The world's first city-recognized LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
If you enjoyed the “Out of Site: SOMA” tour (either in person or online), you might want to catch EyeZen Presents’ latest on-the-street theatrical event, Out of Site: Haight- Ashbury, a performance-driven queer history tour running weekends through July. Full info and tickets are at https://www.eyezen.org/oos-haight.
There is a petition to save Azúcar Lounge’s Parklet:
https://www.change.org/p/city-
More info is on the Azúcar Lounge Facebook Page.
We believe this issue will also be discussed at the SOMA /West Community Benefit District’s Neighborhood Identity Committee Meeting on Tuesday June 22, 2021, from 6pm – 7pm (PDT). You can join the Zoom Meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
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On Monday morning, May 24, a new mural, titled “In Loving Memory of Sylvester – Mighty Real San Francisco Funk”, was dedicated on the Folsom Street wall of the Oasis nightclub.
The mural was painted by local artist Josh Katz, whose work can also be seen on our neighborhood’s handsome themed trash cans, on our Artists’ Spotlight Page, and on his own Website. Josh works primarily as a spray paint muralist and stencil artist, and says he has taken inspiration both from the life and music of Sylvester, and from Oasis itself.
Speakers at the dedication included Josh Katz, Bob Brown, Cal Callahan, D’Arcy Drollinger, Matt Haney, Honey Mahogany, and Reverend Marvin K. White.
You can enjoy this stunning video about the mural, created by videographer Val Eydelman (@vvvitalman).
The LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District is proud to have played a role in making this public artwork happen, and looks forward to arranging and funding more inspiring murals for the neighborhood in the coming months. You can view a map of some our District’s other murals here.
As reported in the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco Democrats have elected city native Honey Mahogany as the first transgender and first Black chair of the local party. The first trans person in the U.S. to chair a local Democratic Party, Mahogany is now one of the party’s highest-ranking transgender officials in the state and country.
The LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District congratulates Mahogany, who is also chief legislative aide for our District Supervisor Matt Haney, part of the Stud cooperative, a co-founder of the Transgender District, and a long-time friend of our community and organization,