Ep.17 Honey Mahogany, Transgender Activist, Politician and Drag Performer

Honey Mahogany lives in San Francisco and was a keynote speaker at an event in Santa Cruz. Following that event, our podcast team traveled to San Francisco to interview Honey, an out transgender woman who helped found the Transgender District in San Francisco.  She serves as the Director of the office of transgender initiatives for the City of San Francisco, one of the first cities to have a department focused on supporting transgender people. The Transgender District spans six blocks in the southeastern Tenderloin and was founded in 2017 by three Black trans women, Aria Sa’id, Janetta Johnson, and Honey Mahogany.Honey was also a Grand Marshal for San Francisco Pride in 2023, which always takes place the last weekend in June.