SF Drag Queens React to Homeless Sweeps with Food and Clothes

[KamaAina]

http://missionlocal.org/2016/02/sf-drag-queens-react-to-homeless-sweeps-with-food-and-clothes/

Some dozen San Francisco drag queens came together Tuesday afternoon to distribute food, clothing, and other essentials to the homeless under the 101 freeway near 13th and Harrison, laying out dozens of items outside the SoMa Streatfood Park and serving up hot meals they cooked that morning.

“Some of us got together and thought ‘Hey, let’s just do something,’” said Simone, one of the drag queens involved. “We’re hoping that this is something that keeps going.”...

“I am super angry at the Super Bowl pushing the homeless where they have nowhere to go,” said Jolene, a drag queen whose day job is in tech and said her industry is “partly responsible” for the homelessness issue in the city....

The drive came together in just two days after a group of queens — who were frequently “lamenting the state of our city” — decided on Sunday night to gather as many donations as possible and head to an area well-known to many of them.

Here, in a nutshell, is why we cannot let gentrification run rampant over SF. What would The City be without its drag queens?!

[Mnemosyne]

1. "Always look for the helpers." This helps keep my last bit of hope alive for the human race. nt

[houston16revival]

2. Good Luck Stopping Gentrification

Rampant everywhere, and the Fed's QE only fed asset bubbles which
greatly contributes to the problem