33 Photos of Fun and Festivities With San Francisco’s Transgender District
Two nights in San Francisco close out California's Transgender History Month: an opera showcase at the Strand and an all-Black drag party in SOMA, both marking the 1966 uprising that started it all.
“You can't hate yourself into loving yourself”: Dr. JonPaul on the cost of not conforming
Dr. JonPaul on honors, the doors that still won't open, and refusing to conform in a landscape that increasingly demands it.
The crown, the crown haters, and the sisterhood zhané dawlingz wiley found anyway
Zhané Dawlingz Wiley won Miss Continental on her first try, faced online harassment for it, and came out the other side with sisters instead of rivals.
"We keep us safe. We set us free": How one small town in Upstate New York proves community was always the point
In the Finger Lakes, queer visibility is personal. And this year, it's fully in community hands.
Beyond Day of Visibility: How Transgender District's Breonna McCree is building hope and empowerment
As Co-Executive Director of the Transgender District in San Francisco, the world’s first legally recognized district, Breonna McCree has spent her career building the kind of infrastructure that visibility rhetoric consistently promises and rarely delivers.
The House that built itself: Jahnell Butler on ballroom, motherhood, and legacy
Jahnell Butler–Mother Chanel, director of trans services, and one of ballroom’s living legends–on legacy, chosen family, and what it means to show up for your children.
The U.S. military kicked her out. Miss International Queen USA gets her now.
Altesse Aurum gave the U.S. military 12 years, that is, until they made her stop. Now she's Miss Georgia, bound for Miss International Queen USA, and done waiting for the world to catch up.
