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Maya, Community Organizer @ SFQP (in photos 26, 27, 30, 33-35, 37, & group images): ÒI started working with SFQP about 6 years ago, when I started performing with them and then began volunteering. Once I learned that they allow people to organize events for queer folks in the city, I knew I wanted to get more involved. Queer folks have been marginalized throughout time but often queer folks, whether they know it or not, naturally end up creating safe spaces for everyone; like I’ve brought straight and non-queer folks into certain spaces where they also feel very welcome. With queer folks being demonized politically right now, I think itÕs important for everyone to examine what they think queerness looks like and consider people in their own lives that could be queer. We try to create spaces that say Òcome as you areÓ, because weÕre not having this at a club, or at night time, so no one has to get super dressed up. If you want to come here in pajamas, in a tank top and shorts, itÕs fine with us.Ó (Maya also told me that this event was intentionally a sober one, to further add to the safety and inclusiveness of it.) (Piera Moore for The 19th)

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Since 2011, Soulovely events have provided a safe haven for the queer BIPOC community in the Bay Area to express themselves freely while celebrating love, identity, joy, and diversity. (Manuel Orbegozo for The 19th)

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 14: A woman raises her hands in front of Los Angeles Mounted Police officers during the No Kings Day protests on June 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Marches and protests are taking place across the nation in opposition to Trump and recent ICE raids targeting immigrants. (Photo by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images) (Manuel Orbegozo for The 19th)

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Lavender Evolution’s SWEAT party featured a wet tee-shirt contest at on June 8 in D.C. (Mariah Miranda for The 19th)

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Terri Flamer attends Soulovely’s prom, in the QTPOC-centered monthly party’s 14th season serving the Oakland queer community. 
“When I used to come in the beginning, there wasn’t a whole lot of mixture, it was mainly just people of color. But now it’s everybody.” (Manuel Orbegozo for The 19th)

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TJ Joseph (right) shows off their grill at Daisy Dykes. (Mariah Miranda for The 19th)

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Tiara Reed (left) met her now-fiance Chenelle Reed (right) at a Soulovely event and says she “thinks it’s so important and significant to have spaces where unapologetic joy and levity and freedom are welcome and everyone can just bask in it.” (Manuel Orbegozo for The 19th)

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