The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District distributed its first arts and small business grants Sunday, November 7, outside the shuttered Cafe Flore.
Healing Cuts received $30,000 and the Queer Cultural Center received $20,000. QCC will further distribute the monies as micro-grants to individual LGBTQ artists.
Grant recipients and supporters of the cultural district were present at the check distribution. According to a news release, the cultural district received the grant funds from the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development.
Ismael de Luna, a gay Latinx man, plans to expand his Healing Cuts barbershop business and will use the grant money to create a new parklet and purchase equipment, including barber chairs.