PFLAG San Francisco

PFLAG San Francisco Helping families understand, support, and advocate for their LGBTQ+ loved ones.
🫶 Support group every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Where: Online.

Support meetings are on the second Tuesday of each month
When: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Please contact us to attend

That instinct that makes you speak up when something’s not right? It’s worth building on purpose.We’re partnering with P...
08/13/2026

That instinct that makes you speak up when something’s not right? It’s worth building on purpose.

We’re partnering with PFLAG Danville - San Ramon Valley PFLAG Danville - San Ramon Valley to bring Killjoy Institute Killjoy Institute (formerly Killjoy Reads) to our community: a q***r- and trans-led organization building political education for a more liberated world.

They’ll help you hone your inner “killjoy” instinct, the part of you that stays curious and speaks up for what’s right, even when it’s uncomfortable. You’ll walk away with a clearer sense of your role in the movement for social justice, plus concrete tools for your own organizing and advocacy work.

Tuesday, August 18 ¡ 6 PM PT ¡ Virtual via Zoom.

Send this to someone who’s ready to turn that instinct into action. Learn more and register today at the link in our bio. 🏳️‍🌈

That instinct that makes you speak up when something’s not right? It’s worth building on purpose.We’re partnering with P...
08/13/2026

That instinct that makes you speak up when something’s not right? It’s worth building on purpose.

We’re partnering with PFLAG Danville - San Ramon Valley to bring Killjoy Institute to our community: a q***r- and trans-led organization building political education for a more liberated world.

They’ll help you hone your inner “killjoy” instinct, the part of you that stays curious and speaks up for what’s right, even when it’s uncomfortable. You’ll walk away with a clearer sense of your role in the movement for social justice, plus concrete tools for your own organizing and advocacy work.

Tuesday, August 18 ¡ 6 PM PT ¡ Virtual via Zoom.

Send this to someone who’s ready to turn that instinct into action. Learn more and register today at the link in our bio. 🏳️‍🌈

Stonewall wasn’t first. San Francisco was. 🏳️‍⚧️On an August night in 1966, a police officer grabbed a trans woman at Ge...
08/12/2026

Stonewall wasn’t first. San Francisco was. 🏳️‍⚧️

On an August night in 1966, a police officer grabbed a trans woman at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in the Tenderloin. She threw her coffee in his face and the room fought back. Three years before Stonewall.

That night is why California marks Transgender History Month every August. Trans Latina advocate Jupiter Peraza (she/her) and The Transgender District made it official in San Francisco in 2021, then carried it to the State Assembly in 2023, which passed it unanimously. California was the first state in the country to do it.

Everyone asks who threw the first cup of coffee. Almost nobody asks where their parents were.

The people at Compton’s were mostly young. Most were in the Tenderloin because home had stopped being an option, and families in 1966 had nothing to work with. No language, no support group, nobody to call.

Six years later a mother named Jeanne Manford (she/her) marched in New York holding a sign that read “Parents of G**s Unite in Support for Our Children.” That was the start of PFLAG.

Send this to someone who thinks trans people are a recent invention. Save it for the next time somebody tells you trans history started five years ago. 🏳️‍🌈

08/07/2026

The New York Times just ran an op-ed blaming the word “q***r” for the backlash against LGBTQ+ rights. 🏳️‍🌈

The ACLU is currently tracking more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in state legislatures. Marriage equality is under attack because politicians spent years organizing to overturn it.

Our community has never been one-size-fits-all. Some of us are gay. Some are le***an, bi, trans, nonbinary. Some proudly say q***r, some don’t, and none of that changes who deserves safety and dignity.

The freedom to marry didn’t happen because only the most “acceptable” LGBTQ+ people spoke up. It happened because generations demanded to be seen before society was ready for them.

Send this to someone who needs the reminder: we get through backlash by standing together, not by making part of our community smaller.

07/31/2026

“There is nothing wrong with us, what is wrong is a world that punishes us for not being normatively masculine or feminine.” 🏳️‍⚧️

ALOK Vaid-Menon (they/them) wrote that in Beyond the Gender Binary, the book a lot of nonbinary people say gave them words they’d been missing. They grew up Indian American in College Station, Texas, without much of a q***r or South Asian community around them, and turned that into poetry, fashion, and stand-up.

Visibility like this isn’t seasonal. Nonbinary and trans people are part of our families and our communities every day of the year, not just the ones marked on a calendar. 🌸

Send this to someone who needs to hear there’s nothing wrong with them.

Who’s a q***r or nonbinary artist you think more people should know? Drop them below. 👇

07/23/2026

“Don’t sit like that. You look like a girl.”

Dr. Luke Wilson (he/him) spent four years in a conversion therapy program at Liberty University. He argues that conversion practices reach well past those programs, into the small corrections that stack up over a childhood from parents, teachers, coaches, and anyone else who decided a kid was doing gender wrong.

“I remember every single comment my mom ever made,” he says.

That’s the part of this that belongs to almost all of us. You don’t have to have been sent anywhere to have been worked on.

Wilson also says the research keeps landing on the same answer for what helps survivors: being around people who listen and don’t argue with your reality. Not experts. Not a program. People.

Send this to someone who is still carrying a comment from thirty years ago. 🏳️‍🌈

Our full conversation with Lucas is up on our YouTube channel now, including his four years at Liberty, why survivors take years to name what happened, and what he tells parents. Link in our bio.

07/21/2026

The only moment I felt unsafe all day was when the police showed up. 🏳️‍⚧️

That’s what Rose (they/them), our summer intern with PFLAG San Francisco and PFLAG Oakland East Bay, took away from this year’s Trans March. The day started with warm friendly faces, music, strangers who treated you like a friend the second they met you. Volunteers handed out water and snacks and looked out for each other.

Then came the sirens. What arrived was officers, and a lot of them. In Rose’s words, the response didn’t feel proportional to the alleged crime.

When Rose looks back on who actually kept people safe that day, the answer is the volunteers. The community. Each other.

Send this to someone who thinks Pride is just a party. It started as a protest, and for a lot of trans folks, it still is one.

Trans March organizers have written a community letter to the city calling for real change. Read it, and add your name if it speaks to you. Link in our bio.

To your trans loved ones: you’re not alone, and you’re loved.

07/17/2026

The Supreme Court says this ruling protects girls in sports. It just made one girl less safe. 🏳️‍⚧️

The Court’s 6-3 decision upheld blanket bans on transgender athletes in women’s and girls’ sports, including West Virginia’s ban challenged by Becky Pepper-Jackson, a teenager who started puberty blockers before male puberty began, then estrogen. Her body developed through female puberty, not male puberty.

Her lawyers argued she never had the physical characteristics these bans claim to guard against. The Court didn’t ask whether that mattered for Becky specifically. It ruled that judges don’t have to look at trans athletes one at a time.

If Becky can’t compete with girls because the state calls her male, she’s expected to compete against boys and men who went through male puberty. If safety was the goal here, this isn’t it.

Send this to someone repeating “it’s about fairness” without knowing Becky’s story. Every young person deserves to belong and play safely.

Thirteen men in gowns. One police raid. Almost a hundred years before Stonewall.In 1888, police raided a drag ball insid...
07/17/2026

Thirteen men in gowns. One police raid. Almost a hundred years before Stonewall.

In 1888, police raided a drag ball inside the home of William Dorsey Swann (he/him). Swann, born enslaved in Maryland, fought back and became the first American on record to call himself a drag queen.

Eight years later, another raid sent him to prison. From his cell, he petitioned the President of the United States for a pardon. He was denied. He kept building his community anyway.
Save this for the next person who thinks drag history started with reality TV.

We’re only here because people like Swann refused to stop building community when no one else would.

07/15/2026

The Giants just demoted pitcher Ryan Walker to Triple-A. Before anyone celebrates: this isn’t Pride Night accountability. It’s a baseball decision.

Last month, Walker was one of three Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses over the rainbow on their Pride Night caps. LGBTQ+ fans and families were hurt. Allies spoke up. We asked the Giants for accountability.

We got silence.

Nothing about what happened on that field has actually been addressed, and a demotion doesn’t change that. The Giants spent thirty years building trust with LGBTQ+ fans. That trust wasn’t broken by wins and losses. It broke on the one night meant to celebrate our community.

Send this to a Giants fan still waiting for a real answer. 🏳️‍🌈

We’re not asking for a scapegoat. We’re asking for accountability.

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