performers

Andrea James has spent her career crafting communication that makes a difference, and now she's applying her expertise in Hollywood. After graduating with a Master’s Degree in English from University of Chicago, she wrote ads for ten years at top Chicago agencies. Her ads for blue-chip clients premiered on the Super Bowl and other major television events and were frequently among audience favorites.
She has also created free websites for consumers considered among the best in their categories.

Cecilia Chung, former Deputy Director of Transgender Law Center, is an immigrant from Hong Kong and has been a San Francisco resident since 1985. Cecilia attended City College of San Francisco and was later transferred to Golden Gate University in 1987 where she pursued her undergraduate studies in International Management.Cecilia worked as court interpreter for the Santa Clara County until 1992 and began her active involvement with the transgender community shortly after.

These chunky hunks are ready to punch your clocks and work it overtime with flabulously sexy king-sized faggotry. Drawn together by their fetish for accessories, lust for lunch breaks, and urge to undulate they dare to live large and dream big. Featuring Drew Montana, Lyric Styles, Gabe Oi, Beary Craves, & Jake Danger. CHUBB, because size . . . does matter!

Davey Shlasko is a genderqueer/FtM multi-issue educator, author, and activist, and Program Coordinator of the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative (TEEI). As a consultant and trainer with Think Again Training, Davey helps individuals and organizations to develop cultural competence and work effectively for positive change. Davey is passionate about removing barriers so that everybody can exercise self-determination of their gender, their bodies, their work and their lives.

Clair Farley is a genderqueer/MtF community leader, trans-mentor, activist, and Economic Development Coordinator of the nations first Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative (TEEI) at the Center. Clair is active locally and national advocating for public policy, programs, and educational tools that address the barriers faced by LGBTQQ youth and transgender people. She serves on the Board of Directors of LYRIC and on the Board of the nation’s first GLBTQ Online High School. She hopes to inspire community by expanding networks and by matching fabulous people with sustainable job in safe workplaces.

Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, spoken word performer, trans activist, and biologist. Julia is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007), a collection of personal essays that reveal how misogyny frames popular assumptions about femininity and shapes many of the myths and misconceptions people have about transsexual women.

Kenya Pfister was crowned on March 21st as Miss Bay Area Two-Spirit. She is a part of the Native American Drag Troupe in San Francisco known as the Brush Arbor Gurlz ran by the matron of the arbor Landa Lakes. Pfister is from Cherokee and Macanese heritage and has been a supporter and organizer recognizing both sides of her family origins.

Landa Lakes is the current reigning Grand Duchess of San Francisco. The Ducal Court is a fundraising organization that has been raising funds for and within the LGBT community for the last 36 years. She is a former Miss Gay Indian Nations, Ms Osage Hills and has been known to perform all around the city from the unconventional like Trannyshack or Charlie Horse to the traditional like Marlena's. She is the Matron of the Brush Arbor Gurls (the Native American drag troupe) and the mother of the House of Glitter.

Miss Major is a long-time activist in the transgender community. A sculptor, instead of working with clay, she works with people’s minds. Miss Major has worked at many community organizations and public health agencies serving the transgender community, including the Ark of Refuge, Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center, the Santa Clara Department of Public Health AIDS Program, and the San Diego AIDS Foundation. She is currently the Community Organizing Director for the Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project.

Sabrina Suico manages and coordinates a Residential Drug Treatment and Mental Health Program for Transgender men and women at Walden House. She has worked with approximately 50 transgender identified clients in the past two years placed in detoxification, short term and long term residential treatment, and out-patient treatment. The Transgender Recovery Program serves mtf/ftm transgender people, providing treatment for substance use and mental health in a residential treatment therapeutic community.