Shen Yun issues cease-and-desist against San Francisco drag troupe
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Dancers in the Chinese performance show Shen Yun run through a technical rehearsal at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, Calif., on Friday, March 18, 2016.MediaNews Group/Orange County Re/MediaNews Group via Getty Images
Living in the the Bay Area the past few years has meant being bombarded by advertisements from every angle, but few companies in recent memory have been as aggressive as Shen Yun Performing Arts. The number of ads across San Francisco pre-pandemic were truly staggering and quite boastful. The world s premier classical Chinese dance and music company, as they bill themselves, is truly a touch of heaven, says the former minister of culture of the Czech Republic in one of their ads.
San Francisco will mark the country s first Queer and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islanders Week this month with a series of events between May 22 and 29. Organizers are already planning for more cities, especially in the Bay Area, to follow suit next year.
The seven days of rallies, panel discussions, and a drag show will also see the launch of a new project aimed at ending transphobia within the LGBTQ+ Asian and Pacific Islander community. The QTAPI Week comes amid an uptick in violent attacks and harassment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the COVID pandemic.
As the Bay Area Reporter s Political Notebook was first to report last week, leaders of the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance, which recently held several rallies in the city s LGBTQ Castro district to protest the rise in AAPI hate, and the Bay Area QTAPI Coalition came together to propose the inaugural QTAPI Week. GAPA Chair Michael Trung Nguyen told the B.A.R. the dates were purposefully chosen so the week fe
The reconstituted LGBTQI+ Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission is beginning to take shape, with the oversight body set to recommend applicants for all but one of the 25 committee members at its May 13 meeting.