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The local queer and kinky community has been working over the past year to help protect the San Francisco Eagle Bar by having it designated an historic landmark.

On May 19, 2021, the Historic Preservation Commission voted, 7-0,  to recommend to the Board of Supervisors Landmark Designation of the San Francisco Eagle Bar as an individual Article 10 Landmark.  The matter now goes back to the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor for a final ok.

Many letters and emails of support for this designation were received by the Commission, and several folks also called into the hearing to endorse the action.

Thank you for your help!  Please consider joining our Save SOMA Action Network now, to be kept informed when we need you again.

New News! 
There will be a special Zoom event this Saturday
to provide more info and an answer questions about the
Guaranteed Income Pilot For SF Based Artists.  

Saturday April 10, 2021   10:30 AM

Join Zoom Meeting here
Or call 16699006833 and use Meeting ID: 820 2830 9679 and Passcode: 979481

A pilot program has been created to provide monthly income to selected San Francisco artists, and applications are now open.

• Funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission
• Administered by the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts
• 130 artists, randomly selected
• whose artistic practice is rooted in a historically marginalized community,
• live in Zip codes 94102, 94110, 94112, 94124, 94134, 94103, 94107, 94109, 94115, 94117, 94130, 94158, or 94108, 
• meet income eligibility, and
• face loss of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
• will receive six regular monthly payments of $1000 between May 21 and October 1, 2021.
• These are disaster relief payments, and will not be taxed.  May affect benefits.   

For full information and to apply
click here!
Applications close April 15, 2021.

	“The arts are truly critical to our local economy and are an essential part of our long-term recovery. If we help the arts recover, the arts will help San Francisco recover. This new program is an innovative effort to help our creative sector get through this challenging time, and come back even stronger and more resilient than before.”
	– The Honorable Mayor London Breed

Diamond Wave, a San Francisco-based Bay queer arts organization, has announced a spring/summer creative workshop series called MASCellaneous 2021.  Artistic director Kevin Seaman and their team have selected six Bay Area queer artists to lead 60- to 90-minute workshops centering their creative practices and how they intersect with queer masculinities.

Wednesday, April 7
MASCellaneous: Angels and Demons: Becoming Your Own Legend
with theatre artist Rotimi Agbabiaka

Thursday, April 22
MASCellaneous: HOW TO GENDER
with writer Stuart Getty

Tuesday, April 27
MASCellaneous: Day Look Makeup
with drag & cosplay artist KaiKai Bee Michaels / Kai Gault

Wednesday, May 12
MASCellaneous: Studly Stories: Storytelling for Masc-of-Center Queers
with drag & media artist Kyle Casey Chu

Monday, May 24
MASCellaneous: We All Wear Mascs
with drag artist Jota Mercury

Thursday, June 10
MASCellaneous: Remembering Gender Dualisms | Decolonizing Binaries
with performer Javier Stell-Fresquez

All workshops are free with registration and begin at 6:00 pm PT via Zoom. For more info, or to register, visit www.diamond-wave.org.  More info also at their Facebook page.

We are working on a map showing the District Boundaries and some of the important current and former LGBTQ and Leather businesses in and around it.  You can view (and interact with it using the pull-out menu) below, or on Google Maps.  Historic sites are based on the published work of Gayle Rubin, to whom we are very grateful.  Errors are our own, however, and may be reported to web@sflcd.org.

View in Google Maps

A document is also available which includes the formal boundary definition, a list of the street addresses included in the Cultural District, and a small-scale map.

You might want just a clear outline of the District Boundaries:

Another map of “Leather History” in South of Market San Francisco was put together by Hunter Fox.