Name the New Park After Rachele Sullivan
- A new park is being built at 11th and Natoma Streets, half a block from the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District.
- The Rec and Parks Department is soliciting community input into naming the park.
- We proposed the park be named after Rachele Sullivan, one of the founders of our Cultural District and a prominent figure in SOMA’s Filipino community.
- Other LEATHER & LGBTQ-related proposals are naming the park after:
- Heklina, a founder of Oasis, and
- Jim Meko, a community activist (nominated by LCD Board Member Emeritus and District Historian Gayle Rubin).
- A community meeting was held on March 7, and the survey results were reviewed and discussed. A run-off survey will be conducted soon.
- Please watch this page for information about that survey.
- Once the new survey goes live, we encourage you to vote for Rachele Sullivan, a woman who proudly embodied the intersection of the queer, leather, Filipino, Indigenous, and disabled communities.
- We will need you to take this survey even if you took the earlier one.
- Thanks!