That tremor was sudden and sharp enough to wake me up at 3 am. I tried to go back to sleep but here I am. Definitely one of the most noticeable tremors I've felt in ages. This old building has weathered plenty of quakes in its time, thankfully.

A Jeopardy contestant just mentioned a former job of being a docent at a Cracker Country museum in Florida and I had to pause the TV to recover. (Yes, it’s a museum dedicated to Florida Cracker culture and history.)

I kinda don’t understand the lana del rey / ethel cain drama, and I’d like to keep it that way please and thank you 💚

<dramatic music sting, snake begins slithering across your laptop> 1976's I, CLAUDIUS is a masterpiece of historical drama, a huge influence on The Sopranos & Game of Thrones, and one of the most gleefully nasty dynastic power soaps ever aired. I'm reviewing my way through it for @popheist.com!

Got myself out of the house on this warm weekend afternoon. Heading over to Stonestown to look at Labubus and find something fun for lunch. Have a good day!

This is very sad to me for so many reasons.

Reading and journaling in this cafe this morning

Having a wonderful lunch. I wore my red shirt and blue shorts because we are going to see a Sunday matinee of Superman at a great little local movie theater.

Always stop by Hanapepe for the Friday Night Mart. There's a new Stitch mural but the old mural is still there too. (Much of the look and feel of Lilo's home in the movie was based on Hanapepe.)

At a little cafe with my markers and my art journal this morning

We've been watching Ballard and it is so much better than it has any right to be. Maggie Q is incandescent in a tough role of a good cop in a shitty situation who keeps all her feelings under wraps. I think it's better than Bosch for all sorts of reasons. Great show for a vacation binge.

Watching the fascinating HBO documentary Enigma, and I'm obsessed with how many possible birth months and birth years that Amanda Lear has claimed over the years. In the doc Amanda says she doesn't remember her birth last name or the last name of her parents.

Every year I get a few t-shirts screen printed at a little shop in Hanalei. Yesterday I got a few more, including orange (finally!). Nice to have the whole rainbow at last.

Sunrise this morning

Been spending a lot of time at the ocean and relaxing. Heading out soon for dinner at one of our favorite restaurants (today is 🎰).

Arrived yesterday so expect a lot of nonsense from me for the next couple of weeks. Our anniversary is next week — we got married on 07-07-07 — and we’ve been planning this trip for a while now. The world is frequently awful but I’m focusing on queer and trans joy. Your queer uncle loves you.

Spent a few minutes in a cafe that I love today. Spending the day doing last minute errands.

Whenever I go to Gus's Fried Chicken in Oakland I take a selfie with the EAT ME chicken.

Join us for a one-night-only HEKLINA TRIBUTE SHOW & fundraiser to help preserve her video archive of SF drag history. Donate $15+ for entry! July 21 at Oasis, hosted by yours truly with a cavalcade of stars. Poster by Diego Gomez. Let’s honor her legacy. Details & tix: givebutter.com/heklina

Really grateful that people were able to support Hilary Rivers — even if it was just to write her letters to read while in ICE detention. Via @missionlocal.org missionlocal.org/2025/07/miss...

First day of my summer

Bay Area friends, join our friends at The Queer Ancestors Project and Still Here SF for a night of community and new work inspired by our queer and trans ancestors. ✨🌱 📅 July 1, 2025 at 6:45pm 📍Strut, 470 Castro Street

Can’t see Sutro Tower or the Pink Triangle, but the rainbow lasers that shine down Market Street are making a beautiful addition to the fog above the Castro on the last night of Pride.

Had a great time at Pride on Pink Saturday today

Serious daddy at Pride on Pink Saturday

This week I made two minizines about queer spirituality and the original eight colors of the first Pride flag, and sold them along with my first regular zine at a Queer Tarot Happy Hour. It was my first time talking about and selling my work. Kind of fun, actually!

What's a book—or series of books—that you loved as a kid that almost nobody seems to read or even remember nowadays? The Matthew Looney were about an alien kid whose family lived on the moon — they didn’t breathe air so he needed a reverse spacesuit to visit Earth. Great Gahan Wilson illustrations.

Smokey Bear shirtless in his blue jeans looking out on Market Street just in time for Pride. We'll see him at the Lone Star afterward.

A beloved community member known by their performer name, Hilary Rivers, was detained by ICE after a scheduled appointment at court. As of June 27, 2025, they have been located and it's confirmed that they have been transferred to Golden State Annex in McFarland, CA. bit.ly/hilaryriversactnow

Mind blown that the Levi's store in San Francisco has done a collab with iconic gay bar The Stud, including making several patches that reproduce vintage pins from the archives. I have a long history with the Stud so I had to get them all.

Felt very pastel yesterday for trans pride

Every year on the morning of the trans march there is an intergenerational event put on by Openhouse (services for LGBTQ seniors) and Lyric (services for LGBTQ youth). We went with dear friends and had a good time.

(really feeling the whiplash between the terrors in the world and the regular joys of being out in the queer community. just remember that both are always in the background)

San Francisco drag performer Hilary Rivers was taken by ICE yesterday morning; the night before she competed in the Miss and Mr Safe Latino Pageant. I saw this play out on social media; one of my friends was also a contestant, and I knew a lot of folks who attended.

We need answers—now. Where is our sister Hilary Rivers? ICE took her the morning after Pride with no warning, no due process, and no communication. This is not justice—this is kidnapping. We demand transparency, accountability, and her immediate release. Read more: 48hills.org/2025/06/drag...

Last Saturday's launch party for the 10.1 issue of @foglifterpress.bsky.social was a blast. Here are some photos of T.S. Leonard, @baruchporras.bsky.social and @dapowell.bsky.social reading. Feels really important to support queer literary magazines these days.

Thinking about @sasquatchers.wtf’s Middle Age Tiger Beat, and I have a nomination: Adam Bartley aka The Ferg on Longmire.

Off to homo book club on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon

Overheard yesterday at the queer latinx social club monthly happy hour: CONGRATS ON YOUR WEDDING BITCH

wake up church street post haircut

Market Street this afternoon

limbo / lust / gluttony / greed / anger / heresy / violence / fraud / treachery all out of pride it’s time for wrath

Grateful for the powerful Pulse Nightclub memorial and call to action today. The speakers reminded us of the importance of solidarity. This plaza at Castro and Market is sacred for many of us; its meaning comes from us gathering here in grief and in rage.

Here's the archive for all of the articles that KQED Arts is doing in their series Trans Bay: A History of San Francisco's Gender-Diverse Community. This week and next they are sharing a bunch of new in-depth stories about trans artists and activists from the 1890s to now. https://www.kqed.org/tran

There’s a Pulse Memorial tomorrow in Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro.

One of my favorite comics artists, Justin Hall, retold the story of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot; KQED Arts published it yesterday as part of their series on trans history and trans life in the San Francisco Bay Area. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977080/comptons-cafeteria-riot-trans-rights-lgb

In the ’90s, La AtreDivas and Teresita La Campesina helped break stigmas around discussing safe sex in the Latinx community. The HIV work that came out from 16th Street during the height of the crisis is still felt locally and among public health experts.

Here's the full article from KQED about the queer Latinx community & the response to HIV/AIDS in the Mission in the 1980s and 1990s. (Tina's in this one too.) https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977374/proyecto-contrasida-san-francisco-hiv-aids-atredivas-teresita-la-campesina

KQED is doing a series on trans life and trans history in the Bay Area, and my honey Tina was interviewed for this one on queer Latinx life and activism in the Mission in the 80s and 90s. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKuqm7spF4r/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==