San Francisco Commemorates Transgender Awareness Week

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🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Transgender community holds a particular place in San Francisco history; the city by the Bay is the first to have a cultural district dedicated to that history and community. Compton’s Transgender Cultural District was named after the cafeteria that was the site of a riot in 1966, a response to police harassment of transgender people, several years before the more well known Stonewall riots in New York. The six block district spans parts of the Tenderloin and SoMa. We talk about the district, and what the city can do to support its transgender community during and beyond Transgender Awareness Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.6	It is Trans Awareness Week, and we're going to check in with two of the founders of the Transgender District, which became the world's first legally recognized cultural district for
0:58.1	trans people just a few years ago. Located right in the tenderloin, an area that's drawn both
1:03.2	civic scorn and development, we'll talk about the area's history, going beyond the symbolic
1:07.9	act of the district's creation, and how the pandemic hit the trans community.
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1:37.5	The transgender district is a San Francisco-recognized cultural district that, like others in the Castro and in the mission has a wide remit to try
1:45.2	to tackle the problems of in this particular case the trans and gender nonconforming people
1:49.8	of the tenderloin and across the city. The district is centered on the site of 1960s' Compton's
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