A new mural on the side of the Powerhouse bar in the city's South of Market neighborhood is showcasing how queer people expressed their sexuality as they physically distanced.
The mural, which will be completed August 27, is being painted by Simón Malvaez, a queer artist who Bay Area Reporter readers may remember worked with Juan Manuel Carmona earlier this year on the "Queeroes" mural on the side of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. "It's a guy on his knees taking a selfie while he's naked," Malvaez told the B.A.R.
August 23 as he got underway on the new project at the intersection of Folsom Street and Dore Alley. "I use the selfie as a symbol of empowerment because during quarantine a lot of people had time — especially in the