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the first my pride by Tommi Avicolli Mecca pride was a © 2019 my pride is defiant and raw it’s not polite riot it isn’t marketable it won’t show up in the Dow Jones averages it’s not running for office or joining the police force the military the church it won’t cooperate with the FBI CIA or Homeland Security it doesn’t put kids in cages tear gas asylum seekers or criminalize the homeless it knows that changing laws and electing politicians isn’t enough it’s not a ribbon a flag a beer or a hashtag it isn’t trending or being tweeted it’s not a Russian bot or a meme it’s not going shopping or something I ordered online it doesn’t stay in an AIRbnb or call a Lyft it doesn’t have a buffed body a designer wardrobe or a supply of party drugs it doesn’t let me forget all the murdered gay men and trans women of color the years that gay sex and drag were illegal or how this nation stood by and let my friends die it understands that no matter how much things seem to change I’m still not safe my pride is ever on guard and always in your face Mary Ramsey, LGBTQ author/artist, based in San Francisco. Instagram: mspaintdourdan

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HUD RULE American Progress and the Equal Rights major cities like San Francisco are run by Center found that in 2016 shelters in Ten- incredibly lucrative nonprofit organiza- nessee, Virginia, Connecticut and Wash- tions that are more interested in real es- WOULD TARGET ington, only 30% of shelters would house tate acquisitions and buying out grassroot a woman with cisgender community-run housing programs, than women. This study also said that out of they are in supporting transgender clients these four states, the two that have gender and addressing policy faults. TRANS PEOPLE IN identity nondiscrimination protections — Connecticut and Washington — were two To summarize, Baczkówski says, Jesse Dekel times as probable to help a transgender “It’s a rule proposal that has to do with SHELTERS caller gain entry to another shelter. equal access law. And so basically, what the rule does is allow homeless shelters to Baczkówski says, “It’s very worri- discriminate based off religious philosophy On May 22, the Department of Hous- What HUD had proposed was basi- some as someone who works in the shelters and the shelter system is largely made up ing and Urban Development, led by cally allowing religious philosophy to be a because from my perspective, the people of religious organizations with really bad Secretary Ben Carson, formally proposed a part of that determination now. It seems who work in the shelters put off this kind of track records of discrimination. There’s this rule that would allow all federally funded innocuous, but under the proposal, all of attitude, they purport to have this kind of particular issue and it has its own effect, homeless shelters in the United States to the homeless shelters (except maybe four) culture of ‘We’re never looking to put some- which is very insidious, but it’s part of a discriminate based on religious philoso- are run by Catholic or other Christian body out if they break the rule, we want to kind of campaign against trans and gender phy. This proposal would negate the 2016 organisations, particularly St. Vincent De work with people. We only throw people out nonconforming people.” and 2012 Equal Access laws that protect Paul and Salvation Army, who have really when we absolutely have to.’ They like to shelters from discriminating against bad track records of discriminating against seem progressive and charitable, and that’s Works Cited: transgender clients. trans people. In fact, the state of New York how to caution themselves. But the way threatened down all of Salvation Army’s they really operate when it comes to the day The intercept. “The Trump Admin- I talked to Ben Baczkówski, the Shelter shelters because they found that there was in and day out is, they moralize over peo- istration Wants to Make It Harder for Client Advocate for the Eviction Defence widespread discrimination going on.” ple’s behavior all the time. Basically, right Transgender People to Access Homeless Collaborative about HUD’s rule proposal, now they have to kind of ‘soft-discriminate’ Shelters.” The Intercept. May 23, 2019. Ac- and what this means to trans clients: In addition to this, the 2015 against people, so it’s sort of like they make cessed June 10, 2019. https://theintercept. U.S.Transgender Survey revealed that in a it known if they don’t like you. They use the com/2019/05/23/homeless-shelters-trans- “There’s a section under the Equal Ac- single year, 70% of trans clients reported institution to exert power over people. But gender-hud/. cess law about gender identity. And it has being discriminated in shelters. The HUD now, if this rule goes into effect, I would a pretty robust understanding of gender itself presented a report that said that be- worry that some of the more religious shel- Sosin, Kate. “The Trump Administra- identity, as opposed to ‘sex-based determi- tween 2017 and 2018, transgender home- ters would start rewriting their policies.” tion Targets Homeless Trans People with nations’ when it comes to putting people in lessness rates increased by 22% due to Devastating New HUD Policy.” Them. May shelters.” [The explanation given by HUD’s homeless trans people being denied entry This is to say that transphobia and 23, 2019. Accessed June 10, 2019. https:// website reads “HUD ensures equal access to to shelters. The HUD’s website also reports broader discrimination already runs www.them.us/story/trump-targets- individuals in accordance with their gender that 20% to 40% of homeless youth are rampant in homeless shelters. Especially homeless-trans-people. identity in programs and shelter funded LGBTQ. Transgender women, particularly when workers are paid low wages and under programs administered by HUD’s trans women of color, are over-represented take on difficult roles, they sometimes Office of Community Planning and Devel- in this statistic. take out their frustrations on clients who opment.”] are already having a rough time navigat- A phone survey by the Center for ing the shelter system. Many shelters in PAGE 3 JUNE 15, 2019

argument pragmatists hastily throw due to the highly-commodified yet still out in defense of the continued presence essentially anti-colonial and conspiratorial of law enforcement and corporations is collaborative labor of Opal Tometti, that the sheer size of the public gathering Patreese Cullors and Alicia Garza —— demands police. However this logic and the rooted deep in the work of Marsha P. presence of police belies the very storied Johnson, Angela Davis, Miss Major and object of pride’s commemoration, and is many more —— there has been something a willful disavowal of what that night like a tipping point or groundswell of white in 1969 obviously signified. Stonewall is mainstream recognition and concern for reprinted from gayshame.org GAY SHAME evidence that through militant collective what happens to our bodies. Absent from 2019 marks 50 years since Stonewall, gay/trans liberation movement, its action we can defend ourselves. While this configuration of privileged patronage a series of riots that kicked off at the militancy deemed commensurate with the not the birthplace of Stonewall, SF Pride has been a comparably lacking intersection Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich indignities that sparked it. The riots are takes place a stone’s throw away from of how queerness and transness further Village in opposition to repeat police raids, commemorated (purportedly) at annual The Tenderloin, where the Compton’s jeopardizes black bodies: despite efforts harassment and overall criminalization gatherings across the country called Cafeteria riot took place just three years to address this discrepancy, it fails to land of poor and marginalized queer people “Pride,” which today largely operate as prior to Stonewall. Much like Stonewall, on the mainstream the extent to which who patronized the bar, one of the commodified and de-politicized festivals. Compton’s riots broke out in response these intersections augments increased few establishments where they were to rampant police harassment of trans prison industrial endangerment. The welcome[. Stonewall is widely considered For the anti-authoritarian trans/queer women and sex workers in the Tenderloin. police themselves are aware of this, and an inaugural moment for the broader critiques of the status quo, demanding The police presence in Pride has violently strategically will abdicate playing the that law enforcement and appropriated this legacy in order to splinter when it suits their purposes: prison industrial complex position law enforcement as the protectors following mass protests and outrage in codependency, should of the very revelers to whom they the wake of Philando Castile’s murder, the be a given. Especially, (historically have and currently do) direct police chief of Minneapolis (anticipating in a climate where such much of their harassment and violence. more backlash) suggested police not march nationally securitized crisis in Pride. We do not need diverse oppressors, rhetoric of more cops equals Inclusion and acceptance of we need no oppressors. more freedom, means our paramilitary haters and bigots is not a premature deaths. Gay Shame proud badge that queer communities need There have been many active would never in a billion to covet or don, nor do cops warrant an organizing efforts over the years to combat years suggest that expelling extra stripe to include on the rainbow flag Pride’s blue-washing across the globe. Pride police and corporations from (in any case, the blue stripe, historically, organizers in Auckland, New Zealand, pride celebrations globally has meant “harmony” — exactly the recently decided that uniformed officers will magically salvage an opposite of what police offer and enact).[ would not be welcome at their upcoming extensively depoliticized Pride event, as their presence made march form of sociality. Demanding Fifty years later, not only are police participants feel unsafe. Several cities in the expulsion of the police still engaged in (escalating) daily Canada have asked police to withdraw or from pride might serve as a harassment and violence toward the banned uniformed officers from marching: decent enough direct material Tenderloin’s most vulnerable residents, but Vancouver and Halifax, Nova Scotia. application in the direction they are now welcomed and permitted to Toronto temporarily held out a two-year of the end of confronting partake in Pride — an event whose very ban — hopefully they will reinstate it. intersectional oppression. legacy hearkens back to these anti-police The police chief in Minneapolis (in a violence movements. Communities have self-serving, sanitizing move, of course) , now not been silent in opposing the police asked police to refrain from partaking in both an event and a 501(c)(3), presence, as well as the corporate and Pride in the wake of all the public outrage the largest source of tourism assimilationist dominance of Pride, with and tension following Philando Castile’s revenue for the city of San many campaigns, local, and even national murder and in response to organizers Francisco, the largest public through the years. asking them to be banned the prior year. event in the state of California, And we can too! the largest pride celebration But this moment has created a in the world. The defeatist new opportunity. Hitting the 2010s,

their civil liberties. Often the medical no more socializing, no more picking up Compassion and conservatorship should The CURSE of professionals decide the individual does prescriptions without the accompaniment of not even reside in the same sentence to- not meet the state criteria because they do the public conservator. gether. Conserving people and taking away Conservatorship not present a harm to themselves or others, their civil liberties is not how anyone shows No one is safe because the main Co- Meghan “Roadkill” Johnson or they are not gravely disabled Under compassion. Get real, Mayor Breed because SB 1045, this changes drastically. Now Author is California Senator Scott Weiner. your actions do not demonstrate true care Over months this bill was up in the air, Over months of politically heated public under this new form of conservatorship, for these vulnerable communities, they Weiner and his team continued to broaden hearings and rally’s on what direction SB harm to self or others will be defined as the demonstrate you care about lining your the definition of who the city would le- 1045 would be headed in San Francisco, the police bringing the individual in 8 times. pockets with city investors’ money and they gally be allowed to steal off the streets and bill passed on June 4th 2019 by an alarming From there the courts will move forward don’t want to see these communities thrive involuntarily throw into “services”. The 10 to 1 vote. Supervisor Shamann Walton, with a huge process of looking at all past because they can’t make a profit off of them new definition includes people living with being the only one to oppose the conserva- documented attempts of said person seeking that way. mental health issues and visible disabilities torship legislation, voiced that he was not mental health, and whether the city offered and people using substances, out in the open Conserving people is not the answer to convinced the city would make any plans to them voluntary services. If, after assessing who have been brought in by police at least ending homelessness! reduce the negative impact on the African the person, they find that person is in “need” of conservatorship, they strip them of all 8 times. American community, people of color and The open public will be able to abuse this their rights and appoint the person a “public other marginalized groups. These popula- On Twitter, Mayor London Breed was not bill to their advantage being able to call on conservator” to make psychiatric decisions tions are being afflicted by police brutal- shy about her support of the newly passed homeless neighbor’s. Incarceration will also for them. Those conserved will not have their ity everyday in America and it’s not being legislation. skyrocket as numbers of 5150’s rise. addressed enough. This bill makes SFPD the autonomy restored until a Federal Judge says definers of who should be conserved instead they no longer need to be conserved. “Strengthening our conservatorship laws Throwing people into involuntary servic- of licensed mental health aides. is a compassionate approach, helping people es is NOT the humane way to go. We will see For some it will mean detention, if there who are suffering from mental health and a fall in people seeking voluntary assistance, is no space in a community facility. Every- Today, it is the police who mostly are the substance issues get the treatment they we will see a rise in unnecessary and wrong- day tasks that would involve independence ones who bring people in under the state need. If we don’t act, more people will die on ful 5150’s. Time will tell how “effective” this will become a struggle. No more doctor code 5150 for an evaluation to determine if our streets” bill will really be. the individual meets state criteria to lose appointments, no more grocery shopping, PAGE 4

JUNE 15, 2019 PAGE 6 For This gender The Coalition on Homelessness will be on the Year’s main stage at San Francisco Pride on Sunday, June 30 at 11:55am! blur Pride Tommi Avicolli Mecca © 2019 We invite LGBTQIA+ currently and formerly I love blurring homeless youth to join us and speak your truth March leaving shadows of things in my wake By lady briyani on stage. We want ALL attendees of Pride to like that nude descending Paypal : [email protected] remember that even in San Francisco 50% of the stairs our homeless youth identify as LGBTQIA+ and I shall once more steal + eat/drink all I’m fully exposed the pizza + wine from the witchy TERFs. No people can’t see the nakedness that is REPREHENSIBLE. shame. I’ll go grab two slices from a lesbian they imagine I’m a mystery party, smirking at their Bernie collection I couldn’t be more obvious Please email [email protected] if you would like pitcher all the while. I shed gender like a snake to join us on stage! I spin a cocoon And I saunter in-I have no problem when I need to transform sitting myself right at the cool kid’s table. fluidity is a gift Free food and drink will be provided in the that was stolen from us backstage area. And if another cisman drag queen beaten out of us screams at me, saying trans women are not condemned by religion welcome at Pride, that “We’ll never help by social norms you again! Never again!” as if homeless, that aren’t normal poor, trans women of colour didn’t pay for there are more things in his liberation with literal blood, sweat, heaven and gender tears-and bricks? than dreamt of in any philosophy Another Trans I wonder how many liberals will I won’t go away awkwardly turn their cameras away to to make you feel more comfortable more pleasant scenery? I’ve done that in the past Woman Dies in ICE it’s time you simply And can we trust anyone of any get used to it gender who hasn’t slept rough for at least a Johnna Gadomski Detention month, anyway?

On June 1, 2019, while many of us and accounts from detainees. Katharina were celebrating the beginning of the Obser, senior policy adviser at the month of Pride, Johana Medina Leon, a Women’s Refugee Commission, reported 25-year old transgender asylum seeker, that interviewed detainees often died after six weeks of being held in an described medical staff as “unresponsive Immigration and Customs Enforcement to requests for medical care.” (ICE) detention center in El Paso, Texas. Inadequate medical resources is not According to ICE, Medina Leon had been the only issue in ICE detention centers processed for release, qualifying for that disproportionately impacts queer asylum due to fear of persecution for and trans detainees. According to the her gender identity in El Salvador. After Center for American Progress, ”LGBT complaining of severe chest pains, she people in ICE custody are 97 times more was brought to the hospital where she likely to be sexually victimized than died four days later. non-LGBT people in detention” (2018). “This is yet another unfortunate Being in ICE custody poses a severe risk to example of an individual who the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people, putting illegally enters the United States with them at high risk of persecution, sexual an untreated, unscreened medical assault and lack of needed medical condition,” Corey Price, field office facilities. director for ICE Enforcement and Medina Leon’s case is not an Removal Operations in El Paso, told anomaly, and the injustice of ICE the Washington Post. “Many of these detention center runs deeper than failing aliens attempt to enter the United States to provide basic support and address with untreated or unknown diseases, medical needs. Of the 24 people who which are not diagnosed until they are have died in ICE facilities in the past examined while in detention.” two years, two have been trans woman. However, accounts from Medina The very concept of ICE detention goes Leon’s family suggest that ICE may be against the tenets of justice that the more responsible for medical negligence U.S. prides itself on, like “innocent until than Price’s comment would suggest. proven guilty.” Detaining people who The Daily Beast reports that Medina have not been declared guilty in a court Leon “had made numerous requests for for weeks, months or years on end in ICE proper medication before complaining facilities is undemocratic. The inhumane of chest pains and being transported environment within ICE facilities is to Del Sol on May 28, the same day that costing people their lives, with LGBTQ+ Apu // Theo Collective (Twitter: @Apu_sometree & Instagram: @apu_sometree) she tested positive for HIV.” Lack of migrants facing especially severe risks. Apu is a 36 years old queer non-binary punk, organic gardener/farmer and collage diy sufficient medical treatment and support As we celebrate Pride this month, we artist workin' and livin' on a organic seed breeding farm near Bremen/northern germany. throughout ICE facilities — especially must remember Johana Medina Leon. She's creatin' collage artwork for more than 18 years now (doin' a lot of coops with zines, for trans migrants — is a common trend bands, solidarity projects, collectives...) and is part of a small diy art collective named throughout reports from ICE watchdogs Theo Collective https://theobeam.wordpress.com/about/ PAGE 7 JUNE 15, 2019 SOCIAL JUSTICE CALENDAR JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE 20 23 24 26 MARCH AND RALLY TO ONE BIG FLAG. DIY BUDGET JUSTICE STANDING ON THEIR SAVE THE REDSTONE FLAG PARTY COALITION RALLY + SHOULDERS

11:30 AM WHERE: 350 ALABAMA STREET @2-5PM BUDGET HEARING! WHERE: BAYANIHAN COMMUNITY CENTER Gather at 2940 16th St., San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO CITY HALL @10:30AM- (corner of Capp St., near 16th St. BART) Have you always wanted to drape yourself WHERE: 1010 MISSION ST @5:30-8PM **MARCH TO CITY HALL** in the luscious silk of an 12 foot by 8 foot 4:30PM 12 NOON trans pride pride flag you helped make with Tell the Board of Supervisors that we deserve Rally, San Francisco City Hall your beloved comrades? We’ll provide the a budget that helps San Franciscans stay Join us as our hella active movement elders share about their work through the years and (Civic Center side steps) fabric, scissors, sewing machine, and skills. in their City — affordable housing, living Help make the giant flag or make a DIY flag wage jobs, and REAL investment in all provide recommendations for next steps along our radical journey. Sponsored by the Redstone Labor Temple for yourself. Or just hang out. our communities! Join working families, immigrants, youth, unhoused people, Association. For more information, contact Food and childcare provided 415-863-1927 or redstonelabortemple@ ACCESS: Food and beverages provided. seniors, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ gmail.org Location has ramp access. For accessibility communities fight for a budget for ALL San requests email [email protected] Franciscans!

ACCESS: City Hall is ADA accessible JUNE JUNE JUNE 28 28 29 BUSTIN’ OUT 14!!! DYKE MARCH PARTY AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX WHERE: JOIN US AT DOLORES PARK AT 11:00 AM FOR WHERE: DOLORES PARK (DOLORES & 19TH ST) THE RALLY, AND 5:00 PM FOR THE MARCH! @11AM-9PM WHERE: EL RIO AND VIRGIL’S SEA ROOM ON MISSION STREET 8PM-2AM Calling all dykes! March with us! Dyke stands for trans, black, brown, queer, bi, lesbian, Please join us for our annual fundraiser for TGI Justice Project (TGIJP) and the official Trans Come to Trans March where you will: see disabled, chronically ill, fat, femme, butch, March After Party this June 28 in San Francisco! For 15 years, TGIJP has provided legal services thousands of trans folk; be able to go to indigenous, gender expansive love. for transgender and gender variant/non-conforming people in California prisons, jails and the Resource Fair and get a lot of good detention centers. As we continue to fight the abuses TGI people face inside and outside of information; participate in the Youth+Elder ACCESS: The Dyke March has a thorough Brunch, if you are lucky enough to qualify :) prisons, we invite you to join us for a night of celebration and trans resilience. Can you help us accessibility plan that can be accessed ; see and hear some great performers, and raise $30,000 to support Black trans abolitionist organizing? online at https://www.facebook.com/ inspiring speeches. And last, but not least, events/331629940863463/ ACCESS: march with your Sisters and Brothers and Others who believe in gender freedom and El Rio: Our entrance and most of the club is wheelchair accessible, including the back deck, There will be an access tent that is wheelchair body autonomy. but not the yard. Our bathrooms are NOT wheelchair accessible and do NOT have grab bars accessible, scent-free, and sober. There will also (and would not be accessible without assistance). Our back patio is now smoke free, but we are be a senior & disabled contingent leading the ACCESS: ADA restroom facilities will be unfortunately not a fragrance free space. march and setting the pace. There will also be available at the park during the day. Those Virgl’s: Virgil’s has no steps into the building, ADA accessible bathrooms, and an accessible an Emotional Security tent with trained dyke with access needs can request to ride on the patio area. counselors. trolley for the march.

really exist. pay attention to and how often that is influenced by your social, physical and eo I used to tell myself that I wasn’t L sexual attractions to them. How do you attracted to Asians, then I moved to think those are influenced if you are It’s hard to say goodbye to the person I SEXUAL San Francisco and found so many very once knew. This special person that made deselecting an entire race of people from attractive Asian men that I knew it was those you include in those decisions me smile, laugh and made me stop feeling just a story I was telling myself. We create because of a story in your own head? blue. Staying up for hours and talking GENTRIFICATION race and the effect race has based on these about everything. To drawing and creat- stories. Media tells us all the time the Now is when you say, “I can’t control ing our own worlds to escape, to the way Garrick Wilhelm black people are poor and commit crime. who I’m attracted to!” This is true. But if we used to sing. I’ll remember all those They tell us that Asians are good at Math race isn’t real then you can’t tell me that moments today, when I meet you for our and are hard working. If race doesn’t every single person within a perceived visit. For however long or brief it is, I will really exist then our reality IS these racial category would fall outside of your cherish every minute. I will feel like I will Gentrification is the reshaping of stories that we tell or that we believe attractions. You also can’t tell me that if be meeting you, for the first time in our communities through economic forces when we are told. Shared beliefs create all you opened up the possibility of being lives. You and me both know that would generally based in racism. How can the meaning that reality has for us. attracted to someone regardless of race not be very true. You are going through so gentrification be sexual? you wouldn’t find those people. When I visited San Francisco for a many changes now, I want to understand. Have you ever thought that you straight rave in 2005, I was amazed at I’m not telling you who to have I want to be a part of your transition, from weren’t attracted to a group of people how attractive the straight men were in sex with, you have every right to that woman to a man. We were best friend based on their race (ex. I’m not into Asian San Francisco. When I moved here to go decision. Attraction can be social or sisters through circumstance, but now men)? Have you ever deselected someone to SFSU in 2017, I was walking through physical or sexual but all are influenced to be to you. AN ALLY, A SUPPORT, A BEST as a partner because they weren’t of a the financial district and realized by your attitudes about race. The call to FRIEND SIBLING, through and through. So particular race (ex. I only date white that all these pretty boys were there action here is to recognize the stories good bye to Nikki, to all those moments women). because there are so many gay men in you are telling yourself, recognize the that we had. HELLO! WELCOME! HOLA! To positions of hiring. They do the same privilege you have to make that choice the most courageous and beautiful LEO Race is an unreal reality. It has no thing that straight men have been doing and to counter that privilege by reaching lad! You have so much strength, you com- biological basis and you can not point to for centuries, hiring based upon some out to people you normally wouldn’t and pletely blow me away. I will really never be 1 common characteristic that defines a intangible good feeling they had about include them in your community, your able to grasp the true length, that our love race of people. Racial classifications are that person (ie. their attraction to that social circles and even in your business may have strayed. But I want you to know something that we, as a society made person). decisions. that I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YESTERDAY. up to justify treating people differently. These are the true words I want to say. Those in power benefit from us believing Now what about all the decisions We change our world by changing in this unreal reality. Therefore, you you make on a daily basis about who to our stories. “Change your thinking change Love, can’t say you aren’t attracted to someone include in your social circles, who you your life.” Roadkill because of their race, because race doesn’t reach out to in community, who you Homelessness and ateam ofHomelessness houseless STOP THE SWEEPS, aRIGHT asserting

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