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Congresswoman Barbara Lee, left, joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and AIDS 2020 co-chairs Cynthia Carey-Grant and Dr. Monica Gandhi at a kickoff news conference Monday.
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Crowds filled Castro Street at last year’s Castro Street Fair.
Castro Street Fair returns to Market St.
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or the first time since 2016, the Castro Street Fair will once again include the block of Market Street between Castro and Noe streets. “We heard from the public that Market Street was a classic way to experience the Castro Street Fair, and after a couple of years without, we decided to go back to it,” said Fred Lopez, a gay man who was the fair’s executive director last year. That block will include the main stage, which last year was located on Castro Street between 18th and 19th streets. See page 18 >>
Leaders kick off AIDS 2020
Folsom fair has Sisters at the gates
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ister T’aint a Virgin, left, and Sister Guard N O’Pansies, right, joined other Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to once again staff the entrance and donation gates at the Folsom Street Fair Sunday, September 29. Last month, shortly before the annual leather and fetish extravaganza, the Sisters pushed back against Folsom
Street Events’ contract changes that would have seen them have less of a presence at the fair. Fortunately, both sides reached agreement and the Sisters once again collected gate donations, something Sister Selma Soul, abbess and president of the order, told the Bay Area Reporter that they implemented.
ocal organizers and elected officials launched registration for the 2020 International AIDS Conference at a media kickoff Monday, September 30. The biennial confab will take place July 6-10 in San Francisco and Oakland. Upward of 20,000 participants from more than 170 countries are expected to attend. This year’s conference is the first to be jointly hosted by two cities. That decision by the International AIDS Society is meant to highlight San Francisco’s pioneering response to the epidemic over the past four decades, as well as the disparities that still persist in the Bay Area, nationwide, and across the globe. See page 19 >>
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series for LGBTQ History Month. For more about the series, see page 10.
selected represent the fine craftsmanship that went into creating the outfits for the iconic performer, who famously corrected purchases the late comedian and television host Joan Rivers that he wasn’t a drag queen but simply “Sylvester.” “The detail of the work such as with the sequins, people don’t bother with this kind of stuff anymore,” said GLBT Historical Society Executive Director Terry Beswick. “It’s not just an artifact that was sewn and used once. It was worn many times.”
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