May 2023 – The Tenderloin Museum Salutes Drag Queens 

The Tenderloin Museum Salutes Drag Queens

Article By: Alex Spoto

The ‘We Are Home’ Tenderloin Community Quilt project is an art project focused on engaging the extended Tenderloin community in expressing the significance and meaning of ‘home’.

Led by Mattie Loyce Community Development Manager from DISH (Delivering in Supportive Housing), from the fall/winter of 2022 – Spring 2023 the ‘We Are Home’ project will be hosting workshops throughout the Tenderloin where people can participate in creating individual quilt squares to contribute to what will be a greater Tenderloin Community Quilt completed by fall of 2023.

The project will be amplifying the voices of people who have lived and experienced homelessness, and those that care for or live and work in the community with unhoused neighbors.

Legends of San Francisco, an exhibition of photos and florals celebrating the local drag queen elders featured in Legends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age!

The Legends of Drag project is an archive of living drag history, featuring portraits and stories from drag queen elders in cities across the country. Inspired by a winter solstice eve Hot Boxxx Girls performance at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in the TL, artists Harry James Hanson, Devin Antheus, and Deb Leal began the project in the spring of 2018. It has grown to include 81 queens in 16 cities. Those portraits were published as Legends of Drag: Queens of A Certain Age in May 2022, from Abrams Books. Legends of San Francisco spotlights our local models, in the city where it all began.