“Our community is at an inflection point — recovering from a global pandemic and economic crisis, facing a reckoning with centuries of structural racism, and fighting back against a coordinated assault on transgender children,” Tony Hoang said in a statement. “Equality California has both an opportunity and a responsibility to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ people.” Photo: Equality California.
Equality California’s new leader grew up understanding the marginalized intersections of sexual orientation, gender, race, immigration status, and class.
The son of Vietnam War refugees and the first person in his family to attend college, he also will be the group’s first Asian-American executive director.