Around the country, among allies and foes alike, San Francisco often acts as a byword for progressivism and queer liberation.
But the city is also the epicenter of the state's housing crisis, and for many LGBTQ seniors — particularly those who are of color or trans — who've dealt with that experience, life in the City by the Bay hasn't always been somewhere over the rainbow.Veronika Fimbres, 68, who is a former San Francisco veterans affairs commissioner and in 2018 was a Green Party candidate for California governor, has lived in the city's Sunnyside neighborhood for a dozen years.