Surrounded by LGBTQ community leaders and several supervisors, Honey Mahogany Thursday kicked off her bid to become the first transgender and first Black chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party at the Tenderloin site of the Compton s Cafeteria riot.
Honey Mahogany Declares Candidacy for SF Democratic Party Chair
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Rupaul s Drag Race contestant Honey Mahogany, who more recently has been working in San Francisco City Hall as a legislative aide to Supervisor Matt Haney, announced this week that she s running to become the first Black trans person to run for SF Democratic Party Chair. We have someone who knows what it means to represent so many communities that have been discriminated against and left out of the political process for so long, said Supervisor Hillary Ronen at Mahogany s campaign kickoff event, per KPIX.
Mahogany, who also identifies as queer and nonbinary, said her experience being on stage as a drag performer and as co-owner of The Stud has helped her in her more recent political work. As she told KPIX, being fierce, funny, and cut down by other queers pretty well sums up what it s like to be in San Francisco politics.
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Around the country, among allies and foes alike, San Francisco often acts as a byword for progressivism and queer liberation.
But the city is also the epicenter of the state s housing crisis, and for many LGBTQ seniors particularly those who are of color or trans who ve dealt with that experience, life in the City by the Bay hasn t always been somewhere over the rainbow.
Veronika Fimbres, 68, who is a former San Francisco veterans affairs commissioner and in 2018 was a Green Party candidate for California governor, has lived in the city s Sunnyside neighborhood for a dozen years. Her experience has run the gamut of housing in San Francisco.
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