Nearly a year after the West Hollywood City Council approved the creation of a drag laureate, staff for the Southern California LGBTQ enclave have etched out a proposal for how to launch the position this November. It will be the first such representative for drag performers and LGBTQ nightlife issues established by a U.S. municipality.
San Francisco may become the second, as the idea is under discussion by City Hall officials and could be brought forward later this year. As the Bay Area Reporter has previously noted, the concept of having an ambassador for the local drag community was first proposed in the draft version of San Francisco s groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy released in 2018.
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Although San Francisco nightlife is very much on pause due to the pandemic, it s still possible to look ahead and see green shoots for the city s LGBTQ+ community.
Supervisor Matt Haney wants to create a nightlife recovery fund to ensure that independent venues survive, for one. There may yet be a more targeted federal stimulus. And San Francisco may establish a new city-sanctioned office: that of drag laureate.
As the Bay Area Reporter noted, the idea was one of many in S.F.’s “LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy,” a 2018 report that was revised in August amid nightlife’s pandemic near-extinction. The idea of creating another high-profile city position to advocate for queer culture and nightlife seems logical enough, although it may have detractors among fiscal hawks. A formal cost-benefit a