THE FIGHT SF / BAY AREA LGBTQ MONTHY MAGAZINE JULY 2019
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<strong>THE</strong>EDITOR<br />
Hello Gentle Reader, and welcome<br />
to <strong>THE</strong> <strong>FIGHT</strong>.<br />
I trust you all spent the 50th<br />
anniversary of Stonewall in riotous<br />
celebration. I myself spent the lion’s<br />
share of San Francisco Pride staffing<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>FIGHT</strong> booth at the Civic Center.<br />
I haven’t been to the festival in years,<br />
because I tend to share in the prevailing<br />
<strong>SF</strong> prejudice that the official<br />
Pride celebration at the Civic Center<br />
being the providence of tourists and<br />
straight looky-lous—a place true San<br />
Franciscans avoid. But duty called,<br />
and instead of dancing my Pride away<br />
at Juanita MORE’s annual fundraiser,<br />
I spent approximately 26 hours deep<br />
in the thick of it.<br />
And I’m glad I did, because most<br />
of the folks I met fell into one of two<br />
camps: older <strong>LGBTQ</strong> folks who once<br />
called the city home, and have been<br />
priced out and forced to move to the<br />
suburbs; Or young Queers, mostly<br />
from the Central Valley, who made the<br />
long drive to San Francisco with stars<br />
in their eyes to spend just a few hours<br />
with a tacky rainbow flag tied around<br />
their neck in a place where they<br />
thought they could be themselves. I<br />
spent two days hearing stories about<br />
how the city used to be, or listening<br />
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