Good afternoon! Here’s the latest:
Mayor Daniel Lurie‘s office announced today that the city will no longer allow groups to distribute safer drug use supplies in public spaces, and will require them to connect people to counseling services. The big question: How much funding will the city allocate for treatment and counseling service?
If Liliana Michelena‘s story about the golden hour at Spanish hangout El Chato doesn’t make you want to walk over right now to Bryant Street for a vermรบโwell, I’m sorry. Read it again!
And read our piece on the Tenderloin Museum, a center for the history of San Francisco’s transgender rights movement. Coming in April: a play about the 1966 Compton Cafeteria riots, which predated New York’s Stonewall uprising.
More soon,
Sara
Latest News
SF limits access to drug-use supplies: Will it help?
โI do like creating greater linkages between harm-reduction programs and treatment programs.”
The sun is back, the buzz is buildingโit’s El Chato season
“I hate bars that make you feel weird or embarrassed for knowing nothing about wine.โย
Tenderloin institutions ensure trans visibilityย
โThe modern LGBTQ civil rights movement started here.”
SNAP
Cofounder of UFW still fighting
by Rick G.
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