read our experiences.
From their two-week observations written to express life in San Francisco to their reflections both pre and post-immersion, student programmers noted their experience throughout the entire journey. Each student’s reflective, personable, and immersive narrative highlights the experience of traveling to San Francisco, exploring the Castro District, and learning about themselves and their identity. These blogs express how being in a larger, brighter, queer community helped students shape and re-shape who they are.
Here, and then Not Here
Surprising no one who knows me, I’ve procrastinated writing this blog post until we are literally sitting in the airport, only a few hours before we board our plane. Oh, well.
Growing Up Outside of the Queer Community
Hearing that J. Edgar Hoover was gay as a side comment from my high school history teacher was about the extent of queer history education that I received in my 13 years of K-12 education.