Yearly Archives: 2011

A big thank you to all our performers

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We wanted to thank all the amazing performers and speakers who totally heated up the stage at this year’s march. Thank you:

* DJ Stephanie Luz
* BAAITS
* Rev. Megan Rohrer w/ Vanguard Youth
* MC Fairy Butch
* MC Danielle Castro
* Lisa Maren Stein & The Introverts
* Maceo Persson
* Josie and the Pussycats
* Kit Yan
* Fernanda Valdez
* TuffNStuff: The Last Delta Drag King
* Morgan Weinert
* Tonilyn A. Sideco
* Mia Tu Mutch
* Eli Conley & Hip for Squares
* Amber Lynn Gray
* Maura Guillarte
* Tru Bloo & the Gipsy Bingy Crew
* Felicia Flames
* LYRIC
* Senator Mark Leno
* Bevan Dufty
* Supervisor Scott Wiener
* Mayor Ed Lee

Pic round-up number one

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Pics and video of the march (including ours!) are starting to make the rounds, so we’re posting some links so you can re-experience fabulousness of Friday or see what it was like if you couldn’t make it.

A big thank you to our sponsors

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We wanted to do a quick shout out to our fabulous sponsors who make the march possible. A big, big thank you to:

We <3 Chaz Bono

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So how fabulous is Chaz Bono? Earlier this week, we found out that he had a book reading and signing for his memoir Transition: How I Became a Man scheduled for Friday at 7.30. Wait, isn’t that during the march? Won’t it split the community between two events? Disaster! So […]

Are you driving to the march?

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A few people in Sacramento and Stockton posted things to the facebook event for the march asking if anyone was driving in who wanted to carpool. Since it’s just a few days until the march, no time to do anything fancy, but a quick blog post is easy.

2011 Trans March Press Release

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The 8th annual San Francisco Trans March Celebrates the 45th Anniversary of
the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot: Serving Up Human Rights Since 1966

The San Francisco Trans March is proud to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. Our theme for this year is in honor of the fierce activists who helped start up the modern LGBT rights movement: Serving Up Human Rights Since 1966. Felicia Flames, one of the “screaming queens” who participated in the riot, will deliver this year’s keynote address. The Trans March will also be providing a trolley so that our elders and people with mobility difficulties can join the march itself.

We TOTALLY believe in miracles

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Several members of the Steering Committee hit Fresh Meat on Friday night and were totally and thoroughly blown away by the astounding performances. If you went, you know what I’m talking about. If you didn’t, do make it top priority for next year.

Everyone to a person was unbelievably talented and incredibly inspiring, so we walked out there totally psyched to do several things: learn to vogue, poach talent for next year’s march, and bump up our game this year. The first two are still in the works–believe me, honey, we’re ABSOLUTELY going to learn to vogue–but the last we decided to do something about.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

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We love surprises. The whole fun of the unexpected sneaking into your day and transforming the boring hum drum everyday into a sparkly fun rainbow filled wonderland. Surprises are great.

Except when they’re not. Like when you’re going to that hot new club only to find that it was shut down the night before b/c it got trampled by a herd of unicorns. Then surprises suck. Except for the fact that you’d then know a herd of unicorns visited your town. That would be awesome.

Check out our flyers for this year’s march!

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We got our flyers back from our graphic designer, the ridiculously super talented (and super cute, haaayyy), Querido Mundo. Don’t you just loooove them?

A big shout you to all the people who attended our theme-naming pizza party last month and came up with such an amazingly powerful theme. Our theme and flyers wouldn’t be nearly as great without your input. Y’all rock.

We’re extending the deadline for performer applications

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Thanks to everyone for sending in performer applications! We’ll be announcing decisions soon!

However, we are re-opening the applications for drag/dance/burlesque performers and MCs who are African American/Black, Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Native people. We try really hard to ensure that our stage represents the full range of racial/ethnic diversity in our trans communities. We also try to ensure diversity in gender, sexuality, dis/ability, income, immigration history, and age. Applications are due May 13, but do try to get them in ASAP.

Thank you for supporting the Trans March!

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So it’s come to our attention that we’ve been somewhat negligent about thanking all the people and organizations that have helped make the Trans March happen–it really is the efforts of a lot of people! We seriously appreciate the hard work of the organizations and individuals who helped make the Trans March happen last year and every year. We know we could not pull it off without the generous support, and donations of time, money, and goods given to us by so many! So first, we apologize for getting side-tracked and not giving the well-deserved acknowledgement our community deserves.