Activists Seek “Liberation” of Trans Resistance Site from Private Prison Contract

by TJ Johnston

On a bright Sunday afternoon on May 18, a group of transgender activists gathered at the corner of Turk and Taylor streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The group, Compton’s x Coalition, invited local media, including Street Sheet, to the rally outside the 111 Taylor St. Apartments, which stands on the site of a historic riot over a half-century before.

The rally culminated in two members of a direct action group called Traction SF climbing a fire escape to the roof and dropping two vertical banners that displayed a single message: “Liberate Compton’s.”

The building at 111 Taylor St.

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Compton’s

by Contributing Author

by Cal Lerchi

Do my shoes soak in Trans Magic

At the intersection of Turk + Taylor?

Spirits of queens, queers, outcasts

Throwing shit at pigs who try to police our joy

Try to extinguish our flames that burn together

More radiant than the sun

Does trans magic last?

When the building that used to nourish glorious queers

Is now owned by a massive for-profit corporation

And it is not a coincidence

That GEO Group also imprisons our kin

Along the U.S.-Mexico border

To steamroll over trans history—

Our transcestors

With this disgusting corporation—GEO Group …

Will we support this?

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“I Could See Pieces of the Puzzle But Not the Big Picture”

by Contributing Author

By Adriane Dietrich

Lea’s transition began four years ago. After more than four decades, it had become clear to her what had been bubbling under the surface all that time. She offers insights into her own development and society’s responsibility towards members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Trott-war: I’m very excited to hear what you have to say. Before we get started, a simple but very important question: How are you?

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Notes from a Texas Prison: Billy’s Story

by Contributing Author

by Billy Thomas

EDITOR’S NOTE: Street Sheet is reprinting this piece from the 2024 Pride issue. Billy Thomas, an inmate at the John Wynne Unit of Texas State Prison in Huntsville sent multiple letters to ABO Comix in Oakland, California throughout 2022 and 2023. Street Sheet adapted these letters into a single piece, editing for brevity and clarity.

I am a 51-year-old person, a two-spirited transgender. I am a survivor of mental and sexual abuse from my time in the care of Texas Child Protective Services,

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Sober Living in Permanent Supportive Housing: How Exactly Does That Work?

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by Jordan Wasilewski

In springtime of 2025, the conversation around sober and recovery housing continues from San Francisco to Sacramento. Matt Haney’s Assembly Bill 255 allows cities and counties to set aside up to 25% of state homelessness funds for sober living quarters. The set-aside is not required: It’s merely an ask for permission to allocate funding for up to 25% of permanent supportive housing units of funds for sober living,

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