Surrounded by LGBTQ community leaders and several supervisors, Honey Mahogany Thursday kicked off her bid to become the first transgender and first Black chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party at the Tenderloin site of the Compton's Cafeteria riot.
The August 1966 event is the first documented trans uprising in American history. As the Bay Area Reporter first reported online April 27, Mahogany also is set to become the first drag queen to lead the local party.
Mahogany, who also identifies as queer and nonbinary, last year became the first non-male identified transgender person elected to the Democratic County Central Committee, which runs the city's Democratic Party.