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Arts Commission Seeks Panelists

The San Francisco Arts Commission is seeking individuals with expertise in the arts and culture sector to participate in the 2021-2022 peer review grant panels. This is a paid opportunity.
 

They are looking for applicants who:

  • Have a deep knowledge about the arts, cultural equity, promising practices for nonprofits, facility and capital needs.
     
  • Are practicing artists, cultural workers, and/or arts administrators who have experience in advancing cultural and racial equity.
     
  • Have an interest in taking a behind-the-scenes look at the grant-making process.
     
  • Represent San Francisco’s demographics and the specific 2020 applicant pool in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ and differently-abled representations.

Apply to be a Panelist

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Unity Town Hall Announced

LGBTQ+ Black Lives Matter
Unity Town Hall

October 17th & October 18th, 1:00 – 3:00 PM

We live in a period where social contradictions have been laid bare by the racism in our communities: ongoing murder of black people by police, mass incarceration, high unemployment, lack of access to health care, climate crisis, voter suppression, a broken system of education, and COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black, Indigenous and POC communities. As same-gender-loving and LGBTQ+ community members let’s unite to make things right.

In this virtual town hall panelists and participants, will break out in small groups to explore:

      • Where does it hurt? The injury to the individual and community from racism, internalized oppression and unconscious/implicit bias.
      • How addressing anti-black bias will benefit all people. Who benefits from crises if unchecked? Who benefits when we “other” each other?

REGISTER ONLINE

Organized by Openhouse’s Leadership Council on Queerness, Race, and Privilege – a member-initiated working group
Openhouse

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Friends of the Lyon-Martin House Formed

Members of LGBTQ+ communities in the Bay Area have formed a Friends of the Lyon-Martin House group to preserve the longtime home of pioneering lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon on Duncan Street in San Francisco, which recently sold for $2.25M. Lyon and Martin purchased the property in 1955 and lived there together until Del Martin’s death; Phyllis Lyon lived on in the house until her passing earlier this year.

A “Friends of the Lyon-Martin House” team has been created, including Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, the GLBT Historical Society, and San Francisco Heritage, to ensure that this property is designated a San Francisco Landmark and preserved as one of San Francisco’s most iconic cultural sites.

Check out the new website for the Friends of the Lyon-Martin House: https://www.friends-of-the-lyon-martin-house.com/.

While on the site, you can sign a letter to the Board of Supervisors and Historic Preservation Commission, which will be submitted to the Board of Supervisors in advance of their 10/19 hearing.

Please share the website and letter — created by Grete Miller — with your communities.  Thank you.

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Happy Folsom Street Fair Sunday!

We hope you enjoyed the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District’s 

Keep SOMA Kinky Arcadefeaturing our first-ever Fetish Runway!
on Sunday, September 27. 2020 

Hope to see you in person next year!

Click here for our Schedule

Click here for the Folsom Street Fair Web site

Click here for Arcade Info

Click here for Full Fetish Runway Rules

Meet our celebrity Masters of Ceremonies :

AJ Huff 
AJ Huff is a kinky, diverse, rubber and leather fetishist. He’s the current elected Mr. Rubber San Francisco 2020 and also the incumbent Mr. Powerhouse Leather 2019.
11:00 am – 1:30 p.m.		 Ashlé Blow
Member and lover of San Francisco’s Queer and kink communities.
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.		 mrPam
Award-winning gay adult filmmaker and GayPornMama
1:30 – 4:00 p.m.

    “KEEP SOMA KINKY” ARCADE SCHEDULE:

      

    Activity 11 am – 12 noon 12 noon – 1:00 1:00 – 2:00 2:00 – 3:00 3:00 – 4:00 4:00 – 5:00 5:00 – 6:00
    Master of Ceremonies AJ Huff:
    11:00 to 1:30    		 Mr. Pam:
    1:30 to 4:00    		 Ashlé Blow: 
    4:00 to 6:00
    SOMA Trivia with Cash Prizes Main Room Main Room Main Room Main Room Main Room
    Fetish Runway Main Room Main Room
    Control and Consent Play  Consent Cubicles Consent Cubicles Consent Cubicles Consent Cubicles Consent Cubicles Consent Cubicles
    Porn Riffing MST 2020 Room MST 2020 Room MST 2020 Room MST 2020 Room
    Fetish Runway Participants 1:45 Prep in Green Room
    2:00 Present in Main Room    		 4:00 Judges Deliberate in Green Room