomez\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859285\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13859285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-1020x1450.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelle Gomez at NYC Pride in 1989.\" width=\"640\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-1020x1450.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-160x227.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-800x1137.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-768x1092.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3-844x1200.jpg 844w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo3.jpg 1441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelle Gomez at NYC Pride in 1989. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jewelle Gomez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From combatting media bias against gay men during the AIDS crisis to challenging discriminatory marriage laws, Jewelle Gomez has dedicated her life to standing up against injustice. She got her first up-close look at bigotry in her youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, Gomez lived a quiet, happy childhood with her great-grandmother in Massachusetts. But that changed when Gomez visited her mother’s home in a faraway mill town and learning an ugly truth about this country. Because of her mother’s lighter complexion, her neighbors assumed she was white. When they saw Gomez, her grandmother and her great-grandmother, “it became this horror show,” she told OUTWORDS. “People burned trash on their front yard, threw bricks through their window, called with threatening phone calls day and night.” The harassment continued until the 95 Interstate cut through the neighborhood, forcing everyone to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience instilled an internalized racism in her mother, who didn’t approve when Gomez stopped straightening her hair and got involved with African-American culture. But for Gomez, it was a call to fight back against intolerance by being fully herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859286\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-1020x664.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelle Gomez with family in Boston in 1948.\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-768x500.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-1200x782.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1-1920x1251.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelle Gomez with family in Boston in 1948. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jewelle Gomez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After defending herself from a particularly egregious instance of street harassment, Gomez channeled her rage into a novel called \u003cem>The Gilda Stories\u003c/em> about a queer vampire, which was published in 1991 with the help of mentor Audre Lorde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859287\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859287\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--1020x847.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelle Gomez with Audre Lorde, filming 'Before Stonewall' in 1984.\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--1020x847.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--800x664.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--768x638.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--1200x997.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2--1920x1595.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo2-.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelle Gomez with Audre Lorde, filming ‘Before Stonewall’ in 1984. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Jewelle Gomez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">In the 1985, Gomez became one of the founders of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), now one of the country’s most prominent LGBTQ+ organizations. \u003c/span>When the mainstream media covered the AIDS epidemic by focusing on what was “wrong” with gay culture—the sex, the bathhouses—Gomez and other GLAAD founders protested the demonization. In 1987, they landed the first editorial meeting that \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> held with a gay organization, and worked with them on changing the national conversation. For Gomez, that moment was proof of the LGBTQ+ community’s capacity to join together and take back power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, another battle was brewing: the one around marriage equality. While Gomez always had misgiving around the institution of marriage, as it was designed to keep women in their place, she and her partner agreed to become litigants in the ACLU and NCLR suit against the State of California. After spending four years on the campaign trail, telling her story and advocating for equal treatment under the law, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor in 2008, a feat that had seemed impossible just a few years prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859288\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13859288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-1020x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelle Gomez with spouse Diane Sabin in 2013. \" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-1200x803.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Gomez_Jewelle_photo14_w-spouse-Diane-Sabin-by-Irene-Young-2013.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelle Gomez with spouse Diane Sabin in 2013. \u003ccite>(Irene Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Through her fiction, her advocacy and sharing her life story through projects like OUTWORDS, Gomez hopes to continue bridging the gaps between communities, “whether that means a person who lives in Idaho who’s never met a black lesbian or a person who lives in New York City who’s too cool to hang out with an old lesbian.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This article is part of KQED Arts’ story series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride as Protest\u003c/a>, which chronicles the past and present of LGBTQ+ activism in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Learn more about the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858609/welcome-to-pride-as-protest-a-new-kqed-arts-story-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Mia Satya’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.transmarch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trans March\u003c/a> was revolutionary.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> In 2010, Satya was new to the Bay Area, having come to San Francisco to escape the transphobia she experienced in Texas, where she was born. She was attending the Trans March as part of the group Trans Ladies Initiating Sisterhood, and she was about to dance in front of thousands of people for the first time ever. [aside postid='arts_13858290']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Satya had never before had a chance like this. Dancing as her true self was an important way of defying the transphobia she’d encountered in her home state, and she was doing it in front 5,000 cheering people who were celebrating her transgender identity. “It was a life-changing opportunity,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Mia Satya of the San Francisco LGBT Center']“\u003cspan class=\"s1\">We’ll keep marching until we don’t have to any more.”[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Now an employment services coordinator with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco LGBT Center\u003c/a>, Satya advocates for transgender people in multiple ways, including helping facilitate the Trans March every year. She also staffs the LGBT Center’s booth in the march’s resource fair, where she meets new members of the community, engages with clients the center may have lost touch with, builds connections with businesses that want to hire more trans people and spreads the word about its trans employment program. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Satya says that “all hands are on deck” for the Trans March, which takes place on June 28 this year. For the SF LGBT Center, which also supports the central Pride March and the Dyke March, being at the Trans March is a way of making a clear statement of its commitment to the transgender community. Despite great advances since the first Trans March in 2004, many trans people still feel excluded from Pride and from LGBTQ+ communities in San Francisco. The “LBG” movement has not always been inclusive to the “T,” so the LGBT Center is one of many organizations that prioritizes sending a message of openness and collaboration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fight for trans inclusion at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Nowadays the Trans March is an essential part of Pride, lasting an entire day and featuring a youth and elder brunch, resource fair, transformation booth, speakers and performances. But it wasn’t always like this. [aside postid='arts_13844019']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Though trans women of color like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13844019/ah-mer-ah-sus-major-soundtrack-feeds-the-spirit-of-trans-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miss Major Griffin-Gracy\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sylvia Rivera\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_P._Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marsha P. Johnson\u003c/a> played an essential role in the Stonewall uprising of 1969—a riot against police brutality in New York City that sparked the modern-day gay rights movement—by the early 1970s, when Pride first came together, there was no particular space for people who wanted to celebrate transgender identity. In fact, the gay, lesbian and bisexual community often discriminated against trans people. This is reflective of the era, as transgender people were grossly misunderstood, and there were scant services available for people living as their true gender. Additionally, the gay movement had become much more mainstream—and became dominated by the white, male masculine aesthetic that characterizes it to this day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/trans-march-2004-2-cecilia-chung.jpg\" alt=\"The first Trans March in 2004 reclaimed the trans community's rightful place in San Francisco's Pride celebration.\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/trans-march-2004-2-cecilia-chung.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/trans-march-2004-2-cecilia-chung-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first Trans March in 2004 reclaimed the trans community’s rightful place in San Francisco’s Pride celebration. \u003ccite>(Cecilia Chung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Furthermore, the gay rights movement found success with a conformist message geared towards assimilation into straight norms. Some gay and lesbian organizers feared that the inclusion of trans people would undermine the movement’s gains. These divisions were highlighted in 1973, when homosexuality was officially removed as a mental illness from the American Psychiatric Association’s \u003ci>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. \u003c/i>It would take another 40 years for gender identity disorder, the diagnosis that was generally given to trans people, to become similarly destigmatized in 2013.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> These factors set the stage for what happened in 1973, when Pride became openly hostile toward trans people. In \u003ci>Transgender History\u003c/i>, transgender historian Susan Stryker recounts that in that year, San Francisco Pride consisted of two main events: one was a trans-friendly event, organized by gay activist and Pentecostal preacher Reverend Raymond Broshears; the other event “expressly forbid transgender people from participating.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> According to Styker, the transphobic event was the more successful one, setting the tone for decades to come: “Broshears never organized another Gay Pride event, while the anti-drag event became the forerunner of the current San Francisco LGBTQ+ Pride celebration.” (In the ’70s, people often didn’t distinguish between drag queens and transgender women. Many lesbian activists at the time believed that drag was “misogynist,” hence the Stryker’s use of “anti-drag.”) [aside postid='arts_13835520']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Transgender activist Cecilia Chung says that by 2004 things were quite different, and the San Francisco Pride organization was very willing to support a march devoted to trans empowerment. That year, an anonymous email circulated, calling on anyone who was gender nonconforming to march in conjunction with SF Pride weekend. A number of local activists came together around the call-to-action and decided to take on the responsibility of turning the gathering into a well-organized march.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Chung, who was on the board of directors of SF Pride at the time, took on fundraising for the original Trans March. She says it raised between $3,000 and $5,000, which went into sound systems, a performance space and safety minders. Pride and the Dyke March pitched in with logistical support and Porta Potties. The sex shop Good Vibrations, which has long been a trans-friendly employer, donated water and other beverages. Altogether, somewhere around 3,000 people marched in 2004, starting at Dolores Park and making their way to Civic Center.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Chung says that the first Trans March was undertaken for a number of reasons, a major one being to demand justice for \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/14/the-murder-of-gwen-araujo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwen Araujo\u003c/a>. Araujo was a trans woman who was brutally beaten to death in 2002 by four men who discovered she was transgender after flirting with her, and, in the case of two, having sexual relations. The trial began shortly before the first Trans March in April 2004, with Gloria Allred representing Araujo’s family. A mistrial had just been declared. It was a bitter setback for trans rights. (Eventually, two of the men were convicted of second-degree murder; the other two pleaded guilty and no contest to manslaughter.) [aside postid='arts_13858167']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Allred and the family of Gwen Araujo attended the march, and they were not the only high-profile visitors. Senator Kamala Harris, who at the time was San Francisco District Attorney, was there, along with a number of other prominent local politicians. The politicized tone of fighting back against injustice, inequity and the brutal murders of trans people became a central part of the Trans March that continues to this day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> There has been a lot to fight about. The 2008 march raged against Democrats in Congress, who, led by then-congressman Barney Frank, chose to dump trans people from an LGB-friendly version of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/House-cuts-transgender-people-from-hate-crimes-2538277.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employment Non-Discrimination Act\u003c/a> with the support of the Human Rights Campaign.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13859037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/hire-trans-lgbt-center-800x723.jpg\" alt=\"The SF LGBT center promotes its trans employment resource program at the 2017 Trans March.\" width=\"800\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/hire-trans-lgbt-center.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/hire-trans-lgbt-center-160x145.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/hire-trans-lgbt-center-768x694.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF LGBT center promotes its trans employment resource program at the 2017 Trans March. \u003ccite>(SF LGBT Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The 2016 Trans March gave a key piece of transgender history a permanent space in San Francisco when it concluded with the renaming of a Tenderloin street in remembrance of the historic riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, which took place in 1966, three years before Stonewall. This incident, in which gay and transgender patrons came together to demand equal treatment and defy police harassment, was a turning point for LGBTQ+ rights. In late 2018, part of the Tenderloin became designated as the world’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717648/worlds-first-transgender-culture-district-looks-to-the-past-and-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transgender Cultural District\u003c/a>. This was a much-needed victory at a time when the Trump administration introduced plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">severely undermine trans rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Chung recalls that the original Trans March was an important means of bringing together activists in the Bay Area, creating an atmosphere ripe for cross-pollination. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.castrocountryclub.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Castro Country Club\u003c/a>, a space that supports LGBTQ+ people in substance-abuse recovery, was instrumental in producing fundraisers for the first march, establishing links between different segments of the LGBTQ+ community. Furthermore, organizations like \u003ca href=\"http://tgsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transgender San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftmi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTM International\u003c/a>—the first organization specifically founded to advance the interests of transmasculine people—began to meet up and work toward collaboration. “A lot of things started around that time,” Chung says, including quarterly transgender events at the SF LGBT Center, and community town halls with some 500 people in attendance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> The march also brought about a heightened profile for transgender advocacy. Chung recalls that in advance of the second march in 2005, she was interviewed by a television reporter from England. People were coming from far away to participate in the 2005 march, and the San Francisco organizers began cooperating with a similar event in New York City, arranging bicoastal transgender events on the same day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Trans March today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Chung says that while Pride has come to be more of a celebration than a political act, today’s Trans March very much reflects its radical roots. “The march is always meant to be a political statement,” she says. This is a necessity, as trans people are still so far from having full equality under the law, as well as simply having the resources necessary to live and celebrate their identity. Reflecting the radical spirit that has led the transgender movement to find creative ways to support itself and demand its rights, the organization of the march is highly democratized, with regularly rotating leadership and an emphasis on volunteerism over institutionalization to ensure the flow of new ideas. [aside postid='arts_13858699']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Recent developments in the Trans March reflect that spirit. Satya says that the Youth and Elder Brunch, which began in 2012, “opens up an important opportunity for dialog between generations.” In a community that still remains fractured along lines of class and age, the brunch provides a vital means of building trans community and inclusivity, staying true to the march’s earliest foundations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> While the Trans March is an annual reminder of the many gains that trans people have made since 2004, Satya says that it’s also a way of illuminating the things that are still to be done. With the Trump administration allowing doctors to \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/the-trump-administration-just-said-religious-doctors-can-refuse-medical-treatment-for-patients/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deny of medical services to transgender patients\u003c/a>, banning transgender servicemembers from the military and threatening to define trans people out of existence, there is a lot of action needed before trans people have their full rights as American citizens. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“We’ll keep marching until we don’t have to any more,” Satya says. “I hope that one day we’ll pass an equality act and won’t have discrimination anywhere, but until then we need to keep marching and fighting.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Satya says that “all hands are on deck” for the Trans March, which takes place on June 28 this year. For the SF LGBT Center, which also supports the central Pride March and the Dyke March, being at the Trans March is a way of making a clear statement of its commitment to the transgender community. Despite great advances since the first Trans March in 2004, many trans people still feel excluded from Pride and from LGBTQ+ communities in San Francisco. The “LBG” movement has not always been inclusive to the “T,” so the LGBT Center is one of many organizations that prioritizes sending a message of openness and collaboration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fight for trans inclusion at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Nowadays the Trans March is an essential part of Pride, lasting an entire day and featuring a youth and elder brunch, resource fair, transformation booth, speakers and performances. But it wasn’t always like this. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Though trans women of color like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13844019/ah-mer-ah-sus-major-soundtrack-feeds-the-spirit-of-trans-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miss Major Griffin-Gracy\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sylvia Rivera\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_P._Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marsha P. Johnson\u003c/a> played an essential role in the Stonewall uprising of 1969—a riot against police brutality in New York City that sparked the modern-day gay rights movement—by the early 1970s, when Pride first came together, there was no particular space for people who wanted to celebrate transgender identity. In fact, the gay, lesbian and bisexual community often discriminated against trans people. This is reflective of the era, as transgender people were grossly misunderstood, and there were scant services available for people living as their true gender. Additionally, the gay movement had become much more mainstream—and became dominated by the white, male masculine aesthetic that characterizes it to this day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13859036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/trans-march-2004-2-cecilia-chung.jpg\" alt=\"The first Trans March in 2004 reclaimed the trans community's rightful place in San Francisco's Pride celebration.\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/trans-march-2004-2-cecilia-chung.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/trans-march-2004-2-cecilia-chung-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first Trans March in 2004 reclaimed the trans community’s rightful place in San Francisco’s Pride celebration. \u003ccite>(Cecilia Chung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Furthermore, the gay rights movement found success with a conformist message geared towards assimilation into straight norms. Some gay and lesbian organizers feared that the inclusion of trans people would undermine the movement’s gains. These divisions were highlighted in 1973, when homosexuality was officially removed as a mental illness from the American Psychiatric Association’s \u003ci>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. \u003c/i>It would take another 40 years for gender identity disorder, the diagnosis that was generally given to trans people, to become similarly destigmatized in 2013.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> These factors set the stage for what happened in 1973, when Pride became openly hostile toward trans people. In \u003ci>Transgender History\u003c/i>, transgender historian Susan Stryker recounts that in that year, San Francisco Pride consisted of two main events: one was a trans-friendly event, organized by gay activist and Pentecostal preacher Reverend Raymond Broshears; the other event “expressly forbid transgender people from participating.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> According to Styker, the transphobic event was the more successful one, setting the tone for decades to come: “Broshears never organized another Gay Pride event, while the anti-drag event became the forerunner of the current San Francisco LGBTQ+ Pride celebration.” (In the ’70s, people often didn’t distinguish between drag queens and transgender women. Many lesbian activists at the time believed that drag was “misogynist,” hence the Stryker’s use of “anti-drag.”) \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Allred and the family of Gwen Araujo attended the march, and they were not the only high-profile visitors. Senator Kamala Harris, who at the time was San Francisco District Attorney, was there, along with a number of other prominent local politicians. The politicized tone of fighting back against injustice, inequity and the brutal murders of trans people became a central part of the Trans March that continues to this day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> There has been a lot to fight about. The 2008 march raged against Democrats in Congress, who, led by then-congressman Barney Frank, chose to dump trans people from an LGB-friendly version of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/House-cuts-transgender-people-from-hate-crimes-2538277.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employment Non-Discrimination Act\u003c/a> with the support of the Human Rights Campaign.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13859037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/hire-trans-lgbt-center-800x723.jpg\" alt=\"The SF LGBT center promotes its trans employment resource program at the 2017 Trans March.\" width=\"800\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/hire-trans-lgbt-center.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/hire-trans-lgbt-center-160x145.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/hire-trans-lgbt-center-768x694.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF LGBT center promotes its trans employment resource program at the 2017 Trans March. \u003ccite>(SF LGBT Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The 2016 Trans March gave a key piece of transgender history a permanent space in San Francisco when it concluded with the renaming of a Tenderloin street in remembrance of the historic riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, which took place in 1966, three years before Stonewall. This incident, in which gay and transgender patrons came together to demand equal treatment and defy police harassment, was a turning point for LGBTQ+ rights. In late 2018, part of the Tenderloin became designated as the world’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717648/worlds-first-transgender-culture-district-looks-to-the-past-and-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transgender Cultural District\u003c/a>. This was a much-needed victory at a time when the Trump administration introduced plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">severely undermine trans rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> Chung recalls that the original Trans March was an important means of bringing together activists in the Bay Area, creating an atmosphere ripe for cross-pollination. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.castrocountryclub.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Castro Country Club\u003c/a>, a space that supports LGBTQ+ people in substance-abuse recovery, was instrumental in producing fundraisers for the first march, establishing links between different segments of the LGBTQ+ community. Furthermore, organizations like \u003ca href=\"http://tgsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transgender San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftmi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTM International\u003c/a>—the first organization specifically founded to advance the interests of transmasculine people—began to meet up and work toward collaboration. “A lot of things started around that time,” Chung says, including quarterly transgender events at the SF LGBT Center, and community town halls with some 500 people in attendance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> The march also brought about a heightened profile for transgender advocacy. Chung recalls that in advance of the second march in 2005, she was interviewed by a television reporter from England. People were coming from far away to participate in the 2005 march, and the San Francisco organizers began cooperating with a similar event in New York City, arranging bicoastal transgender events on the same day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Trans March today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Chung says that while Pride has come to be more of a celebration than a political act, today’s Trans March very much reflects its radical roots. “The march is always meant to be a political statement,” she says. This is a necessity, as trans people are still so far from having full equality under the law, as well as simply having the resources necessary to live and celebrate their identity. Reflecting the radical spirit that has led the transgender movement to find creative ways to support itself and demand its rights, the organization of the march is highly democratized, with regularly rotating leadership and an emphasis on volunteerism over institutionalization to ensure the flow of new ideas. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This article is part of KQED Arts’ story series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride as Protest\u003c/a>, which chronicles the past and present of LGBTQ+ activism in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Learn more about the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858609/welcome-to-pride-as-protest-a-new-kqed-arts-story-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Saturday evening last month, dozens of people hovered around a horseshoe-shaped bar in the Mission District of San Francisco. Diffuse blue and fuchsia lights shone on white patent leather sofas, and a DJ played vinyl—mostly throwback funk and disco beating with a steady pulse. Arched over the scene was a pink neon sign with the words “Eagle Creek.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the music quieted, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sadiebarnette.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sadie Barnette\u003c/a> and her father Rodney sat on stools beneath the neon, and explained why this art space, usually known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelab.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Lab\u003c/a>, looked and felt like a nightclub. In the 1970s and 1980s, Rodney recalled, gay bars were among the least hospitable places in San Francisco for black people such as himself. There was hardly a place for gay black people to dance, let alone throw a fundraiser for a gay black political candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I bought the Eagle Creek,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Sadie-and-Rodney-Barnette-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sadie Barnette (L) used her residency at The Lab to honor San Francisco's first black-owned gay bar the Eagle Creek Saloon, which her father Rodney (R) opened in 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Sadie-and-Rodney-Barnette-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Sadie-and-Rodney-Barnette-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Sadie-and-Rodney-Barnette-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Sadie-and-Rodney-Barnette-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Sadie-and-Rodney-Barnette-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Sadie-and-Rodney-Barnette-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadie Barnette (L) used her residency at The Lab to honor San Francisco’s first black-owned gay bar the Eagle Creek Saloon, which her father Rodney (R) opened in 1990. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sadie was five years old in 1990 when her father acquired the bar that for the next three years provided gay people of color a site of protest, refuge and revelry on Market Street—”a friendly place with a funky bass for every race,” as its slogan went. Now the Oakland artist is using her \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelab.org/projects/2019/5/11/sadie-barnette-the-new-eagle-creek-saloon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">residency\u003c/a> at the Lab to to honor her father’s venture with “something living, something more than a referential archive,” she said. “I want this to channel Eagle Creek, not just be about it.” [aside postid='arts_13858167']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadie’s most vivid memory of the city’s first black-owned gay bar is from 1992, when the Eagle Creek sponsored what Rodney calls the first black float in the San Francisco Pride parade. The theme was black people through the ages, and Sadie stood alongside pharaohs and astronauts in an ornately tasseled ensemble created by a bar regular. Her residency at the Lab culminates with this year’s parade on June 30, when the entire bar will be hoisted onto a float. Until then, the bar is on view every Wednesday 5-8pm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Rodney Barnette, owner of Eagle Creek Saloon']“The bigger the community got, the worse the discrimination was. I started avoiding even driving through the Castro.”[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The New Eagle Creek Saloon” is not a reproduction of Eagle Creek so much as a fondly embellished memory. Sadie called the aesthetic “disco limbo,” saying in a recent interview that it connects to her work in terms of familiar objects or scenes portrayed with a hyperbolic grandeur to suggest their liberatory potential. The bar is part altar, with photos of the Barnette family from the time, and part sculpture, with crushed cans and stereo equipment enameled in glitter. There are branded matchbooks and coasters, and the bar itself is sturdy enough for people to dance on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-800x618.jpg\" alt='L to R: Alvin and Carl Barnette, Eagle Creek regulars Sammy \"La Creek\" and Frank \"Lady F,\" and Rodney Barnette.' width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-768x594.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-1200x928.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Alvin and Carl Barnette, Eagle Creek regulars Sammy “La Creek” and Frank “Lady F,” and Rodney Barnette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sadie Barnette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sadie aims for the installation to also be a queer social space, inviting organizations such as the Black Aesthetic film collective to contribute programming. This way, the project at once enhances the historical record, gathering memories and materials related to a little-documented bar, and addresses a still-urgent need for black-centered queer spaces. “Discrimination at clubs doesn’t take the same forms now,” she said. “But we shouldn’t relegate the struggle to the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodney was wounded in the Vietnam War, and upon returning to Los Angeles realized American police occupied the black community the way American soldiers occupied Vietnam. He founded the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968, landing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) watchlist. [aside postid='arts_13858829']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadie incorporated his FBI file, acquired via a public records request, into her installation \u003cem>My Father’s FBI File, Project I\u003c/em>, which debuted in 2016 at the Oakland Museum of California’s exhibition \u003cem>All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/em>. She had in mind a piece inspired by Eagle Creek even before that project, but it wasn’t until the Lab residency that she had the opportunity. “Something that’s as much performance as shrine or nightclub needs somewhere as flexible as the Lab,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The bar is part altar, with photos of the Barnette family from the time, and part sculpture, with crushed cans and stereo equipment enameled in glitter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar is part altar, with photos of the Barnette family from the time, and part sculpture, with crushed cans and stereo equipment enameled in glitter. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rodney, who moved to San Francisco in 1969, said he was surprised to find racism in the gay scene to be more pronounced than in the city over all. As he recalls, the Rendezvous cut the music when black people started to dance, citing a rule against bodily contact, and the Stud removed the black music from the jukebox. At the Mineshaft, like other gay bars, black people were often asked for three forms of identification at the door. “And the bigger the community got, the worse the discrimination was,” Rodney said. “I started avoiding even driving through the Castro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the opening of the Eagle Creek, in 1990, was followed by what Rodney considered a racist smear in San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ newspaper, \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em>. A news item on a white gay man found strangled to death at home noted that he was an Eagle Creek regular with a “sexual preference for black males,” unsubtly implying a connection. Rodney wrote the newspaper expressing sympathy for the victim and outrage at the innuendo, prompting a retraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-800x507.jpg\" alt='Sadie Barnette aims for \"The New Eagle Creek Saloon\" to be a queer social space. ' width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-1200x760.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadie Barnette aims for “The New Eagle Creek Saloon” to be a queer social space. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A hub of gay rights activism, the bar hosted fundraisers for groups such as Lesbians and Gays of African Descent for Democratic Action, which in turn pressured the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to pass legislation forestalling the discriminatory identification checks. The bar closed during candlelight vigils on Market Street for community members lost to the AIDS epidemic. Rodney said it also brought him closer to his two straight brothers. [aside postid='arts_13858699']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Eagle Creek shuttered in 1993 because business tapered during an economic downturn, and another short-lived bar aimed at straight people, The Drunk Tank, opened in its place. But it left deep impressions on its patrons, many of whom turned out to the opening last month at the Lab. After the Barnettes’ presentation, one former regular lyrically recalled a muscular bartender with a tiny chihuahua. Another, choking up, remembered himself as painfully closeted, at all times withdrawn into his hoodie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hiding,” he said. “At the Eagle Creek, I opened up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The New Eagle Creek Saloon” is not a reproduction of Eagle Creek so much as a fondly embellished memory. Sadie called the aesthetic “disco limbo,” saying in a recent interview that it connects to her work in terms of familiar objects or scenes portrayed with a hyperbolic grandeur to suggest their liberatory potential. The bar is part altar, with photos of the Barnette family from the time, and part sculpture, with crushed cans and stereo equipment enameled in glitter. There are branded matchbooks and coasters, and the bar itself is sturdy enough for people to dance on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-800x618.jpg\" alt='L to R: Alvin and Carl Barnette, Eagle Creek regulars Sammy \"La Creek\" and Frank \"Lady F,\" and Rodney Barnette.' width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-768x594.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon-1200x928.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Barnette-family-and-regulars-eagle-creek-saloon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Alvin and Carl Barnette, Eagle Creek regulars Sammy “La Creek” and Frank “Lady F,” and Rodney Barnette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sadie Barnette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sadie aims for the installation to also be a queer social space, inviting organizations such as the Black Aesthetic film collective to contribute programming. This way, the project at once enhances the historical record, gathering memories and materials related to a little-documented bar, and addresses a still-urgent need for black-centered queer spaces. “Discrimination at clubs doesn’t take the same forms now,” she said. “But we shouldn’t relegate the struggle to the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodney was wounded in the Vietnam War, and upon returning to Los Angeles realized American police occupied the black community the way American soldiers occupied Vietnam. He founded the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968, landing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) watchlist. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadie incorporated his FBI file, acquired via a public records request, into her installation \u003cem>My Father’s FBI File, Project I\u003c/em>, which debuted in 2016 at the Oakland Museum of California’s exhibition \u003cem>All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/em>. She had in mind a piece inspired by Eagle Creek even before that project, but it wasn’t until the Lab residency that she had the opportunity. “Something that’s as much performance as shrine or nightclub needs somewhere as flexible as the Lab,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The bar is part altar, with photos of the Barnette family from the time, and part sculpture, with crushed cans and stereo equipment enameled in glitter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-sculpture-Eagle-Creek.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar is part altar, with photos of the Barnette family from the time, and part sculpture, with crushed cans and stereo equipment enameled in glitter. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rodney, who moved to San Francisco in 1969, said he was surprised to find racism in the gay scene to be more pronounced than in the city over all. As he recalls, the Rendezvous cut the music when black people started to dance, citing a rule against bodily contact, and the Stud removed the black music from the jukebox. At the Mineshaft, like other gay bars, black people were often asked for three forms of identification at the door. “And the bigger the community got, the worse the discrimination was,” Rodney said. “I started avoiding even driving through the Castro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the opening of the Eagle Creek, in 1990, was followed by what Rodney considered a racist smear in San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ newspaper, \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em>. A news item on a white gay man found strangled to death at home noted that he was an Eagle Creek regular with a “sexual preference for black males,” unsubtly implying a connection. Rodney wrote the newspaper expressing sympathy for the victim and outrage at the innuendo, prompting a retraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-800x507.jpg\" alt='Sadie Barnette aims for \"The New Eagle Creek Saloon\" to be a queer social space. ' width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day-1200x760.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Bar-by-day.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadie Barnette aims for “The New Eagle Creek Saloon” to be a queer social space. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A hub of gay rights activism, the bar hosted fundraisers for groups such as Lesbians and Gays of African Descent for Democratic Action, which in turn pressured the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to pass legislation forestalling the discriminatory identification checks. The bar closed during candlelight vigils on Market Street for community members lost to the AIDS epidemic. Rodney said it also brought him closer to his two straight brothers. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This article is part of KQED Arts’ story series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride as Protest\u003c/a>, which chronicles the past and present of LGBTQ+ activism in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Learn more about the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858609/welcome-to-pride-as-protest-a-new-kqed-arts-story-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lingering darkness of the early morning, the queers climbed up a SoMA highway overpass, recently shut down due to structural concerns from the Loma Prieta earthquake. They were on a mission from Catherine Did It, a focus group affiliated with San Francisco’s brand-new chapter of the ostentatious activist organization Queer Nation, which had an estimated 40 chapters around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Did It was created to use guerrilla tactics to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-29-ca-750-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confront the filming of \u003cem>Basic Instinct\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—a 1992 movie Queer Nation saw as the latest example of Hollywood’s storied obsession with psychotic queer women. In the film, a secondary bisexual character wrings her hands and moans to the brave male protagonist upon being outed, “I was embarrassed. It was the only time I’d been with a woman.” Sleeping with a man seems to cure the anti-heroine of her murderous lesbianism. (Her truculent girlfriend was disposed of in a fatal automobile accident.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic’s terrorizing hold on the queer community, many considered this stereotypical mainstream representation intolerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activists had been tipped off that the next evening, shooting would take place on the block below their feet—well, not if they had anything to do with it. They opened up the bags of glitter they hauled up to the abandoned stretch of I-280 and let their contents fly. When the film crew arrived, they’d find their trumped-up, urban wasteland location covered in twinkling bits of exquisitely campy queer rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Queer Nation activists march at a New York City peace rally in October 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queer Nation activists march at a New York City peace rally in October 1990. \u003ccite>(Tracey Litt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the occasion of Queer Nation’s 25th anniversary in 2015, San Francisco chapter co-founder Mark Duran \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/news//245481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that he had been inspired to form the group in 1990 after watching a conversation between radical, queer activists from New York and their more staid, Democratic Party-affiliated San Francisco counterparts on KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was at that precise moment that I realized the time was up for asking for crumbs from the table as our gay leaders had been doing for so long,” he remembered. “It was time for us to simply take our place at that table and demand our civil and human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran, his partner Daniel Paiz and fellow activist Steve Mehall blanketed the Castro and Mission districts with flyers announcing Queer Nation SF’s first meeting, which would take place one month after that of the original New York chapter. The group convened at the historic Women’s Building. An astounding 300 people (as many as 500, by some estimates) came to the first gathering, where a consensus-based, horizontal leadership structure was codified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Rachel Pepper, former Queer Nation activist']There was a lot of camp, because when you are in the midst of a crisis and an epidemic you also have to laugh, and you have to find humor, and you have to love, and you have to live intensely every day, because you don’t know if you’re going to be alive in a year.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, even the most routine general assembly meeting would draw crowds of around 200 members. Focus groups formed, among them LABIA (Lesbians And Bi-women In Action), the people of color-focused United Colors of Queer Nation, UBIQUITOUS (Uppity Bi Queers United In Their Overtly Unconventional Sexuality), Queer Planet and DORIS SQUASH (Defending Our Rights In the Streets, Super Queers United Against Savage Heterosexism).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That first meeting was very, very exciting,” says Queer Nation and Catherine Did It activist Jennifer Junkyard Morris. “Well—and it was also very cruise-y.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Queer activism in the wake of the AIDS epidemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The early ’90s were a time when traditional activist tactics were being queered across the country. In 1990, fellow direct-action group ACT UP organized \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2015/06/the-week-act-up-shut-sf-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a massive die-in protest\u003c/a> on Market Street during San Francisco’s hosting of the Sixth International Conference on AIDS. It was part of the group’s bid to raise awareness and halt the plague that claimed so many lives, many of them in the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at times, ACT UP made its points quite cheekily. For example, the group’s signature “ACT UP, fight back, fight AIDS!” chant would become “ACT UP, kick back get laid!” when participants tired of earnestness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Queer Nation New York activists at an October 1990 demonstration. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queer Nation New York activists at an October 1990 demonstration. \u003ccite>(Tracey Litt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Queer Nation activists were inspired by those touches of swishy irreverence—the founders of the original Queer Nation New York chapter had been active in ACT UP themselves—but they wanted to expand the AIDS-focused group’s scope. “That’s really why [Queer Nation] was created, to deal with other places where we’re being attacked,” remembers Morris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, Queer Nation became best known for targeting cultural homophobia. Some of the San Francisco chapter’s first actions were kiss-ins, which would send hundreds of flamboyant lovers to a straight Marina bar or the Powell Street cable car turnaround, where they would make out en masse with gusto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focus group GHOST (Grand Homosexual Outrage at Sickening Televangelists) organized a rally to greet \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/1c940282ba516b1058d242fd482ebd9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">televangelists who’d flown in to exorcise the demons\u003c/a> of San Francisco on Halloween night of 1990. The evangelist-phobic crowd of thousands skipped off to the annual Castro neighborhood celebrations after overwhelming the city’s would-be saviors. Similarly irreverant, SHOP (Suburban Homosexual Outreach Program) fulfilled its moniker’s promise by surprising attendees at a special celebrity appearance of Hello Kitty at San Bruno’s Tanforan Shopping Center with a joyous melee of drag, balloons and banners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/119618746\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, Queer Nation’s actions featured a chant that hasn’t left the lips of LGBTQ+ troublemakers since: “We’re here! We’re queer! Get used to it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For members of Queer Nation, style was key. The group’s many affiliated visual artists designed neon stickers with sayings like “Queers bash back” and “Dykes take over the world.” “Usually I wore boy drag like an ACT UP activist, but sometimes gurl drag—a wig and long hair, earrings and a dress or skirt,” remembers activist Derek Marshall Newman in an email to KQED. “It depended how cute I wanted look and how safe I felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were queer people, so we had a sense of humor,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.rachel-pepper.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Pepper\u003c/a>, an early Queer Nation member who played a key role in moderating general meetings. “There was a lot of camp, because when you are in the midst of a crisis and an epidemic you also have to laugh, and you have to find humor, and you have to love, and you have to live intensely every day, because you don’t know if you’re going to be alive in a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Queers bash back’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this pre-internet era, Queer Nation members communicated via their Queer Week newsletter and Queerline voicemail system. They coined the phrase “Queers bash back” for street patrols that walked the streets of San Francisco to thwart gay bashers, who seemed to stalk Dolores Park, and abusive cops, who were surely Queer Nation’s most hated adversaries. Often, the group would show up in solidarity at community anti-police and eviction protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, intersectionality became a goal of the short-lived group. Among the group’s people of color-focused sub-groups was United Colors of Queer Nation, founded by activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/obituaries//248420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karl Knapper\u003c/a>. It focused on amplifying the voices of activists of color in Queer Nation, and on developing practices that protected black and brown bodies at protests, such as physical placement at sit-ins and pre-event training on how to deal with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of the things that [white Queer Nation activists] wanted to do: a lot of civil disobedience,” remembers United Colors activist Thomas Tymstone, who, along with Pepper, also facilitated Queer Nation’s general assembly meetings. “That is great, but a lot of people of color don’t want to be arrested for any reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian \u003ca href=\"https://independent.academia.edu/GKoskovich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerard Koskovich\u003c/a> was a legal observer during Queer Nation actions, taking notes in case there was a later need for a court witness to testify against police misconduct. Koskovich remembers how members who came from privileged backgrounds listened to stories fellow activists told about experiences with predatory law enforcement. These exchanges could oftentimes prove intense for would-be activists who became overwhelmed by the multiplicity of perspectives and the challenges they presented to creating a cohesive movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858225\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Patriot_Prayer_SF_counterprotest_20170826-8107-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Queer Nation's confrontational tactics and slogans like "Queers bash back" continue to influence LGBTQ activists. Here, protesters carry a "Queers bash back" sign at a Patriot Prayer counter-demonstration in San Francisco in 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Patriot_Prayer_SF_counterprotest_20170826-8107-800x490.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Patriot_Prayer_SF_counterprotest_20170826-8107-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Patriot_Prayer_SF_counterprotest_20170826-8107-768x470.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Patriot_Prayer_SF_counterprotest_20170826-8107-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Patriot_Prayer_SF_counterprotest_20170826-8107-1200x735.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Patriot_Prayer_SF_counterprotest_20170826-8107.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queer Nation’s confrontational tactics and slogans like “Queers bash back” continue to influence LGBTQ activists. Here, protesters carry a “Queers bash back” sign at a Patriot Prayer counter-demonstration in San Francisco in 2017. \u003ccite>(Pax Ahimnsa Gethen/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But sometimes, surprising moments of connection took place. As one of the group’s hard-working moderators, Tymstone remembers with fondness Queer Nation’s practice of the “fishbowl,” in which different focus groups could hold the floor and address their concerns uninterrupted by comments from the audience. “A lot of our organizational structure was made by women,” he says. “Gay men didn’t know anything about consensus. We would just talk until somebody let us—or until somebody heard us. [The women] would stop us and say, ‘Wait, let this person talk.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a period of time, at least, those meetings became much more of a space where people felt safe coming forward with these very tender, difficult things and saying, ‘Can we talk about this and help understand things better?'” Koskovich says. “Of course, it didn’t ultimately always work out that way, and how could it? But at least that was a moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 574px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13858227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer_Nation_Houston_x6.jpg\" alt=\"Posters from Queer Nation's Houston chapter.\" width=\"574\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer_Nation_Houston_x6.jpg 574w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer_Nation_Houston_x6-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters from Queer Nation’s Houston chapter. \u003ccite>(WikiMedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The moment didn’t last forever. Queer Nation SF meetings dwindled by the end of 1991. Some members say the vast organization collapsed under difference in tactical preferences and the weight of trying to do too much. But in the cracks and crannies of San Francisco, some glitter from the Queer Nation days remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s members went on to become writers, policymakers, historians, artists and scholars. Morris became an \u003ca href=\"https://kpfa.org/featured-episode/interview-with-jennifer-junkyard-morris/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eminent Bay Area film programmer\u003c/a> at Frameline Film Festival, SF DocFest and the Roxie Theater. \u003ca href=\"http://www.buffalo.edu/news/experts/jonathan-katz-queer-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan David Katz\u003c/a> is a lauded academic who founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Harvey-Milk-Institute-Opens-Gay-lesbian-studies-3049118.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvey Milk Institute\u003c/a>, once one of the world’s largest centers for queer studies. And fellow alum \u003ca href=\"https://www.justinvivianbond.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Vivian Bond\u003c/a> is a ground-breaking, Tony-nominated vocalist and founder of parodic lounge duo Kiki and Herb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely shaped a generation of activists in terms of thinking about how they wanted to live their lives,” says Pepper, who helped found \u003ca href=\"http://www.curvemag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curve Magazine\u003c/a> and wrote 1999’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Pregnancy-Lesbians-Pre-conception/dp/157344216X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real concrete, traceable network of people doing work that came out of the relationships built in that era,” says Koskovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queer Nation’s activism was brief, but the group’s flouncy radicalism left a blueprint for younger generations: to make activism last, listen to those with different experiences. To heal, laugh. And to make change, be unabashedly, unapologetically loud.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This article is part of KQED Arts’ story series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/pride-as-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride as Protest\u003c/a>, which chronicles the past and present of LGBTQ+ activism in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Learn more about the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858609/welcome-to-pride-as-protest-a-new-kqed-arts-story-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lingering darkness of the early morning, the queers climbed up a SoMA highway overpass, recently shut down due to structural concerns from the Loma Prieta earthquake. They were on a mission from Catherine Did It, a focus group affiliated with San Francisco’s brand-new chapter of the ostentatious activist organization Queer Nation, which had an estimated 40 chapters around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Did It was created to use guerrilla tactics to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-29-ca-750-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confront the filming of \u003cem>Basic Instinct\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—a 1992 movie Queer Nation saw as the latest example of Hollywood’s storied obsession with psychotic queer women. In the film, a secondary bisexual character wrings her hands and moans to the brave male protagonist upon being outed, “I was embarrassed. It was the only time I’d been with a woman.” Sleeping with a man seems to cure the anti-heroine of her murderous lesbianism. (Her truculent girlfriend was disposed of in a fatal automobile accident.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic’s terrorizing hold on the queer community, many considered this stereotypical mainstream representation intolerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activists had been tipped off that the next evening, shooting would take place on the block below their feet—well, not if they had anything to do with it. They opened up the bags of glitter they hauled up to the abandoned stretch of I-280 and let their contents fly. When the film crew arrived, they’d find their trumped-up, urban wasteland location covered in twinkling bits of exquisitely campy queer rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Queer Nation activists march at a New York City peace rally in October 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queer Nation activists march at a New York City peace rally in October 1990. \u003ccite>(Tracey Litt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the occasion of Queer Nation’s 25th anniversary in 2015, San Francisco chapter co-founder Mark Duran \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/news//245481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that he had been inspired to form the group in 1990 after watching a conversation between radical, queer activists from New York and their more staid, Democratic Party-affiliated San Francisco counterparts on KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, even the most routine general assembly meeting would draw crowds of around 200 members. Focus groups formed, among them LABIA (Lesbians And Bi-women In Action), the people of color-focused United Colors of Queer Nation, UBIQUITOUS (Uppity Bi Queers United In Their Overtly Unconventional Sexuality), Queer Planet and DORIS SQUASH (Defending Our Rights In the Streets, Super Queers United Against Savage Heterosexism).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That first meeting was very, very exciting,” says Queer Nation and Catherine Did It activist Jennifer Junkyard Morris. “Well—and it was also very cruise-y.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Queer activism in the wake of the AIDS epidemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The early ’90s were a time when traditional activist tactics were being queered across the country. In 1990, fellow direct-action group ACT UP organized \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2015/06/the-week-act-up-shut-sf-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a massive die-in protest\u003c/a> on Market Street during San Francisco’s hosting of the Sixth International Conference on AIDS. It was part of the group’s bid to raise awareness and halt the plague that claimed so many lives, many of them in the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at times, ACT UP made its points quite cheekily. For example, the group’s signature “ACT UP, fight back, fight AIDS!” chant would become “ACT UP, kick back get laid!” when participants tired of earnestness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Queer Nation New York activists at an October 1990 demonstration. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Queer-Nation-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queer Nation New York activists at an October 1990 demonstration. \u003ccite>(Tracey Litt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Queer Nation activists were inspired by those touches of swishy irreverence—the founders of the original Queer Nation New York chapter had been active in ACT UP themselves—but they wanted to expand the AIDS-focused group’s scope. “That’s really why [Queer Nation] was created, to deal with other places where we’re being attacked,” remembers Morris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, Queer Nation became best known for targeting cultural homophobia. Some of the San Francisco chapter’s first actions were kiss-ins, which would send hundreds of flamboyant lovers to a straight Marina bar or the Powell Street cable car turnaround, where they would make out en masse with gusto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focus group GHOST (Grand Homosexual Outrage at Sickening Televangelists) organized a rally to greet \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/1c940282ba516b1058d242fd482ebd9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">televangelists who’d flown in to exorcise the demons\u003c/a> of San Francisco on Halloween night of 1990. The evangelist-phobic crowd of thousands skipped off to the annual Castro neighborhood celebrations after overwhelming the city’s would-be saviors. Similarly irreverant, SHOP (Suburban Homosexual Outreach Program) fulfilled its moniker’s promise by surprising attendees at a special celebrity appearance of Hello Kitty at San Bruno’s Tanforan Shopping Center with a joyous melee of drag, balloons and banners.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Often, Queer Nation’s actions featured a chant that hasn’t left the lips of LGBTQ+ troublemakers since: “We’re here! We’re queer! Get used to it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For members of Queer Nation, style was key. The group’s many affiliated visual artists designed neon stickers with sayings like “Queers bash back” and “Dykes take over the world.” “Usually I wore boy drag like an ACT UP activist, but sometimes gurl drag—a wig and long hair, earrings and a dress or skirt,” remembers activist Derek Marshall Newman in an email to KQED. “It depended how cute I wanted look and how safe I felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were queer people, so we had a sense of humor,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.rachel-pepper.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Pepper\u003c/a>, an early Queer Nation member who played a key role in moderating general meetings. “There was a lot of camp, because when you are in the midst of a crisis and an epidemic you also have to laugh, and you have to find humor, and you have to love, and you have to live intensely every day, because you don’t know if you’re going to be alive in a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Queers bash back’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this pre-internet era, Queer Nation members communicated via their Queer Week newsletter and Queerline voicemail system. They coined the phrase “Queers bash back” for street patrols that walked the streets of San Francisco to thwart gay bashers, who seemed to stalk Dolores Park, and abusive cops, who were surely Queer Nation’s most hated adversaries. Often, the group would show up in solidarity at community anti-police and eviction protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, intersectionality became a goal of the short-lived group. Among the group’s people of color-focused sub-groups was United Colors of Queer Nation, founded by activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/obituaries//248420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karl Knapper\u003c/a>. It focused on amplifying the voices of activists of color in Queer Nation, and on developing practices that protected black and brown bodies at protests, such as physical placement at sit-ins and pre-event training on how to deal with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of the things that [white Queer Nation activists] wanted to do: a lot of civil disobedience,” remembers United Colors activist Thomas Tymstone, who, along with Pepper, also facilitated Queer Nation’s general assembly meetings. “That is great, but a lot of people of color don’t want to be arrested for any reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian \u003ca href=\"https://independent.academia.edu/GKoskovich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerard Koskovich\u003c/a> was a legal observer during Queer Nation actions, taking notes in case there was a later need for a court witness to testify against police misconduct. 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Here, protesters carry a “Queers bash back” sign at a Patriot Prayer counter-demonstration in San Francisco in 2017. \u003ccite>(Pax Ahimnsa Gethen/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But sometimes, surprising moments of connection took place. As one of the group’s hard-working moderators, Tymstone remembers with fondness Queer Nation’s practice of the “fishbowl,” in which different focus groups could hold the floor and address their concerns uninterrupted by comments from the audience. “A lot of our organizational structure was made by women,” he says. “Gay men didn’t know anything about consensus. We would just talk until somebody let us—or until somebody heard us. 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Morris became an \u003ca href=\"https://kpfa.org/featured-episode/interview-with-jennifer-junkyard-morris/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eminent Bay Area film programmer\u003c/a> at Frameline Film Festival, SF DocFest and the Roxie Theater. \u003ca href=\"http://www.buffalo.edu/news/experts/jonathan-katz-queer-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan David Katz\u003c/a> is a lauded academic who founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Harvey-Milk-Institute-Opens-Gay-lesbian-studies-3049118.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvey Milk Institute\u003c/a>, once one of the world’s largest centers for queer studies. 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