In an effort to understand the effects of displacement in the neighborhood, the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District has begun collecting the sexual orientation and gender identity data of business owners within its footprint, District Manager Tina Valentin Aguirre told the Bay Area Reporter. "It was our idea because when I started with the organization last year, I'd met with the Castro Merchants and the [Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District] and I asked some questions around the work they were doing and I wanted details around statistics and demographics relating to SOGI data," Aguirre, a genderqueer person, told the B.A.R. "What I quickly learned was that neither of those groups collected that data.