A year after becoming the first non-male identified transgender person elected to the body that oversees the San Francisco Democratic Party, Honey Mahogany is now aiming to become its first transgender chair and first drag queen to lead the local party.
If Mahogany is elected, it is believed she would also be the first Black person to ever chair the local party. Mahogany, who also identifies as queer and nonbinary, is set to officially announce her candidacy for the party post at noon Thursday, April 29, at the corner of Turk and Taylor streets.
It is the site of the Compton's Cafeteria riot in August 1966, the first documented trans uprising in American history. "I do feel like I am ready to take over as chair," Mahogany, the chief