_performers/artists of all persuasions
Shawna Virago Folk-punk, acoustic glam twang, with a dash of naughty queer Americana. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Brownstargirl.com Fierce queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Trauma Flintstone "the drag queen you can take home to mom!" jerrell.james Ambient music - free EP download Dylan Scholinski Author: The Last Time I Wore a Dress Shanestar Productions Shani Heckman: Queer filmmaker, artist and event producer Deadlee Blog Homo hop Eli Conley - Singer/Songwriter Tru Bloo - Hip Hop/ World / Fusion Joshua Klipp - Jazz Vocalist D'Lo - Artist/Writer/Director Hanifah Walidah - musician, playwright, educator and ethnographer Namoli Brennet - Moody and inspiring folk King TuffNStuff - The Last Delta Drag King The Sexual Side Effects - Alternative Rock Ryan Cassata - Singer/Songwriter and Transgender Activist Adelaide Windsome aka Geppetta - Stitching Tentacles Productions |
_queer/trans venues, projects, blogs, etc
Diagnosing Difference on Facebook Documentary film on the impact of the Gender Identity Disorder diagnosis on transgender, genderqueer, and gender variant people. Fresh Meat Productions building community through the arts by creating, presenting and touring original transgender and queer arts program Wild Gender - fabulous flagrant gender variance America's Most Wanted a film about LGBTQ foster youth Queer Music Heritage and Out Radio San Francisco Trans March San Francisco Transgender Film Festival QWOCMAP: Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project Tranny Roadshow Queer Cultural Center/National Queer Arts Festival TransGuys.com Queer things to do in SF Trans Genre Promotion of transgender musicians, performers, and artists. Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project CUAV - Communities United Against Violence Sins Invalid - Performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists Out and Around - Stories from a not-so-straight-journey |
_other favorites of mine
Jay Smooth's Ill Doctrine - My straight hero Melissa Harris-Perry - Professor of political science (My straight shero) Matt Boudreau - Mixer/Engineer/Producer Racialicious - The intersection of race and pop culture Affirmative Acts Co-Active Coaching Starhawk - Author of The Fifth Sacred Thing Dolores Park Cafe - in San Francisco El Rio - Bar in San Francisco http://www.portraitstothepeople.com/ Portraits to the People - Photographer Sarah Deragon who shot many of the photos on this site Mission Pie - Cafe/Restaurant in San Francisco |