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THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE 2016

SAN FRANCISCO

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome from the Board President..................................4 2016 SF Pride Sponsors.......................................................8 Welcome from Governor Brown........................................ 11 Welcome from Mayor Lee.................................................. 13 Welcome from LGBT Elected Officials............................ 14

2016 GRAND MARSHALS

The Cast of Transcendent.............................................. 20 Michael K. Williams......................................................... 21 Chef Melissa King........................................................... 22 Randy Harrison............................................................... 23 Janetta Johnson............................................................. 25 Mia “Tu Mutch” Satya.................................................... 27 Fresh! White..................................................................... 29 Larry Yang.......................................................................... 31 Mike Shriver..................................................................... 33 Black Lives Matter.......................................................... 35 St. James Infirmary..........................................................37 Deana Dawn.................................................................... 39 Sally Miller Gearhart....................................................... 41 Joanie Juster................................................................... 43 Mercedez Munro............................................................ 45

Now More Than Ever | Larry Yang........................................47 Stand Up, Speak Out, Take Action | Joanie Juster............ 49

Peaches To Headline SF Pride Celebration................. 50 Main Stage Entertainment................................................. 51 Community Stages.............................................................. 56 City Hall VIP Party................................................................ 61 Compton Cafeteria Riot 50th Anniversary................... 63 Historical Reflection: Bayard Rustin............................... 64 UNJUST: The Broken Criminal Justice System........... 67 2016 Community Partners................................................. 69 Dykes On Bikes @ 40...........................................................71 Excerpt: Raising Ryland | Hillary Whittington.................. 72 A Certified Success Story................................................. 75 #Hiretrans Now.....................................................................77 General Information.............................................................78 2016 Travel Partners........................................................... 80 2016 Pride Members.......................................................... 83

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FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT Welcome to the 46th annual San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration and Parade! The city is excited and thrilled to have those who support the LGBTQI community come out to celebrate.

This year marks some milestones for iconic legacy organizations who have meaning for our movement. The Gene Compton’s Cafeteria riot took place fifty years ago in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. It marked the first known incident in which the transgender community stood up against police harassment and discrimination. The riot preceded the more recognizable Stonewall Riot that occurred in 1969. Other notable organizations celebrating milestone anniversaries are Dykes on Bikes® Women's Motorcycle Contingent and Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, who are both celebrating forty years of service to the community. All three were born out of protest during a time in which LGBTQI people faced extreme discrimination. The fact that the latter two are still operating today and thriving would suggest the power of the community and the growing support of Americans who believe in equality for all.

San Francisco Pride is celebrating its 46th anniversary with an important theme: For Racial and Economic Justice. While the LGBTQI community has experienced incredible progress including marriage equality and greater social acceptance, the community continues to face discrimination. There are over thirty states that do not have fully-inclusive non-discrimination laws that would protect LGBTQI people. In over half the states in this country, LGBTQI people can get married, but can also be fired from their jobs because of sexual orientation and gender identity.

This year alone, over 100 bills or pieces of legislation have been proposed across the country to limit the freedom of LGBTQI people. North Carolina passed House Bill 2 (HB2) allowing businesses and people to discriminate using “religious freedom” as justification. HB2 specifically targets transgender individuals and their access to public accommodations such as restrooms. Bills like HB2 attack the most vulnerable of our communities. What’s even more hurtful is that the most vulnerable of our community will continue to be subjected to violence, hate, harm and danger because of laws like this. Within the first five months of 2016, there were at least ten reports of transgender individuals who have been murdered, most transgender women of color. It is an example of what we’re hoping to draw attention to with our theme.

For Racial and Economic Justice speaks to the systems that oppress communities of race and class, which is inclusive of LGBTQI people. The theme addresses intersectionality, a term defined in the late 1960s or early 1970s to address the overlapping of social identities and how that relates to systems of oppression, dominance and discrimination. The various identification categories of our lives such as race, age, class, ability, religion, gender and other categories interact on many levels, if not at the same time when it comes to oppression.

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In this magazine, you will find articles discussing how our Grand Marshals are addressing racial and economic injustice in their work. For example, Black Lives Matter was chosen by the public because they have done an incredible job bringing attention and awareness to oppressive systems that continuously perpetuate racism against the black community, including black LGBTQI people. Janetta Johnson (2016 Community Grand Marshal) is the executive director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project, an organization that fights for trans women of color who have been incarcerated, targeted because they are transgender and often penalized for minor infractions that do not generally result in prison sentences.

You will also find an excerpt from Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People, a report produced by MAP (Movement Advancement Project) and the Center for American Progress. It addresses the broken criminal justice system and how such a system perpetuates discrimination against LGBTQI people, especially people of color.

We want you to enjoy yourself and have a great time at the 2016 SF Pride Parade and Celebration, while keeping in mind this year's sobering theme and its societal implications. It may be exciting to experience the new, modern, wealthy San Francisco but be mindful of the surrounding communities who have been displaced.

The homeless community is not made up of just one person. It is made up of just about everyone, including families who lost their homes due to egregious eviction practices. Also, please be aware of the working class who still have to travel from neighboring Bay Area cities using public transportation systems like BART. This year’s theme is not intended to stir controversy, but it is meant to bring awareness so that we can all educate ourselves. We can all co-exist. It is possible.

Enjoy yourselves and be proud of all the progress we have made as Americans. Be active so that we can achieve equality for all and, while you celebrate at a world class event and in a city like San Francisco, be compassionate for those of us who are still being discriminated against and who are still fighting for equality. We are not equal until all of us are equal.

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Gary Virginia Vice President

Melanie Nathan Secretary

Larry Crickenberger Treasurer

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Jesse Oliver Sanford

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WELCOME FROM YOUR LGBT ELECTED OFFICIALS MARK LENO

California State Senator, District 11

“It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 46th Annual San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration.

This year we take to the streets and celebrate our accomplishments and advancements in the fight For Racial and Economic Justice. We must continue to raise our collective voices and be heard as we let our presence be known in the fight to seek equality for all. Have a safe, memorable and happy Pride!”

JOSÉ CISNEROS

Treasurer, City & County of San Francisco

“Welcome to San Francisco Pride 2016. As your treasurer, I will continue the fight for financial justice and economic empowerment. On this day of celebration, let us stand PROUD together for justice for all.”

DAVID CAMPOS

Supervisor, City & County of San Francisco, District 9

“On behalf of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, welcome to San Francisco Pride! This year’s theme of For Racial and Economic Justice connects directly to our ongoing struggle in San Francisco for affordable housing, social justice and police reform, and reminds us that our LGBTQ Community’s struggle for freedom is not over! This Pride I look forward to celebrating how far we have come and also look forward to coming together in the spirit of positive change and justice for all. Happy Pride!”

SCOTT WIENER

Supervisor, City & County of San Francisco, District 8

“Welcome to the 46th Annual Pride Parade and Celebration. This is a wonderful weekend that celebrates both the successes and continuing efforts to bring equality and justice to the LGBT community in San Francisco and throughout the world. As the representative of the district that includes the Castro and was once represented by Harvey Milk, I’m excited to come together to celebrate our LGBT community throughout this fantastic weekend.”

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“Many Congratulations San Francisco Pride on your selection of this year’s excellent theme: For Racial and Economic Justice. The great strength of our queer community is that we cross all demographic boundaries.

We are truly everywhere, and as a consequence, our struggle for justice as queer people is inextricably connected to all struggles for justice. As the LGBT community continues to win new civil rights victories with each passing year, it is good to be reminded that no one of us is truly free until all of us are free. Wishing you all a safe, happy and inspiring Pride season!”

ALEX RANDOLPH

Member, Board of Trustees, City College of San Francisco

“Welcome to San Francisco as we celebrate 46 years of pride and community! This year’s theme For Racial and Economic Justice is an important call to action for all of us. The struggle for civil rights in the United States has always been strongly linked to also combating poverty and racism. Unfortunately, despite many gains for LGBT Equality, queer people of color and especially our transgender brothers and sisters face an incredible amount of discrimination interacting with law enforcement, still experience high levels of violence, face barriers getting jobs and accessing vital healthcare, and experience higher rates of homelessness. Pride has always been about building community, being visible, and making our voices heard. So this year, let’s link our hands, march strong, and ensure that nobody in our diverse community is left behind! Happy Pride!”

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COMMUNITY GRAND MARHSALS

Local heroes (individuals currently living primarily in the nine counties of the Bay Area) who have contributed significantly to the Bay Area LGBTQ community or, as openly LGBTQ people, have contributed significantly to society at large.

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THE CAST OF TRANSCENDENT CELEBRITY GRAND MARSHALS The Ladies of AsiaSF, who perform at the popular restaurant/nightclub, achieved stardom last year with the launch of Transcendent on the Fuse TV network. The show, produced by World of Wonder, the people behind RuPaul's Drag Race, documents the struggles and triumphs of the five performers as they navigate their professional and personal lives. The show introduces trans women to mainstream audiences and rises above stereotypes, showing the real-life joys, heartaches and daily lives of these amazing women. Nya has been working at the club since she was 19. L.A. is the youngest of the group and is just beginning her transition. Bambiana is an outrageous flirt and born to be in the spotlight.

Bionka is strong, fearless and a highly sought-after make-up artist in San Francisco. Xristina was born in the Caribbean Islands and is a proud Dominican. "We are five transgender women who have had to overcome heartache and struggles, but we have transcended and we are who we are and we celebrate who we are," said Nya. "We get to be our authentic selves every day, and we are loving it." fuse.tv/shows/transcendent

Xristina, Bambiana, Bionka, Nya and L.A. of Transcendent.

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MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS CELEBRITY GRAND MARSHAL Michael Kenneth Williams is an accomplished actor who brings complicated and charismatic characters to life, often with surprising tenderness. He is best known for his roles as Omar Little on The Wire and as Albert “Chalky” White on Boardwalk Empire. He is currently shooting the ABC limited series When We Rise from Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, which dives deep into the LGBT and Civil Rights movements that have taken place over the past few decades in San Francisco. Most recently, Michael played the lead role in the IFC mini-series The Spoils Before Dying and will soon be seen in HBO’s Crime, and as Leonard in the Sundacne Channel Series Hap & Leonard. Williams’ film credits include roles in Bullet, Bringing Out the Dead, The Road, Gone Baby Gone, Life During Wartime, Brooklyn’s Finest, Wonderful World, Snitch, 12 Years a Slave, Captive, Kill The Messenger, Inherent Vice, Triple 9, The Gambler and Bessie. He recently wrapped the Ghostbusters remake and Assassin’s Creed. Williams is launching Making Kids Win, a charitable organization dedicated to building community centers in urban neighborhoods, and he serves as the ACLU's ambassador of Smart Justice. michaelkennethwilliams.com SFPRIDE.ORG • 2016 OFFICIAL GUIDE

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CHEF MELISSA KING CELEBRITY GRAND MARSHAL Chef Melissa King knows fine dining. After graduating from The Culinary Institute of America, King trained under several Michelin-star and James Beard-recognized chefs including Dominique Crenn (Atelier Crenn), Craig Stoll (Delfina), and Ron Siegel (The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton).

She earned national recognition as a finalist on the Bravo hit TV series Top Chef. King’s hyperlocal cooking style combines the Bay Area’s best ingredients with classic technique and flavors inspired by her travels, often skewing towards Asia or Italy. In 2015, King founded Co+Lab, an experimental pop-up dinner series in which she collaborates with local chefs and food artisans.

She is a supporter of women empowerment and environmental sustainability and is an active chef ambassador for Whole Foods Market, a global organic foods supermarket. chefmelissaking.com

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RANDY HARRISON SPECIAL CELEBRITY GUEST Randy Harrison is best known for his role as Justin Taylor in the Showtime series Queer as Folk. He's starring as the Emcee in the national tour of Cabaret at the Golden Gate Theatre. An accomplished theater actor, Harrison has appeared on Broadway in Wicked, off-Broadway at the Public Theater, as well as regionally at Yale Repertory Theater, the Guthrie Theater and Shakespeare Theatre DC amongst others. He is a founding member of the downtown New York theatre company QWAN Company. On this year’s SF Pride theme For Racial and Economic Justice, Harrison says “It makes me think of so many issues, like the extent to which this country has not yet acknowledged slavery, and the way that reverberates in our culture, both economically and racially. I think about the ability to make it economically in this country and how it seems to be becoming more extreme, that people either have it easy or people have to work so, so hard just to keep a roof over their head.”

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MIA “TU MUTCH” SATYA

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Growing up in rural Texas and blossoming into a trans woman, Mia “Tu Mutch” Satya fled to San Francisco to find community. While finding the community she longed for, she also found (and survived) homelessness, discrimination, unemployment and violence. In overcoming these obstacles, she has become a trailblazing community organizer specializing in youth empowerment, economic justice, affordable housing, and LGBTQ+ liberation.

An LGBTQ cultural humility trainer, community-based researcher, policy analyst and multi-taskmaster with over a decade of advocacy experience, Mia has provided direct services, including healthcare and employment, to underserved communities including homeless LGBTQ+ youth. She has served on over ten committees in five City agencies, including the Youth Commission, and played key roles in reauthorizing the Children’s Fund and the Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF) which now provides over $150 million a year in services for youth.

Commissioner Tu Mutch worked to secure free Muni for 40,000 low-income youth and co-created a landmark LGBTQ+ diversity training for over 9,000 City employees.

Ms. Satya is an alumna of the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute, the Victory Empowerment Fellowship, the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Transgender Leadership Exchange, and is the first transsexual to be selected to participate in Emerge California, the premier political training program for women.

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COMMUNITY GRAND MARSHAL Selected by the SF Pride Board of Directors

A lover of life, coach, facilitator, mindfulness and meditation leader, Fresh! White founded the Bay Area’s first mindfulness and meditation group exclusively for the trans and genderqueer community. Fresh! also proudly works part-time as an employment specialist at the SF LGBT Community Center, where he supports trans and gender-variant community members in seeking employment or pursuing entrepreneurship.

White arrived in the Bay Area in 1991, becoming wellknown as a bouncer at the lesbian club experience JUNK, and later winning the title of San Francisco’s 1999 Drag King. Fresh! continued his service to the community as a speaker for the SF LGBTQ Speakers Bureau, and later serving on the board of directors of Communities United Against Violence (CUAV), and volunteering for the SF Dyke March, the SF Trans March, the Transgender Day of Remembrance and the Transgender Day of Visibility.

Encouraging self-love and self-compassion practices, through social media, and through his one-on-one coaching services, Fresh! lives to reflect the love and selfacceptance of his diverse global community.

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When you embrace equality, it helps lead to a healthier, happier community—and we want everyone to live life to its fullest. That’s why we champion diversity and invest in community health.

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Larry’s essay “Family Tree Practice” addresses how meditation and contemplative practice has directly influenced his experiences with racism, heterosexism, and oppression. It is part of Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? Larry is a co-editor of Making the Invisible Visible: Healing Racism in Our Buddhist Communities, a booklet developed for building inclusive communities within spiritual practice. He has contributed to the groundbreaking anthology, Dharma, Color, and Culture,

by Hilda Gutiérrez Baldoquín - a volume that provides a unique perspective from practitioners of color across the spectrum of Buddhist traditions. His recent article in Inquiring Mind, called “Awakening Together,” is about the complexities of community spiritual practice. He is working on a book for Wisdom Publications by the same title.

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A teacher of meditation and mindfulness, Larry Yang is committed to serving multicultural, queer and activist communities. Larry played a key role in the development of both the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) and the Insight Community of the Desert, and the annual LGBTQI meditation retreat in Garrison, NY. He is part of the coordinating team developing future diverse community meditation teachers in Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership Program and is part of developing the next Residential Retreat Teacher Training Program to include the participation from multicultural, queer communities.

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MIKE SHRIVER

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Deeply involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy, activism, program development, organizational development, and public policy, Mike's efforts have encompassed issues such as HIV+ primary prevention efforts, substance use/abuse interventions, HIV/AIDS care, community organizing, and mobilization as well as HIV research on local, statewide, national and international levels. Mike is the chairperson of the board of directors of the National AIDS Memorial Grove and has also served as co-chair of World AIDS Day in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

He has served as health commissioner for the City and County of San Francisco as well as Special Advisor to the Mayor on AIDS/HIV Policy. For several years, he was the executive director of Mobilization Against AIDS, California’s oldest HIV/AIDS advocacy organization as well as deputy director of policy at the National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA) in Washington, DC. Shriver has served on the San Francisco Ryan White CARE Council (including time as co-chair).

Mike’s affiliations, in addition to the Grove, include honorary trustee of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), a board member of the Castro Country Club as well as a board member of NorCal CMA. Other affiliations include HIV Prevention Project, the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center, the Tenderloin AIDS Network and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

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BLACK LIVES MATTER

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In the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the Trayvon Martin murder case and a national dialogue on race and justice, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi co-founded the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Starting as a hashtag and progressing to a social movement, #BlackLivesMatter has renewed and inspired a new generation of activists. The American Dialect Society chose the hashtag form of the phrase as their word of the year for 2014.

An international network of more than thirty chapters working for the validity of black life, Black Lives Matter is working to (re)build the black liberation movement and affirm the lives of all black people, specifically black women, queer and trans people, people who are differently abled, and those who are undocumented and formerly incarcerated.

Centering on those who are marginalized within black liberation movements, Black Lives Matter imposes a call to action and response to state-sanctioned violence against black people, as well as the virulent anti-black racism that permeates our society.

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ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

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The Pride Community Award Presented for outstanding service to LGBTQ communities.

Chosen by the SF Pride Board of Directors.

The St. James Infirmary (SJI) is the only occupational health and safety clinic run by and for sex workers in the country. SJI offers free services such as medical care, mental health care, HIV services, transgender healthcare, groups, education and outreach. By caring for one another’s basic needs, they strengthen the sex worker community’s ability to fight against stigma, criminalization, violence and poverty.

In addition to their direct services, the SJI engages in policy work, public education, community organizing and media production to combat the institutional violence that puts sex workers – and LGBT sex workers of color, uniquely – at risk. Despite being displaced from their South of Market home, in 2016 they celebrate their 17th year with expanded services, programming, partnerships, and the opening of their new clinic in the Tenderloin.

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DEANA DAWN

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In her decades-long tour de force of creativity, accomplished stage personality Deana Dawn has earned the titles of Ms. Golden State Gay Rodeo Association 2002, Queen II of the Krewe de Kinque Mardi Gras Club, Miss Golden Gate 2005 and Imperial Empress to the Council of Emperors, Imperial Court San Francisco, and Saint Comes the Dawn Goddess of the Rising Stars of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Volunteering and working for the HIV/AIDS charity store Under One Roof for five years, she won the Supporting Beam Award.

Deana’s uplifting performances have raised awareness and filled coffers for communities in need, raising more than $200,000 for more than thirty charities, including Positive Resource Center, AIDS Housing Alliance, Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS), Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation, Academy of Friends, Transgender Law Center, San Francisco Night Ministry and more.

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Honors those who have made a significant and historical impact, or left an indelible impression on the LGBTQ community and the movement for LGBTQ rights, through their artistic expression, or through their contribution within the entertainment industry.

Chosen by the SF Pride Board of Directors.

Building community while fighting for LGBTQ rights Deana has shown a passion for mentoring youth, training them how to command a stage and take on leadership roles as title-holders. Her legacy cemented, Deana continues to perform, even through a recent, successful battle with cancer.

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Nationally renowned gay and lesbian rights activist, author and teacher, Sally Miller Gearhart grew up in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. Gearhart became the first open lesbian in the country to obtain a tenure-track faculty position at San Francisco State University in 1973.

While at SF State, she helped establish one of the first women and gender studies programs in the US, and continued teaching until her retirement in 1992.

Gearhart fought alongside Harvey Milk in the epic battle that defeated California Proposition 6, known as the Briggs Initiative. As Milk’s debate partner, Gearhart famously debated John Briggs, attacking the initiative to ban homosexuals from teaching positions.

Gearhart has authored or co-authored numerous works including Loving Women/Loving Men: Gay Liberation and the Church, Feminist Tarot and The Wanderground.

Her personal and academic papers are housed at the University of Oregon, where the Sally Gearhart Fund for Lesbian Studies has been established in her name.

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JOANIE JUSTER

HERITAGE OF PRIDE 10 Years of Service Award

For those organizations, individuals, or other entities who have contributed ten years of consecutive service to the LGBTQ community. Chosen by the SF Pride Board of Directors.

When the AIDS epidemic struck in the 1980s, Joanie Juster felt compelled to help, and she has been volunteering ever since. Usually working behind the scenes instead of on stage, her work involves fundraising, event production and grassroots community organizing for programs fighting AIDS, breast cancer, poverty and social injustice.

From the intimacy of one-on-one client care for people with AIDS to organizing rallies and fundraisers, her goal has always been to be there for those who need not just financial help, but someone to stand up for them.

She is best known for her work with the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, AIDS Emergency Fund, AIDS Walk San Francisco, Shanti, AIDS Emergency Fund/Breast Cancer Emergency Fund, Marriage Equality USA and more.

In 2014 she was Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and received the Zach Long Hall of Fame Award, presented by the AIDS Emergency Fund.

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Presented for outstanding artistic contribution to the LGBTQ community. Chosen by the SF Pride Board of Directors.

Originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan (Miss Gay Michigan in 1995, Miss Kalamazoo, Miss Winter Wonderland, and Miss Carousel), Munro moved to San Francisco in 2004.

A former Miss Gay San Francisco, Miss Gay California and Miss Gay United States 2013, Munro is the first gay national titleholder from the state of California.

She considers herself as an “old school” female impersonator, with an authentic heart, who has done everything possible to perfect her craft as an entertainer, community leader, house mother, and businessperson.

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NOW MORE THAN EVER….

Community Grand Marshal Larry Yang reflects on our theme: For Racial and Economic Justice.

As we already are feeling divisiveness of current politics and upcoming elections...

As we feel into pain and complexity of people holding seemingly irreconcilable positions which cause great harm to each other, on events and issues like the ongoing violence towards AfricanAmerican communities, the ever-increasing economic disparities that continue to marginalize people of low-income and without stable homes, the arrogant and mean-spirited policies towards immigration, and even the intrusions upon people being able to perform intimate bodily functions without state intervention...

Now more than ever we need our Mindfulness Practice grounded in our highest forms of ethics and integrity. We need the freedom that mindfulness into which invites us—the freedom that we do not have to follow the patterns of acute reactivity embedded in our larger unconscious culture. We need to remember that it is possible to explore deeply what is happening, understand it with some wisdom, treat it with True freedom does the compassion inherent in our humanity, and move into responses and actions that are both not mean to be in a of justice and of benefit to us all.

What we do to create clarity in our minds, openness in our hearts, and mindfulness of our thoughts, emotions and actions are not any different than the work we do in the world to create greater equity and safety for all. Many spiritual masters and social activist elders have told us, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” We cannot choose to create justice through unjust means—that is not only hypocritical, it is impossible.

place where there is no problem, struggle or oppression. True freedom means to be in the midst of those things and still have

One of the characteristics embedded in clarity in our minds, Mindfulness is the capacity to remember that our personal and collective freedom is not openness in our dependent on any external conditions. Justice, as worthy a task as it is in our lives, will take hearts and integrity in longer to fulfill than any of us would like. It will require the efforts of the many rather our actions. than the few. And it will require every spiritual attribute and resource we can muster. There is tremendous injustice and unfairness in our culture, our society and our world. And our freedom is not even dependent upon life being fair or just. True freedom does not mean to be in a place where there is no problem, struggle, or oppression. True freedom means to be in the midst of those things, and still have clarity in our minds, openness in our hearts, and integrity in our actions. This is the kind of freedom that will allow us to move through even our most difficult struggles with greater effectiveness, ease, and benefit for us all.

Now more than ever, we need to remember this.

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STAND UP, SPEAK OUT, TAKE ACTION

Heritage of Pride Awardee Joanie Juster Reflects on our theme: For Racial and Economic Justice.

The year was 1958, maybe 1959. I invited Elizabeth home from kindergarten to play blocks with me. She was sweet and shy, and I loved playing with her. But then my dad came home from work and, standing tall over us, announced, “She has to go home.” “Why, Daddy?” “She’s a Negro.”

My protest that it wasn’t fair, that she had done nothing wrong, fell on deaf ears. Elizabeth went home, and we never played together again. I was left not just without my friend, but with the disturbing awareness that my beloved father had a blind spot, and was profoundly wrong about something as fundamental as fairness. I was too young to understand all the implications of racism, but I innately knew right from wrong. And that incident, nearly 60 years ago, has shaped my character and actions ever since.

This year’s SF Pride theme is a call to action to all of us to stand up, speak out, and take action when we see injustice, whether in our own community or in others. We are all interconnected.

The struggles of our neighbors are our struggles as well, and we have a moral obligation to help each other fight against inequality and injustice, hatred and bigotry, poverty and misfortune. We become more fully human when we open our minds and hearts to those around us, and help each other. Each time we speak out, each time we take action, we have the opportunity to inspire others to do the same.

This Pride, let us enjoy celebrating how far we have come, but also never forget that there is still much work ahead of us on the road to justice and equality for all.

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PEACHES TO HEADLINE SF PRIDE CELEBRATION Sunday, June 26th, Main Stage, Civic Center Plaza

SF Pride culminates its 2016 celebration with a performance by electropunk musician and performance artist, Peaches, who shares her thoughts here on SF Pride, self identification and lipstick.

1. What excites you about your performance at this year’s SF Pride? It’s San Fran. How can it not be a good time?!

5. If you were a lipstick color, what color would you be? Nude.

2. This year’s theme is For Racial and Economic Justice, what does that mean for you? It’s extremely important to me as I hope it is for anyone.

7. Where do you call home? Berlin.

3. Do you remember your first Pride? Where was it and when? It was in Toronto, but we made an underground party called SHAME. It was very wild.

4. What advice would give our community about self identification? Be who you need to be and be respectful.

6. Lace or Leather? I love leather.

8. What things do you always have on you?

Pride undies and a packet of mustard.

9. Fast food or fresh juice? Fast juice food, fresh please!

10. If you weren’t a rockstar, what else would you do? Landscape gardening for community gardens.

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MAIN STAGE ENTERTAINMENT

Sitting in the heart of the festival at the steps of San Francisco City Hall is the Main Stage.

The Main Stage brings you two exciting days of programming featuring the best of the bay, nationally and internationally touring acts, community organizations, and important thought leaders. Join us for the largest LGBT gathering in the U.S. as we band together to promote justice through the power of arts and entertainment.

SATURDAY EMCEES: Sister Roma and Honey Mahogany (12:00 ​p.m.​to 6:00 p.m.)

SUNDAY EMCEES: Liam Mayclem and Carnie Asada (11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.)

THE ARTISTS

THE EMCEES

SATURDAY • Jessica Sutta • JES • AB Soto • Alexx Mack • Shaun Wright • Danny Boy • CHEER SF • Infinite & The Pocket featuring Babii Cris • Dai Burger • KAT C.H.R • Spice Queers • Siobhan Aluvalot • DJ Miss Pop

HONEY MAHOGANY

SUNDAY • Peaches • Hector Fonseca • Z LaLa • Psychic TV • BeBe Sweetbriar • CHEER SF • Duserock and friends • Bluebird Tribute to Bowie and Prince • Breathless • Mix’d Ingrdnts • Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits

THE SPEAKERS

San Francisco native and cast member from RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 5), Honey M a h o g a n y ’s m o s t r e c e n t work includes her debut EP, Honey Love, appearances on the HBO series, Looking, and her weekly variety show Mahogany Mondays at the Midnight Sun.

LIAM MAYCLEM Liam is an out and proud Emmy Award-winning host and producer for Eye on The Bay (KPIX, Saturday, 7:00 p.m.).

H e i s a l s o Foodie Chap o n KCBS radio. A pioneer of LGBT broadcasting, Liam produced L I V E 1 0 5 ’s H i b e r n i a B e a c h (1994/5) and QTV (1995/8).

L i a m ’s o t h e r m a i n p a s s i o n is fundraising. As a benefit auctioneer and emcee for more than 300 events, Liam has helped raise millions of dollars for many organizations such as GLAAD, SF CASA and the SF AIDS Foundation. He has been a correspondent o n Wo r l d Ac c e s s o n Tr a v e l Channel since 2015.

• Kara Zordel: Executive Director, Project Homeless Connect

• Bishop Yvette Flunder: Founder, City of Refuge United Church in Christ

• Clair Farley: Director of Economic Development at the San Francisco LGBT Center

SISTER ROMA This year marks Sister R o m a ’s 2 9 t h y e a r a s o n e of the most outspoken and highly visible members of the infamous Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence. Roma is recognized around the globe a s a n a c t i v i s t , f u n d r a i s e r, p u b l i c s p e a k e r, e m c e e ,

columnist, talk show host and gay icon. As an outspoken advocate for civil rights, Sister Roma has often been called upon to speak at rallies, marches and demonstrations.

She also speaks at colleges and universities on topics such as HIV/AIDS, homophobia and drag. Roma has organized, hosted and/or attended peaceful demonstrations for the annual AIDS candlelight vigil, Prop 8, DADT repeal, freedom of choice, Occupy SF, Trans Day of Rememberance and #BlackLivesMatter. Sister Roma has helped raise over one million dollars for her community.

CARNIE ASADA Carnie Asada has been wowing the Bay Area since 2013 with performances that span comedy, performance art and drag venues. She is a fixture on the San Francisco drag scene, known as a hostess and emcee for her sharp wit, biting h u m o r, s u l t r y f a s h i o n a n d mastery over the mic. She has worked with Cazwell, Chad Michaels, Alyssa Edwards and Jodie Harsh, and was featured in several YouTube parodies and music videos. Carnie’s weekly shows include My So Called Night on Thursdays at Beaux, Karaoke Tuesdays at Ba la n co ir e, Saturday Mega Motown Brunch at Lookout, and Femme Fatale Brunch on Sundays at Balancoire.

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MAIN STAGE ENTERTAINERS

KAT C.H.R

SIOBHAN ALUVALOT

BREATHLESS AKA HONEY B

DJ, Artist

Hip-Hop

Siobhan Aluvalot is a creative dance floor DJ who likes to mix it up with disco, Italo, house, hip-hop, techno, Latin freestyle and hi nrg with a focus on women and queer artists. She takes you to passionate places through soundscapes that encourage you to feel yourself. Currently at Gayface at El Rio every Thursday night, she has played parties including D a y t i m e Re a l n e s s , D i r t Club, Galaxy Radio, Ships in the Night, U-Haul, Club F i s t , Pa r t y t i m e L o v e r s , Polyglamorous, Gag, Swagger Like Us and Comfort and Joy.

A touring artist, Breathless has visited stages throughout North America, with radio p l a y s i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y.

She received an Omaha Entertainment Award for Best Hip-Hop/Rap Artist a n d co n t in ue s t o b r e a k boundaries now that she’s in the Bay Area. Called the hardest-working woman in hip-hop, Breathless consistently shines as an artist with each release and has an ever-growing fan base through performances and radio play. Find her current project, “Reincarnation,” on iTunes, Pandora and Spotify. Her upcoming album release, Lovelution will be released this summer.

BAAITS Performance Art, Music

BREATHLESS SPICE QUEERS

The Bay Area American I n d i a n Tw o - S p i r i t s i s a Native American society that promotes artistic TwoSpirit (Native LBGTQI people) expression. BAAITS exists to recover and restore the role of Two-Spirit people within the Native American / First Nations community by creating a forum for the spiritual, cultural and artistic.

BLUEBIRD Rock, Tribute

HECTOR FONSECA

Bluebird is the Bay Area music and art collective dedicated to celebrating and performing the sound and vision of David Bowie.

Comprised of members who have performed and recorded with Prince, Seal, The Sippy Cups, Sly and the Family Stone, Chris Isaak and many others, the group has created a custom show for SF Pride including video projections, drag performers, and a set list tailored for this special day in honor of two musical geniuses taken too soon.

DAI BURGER Pop, Hip-Hop

Dai Burger is a rappersinger from New York best known for her 2014 mixtape “IN YA MOUF,” consisting primarily of Jersey club and bass music and featuring her celebrated track, “Soufflé.”

D a i ’s c a v a l i e r a t t i t u d e towards sexuality has made her a champion of the NYC gay community, earning her features in Pitchfork and at MoMaPS1 alongside partnerin-crime and longtime friend, Junglepussy. Before creating her own music, Dai toured with Chris Brown and Lil Mama as a backup d a n c e r, a l l o w i n g h e r t o incorporate dance into her live show.

CHEER SAN FRANCISCO Cheer, Dance

CHEER San Francisco is celebrating thirty-six years of fabulousness and volunteerism! Since 1980, CHEER SF has been thrilling crowds around the world with its unique brand of

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high-energy routines and has raised more than $300,000 to assist people with lifechallenging conditions such as HIV/AIDS and breast cancer. Dedicated to its philanthropic mission, this allvolunteer squad appeared in the Top 48 on America’s Got Talent (Season 5) and performed in the San Francisco Giants World Series victory parade.

DJ MISS POP

Hip-Hop, Freestyle

Miss Pop is a San Franciscobased DJ who specializes in freestyle and hip-hop.

Raised in Los Angeles, she started DJing in 2007 in the LGBTQ scene, moved up North and took to the Bay by storm. She has been mixing and playing clubs throughout San Francisco and all over the country.

S h e ’s a r e s i d e n t DJ a t the Make Out Room for PartyTime Lovers and Club Some Thing at the Stud Bar.

DUSEROCK AND FRIENDS Electronic, Dance

Duserock has been bringing heat to dance floors for almost two decades, opening for the likes of Sting and Sheryl Crow. His ability to blend genres and keep the crowd dancing have made him a popular DJ worldwide. He’s shared bills with Photek, Marques Wyatt, Dubtribe, Gavin Hardkiss, Mark Farina, Turntables on the Hudson and more.

Duserock is excited to bring a few friends with him to get the party started on the main stage this year.

HECTOR FONSECA

Global House, Celebrity Remixer

Hector Fonseca has been named Best International DJ/ Producer by EDGE, one of the largest LGBT publications in the world. This international DJ superstar and coveted

celebrity remixer has charted over twenty official Billboard #1 dance remixes for artists like Sia, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Betty Who, Kelis, Kerli and Beyonce. He has headlined some of the most important parties worldwide including Matinee (Ibiza, NYC, Miami, Los Angeles and Las Vegas), World Pride, Black Party (NYC), White Party (Palm Springs and Miami) and Circuit Festival (Barcelona).

He has also given back to the community by doing benefits for the It Gets Better Project, Task Force, Care Resources and Life Ball (Vienna).

DJ MISS POP

HIPHOPFORCHANGE Hip-Hop, Empowerment

HipHopForChange, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that uses grassroots activism to educate people about socio-economic injustices and advocate for solutions through hip-hop culture.

They raise funds for local causes that enrich marginalized and historically oppressed communities and provide a curriculum for students to engage in the history of hip-hop culture, as well as platforms for local artists who have social justice oriented narratives.

JES DUSEROCK AND FRIENDS

JES Dance, EDM

JES has earned three Grammy nominations, numerous #1 hits, recorded four solo albums and collaborates with the world’s top DJs. Her tours have touched the shores of six continents with landmark shows at international events like the Beijing Olympics.

Her radio show and compilation series Unleash The Beat reaches over eighty stations worldwide and has generated more than six album releases.

Her unmistakable voice and songs have earned her an ever-growing legion of devoted fans worldwide.

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KAT C.H.R Alternative, Lover’s Rock

SHAUN WRIGHT

Kat C.H.R is an artist from Kingston, Jamaica currently residing in Philadelphia whose music is a reflection of her l ov e f or w omen, her unapologetic rude boi persona, and her fearless self-expression. There is also an element of emotive tenderness in Kat’s lyrical style that has cultivated her own genre called “alternative l o v e r ’s r o c k .” Re c e n t l y signed to Diana King’s label, Think Like A Girl Music, Kat has traveled across the globe, performing at critically acclaimed events such as Camp Bisco in NYC, Toronto World Pride and Ladyfest Miami. A sultry, haunting voice intermixed with soulful lyrics, alternative beats and flavorings of reggae gives birth to her style of music.

Z LALA Z LALA DAI BURGER

AB SOTO

Pop, World-Pop

World-pop sensation Z LaLa is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles. Best known for her ability to sing in nineteen different languages, she is driven by her passion for musical creativity and her desire to connect with audiences from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Z LaLa has been universally praised for her space age style and innovative artistry.

She is widely recognized for her outlandish avant-garde costumes and her shows are sensual and visually enticing.

ALEXX MACK Pop, Indie Pop

Fun, edgy and boisterous are leading characteristics that help make up the unique creative DNA of rising pop artist Alexx Mack. Alexx released her highly anticipated EP, Like We’re Famous, a flirtatious and infectious collection of

songs that have received accolades from leading industry outlets including Billboard, Spin Magazine and Idolator. Compared to the likes of Katy Perry and Demi Lovato, Mack is on a clear path to define her own lane as a pop music maven.

Recently, Mack was a much buzzed about performer at various festivals including SXSW and Long Beach Pride.

Later this year, Mack plans on releasing new material, some of which you’ll be able to hear first at SF Pride.

MIX’D INGRDNTS DANCE COMPANY Mix’d Ingrdnts Dance Company is a multi-ethnic and diverse collective of female artists who work together as an all-styles dance company with the intent of cultivating a stronger community of artists of all ages through urban performance, dance education and connection.

Mix’d Ingrdnts exists to empower women to express themselves, and hosts platforms to help facilitate the community speaking up and out for the greater good.

PEACHES Peaches is an artist who’s managed to wield immeasurable influence over mainstream pop culture while still operating from outside of its confines, carving a bold, progressive path in her own image t h a t ’s o p e n e d t h e d o o r for countless others to follow. Her latest and most unequivocal album to date, Rub, is an, audacious musical statement. peachesrocks.com

PSYCHIC TV Born in 1981 from industrial music behemoth Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV is fronted b y T h r o b b i n g G r i s t l e ’s founder, anti-hero, artist

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and pandrogenist, Genesis P-Orridge. Psychic TV is known for its intense, visceral live performances and for a creative lineage that includes cultural luminaries such as William S. Burroughs, Derek Jarman and Timothy Leary, among others.

AB SOTO

Dance, Pop

AB SOTO is a Los Angeles visual, performance and recording artist. AB’s art is a stylized commentary that challenges and questions mainstream gay culture and norms. His aim is to show the diversity of the more marginalized members of the gay community and bring them to a wider audience.

SPICE QUEERS

Drag, Performance Artist

SPICE QUEERS are Miss J, Siobhan Aluvalot, Persia, Yves Saint Croissant, Nicki Jizz and Cyanide. A superstar group of performers inspired by the Spice Girls, they specialize in sickening looks, dancing, fun, synergistic collaboration, and sisterhood. Each queen is more wildly different than the next and what brings t h e m t o g e t h e r, b e s i d e s the spotlight, is a new movement of #queerpower.

JESSICA SUTTA Pop

Jessica Sutta’s introduction to the global pop scene was made as a member of one of the best selling girl groups of all time, The Pussycat Dolls. As part of t h e g r o u p, J e s s i c a w a s Grammy nominated, won two Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Music Video Awards, and has toured and performed at sold out stadiums around the world with Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, and the Black Eyed Peas. The

leap from Pussycat Doll to solo artist with Show Me on Hollywood Records earned Jessica a #1 on Billboard’s infamous Dance Chart along with countless high profile shows and appearances this past year. Jessica was the first Pussycat Doll to top the Billboard Dance Chart as a solo artist and has had other chart toppers, such as her #1 Club track “Make It Last” with hit producerremixer Dave Audé, and the #1 Dance Singles Track, “White Lies,” produced by Paul Van Dyk.

BEBE SWEETBRIAR

BEBE SWEETBRIAR

Recording Artist, Singer

International recording artist and USA Dance Radio Top 10 charter, BeBe Sweetbriar has had an amazing first half of 2016. Kicking off the new year with the release of her multiple charting remake of Pussycat Dolls’ hit “Dontcha,” Sweetbriar was named JustCircuit Magazine’s Performer of Year and Circuit Personality of Year in recognition of her love of keeping her fans on the dance floor. BeBe was a former SF Pride Grand Marshal.

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SHAUN J. WRIGHT

House, Disco, Techno

Raised in west suburban C h i c a g o l a n d , S h a u n J. Wright has spent his life immersed in house music.

After acquiring an MA in fashion curation, Wright enjoyed an active career in New York City. There he met Andrew Butler, founder of Hercules and Love Affair, and began a whirlwind collaboration with the ensemble. Currently, Wright is exhilarating dance floors as a DJ and is featured on several acclaimed releases with more stellar projects to come.

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Rare and original photographs, letters, films, comic strips, posters and artifacts

2016 COMMUNITY STAGES SATURDAY CHEER SAN FRANCISCO STAGE

Celebrating 20 Years

SATURDAY ONLY • MCALLISTER AT LEAVENWORTH

DEAF & HARD-OF-HEARING GATHERING SPACE SAT | SUN • CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, NW

of the JAMES C. HORMEL FAERIE FREEDOM VILLAGE

SAT | SUN • UN PLAZA, NW & NE QUAD

GLOBAL VILLAGE STAGE

LGBTQIA CENTER CLUB 21/CLUB BNB INTERNATIONAL STAGE Mattachine atQUEER SFPL YOUTH SPACE Society to SATURDAY ONLY • GROVE AT VAN NESS

Politics:

SATURDAY ONLY • MCALLISTER AT VAN NESS

Marriage Equality

liteRatuRe:

SAT | SUN • CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, NE

SUNDAY

Ann Bannon to Michelle Tea

ACCESSIBILITY PAVILION

enteRtainment:

SUNDAY ONLY • POLK AT TURK

Sylvester to Pomo Afro Homos

community gatheRing Places:

SUNDAY ONLY • POLK AT GROVE NORTH SIDE

ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY PRIDE STAGE & PAVILION CHEER SAN FRANCISCO STAGE

SUNDAY ONLY • LIBRARY STEPS, LARKIN BETWEEN GROVE & MCALLISTER

DEAF & HARD-OF-HEARING GATHERING SPACE SAT | SUN • CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, NW

ESTRELLA TV LATIN STAGE POWERED BY CLUB PAPI & STEAMWORKS SUNDAY ONLY • MCALLISTER AT VAN NESS

FAERIE FREEDOM VILLAGE

SAT | SUN • UN PLAZA, NW & NE QUAD

Maud’s Bar to Trannyshack

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eRotica:

SUNDAY ONLY • GOLDEN GATE AT LEAVENWORTH

Tom of Finland & A. Jay Shapiro

SUNDAY ONLY • CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, SW QUAD

HOMO HIP HOP STAGE INDIE OASIS STAGE

SUNDAY ONLY • LARKIN AT TURK

LEATHER ALLEY

SUNDAY ONLY • HYDE BETWEEN GOLDEN GATE & MCALLISTER

exhibition through aug.7, 2016

LEFT MAGAZINE DANCE MUSIC CELEBRATION STAGE SUNDAY ONLY • GOLDEN GATE AT VAN NESS

THE LGBTQ FAMILY GARDEN

SUNDAY ONLY • CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, SOUTH PLAYGROUND

QUEER YOUTH SPACE #Hormelat20

Main Library 100 Larkin St.

SAT | SUN • CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, NE QUAD

Eureka Valley/ Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library 1 José Sarria Ct.

SONIC REDUCER STAGE

#hormelat20 sfpl.org

TANTRA TRANCE

SOBERFEST

SUNDAY ONLY • UN PLAZA, SW QUAD SUNDAY ONLY • REDWOOD AT VAN NESS

SOUL OF PRIDE, AFRICAN DIASPORA STAGE AND VILLAGE SUNDAY ONLY • GROVE AT VAN NESS

SUNDANCE COUNTRY-WESTERN DANCE CORRAL

SUNDAY ONLY • WELLS FARGO PARKING LOT, GROVE AT LARKIN SUNDAY ONLY • HYDE AT TURK

WOMEN’S STAGE

SUNDAY ONLY • MCALLISTER AT LEAVENWORTH

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ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY PRIDE STAGE & PAVILION The A&PI Wellness Center is proud to present the Asian & Pacific Islander Community Pride Stage & Pavilion. Going o n i t s s i x t e e n t h y e a r, t h e A&PI LGBT community stage has served as home to A&PI LGBTs, performers and artists.

It is hosted by community icon Tita Aida and other community leaders and features an array of A&PI performing artists and dance groups! This year promises the best of A&PI LGBT artists such as L10, Victory Le, Jethro and DJ Jay Santos (Bed/ MANILA) and many more! The Pavilion will anchor various A&PI LGBT organizations such as GAPA, A&PI Equality and more. For the first time, the A & P I We l l n e s s C e n t e r w i l l be showcasing services as a Federally qualified health center (FQHC), offering STD and HIV testing, BP checks and more! HIV testing will be available all throughout the day and results will be ready in twenty minutes. Please get to know our new and dynamic medical and program teams! apiwellness.org

CHEER SAN FRANCISCO STAGE CHEER San Francisco is back and better than before! Since being named the Official Cheer Team of the City & County of San Francisco in 2015, CHEER SF has remained committed to its mission of performing highflying cheerleading shows to raise funds for those in need.

The team is proud to present the 6th annual CHEER San Francisco Stage at SF Pride.

Founded in 1980, CHEER SF is the world’s longest-running all-volunteer cheerleading group and has performed

its unique stunt and dance routines around the globe, helping to generate thousands of dollars in overseas and d o m e s t i c d o n a t i o n s . To date, CHEER SF has raised and distributed more than $350,000 to local and international organizations that support community members living with challenges such as HIV/AIDS and breast cancer through its CHEER For Life Foundation.

CHEER SF is excited to share its extreme athleticism and gravity-defying acts to raise money for the the Bay Area Youth Center (BAYC) whose mission is to prepare youth to grow into effective citizens equipped to make meaningful contributions to the world. cheersf.org

CLUB 21/CLUB BNB INTERNATIONAL STAGE Club 21 and Club BNB (two of Northern California's largest LGBT nightclubs) are pleased to announce we will be located at a bigger space at Van Ness Avenue and McAllister Street from noon until 5:00 p.m. Club 21 and Club BNB are located in Oakland, just fifteen minutes from downtown San Francisco by car or by BART exiting at 19th Street Station. The clubas are a perfect fit to produce one of Pride's most popular stages which features some of the sexiest go-go dancers, performances, contests and DJs.Interested in go-go dancing or performing on the s t a g e? C o n t a c t valentino@ bench-and-bar.com for more information. For information on the stage lineup, download the Club 21 app in the App Store under Club 21 or Club BNB, or text partyboy to 46786. bench-and-bar.com

DEAF & HARD-OF-HEARING GATHERING SPACE We offer deaf, late-deafened, deaf-blind, and hard-ofhearing attendees a chance to celebrate Pride. Our tent is located near the main stage and provides a place to socialize, enjoy the entertainment and exchange information regarding accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. ASL Interpreters: SF Pride provides all-day ASL interpretation at our main stage on both Saturday and Sunday. We also provide ASL interpretation at designated community stages or by request at the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Gathering Space. If you are a certified ASL interpreter and you are interested in interpreting at Pride, please contact us. If you are not certified, you may still participate as an intern interpreter. Please be sure to identify whether you are certified or uncertified when contacting us. sfpride.org

ESTRELLA TV LATIN STAGE POWERED BY CLUB PAPI & STEAMWORKS 2016 marks the 19th year that Club Papi has produced the hugely successful Latin dance stage at SF Pride. This year we are pleased to announce an amazing line-up of talent to be presented on Sunday at the newly named Estrella TV Latin Stage is powered by Club Papi and Steamworks!! Performing live on stage this year will be three amazing women who have sold millions of records combined and have been staunch supporters of LGBT rights worldwide: Diana Reyes, Maribel Guardia and Mariana Seoane, along with superstar DJ s Po l o f r o m S e a t t l e a n d Sebastian from Tijuana,

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Mexico. Featuring sexy Papi and Mami go-gos, drag divas and a special performance b y T r a n s c e n d e n t 's B i o n k a Simone. The Latin Stage takes place from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. clubpapi.com

FAERIE FREEDOM VILLAGE Bring your intention to connect as you enter the glitter gateway to Faerie Freedom Village. This magical sanctuary of radical queer community is also the longest-standing community stage at SF Pride.

Faerie Freedom Village originated in the late 1990s from a common feeling that we had lost a sense of connection.

Pride had become such a huge event that it was challenging to meet new queers and commune with friends. Faerie Freedom Village is an entirely community-built stage and experience at SF Pride. We create a space where you can revel in a spectacular, colorful, natural and non-commercial oasis that provides heartconnected sanctuary, showcasing and celebrating queer creative spirit. Some of the area's most talented avantgarde artists, performers and shamans gather to celebrate radical self-expression and community. You will experience delicious dance tunes, live cabaret, performance art on and off stage, stunning visual art, magic and rituals, transformations and transcendence. Saturday will consist of light community programming throughout the day. Come by in the morning to help us start building and decorating our village! Swing through in the afternoon to put on some finishing touches, appreciate some educational community programming, and get ready to bless the space.

Show up in the early evening for opening ritual and some

heartfelt communing! Sunday will be a very magical day! We will be having music all day from both the amazing Sergio Fedasz and DJ Justime. Drag and cabaret performances at 1:00, 3:30 and 5:00 p.m. Shows hosted by the entertaining queens Darwin and Bernadette Bohan. Faerie Freedom Village operates as a gifting economy. There is nothing to buy and nothing to sell. We share things. You're encouraged to bring art, drums, drag and inspiration for sharing. And we love it when you bring things to gift around! This is exactly the kind of community magic we love to see! We are also a community of consent. Please ask before t a k i n g s o m e o n e's p h o t o.

Please ask before touching someone. Please ask if you're unsure whether or not you should ask. Consent is sexy, and so are you when you ask for it. Blessed be!

GRAY PRIDE: 60+ SPACE Presented by Institute on Aging and On Lok Lifeways, p a r t n e r i n g t o s e r v e LG B T seniors and older adults.

Institute on Aging and On Lok Lifeways are dedicated to understanding and addressing the unique issues facing the LGBT community. For almost forty years, the nonprofit Institute on Aging has been enabling seniors and adults with disabilities to continue living at home independently, safely, and connected to the community. Annually, more t h a n 8 ,0 0 0 p e o p l e r e l y o n their innovative programs. If you have any questions about available services in the Bay Area, visit ioaging.org or call Institute on Aging Connect at 415-750-4111. On Lok Lifeways is a fully-integrated and licensed health plan

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celebrating over forty years of service to Bay Area seniors.

On Lok Lifeways helps older adults maintain their independence by providing all necessary primary and specialty medical care, adult day health care, in-home health and personal care, transportation, and, physical rehabilitation so seniors can continue to live independently.

GLOBAL VILLAGE STAGE T h e G l o b a l V i l l a g e St a g e 's mission is to provide a welcoming and affirming space for people of color and youth at SF Pride’s festival. To that end, over the course of the afternoon, the audience is taken on a musical journey around the world featuring DJs and live performance. Each hour is dedicated to a different part of the world (e.g. Latin, Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, AfricanAmerican).

HOMO HIP HOP STAGE The Homo Hip Hop Stage for SF Pride has grown into one of the most popular and highly anticipated stage events.

This stage brings everyone together in celebration with pride and respect, full of peace, love, happiness and joy. Produced by DJ Rapture/ Get Ur Life Productions, you are expected to receive live, raw talent from the Get Ur Life Productions DJs along with Jason Mitchell, Casablanca and many more. This hugely successful event has attracted people from all walks of life, all parts of the country and all age groups attending Pride.

We can't wait to have another great year with all of you. geturlifeproductions@gmail. com

LEATHER ALLEY Do you think leather is hot?

Curious about S&M? Kinky?

Got a fetish? Over 21? Please join us at Leather Alley 2016. Meet with experienced players to learn more about l e a t h e r, a t t e n d h a n d s - o n demonstrations, learn about leather clubs in the Bay Area and visit leather vendors.

Please check back to see what we have planned. Leather Alley is a project of the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance.

LEFT MAGAZINE DANCE MUSIC CELEBRATION STAGE A floor-stomping, handclapping house music celebration featuring some of San Francisco's most recognizable names plus guests from around the world.

DJ Hawthorne serves up an u n fo rg et tabl e afte rn oon of music and fun! See facebook. com/djhawthorne for details!

THE LGBTQ FAMILY GARDEN T h e LG B TQ F a m i l y G a r d e n is a fun and safe space for LGBTQ families to gather and relax. Activities in the Family Garden will include an arts and crafts, a building project led by the Bay Area Discovery Museum, a family martial arts demonstration by Heart of San Francisco Aikido, face painting, fresh juice drinks, healthy snacks and prizes! The Family Garden is sponsored by Our Family Coalition, a local organization on a mission to advance equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer families with children through support, education and advocacy. You can march with our contingent in the parade, or you can join us at the Family Garden at the playground on the corner of

Larkin and Grove Streets.

Contact shareena@ourfamily. org for more information. See you there!

QUEER YOUTH SPACE The Queer Youth Space i s h o s t e d b y L a r k i n St r e e t Youth Services and located right on Civic Center Plaza.

The Queer Youth Space is a drug, alcohol, and smoke-free place where all queer youth and their allies can come grab a snack, something to drink, play games, get their make-up done, walk the runway, change into their festive Pride outfits in a private space and meet local Queer Youth Ambassadors who can provide information on queer youth services and ev ents thr ou ghou t the Pride weekend. We will also p rov i de r ap i d, c onf i denti al HIV tests and counseling for any interested queer youth, or you can just hang out in a safe space with other queer youth and allies and enjoy the amazing SF Pride celebration. Come join the fun!

Contact Linda Walubengo at lwalubengo@larkinstreetyouth. org for more information.

SOBERFEST SoberFest 2016, brought to you by the Castro Country C l u b, i s a c l ean and sober gathering place for all people and a home for the queer recovery community and our allies. SoberFest 2016 not only provides a safe space free of drugs and alcohol in the midst of what can sometimes be a challenging environment filled with excesses, but also provides a fun and festive gathering place for the community to celebrate pride-filled with entertainment a n d d a n c i n g . T h i s y e a r 's celebration is a fantastic cross section of some of the finest Bay Area DJs and drag queens

who will keep you laughing and dancing all pride long!

Schedule: DJ Hotwire (10:00 to 12:00), 12 Step Meeting (12:00 to 1:00), Mascara and Drag Show Extravaganza (1:30 to 3:00), DJ Robbie Martin (3:00 to 6:00).

SONIC REDUCER STAGE The Buffalo Exchange Sonic Reducer Stage is Pride’s stage for cutting-edge electro and new wave. 2016 DJs: Donimo, Tomas Diablo, Rotten Robbie, Party Ben and Xander.

SOUL OF PRIDE, AFRICAN DIASPORA STAGE AND VILLAGE The Soul of Pride Stage and Village will host many amazing artists, legendary DJs, dancers, MCs and local vendors as we celebrate fifteen years of Pride! Keep your eye out for their awardwinning Soul of Pride float in the parade.

SUNDANCE COUNTRY-WESTERN DANCE CORRAL W h e t h e r it 's t wo - s t e p, lin e dance, waltz, or swing, country western dancing is popular in the queer community all a r o u n d t h e w o r l d . To d a y 's country dancing is fun, romantic, wild, sexy, and freespirited. It's an activity that all ages from 20s to 80s can enjoy, and a great way to meet real people in real life. We'll be dancing all afternoon at the Pride celebration in the C i v i c C e n t e r, w i t h l e s s o n s at 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. The S u n d a n c e C o u n t r y -We s t e r n Dance Corral is produced by Sundance Saloon, a project of the Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing, a n a l l - v o l u n t e e r, n o n p r o f i t organization that promotes country-western dancing

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i n t h e LG B T c o m m u n i t y.

Sundance Saloon has been offering country-western dancing with lessons for eighteen years. You'll find us every Sunday and Thursday night at our expansive club a t 5 5 0 B a r n e v e l d Av e n u e .

D o n't kno w h ow to dan ce?

No problem! We always have beginning lessons just for you.

The Sundance Association also produces the annual internationally acclaimed Sundance Stompede, an immersive four-day countrywestern dance weekend extravaganza in October. We dance at various other venues d u r i n g t h e y e a r, i n c l u d i n g at other Pride events, gay rodeos, Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro, Beatbox, and even RSVP cruises! The Sundance Association has also raised over $370,000 for other nonprofit organizations over the past eighteen years. sundancesaloon.org

TANTRA TRANCE The Tantra Trance Stage is a showcase of San Francisco underground electronic dance music. Brought to you by the same crew who have rocked Pink Saturday, Castro Halloween and Lovefest SF, t h e Ta n t r a s t a g e w i l l t a k e dancers through an afternoon of NRG and break-beats, building up to a peak of high energy trance. If you are looking for the tribal trance dance experience, come check out the Tantra stage.

WOMEN’S STAGE The SF Pride Women's Stage represents the evolution and celebration of lesbian-focused entertainment at SF Pride. We are women, mothers, sisters, daughters, lovers, friends and rulers of the world to put it lightly!!! Come and help us celebrate! The entire block will

be transformed into a dynamic arena of fun, games, sexy performances all designed to entertain, build community and empower all who come out to join in the celebration.

We are hard at work again this year to create a showcase of talent that encompasses the female experience within the LGBTQ community. This year the stage's entertainment will feature talent from the Bay Area and beyond. From rock to pop, we've got you covered with some of the hottest female entertainers. We also have a few special surprises in store for you too.

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WE R ALL BOWIE

A tribute to the sound and vision of David Bowie, featuring Bluebird, Dogon and Classical Revolution.

All-female, multi-genre dance company; cultivating a stronger community of artists of all ages through urban performance, dance education and connection.

Featuring members of The House of Prolific and showcasing the five elements of Vogue.

PURPLE STARDUST DISCOTHEQUE Hosted by Jason Brock

Produced the Homo Hip Hop Stage at Pride for the past seven years and he will keep you dancing with a mix of deep house, disco, alternative, nujazz and soul.

THE FIRST CHURCH OF THE SACRED SILVERSEXUAL

A musical, theatrical, sparkly spectacle of a show that tap dances on all the lines between religion and revelry, beatitude and blasphemy, rock show and revival.

SEXITUDE

From creator D’Arcy Drollinger, owner-artistic director at OASIS, Sexitude™ is the San Franciscobased dance experience that celebrates everybody’s inner sexy.

JASON BROCK

An X-Factor finalist, Jason also starred in Love is not Enough, which played Frameline. Voted Best Male Cabaret Singer in 2015 and 2016 by readers of the B.A.R.

Our cabaret emcee is the hostess of the Friday night drag and dance party Club Some Thing at the Stud and cohost of the podcast Calm Down Queen. calmdownqueen.com

HONEY MAHOGANY

Cast member from RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 5), Honey Mahogany’s most recent work includes her debut EP Honey Love, the HBO series Looking, and her variety show Mahogany Mondays at the Midnight Sun.

SUE CASA

With an amazing ability to paint the same exact face every time and wear the same exact wig, her look is, well, recognizable. She is a hostess of The Monster Show weekly at the Edge Bar.

KITTY VON QUIM

Straight out of a John Waters movie, Kitty has shaken and shimmied all over the world.

She is a former member of Rubenesque Burlesque, the troupe who were featured at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in 2014.

DULCE DE LECHE

DJ LAMONT

DJ LAMONT

VIVVYANNE FOREVERMORE!

BLUEBIRD

BIANCA STARR FASHION SHOW: THE ESSENCE OF VOGUE

Hosted by VivvyAnne ForeverMore!

LOL McFIERCEN

MIX’D INGRDNTS

DIRTY MIND CABARET

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COMPTON'S CAFETERIA RIOT 50TH ANNIVERSARY Remembering the San Francisco uprising that pre-dates Stonewall.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of a little-remembered event that has come to be known as the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot.

One weekend night in August 1966 - the exact date thus far remains frustratingly lost to the historical record - the patrons of Compton’s, a 24-hour cafeteria located at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, physically fought back against a police raid that targeted the trans women, street queens, gay hustlers, and queer youth who made the cafeteria a favorite late-night hang-out. Taking place three years before the larger and more famous uprising at Stonewall, it was one of the first times that LGBTQ people militantly insisted on their right to exist in public space.

I first learned about the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in the early 1990s, when I saw it mentioned in a chronology of events in San Francisco’s LGBT history compiled by Greg Pennington. It took me a couple of years to find Gay Pride Quarterly #1, the publication listed as mentioning the riot because the Historical Society’s holdings started with Issue #2. It turned out that Gay Pride Quarterly #1 was actually the program for the first-ever Pride parade in San Francisco in 1972. In the centerfold of the program, the organizer of that event, Raymond Broshears, wrote about the history of what he called “gay liberation” in San Francisco. He reminded his readers that while the Pride parade was honoring the rebellion at Stonewall, gay liberation had actually begun in San Francisco three years early when people he called “drag queens” fought the police at Compton’s Cafeteria. It took more years of research to piece together a fuller picture of what happened that night at Compton’s, but eventually my filmmaking partner Victor Silverman and I were able to make a documentary film that told the story, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (ITVS/Frameline 2005).

The privilege I have had in helping to bring knowledge about the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot to a wide audience pales in comparison to the privilege I have had in standing on the shoulders of the generation of trans people who came before me. The women who fought back against the police at the corner of Turk and Taylor in 1966 had to be fierce. Because they couldn’t change their state-issued ID, they were undocumented. They faced employment discrimination and did sex work to survive.

They weren’t allowed to live anywhere except SRO hotels in the Tenderloin. The police treated them as low-life criminals who could be abused without consequence. Their lives were utterly expendable, considered worthy by no one but themselves. Yet they fought. And lived. And loved. In small but real ways, they changed the world. Because of that fight, and because of countless other daily acts of heroism required to build a life-sustaining queer world, those of us here now have the capacity to honor the elders who paved the way.

Susan Stryker is co-writer-directorproducer of the 2005 Emmywinning film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria.

A trans, queer and feminist historian, she is former executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco and current director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona.

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HISTORICAL REFLECTION: BAYARD RUSTIN

Famously known as the chief architect of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, Bayard Rustin was the embodiment of the powerful intersections of being a person of color, a homosexual, and a man of peace.

"My activism did not spring from being black... racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family." - Bayard Rustin As we gather for the 2016 San Francisco Pride celebration under the banner of For Racial and Economic Justice, a great civil rights pioneer comes to mind and heart: Bayard Rustin.

The great March of 1963 is forever etched in our collective memory as the occasion Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. It was also a day that hundreds of thousands gathered as a rainbow tapestry of black, white, yellow and brown Americans, standing together in a massive demonstration for racial and social justice for black Americans.

In his time, Bayard Rustin understood all too well the importance and power of bringing together diverse communities of people to fight for justice not only for black Americans, but ultimately and eventually for all in need of civil and human rights - including lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.

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new [blacks] are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.”

While certain measures have transpired towards realizing racial justice since Rustin’s lifetime, in many respects, the status of African Americans remains a barometer of social change. In 2016, blacks are still blacks, and one can hardly deny the thematic symmetries between the great march on Washington in 1963 and the continued call to action by the DREAMers or Black Lives Matter, started by openly LGBTQ African-American youth.

The fight for LGBTQ equality cannot be divorced from the fight for racial and economic equality - racial and economic justice lies at the very heart of the LGBTQ liberation movement.

Holding together in those necessary coalitions between blacks and poor whites, labor and faith, LGBT people and immigrants, and so on, the quest boldly marches forward.

Holding together, we’ve no doubt that Bayard Rustin would have been among the hundreds of thousands in the Black Lives Matters’ non-violent actions calling for much-needed police reform.

Holding together, we’ve no doubt that Bayard Rustin would have stood firmly among the DREAMers righteously demanding fairness, opportunity, and dignity for immigrants.

Holding together, Bayard Rustin would be fiercely dedicated to fighting for full and equal LGBTQ protections against discrimination in the workplace, wayward religious refusals, and attempts to sanction segregation and degradation of our transgender brothers and sisters.

No, Bayard was not spurred to action simply because he was black. Bayard Rustin was moved to resist injustice, to exist justly as the powerful, vibrant sum total of who he was and aspired to be as a black, gay man of peace and justice - and to lovingly embrace the belief in the oneness of the human family.

The Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition (BRC) declares to end racism and homophobia by creating a world where all people are fully empowered. bayardrustincoalition.com

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UNJUST: ONE IN FIVE YOUTH IN JUVENILE JUSTICE FACILITIES ARE LGBT OR GENDER NON-CONFORMING

Family rejection, family instability and poverty, unsafe schools, school-to-prison pipeline push LGBT youth into the system.

LGBT youth are more likely than their non-LGBT counterparts to end up in the juvenile justice system.

Why? Young LGBT people face unique challenges that put them at risk: family rejection, family instability and poverty, negative experiences in the child welfare system, unsafe schools, and the school-to-prison pipeline all push youth into interactions with law enforcement. Analysis of a national population-based survey found that LGBTQ youth were between 25% and 300% more likely than their non-LGBTQ peers to experience some sort of official sanction, ranging from being expelled from school, to being stopped by police, to being arrested or convicted as an adult or juvenile.

LGBT young people at risk of homelessness face substantial challenges, including risks to their physical safety and emotional and mental health. Engaging in shoplifting, trading sex, selling drugs, or other illegal activities as a way to survive increases the chances that young people may be stopped and arrested, and enter the juvenile justice system. Police frequently target LGBTQ youth, particularly youth of color.

The Williams Institute estimates that of the 3.2 million LGBTQ youth in the United States, half are “at risk” of being arrested or entering juvenile and criminal justice systems.

And LGBTQ youth are, in fact, overrepresented in the juvenile justice system. In a 2015 survey of young people at seven juvenile detention facilities across the country, an estimated 20% identified as LGBT or gender non-conforming, including 40% of girls and 14% of boys. This is more than two times the percentage of all youth who identify as LGBT or gender non-conforming (estimated 7-9%). Of LGBT and gender nonconforming youth in the juvenile justice system, 85% were youth of color.

Communities, families, schools, and even the juvenile justice system need to revisit how we support LGBT youth - and all youth - so they have the best chance at successful and happy lives.

There are an estimated 3.2 million young people between the ages of 8 and 18 who identify as LGBT or queer, and that number is growing as youth come out at an earlier age. Communities, families, schools and even the juvenile justice system need to revisit how we support LGBT youth - and all youth - so they have the best chance at successful and happy lives.

Citation: Excerpts provided courtesy of the Center for American Progress and Movement Advancement Project; Unjust: How The Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People (February, 2016). Washington, DC; Center for American Progress.

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WALKING WHILE TRANS: SEX WORK & POLICE PROFILING LGBT people may be disproportionately represented among individuals engaged in sex work, making them frequent targets of police and laws criminalizing prostitution and related offenses. Why? Because LGBT people are more likely to be pushed out of the mainstream economy because of discrimination, poverty, homelessness and other issues, and may end up trading sex for money, food, clothing, or shelter.

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Homelessness can be a huge factor; nearly half (48%) of transgender people in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey who engaged in sex work also reported experiencing homelessness. Of transgender people in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey who reported trading sex, more than three-quarters (79%) reported interactions with police. A survey of transgender people in Transgender state prisons for men in women frequently California (presumably mostly transgender report that police women) found that assume they are 40% reported having participated in sex work. participating in F o r LG BT p e o p l e o f sex work, simply color, the challenges are because they are amplified. For example, transgender people of “walking while color trading sex were transgender” or more than twice as likely to be arrested than their because condoms white counterparts. are found during Similarly, in a survey of a frisk.

LGBTQ youth engaged in survival sex in New York City, virtually all of those surveyed were youth of color; 37% identified as AfricanAmerican or black, 22% as Latino/a, and 30% as multiracial.

Finally, LGBT people can be targets for police even when they are not engaged in sex work. Police frequently rely on stereotypes in enforcing anti-prostitution laws, such as assuming that all transgender women, and particularly transgender women of color, are engaged in prostitutionrelated offenses. Transgender women frequently report that police assume they are participating in sex work, simply because they are “walking while transgender” or because condoms are found during a frisk.

Citation: Excerpts provided courtesy of the Center for American Progress and Movement Advancement Project; Unjust: How The Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People (February, 2016). Washington, DC; Center for American Progress.

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2016 COMMUNITY PARTNERS The San Francisco Pride Community Partner Program is a beneficiary program that exemplifies SF Pride’s commitment to community investment. Since 1997, SF Pride has been able to grant over $2.5M to our community partners thanks to donations made at our event gates and purchases made at our beverage booths.

Community partners provide SF Pride with volunteers the weekend of the event and, in return, SF Pride awards the organizations with a grant based on our patron’s support. When you donate at the gate or purchase a beverage at one of our official beverage booths, you provide critical support to local charities, including LGBTQIA organizations and those organizations working on issues related to HIV/AIDS, cancer, homelessness and animal welfare. For nearly twenty years, SF Pride’s Community Partner Program has been a primary source of funding that serves to strengthen our communities and build a strong future for the celebration and parade.

2016 COMMUNITY PARTNERS Alameda County Leather Corps Bay Area Derby Bay Area Young Positives Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition Bayview/Hunters Point Community Legal Bears of San Francisco Berkeley All Blues Rugby Berkeley Community Health Project Berkeley Humane California Men's Gathering California Prostitutes Education Project Castro Country Club Celebrate Life Spiritualist Community CHEER San Francisco City of Refuge, United Church of Christ Council of Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses of San Francisco, Inc. Court of the Great Northwest Imperial Empire, Inc.

Imperial San Joaquin Delta Empire The Imperial Star Empire Inc. Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco Metropolitan Community Church NIA Collective Northern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Oakland Pride Inc. Pagan Alliance Project Inform Q Foundation: AIDS Housing Alliance SF Radical Light Center for Spiritual Living Rocket Dog Rescue San Francisco Gay Basketball Association San Francisco Gay Softball League San Francisco Inferno Softball Teams (PASS, Inc.) San Francisco Sex Information San Francisco Spikes Soccer Club

Foggy City Dancers

San Francisco Track and Field Club

Freedom in Christ Evangelical Church

San Francisco Tsunami Water Polo

Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Foundation

Temenos Catholic Worker

Healing Waters Wilderness Adventures Homeless Children's Network Imperial Council of San Francisco

Tenderloin Tessie Holiday Dinners Variety - the Children's Charity of Northern California

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DYKES ON BIKES @ 40

A symbol of pride and empowerment in the SF Pride parade.

By Vick Germany, Co-President, San Francisco Dykes on Bikes® Women’s Motorcycle Contingent

For the 40th year, the San Francisco Dykes on Bikes® Women’s Motorcycle Contingent (SFDOBWMC) will lead off the SF Pride Parade! In 1976, a small group of women motorcyclists gathered at the head of the SF Pride parade and, unbeknownst to them, “Dykes on Bikes®” was born. In 2003, we filed a trademark for Dykes on Bikes® with the help of Brook Oliver (50 Balmy Law PC), a process we thought would take six to nine months.

The Trademark Office rejected our application in early 2004 because the name “Dykes on Bikes” is disparaging to lesbians. Brooke Oliver and the NCLR submitted more than two dozen declarations from scholars, linguists, psychologists and activists showing how the word “dyke” has evolved to become a positive term and “Dykes on Bikes” are a symbol of pride and empowerment. Our request was denied two more times! With the help of Townsend and Townsend and Crew, we appealed, and on December 6, 2004, the Trademark Office reversed itself and granted the application.

In 2006, an individual filed an opposition to our trademark, alleging the name “Dykes on Bikes” was disparaging to men and wrongly accusing us of misconduct toward him and men generally.

The opposition was dismissed in a citable precedent that he had no standing to oppose registration of the mark. He appealed to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed the dismissal and noted: “Dykes on Bikes would have no implications for a man.” Our opposer filed a petition with the US Supreme Court and wrote that a trademark would put the definition in the hands of a group of “thought police,” and contradict the “widespread documented understanding of the term ‘dyke’ as describing hyper-militant radicals hateful toward men.” He obviously has not seen the men that ride with us in the SF Pride parade! In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court denied hearing the petition.

The trademark was ours after five years!

The SFDOBWMC is an organization committed to creating a local, national and international community of women motorcyclists and friends of women motorcyclists. Our mission is to support philanthropic endeavors in the LGBT and women’s communities. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The SFDOBWMC is open to lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and those persons whose gender self-identification is other than male.

On June 25, 2016, we are throwing a 40th-anniversary party at El Rio (3158 Mission St) from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. Allotta Boutte is our emcee, auctioneer (A’s ticket package, $500 Olivia Cruise gift certificate, and more) and chanteuse. DJ Lady Ryan will get you dancing! Get your official San Francisco Dykes on Bikes® swag and register to ride in the parade. dykesonbikes.org SFPRIDE.ORG • 2016 OFFICIAL GUIDE

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Book excerpt by Hillary Whittington on parenting a transgender child with no strings attached.

Ryland doesn’t say much until later that night. She’s with me in my bedroom, where we usually read books and fall asleep together on nights when Jeff is working fire. I love to cuddle with her while Jeff is away, and I know it must be even harder for a deaf child to find comfort alone in a dark room. We remove the external portion of her implants when she sleeps, leaving her in complete silence and darkness. Knowing how frightening this may be, I have a soft spot when it comes to Ryland sleeping in our bed.

Before we take out the external implants, she lies on her tummy while I scratch her back lightly one of her favorite things in the world. “Mom,” she says. “When is Daddy coming home?”

“He’ll be home tomorrow morning.”

“Okay,” she says. “What are we doing tomorrow?”

“You have school, and then . . .” Here, I pause. I can tell Ryland is thinking about what to say next.

“Mom . . .” she says. She wiggles away from me and sits up. Suddenly her voice is quivering. “Can I ask you something?”

“Sure, Ry. What’s wrong, honey?”

“Mom, when the family dies . . . can I cut my hair so I can be a boy?”

My heart drops. Time stops. I look at her, but she is staring ahead—my stoic little child—waiting for my answer. By the expression on her face, I can see that she understands the significance of what she’s just asked me. But why should we have to die for Ryland to cut her hair and feel happy, whatever that requires?

I don’t know how to respond. I feel like I’m standing on the edge of a cliff. This is the moment when I have to choose between Ryland’s happiness and being a “normal” family. I’ve seen and read enough to know what’s coming next: this is going to shake my marriage. While I have been 72 • INSIDE PRIDE | FOR RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

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RAISING RYLAND

reading Ryland’s behaviors very closely between the lines, Jeff has at times suggested that I’ve been “jumping to conclusions.” For him, it would be ideal if Ryland were to come out and say, “Dad, you and I need to have a talk. There’s something I need to share with you: I am transgender.” But even if they had the cognitive capacity to do so, most five-year-olds would never initiate a serious conversation about their gender identity. No matter how many signs Ryland has shown us, it’s been up to me to raise the issue.

I always feel Jeff’s tension - even after their Christmas clothing shopping trip, he’s avoided talking about it at all costs. Having to fathom Ryland’s future as a deaf person was painful enough for Jeff, but now, dealing with yet another challenge, he has struggled, often in silence, to understand what’s going on. Worse, he and I definitely have not seen the urgency of this situation in the same way.

But on this night, when Ryland breaks down, I am physically unable to see my child hurt with shame and guilt anymore. I can no longer allow this to go on. I have to choose. The reality of all this has been creeping up on me for some time, but as a mother, my first priority has to be my child’s safety.

“Ryland... honey... ” I sit up in bed. “You don’t have to wait until the family dies. You can get your hair cut right now.”

She begins to cry again. Her tears are silent, her face is flushed. She seems to know that her pain is hurting me, too, and neither of us knows how to make it all stop.

Even at this tiny age, Ryland has the wisdom and selfawareness to know the true significance of what she has just asked me. Cutting her hair is the final bridge left to cross into letting her become a boy. If that makes my child like herself better, then I’m prepared to do it.

I wrap my arms around her. She removes her ears and hands them to me—her signal that she’s finished having a conversation and is ready to rest. She buries her head into the space under my arm, and she cries. I massage her head and her back until I know she’s fallen asleep.

And then I begin my own cries. My child, only five years old, is so miserable with who she is. For months I have seen a conversation like this coming. It pains me to think that this little person is smart enough to tell me something so powerful, at such a young age. These tears are for my child—my desire to make things right for Ryland. The final and complete acceptance that this is not a phase, that this isn’t just going to pass, that my daughter isn’t just a tomboy. That on the other side of all this, things will be different - Ryland’s life, Jeff’s life, Brynley’s life - our family will be changed.

Courtesy of William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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A CERTIFIED SUCCESS STORY

Leveraging LGBT business certification to expand your growth.

Economic justice manifests in myriad ways. Over four decades ago minority-owned small businesses started to gain access to otherwise closed corporate supply chains through corporate supplier diversity initiatives. These opportunities for growth were the direct result of pioneering work by organizations like the National Association of Women Business Owners and the National Minority Business Council, as well as advocacy by the federal government on behalf of veteranowned small businesses.

In 2002 the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) started certifying LGBTowned small businesses, further expanding growth opportunities for minority-owned small businesses. This decade the Human Rights Campaign added criteria to their coveted Corporate Equality Index that recognizes employers that have a supplier diversity program with a demonstrated effort to include certified LGBT suppliers.

In recent years, the Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA), the nation’s first LGBT Chamber of Commerce, became a champion of LGBT Business Enterprise (LGBTBE) Certification, driven in large part by the efforts of board member Dawn Ackerman of OutSmart Office Solutions. A longtime certified LGBTBE, Dawn experienced first-hand the benefits of partnerships and business opportunities with corporations that would have been inaccessible without LGBTBE-inclusive supplier diversity programs. In 2010 she and her business partner George Pieper secured a historic contract with Office Depot in large part due to their certification and Office Depot’s LGBTBEinclusive supply chain.

GGBA made history as one of the chief advocates for successfully getting LGBTBE’s included in the National Football League’s Business Connect program. Super Bowl 50 marked the first time LGBTBE certified businesses were eligible to compete directly for Super Bowl-related business opportunities. LGBTBE’s who benefited from these historic contracts include BluePrint Studios, Christopher Dydyk Photography, David Perry Public Relations, Ellaprint, Got Light, JJardine Catering, Leftwich Events, OutSmart Office Solutions and Pendergast Consulting Group.

In another groundbreaking achievement, LGBTBE-certified Equator Coffees and Teas of Marin County was selected by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the 2016 California Small Business of the Year. This was the first time a certified LGBTBE was selected to win one of SBA’s prestigious state-wide awards. Helen Russell and Brooke McDonnell, partners in life as well as business, founded Equator Coffees and Teas in 1995. Of receiving the award, Helen said, “It is such an incredible honor to be recognized by the SBA as Small Business of the Year for the State of California, and we are grateful to the GGBA for advocating on our behalf, to Capital Access Group for nominating us for this prestigious award and to the NGLCC for being a champion for LGBTBE firms at the national and international levels.”

Visit ggba.com and nglcc.org for more information on LGBTBE certification.

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#HIRETRANS NOW

Fighting for economic empowerment for trans and gender non-conforming people.

Racial and economic justice issues find a unique nexus in the transgender and gender nonconfirming communities. A comprehensive survey of 6,450 trans participants from all over the US and Territories released in 2011 exposed the grave existential condition of many of our trans brothers and sisters. The survey was performed by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the results reveal a staggering degree of injustice experienced by the trans community. Notable among their key findings:

“Discrimination was pervasive throughout the entire sample, yet the combination of anti-transgender bias and persistent, structural racism was especially devastating. People of color in general fare worse than white participants across the board, with AfricanAmerican transgender respondents faring worse than all others in many areas examined.”

“Respondents lived in extreme poverty… nearly four times more likely to have a household income of less than $10,000/year compared to the general population.”

“A staggering 41% of respondents reported attempting suicide compared to 1.6% of the general population, with rates rising for those who lost a job due to bias (55%), were harassed/bullied in school (51%), had low household income, or were the victim of physical assault (61%) or sexual assault (64%).”

Despite the greater visibility of the trans community recently the daily wounds and long-term scars experienced by trans people demand our greatest attention. Fortunately, San Francisco continues to be a beacon of justice advocacy and hard work, as it always has.

The San Francisco LGBT Community Center made history in 2007 when they founded the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative. Now called the Trans Employment Program, it was the first cityfunded service in the country dedicated to getting trans people jobs and to address other economic and social justice issues faced by them. The program now operates throughout the Bay Area and maintains partnerships with other programs around the country. In less than a decade, the Trans Employment Program has connected participants with thousands of jobs. Their services include job referrals and career coaching, resume review, reference management, mentoring – including dealing with being out at work and transitioning on the job, legal services and more.

Under the leadership of the Center’s director of economic development, Clair Farley, the Trans Employment Program recently launched their inspiring Trans at Work multimedia campaign. It includes a website, online video and social media outreach using the hashtags #TransatWork #HireTrans and #TransVisible.

One of SF Pride’s Community Grand Marshals this year is Janetta Johnson, executive director of the Transgender Gender Variant and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project. The project is dedicated to “creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom” among trans people inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers. Focusing on the needs of transgender women of color and their families who are in prison, formerly incarcerated, or targeted by the police, their work embodies this year’s theme.

Visit thetaskforce.org/tcrp for more information on NLGBTQ Task Force’s Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project and their survey. Visit transemploymentprogram.org for more information about the Center’s Trans Employment Program, including their Trans at Work campaign and an excellent resources page. Visit tgijp.org for more information about the TGI Justice Project.

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SF Pride cares deeply about the safety, security and health of all visitors to the annual celebration and parade. We recommend that you bring a friend with you when traveling to new and unfamiliar places. Report suspicious activity or unattended packages to the nearest police officer, crowd control personel member or event volunteer. June can be hot, so please stay hydrated and drink plenty of water.

Please make sure that your valuables and effects are secure by not leaving bags or personal items unattended. We also encourage that you protect yourself and your sexual partners by using safer sex practices.

INFORMATION BOOTHS At the information booths, you will find the most upto-date information on the celebration. Volunteers dedicated to helping you get the most out of SF Pride will staff each booth where you can pick up a copy of PocketPride. This handy guide contains an event map and information about the parade and the talent performing on the main stage as well as information about the 21 community-run stages and venues throughout the Pride celebration area.

EXHIBITORS & FOOD With over 200 exhibitors, SF Pride offers a wide variety of artists, local and national businesses, nonprofits, artisans, and food and beverage vendors. SF Pride makes a special effort to make booths affordable to local nonprofits that often use their spaces to educate, raise much-needed funds and connect with the community.

There’s something for almost everyone at Pride.

BEVERAGES You can enjoy beverage discounts all day at Pride by making a minimum donation of $5 at the event entrance gates. In return for your generous support, you will get a donation sticker that earns you discounts on beverages at SF Pride-designated beverage booths all day long!

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please drink responsibly. Alcohol not purchased from one of our official beverage booths is not permitted. Please remember to stay hydrated. Clean and sober visitors can enjoy an alcohol-free environment at Soberfest, the cleanand-sober space located on UN Plaza.

CHILDCARE & ACCESSIBILITY Free childcare and accessibility services are available.

Accessibility seating and ASL interpretation are provided at the parade grandstands. ASL interpreters are also provided at the Pride main stage and other stages throughout the event. visit sfpride.org/access for more information about accessibility.

RECYCLING & COMPOSTING Waste collection stations are provided throughout the celebration area for the collection of recyclable materials, compostable materials and garbage. All cups, plates and utensils used at our event are 100% compostable and made from natural derivatives.

GRANDSTAND TICKETS & ACCESSIBILITY SEATING The grandstands, located on the north side of Market Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets at UN Plaza, are the perfect place to enjoy the parade. The Civic Center Muni/ BART station is right next to the entrance to the grandstands. grandstand tickets are $40 in advance at sfpride.org or $45 at the entrance on the morning of the parade. Tickets are provided on a sliding scale to those with accessibility needs and their partners. Accessibility seating is also provided for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and the differently-abled at the grandstands and main stage. Seating is on a first-come, firstserved basis and begins at 9:30 a.m.

GETTING TO PRIDE SF Pride is one of the largest outdoor events in the nation in the heart of a major metropolitan area. You can avoid traffic and scarce parking by taking public transportation. Both BART and Muni transit systems serve the Civic Center station near both the celebration and parade, making access to Pride easy. The Embarcadero, Montgomery Street and Powell Street stations also serve the parade route.

2016 INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS Marion Abdullah Russell Allen Claudio Armstrong Gretchen Atwood Gene Bidwell Harry Breaux Sara Cohen Bob Dockendorf Bryeon Earle Moniqu EIsom Russell Gaspard Jim Gazaway Joshua Godwin Peg Grady Douglas Hanlin Debra Howell Joan Juster Richard Landry Lin Mayr Cynthia McCombs Loren Meissner Antonio Mitchell James Moschella Tuyet Nguyen Nina Sestacov Sarah Skovlund Cameron Stiehl Atefeh Taheri Jamie Whitaker Donors for the period July 2015 - May 2016

DONATE! A donation to SF Pride helps support dozens of diverse, nonprofit organizations in the community. Please join us, knowing you can give with Pride while supporting the critical work of building community and creating safe spaces for LGBT people. sfpride.org/donate

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2016 TRAVEL PARTNERS VIRGIN AMERICA As the Bay Area’s hometown airline, Virgin America is proud to support the San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration for the ninth year in a row. Grab a seat at virginamerica. com to fly with WiFi, mood lighting, and an interactive touch screen bringing you food and drinks on demand, live TV, movies, music and more.

JOIE DE VIVRE An originator of character and imagination in boutique hospitality, Joie de Vivre has helped define an industry and today comprises the largest collection of boutique properties in California with locations across America. For 20% off best available rates enter promo code: PRIDESF. jdvhotels.com

MARRIOTT MARQUIS The San Francisco Marriott Marquis is a proud, longtime supporter of SF Pride. Don’t miss our new fitness center, drinks at the View Lounge, or a treatment at our full-service spa. Use the hashtag #SFMarriottMarquis throughout Pride for the possibility of a special surprise. sanfranciscomarriottmarquis.com

HOTEL WHITCOMB Hotel Whitcomb is a masterpiece of early 20th-century architecture and decor located in the heart of the theater and arts district, and only a few minutes away from some of the San Francisco’s most famous attractions. Amenities include 448 guest rooms and 12 themed suites, free Wi-Fi in guest rooms and public spaces, convenient access to the Asian Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera, Orpheum Theater, Moscone Center and Union Square.

BART/Muni and historic F-Line trolley at the front steps of the hotel at 1231 Market Street, San Francisco. Call 415.487.4460 for group sales or 800.227.4747 for general reservations.

HOTEL DIVA Located in the heart of Union Square San Francisco and a couple of blocks from the Pride parade route and other festivities. The hotel is steps away from entertainment, theaters, and high-end retail stores, and is surrounded by great restaurants and bars for after-parties. Hotel Diva has modern, sleek, gorgeous rooms with an unbeatable location. Why would you want to stay anywhere else? Hotel Diva embraces our all of our LGBT travelers, locals and 80 • INSIDE PRIDE | FOR RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

worldwide travelers. Let’s celebrate Pride, where you can be truly “you.” At Diva, we respect diversity and welcome anyone who walks through our glass doors. The hotel offers special rates for Pride. hoteldiva.com

HOTEL UNION SQUARE Hotel Union Square is one of the original boutique hotels, with a visually stimulating fusion of art deco and classic San Francisco style, with beautiful brick walls, original 1915 Egyptian-motif mosaic murals and sleek furnishings. Hotel Union Square is situated in the heart of the San Francisco shopping district, near some of the finest department stores and designer shops around. Our Union Square hotel is located just one block from the historic cable car turnaround and near top restaurants, attractions and things to do in San Francisco. Hotel Union Square is also only one block from the parade route and exciting parade activities.

Hotel Union Square wants to celebrate Pride with you, as we also believe in equality for all. Make us your choice for your stay. Hotel Union Square offers special rates for Pride. hotelunionsquare.com

SFMTA San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees all surface transportation in the city, is a proud sponsor of the San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration. Make it a safe and car-free trip by walking, biking or taking Muni! Download MuniMobile and buy your tickets now to avoid the crowds later. Visit sfmta.com for trip planning and special event service.

BART BART is a proud sponsor of the San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration. The Pride celebration will be held at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza on June 25 and 26, one short block from Civic Center station. Access the parade on Sunday, June 26, from any of the downtown San Francisco stations when BART will provide longer trains to accommodate crowds. BART is a reliable, costeffective and environmentally-friendly way to get around, and is proud to serve the Bay Area. Visit our new website, bart.gov/bartable for information on great BARTable events like SF Pride.

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BECOME A MEMBER OF SF PRIDE! San Francisco Pride is a member-based 501(c)(3) organization. Our members elect directors, set priorities, select our annual theme, and ensure the celebration reflects our communities’ values.

The 2016 SF Pride Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Saturday, September 17. In order to vote at our AGM you must register as a member no less than sixty days prior to the meeting.

Visit members.sfpride.org for more information on how to become a San Francisco Pride member.

2016 MEMBERS: Marion Abdullah, Rotimi Agbabiaka, Russell Allen, Steven Amuso, John Anderson, Laura Arnold, Enrique Asis, Mariva Aviram, Jamie Awad, Donald Bachman, Shelly Bailes, Matthew Bajko, Kevin Bard, Jesus Barragan, Celeste A. Barron, Kris Ephraim Baylon, Bruce Beaudette, Lyle Beckman, Brendan Behan, Angelo Belaro, Tony Benincasa, Jerry Berbiar, Robert Bernardo, Gene Bidwell, Lori Bilella, William Bondurant, Marcus Borgman, Jackson Bowman, Thomas Boyer, Michael Boylan, Steven Bracco, Caleiph Brewer, Imani Brown, Thomas Buckner, Grant Bullis, Sarah Burghauser, Braden Busch, Julio Cabanillas, Jamie Cader, Joey Cain, John Caldera, John Campbell, Joseph Capley-Alfano, Jo Carlson, Patrick Carney, Dolores Carnosa, Laura Carnosa, Billy Caroll, Maria Caruana, Sister Kitty Catalyst, Charlena Chacon, Brian Chavez, Wayne Chen, Ruth Chimowitz, Tamara Ching, Debra Cleaver, Thomas Cocuzzi, Patrick Connors, Melissa Cordero, Kim Corsaro, Larry Crickenberger, Nicole Crist, Ryan Crowder, David Currie, Anna Damiani, Luis De La Garza, Zachary Denney, Donald Dewsnup, Daniel Dissett, Eddie Dobbins, Bob Dockendorff, Stardust Doherty, Cheryl Dunye, Clifford Edwards, Felicia Elizondo, Susan Englander, Terrance Evans, Jon Charles Falk, Paula Farmer, Louise Fischer, Peter Fiske, Colleen FitzSimons, Jonathan Foulk, James Fountain, Rylee Fowler, Eade Frazier, Theresa M. Frye, George Fuentes, Michael Fullam, Peter Gallotta, Jasmine Gee, Jonathan George, Rick Gerharter, Michael Glessnar, Josh Godwin, James Gong, Joel Gonzales, Margaret Grace, John Graves, Moses Green, Pam Grey, Kaye Griffin, Steven Guilliams, Lucky Gutierrez, Gabriel Haaland, Harold Hagen, Terrence Hargens, Samuel Harrison, Rick Hauptman, Rozina Hayes, Deana Hemrich, Kenneth Henderson, Alfredo Herrera, David Herrera, Jason Hinson, Loretta Hintz, Dewitt Hoard, Timothea Holsman, Charles Hossle, Jason Husted, Marcus Ismael, Kernan Jang, Jayson Jaynes, Joseph Jelincic, Antonio Jerez, Maya Johansson, Latoya Johnson, Reggie Johnson, Suzanne Joi, Caroline Joy, Sean Justice, Susan Kameny, Kelly Kay, Julia Kazmarek, Nicole Kim, Lawrence Lacko, Jennifer Lane, Elizabeth Lanyon, Kristina Lapinski, Nicholas Large, Aaron Lawman, Darryl Lee, Robert Lee, Benjamin Leong, Dominique Leslie, Marsha Levine, Kaleb Lewis, William Lipsky, Christopher Lloyd, Preston Long-Lamoureux, Ernesto Lopez, Charles Lougee, Richard Lubetzky, William Lucero, Ryan MacCarrigan, Nancy Mancias, Brian Mangin, Paschen Marrable, Melanie Marsollier, Ginger Martin, Justin Matthews, Kim-Shree Maufas, Lin Mayr, Ronald McCan, Leatha McGirt, Carlos Medina, Roger Meehan, Adam Mehis, Loren Meissner, Richard Mendoza, Henry Mensch, Amy Meyers, Colby Michaels, William Michels, Clement Miller, Vaughn Miller, Jacqueline Morris, Carmen Morrison, Ellen Morrison, Marilyn Murrillo, Urvi Nagrani, Melanie Nathan, Aaron Navarro, Leslie Neely, Lawrence Nelson, Thomas Netzband, Trevor Nguyen, Gary Noguera, Michael Nulty, Hunter Oatman-Stanford, James Oerther, Alex Ohl, Brooke Oliver, Gary Ortega, Nathanial Owen, Ronda Pacheco, Jeffrey Palma, Nicholas Parker, Fairley Parson, Edward Patton, Jeffrey Pekrul, Darryl Pelletier, Andrew Pembroke, Thomas Plageman, Ellen Pontac, Robert Pradel, Don Price, Brian Probst, Anthony Pulidio, Alex Randolph, Chandra Redack, Jackie Rednour-Bruckman, Drago Renteria, Steven Rhodes, Edward Rifkind, Amos Robinson, Wilfredo Rodriguez, Kenny Roosevelt, Will Roscoe, Tony Rowe, Daniel Ryan, Donna Sachet, Jessica Sanchez, Ezequiel Sandoval, Gerardo Sandoval, Moises Sandoval, Jesse Sanford, Raquel Santiago, Robin Satterwhite, Gabrielle Scharaga, Erik Schnabel, Lloyd Schofield, Christian Georg Schütterle, Mitchel Sebastian, Richard Shadoian, Simona Shumanova, Erin Silva, River Sims, Michelle Sinhbandith, David Smee, Heather Smith, Joshua Smith, Ken Smith, Kimberly Smith, Serena Smith, Tj Smith, Reggie Snowden, Robert Sokol, Curtis Sonsteng, David Spiciarich, Jarrod Stanley, Joey Stevenson, Jeff Stiarwalt, Cameron Stiehl, Jenn Stokes, Fern Stroud, Jon Sugar, Nathan Svoboda, Bebe Sweetbriar, Atefeh Taheri, Adam Taylor, Justin Taylor, Coma Te, David Tejeda, Frederick Teti, Larry Tlascala, Yugi Togawa, William Travis, Keith Truitt, Matt Vandeberg, Amy Velligan, Gary Virginia, Sasha Vodnik, Donald Wagda, Joe Wagenhofer, Eric Wagner, Matthew Warner, Rick Washburn, Nakia Watson, John Weber, Gina White, Joseph Wicht, Michael Williams, Patrice Williams, Ronnie Willis, Monolito Wilson, Ronald Wong, Robert Wood, Rasha Wyndsong, Kevin Yang, Neil Yoskowitz, Cesar Zepeda.

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