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UC Law SF OUTLAW represents the vibrant student culture at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, where legal education meets community commitment. This affinity organization embodies UC Law SF's foundational principle—established in 1878—of placing students close to where they will practice law, now extending far beyond traditional courtrooms into diverse legal fields and communities throughout San Francisco and beyond.
Located in San Francisco, CA, OUTLAW is part of a rich tradition of student organizations that serve as the cornerstones of campus life. The organization brings together students of different backgrounds to celebrate shared identities, promote justice, and foster meaningful professional relationships. By creating spaces for connection, mentorship, and mutual support, OUTLAW helps students navigate law school while building the diverse networks that strengthen the legal profession.
UC Law SF's recent rebranding and campus modernization reflect the institution's evolution toward redefining legal education for the 21st century. The school's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion permeates every aspect of student life, with affinity organizations like OUTLAW playing a central role. These groups provide not just social connection but also professional development, cultural celebration, and advocacy opportunities that prepare students to become leaders in their communities.
At its core, OUTLAW embodies UC Law SF's vision of developing lawyers and leaders equipped to address contemporary legal challenges. The organization's open membership policy ensures that all students can participate in building inclusive community, reflecting the school's values. Through OUTLAW, students access the mentorship, professional connections, and supportive networks essential for success—whether in litigation, policy, technology law, or the many other legal fields that define San Francisco's legal landscape.
Since 1980, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom has been a pioneering community of LGBTQI legal professionals based in San Francisco, California, dedicated to creating a world where LGBTQI people live with dignity and equality under the law. Founded with the groundbreaking mission of encouraging LGBTQI legal professionals to become judges at a time when no openly LGBTQI judges existed, BALIF has grown into a transformative force for justice and inclusion in the legal profession.
BALIF's impact extends far beyond its membership. The organization was instrumental in founding the AIDS Legal Referral Panel in 1983, which has since provided free and low-cost legal assistance to over 72,000 people. BALIF played a pivotal role in authoring resolutions that became California Assembly Bill 2601, prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. The organization's leadership helped establish the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association and the Lavender Law Conference, now major national gatherings for LGBTQI legal professionals.
Today, BALIF's mission encompasses advocacy, justice, community empowerment, and professional development. The organization values LGBTQI justice, equality, community empowerment, development, diversity, and inclusion in everything it does. Through committees focused on amicus work, judiciary endorsements, law student programs, diversity and equity, and community activism, BALIF continues to strengthen professional and social ties among its members while building coalitions to combat discrimination. With over 40 years of history serving the San Francisco Bay Area legal community, BALIF remains committed to advancing LGBTQI rights through legal expertise, community connection, and unwavering advocacy.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the National Trans Bar Association represents a vital community of legal professionals committed to advancing trans rights and supporting underrepresented voices in the legal field. The NTBA is a bar association by and for trans legal professionals and cisgender allies who share a deep commitment to supporting trans people both within and outside the legal profession. The organization deliberately welcomes individuals who have historically been marginalized in law, including trans and cisgender women and femmes, people of color, people who have experienced poverty, those with criminal justice system involvement, and members of immigrant communities. Members work across the full spectrum of legal practice—from government positions to nonprofit social justice organizations to private law firms—united by a shared mission to support trans people in the legal profession and increase the trans community's access to affordable, culturally competent legal services. The NTBA's diverse membership hails from different regions across the United States, bringing varied professional experiences and perspectives to the organization's work. Through annual reports, media engagement, and community outreach, the National Trans Bar Association continues to build an inclusive organization that recognizes the intersectional nature of social justice work and fosters bold, creative legal strategies to expand formal protections for transgender and gender nonconforming people.
Trikone is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people of South Asian descent, who trace their ethnicities to one of the following places: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet. Founded in 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Trikone is the oldest group of its kind in the world.
Trikone offers a supportive, empowering and non-judgmental environment where LGBTQ South Asians and their allies can meet, make connections, and proudly promote awareness and acceptance of their sexual identity.
APIQWTC provides opportunities for Asian & Pacific Islander queer women and transgender people to socialize, network, build community, engage in inter-generational organizing, and increase community visibility.
APIQWTC is a fun, welcoming, multi-generational group of Asian & Pacific islander queer women and transgender people in the Bay Area, who are building community together. We are the legacy of queer A&PI activism, stemming from earlier-founded organizations going back to 1987. We are a wholly volunteer-based organization.
We envision a powerful queer and transgender Asian and Pacific-islander (QTAPI) community that is seen, heard and celebrated. Our mission is to unite our families and allies to build a community through advocacy, inclusion and love.
Established in 1988 after months of discussion and soul searching from several members of the Asian Gay Men's Support Group at Berkeley's Pacific Center, GAPA was formed fundamentally to organize, integrate and nurture a growing gay & bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander (API) identity and to foster positive role models within our communities. Three decades on we continue forward as a vanguard for the queer and transgender API community in the Bay Area. We helped build institutions like the SF Community Health Center, formerly API Wellness Center, and GAPA Runway, one of the longest-running SF pageants.
There have been countless shows, concerts, conferences, political engagements, rallies, press releases, banquets, and partnerships. We directly engage in social, cultural, and political advocacy to advance and protect our community’s interests and well-being. As an all-volunteer, grassroots organization, we have been dedicated to providing a safe space to inspire individuals to be their best selves, for others to celebrate our diversity, and for all of us to continue the fight for equality.
In 2021, with a unanimous vote from the board and overwhelming support from the membership, the organization renamed itself to the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance to commit ourselves to greater inclusion of the full spectrum of the GLBTQ+ community.
GAPA is a 501(c)(4) non profit social welfare organization. Our new affiliate, GAPA Fund, is a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses funding cultural activities and the arts.
Founded by three black trans women in 2017 as Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, The Transgender District is the first legally recognized transgender district in the world. Originally named after the first documented uprising of transgender and queer people in United States history, the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots of 1966, the district encompasses 6 blocks in the southeastern Tenderloin and crosses over Market Street to include two blocks of 6th street. In 2016, the City of San Francisco renamed portions of Turk and Taylor to commemorate the historic contributions of transgender people, renaming them “Compton’s Cafeteria Way” and “Vikki Mar Lane” respectively.
This urban region of the city’s Tenderloin District has held a documented, ongoing presence of transgender residents since as early as the 1920s- with the Tenderloin known as a “gay ghetto” during the 1930s to the 1960s- prior to the birth of the internationally renowned Castro District in San Francisco. This area is home to the city of San Francisco’s first LGBT bar, and various community spaces, gathering sites, and hotels with cultural significance for the broader transgender and queer community in the Tenderloin.
We aim to create an urban environment that celebrates the transgender tipping point in the United States and the world, while educating the world of the deep profundity of transgender culture and our contributions to the liberation of humankind.
The mission of the Transgender District is to create an urban environment that fosters the rich history, culture, legacy, and empowerment of transgender people and its deep roots in the southeastern Tenderloin neighborhood. The transgender district aims to stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces.
The Transgender District is leading the way to provide innovative solutions for our community, ensuring the viability and stability of our project, our mission, and our goals in creating an atmosphere that celebrates and affirms the ongoing presence, resilience, contributions, and culture of transgender people in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, and creating safe spaces for trans people that inspire economic advancement, leadership development and community.
El/La started as a program of Proyecto ContraSIDA Por Vida (PCPV) in 1993. We were the first translatina HIV prevention program in Northern California. In 2006, after PCPV lost its funding, El/La became its own fiscally sponsored project and today is fiscally sponsored by Community Initiatives. Based on our 26 years of work in the translatina community, we continue to fight for translatina rights and provide resources and personal development in a safe space.
We work to build a world where translatinas feel we deserve to protect, love and develop ourselves. By building this base, we support each other in protecting ourselves against violence, abuse and illness.
El/La is an organization for translatinas that works to build collective vision and action to promote our survival and improve our quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Because we exist in a world that fears and hates transgender people, women and immigrants, we fight for justice. We respond to those who see us as shameful, disposable or less than human. We are here to reflect the style and grace of our survival, and to make new paths for ourselves.
Out & Equal is the premier organization working exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Through our worldwide programs, Fortune 500 partnerships and our annual Workplace Summit conference, we help LGBTQ+ people thrive and support organizations creating a culture of belonging for all.
We partner with Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and organizations across industries and diverse missions to provide LGBTQ+ executive leadership development, comprehensive D&I training and consultation, and professional networking opportunities that build inclusive and welcoming work environments.
Out and Equal works with executives, HR and D&I professionals, and LGBTQ+ employee resource group leaders to strengthen their role as internal change agents, bolstering their effectiveness and helping them incorporate and advance best practices in Diversity & Inclusion work.
We believe equality is about more than checking off boxes. And we know inclusion requires more than a set of directions. It’s about creating spaces that celebrate and foster growth for every kind of employee, where leadership is made up of different people with diverse perspectives.
Our goal is to challenge organizations and transform workplaces. Together, we can develop an environment where everyone can thrive.
That’s the business of belonging.
Out & Equal is the global convener, thought leader and catalyst actively working to achieve workplaces of equality and belonging - supporting LGBTQ+ employees and leaders who thrive in their careers and lives and achieve greater impact on the world.
Transgender Law Center changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.
Founded in 2002, Transgender Law Center (TLC) has grown into the largest trans-specific, trans-led organization in the United States. Our advocacy and precedent-setting litigation victories—in areas including employment, prison conditions, education, immigration, and healthcare—protect and advance the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming people across the country. Through our organizing and movement-building programs, TLC assists, informs, and empowers thousands of individual community members a year and builds towards a long-term, national, trans-led movement for liberation.
TLC was co-founded by Chris Daley and Dylan Vade as a California-focused, fiscally-sponsored project of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR). In 2004, TLC incorporated as its own 501c3 nonprofit organization, focused largely on direct services. Masen Davis became executive director in 2007. During this period, the organization advanced significant impact litigation, hosted an annual Transgender Leadership Summit in California, and expanded to a national scope.
Kris Hayashi, the current executive director, joined TLC in 2013 as deputy director and assumed leadership of the organization in 2015, becoming the first trans person of color to lead an organization of TLC’s size and scope. Over the last six years, TLC has won precedent-setting legal victories through cases like that of Ash Whitaker and Shiloh Quine, as well as incubated groundbreaking programs including Black Trans Circles, Positively Trans, the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project, TRUTH, and TLC@SONG. During this period, TLC has more than doubled in size and made an explicit commitment and shift towards centering racial justice in trans liberation work.
Join us for a soulful in-person vibe celebrating Black cis & trans womyn's creativity and self-care!
Find Your Light Black Cis and Trans Womyn's Creative Wellness Experience
Join us for a 3-day in person journey designed exclusively for Black cis and trans womyn! Dive into creative wellness activities that help you connect, heal, and shine. It's all about embracing your light, expressing yourself, and supporting each other in a safe space. Don't miss out on this chance to nurture your spirit and creativity surrounded by amazing womyn just like you!
MHTI Conference centers the care & support for those who sit at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality.
Mental Health at the Intersections: From Joy to Justice uplifts the mental health and well-being of Queer and Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color (QTBIPOC) communities and practitioners. Rooted in community care, trauma-informed practice, and collective liberation, this gathering explores how joy, cultural wisdom, and shared healing move us toward justice.
Get ready to dance the night away and immerse yourself in the vibrant psychedelic culture of 2026 at the ultimate afterparty!
Psychedelic Culture 2026 is keeping the energy flowing with our official Afterparty at El Rio SF, a beloved queer, BIPOC‑run neighborhood bar and community space in the heart of the Mission District, just a short trip from the Brava Theater.
We’re creating a night that feels true to Chacruna’s vibe: warm, welcoming, and lively with conversation, music, and celebration alongside our beautiful community of attendees, speakers, and Chacruna's extended family.
El Rio offers a beautiful mix of indoor and outdoor space, with a dance floor, patio, and plenty of room to move between party and chill, connection and integration. Join us to unwind after the conference, keep the conversations going, and celebrate the many voices and stories that make Psychedelic Culture so special.
🪐 Sunday, April 19th ~ YES, Bicycle Day!
🪐 From 9:30pm to 12:30am PT
🪐 At El Rio SF (3158 Mission St, San Francisco)
Come savour the best psychedelic holiday with a wonderful crowd, and stay tuned for more details on music and special moments as we get closer — can’t wait to see you at the Psychedelic Culture 2026 Afterparty at El Rio!
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UC Law SF OUTLAW represents the vibrant student culture at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, where legal education meets community commitment. This affinity organization embodies UC Law SF's foundational principle—established in 1878—of placing students close to where they will practice law, now extending far beyond traditional courtrooms into diverse legal fields and communities throughout San Francisco and beyond.
Located in San Francisco, CA, OUTLAW is part of a rich tradition of student organizations that serve as the cornerstones of campus life. The organization brings together students of different backgrounds to celebrate shared identities, promote justice, and foster meaningful professional relationships. By creating spaces for connection, mentorship, and mutual support, OUTLAW helps students navigate law school while building the diverse networks that strengthen the legal profession.
UC Law SF's recent rebranding and campus modernization reflect the institution's evolution toward redefining legal education for the 21st century. The school's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion permeates every aspect of student life, with affinity organizations like OUTLAW playing a central role. These groups provide not just social connection but also professional development, cultural celebration, and advocacy opportunities that prepare students to become leaders in their communities.
At its core, OUTLAW embodies UC Law SF's vision of developing lawyers and leaders equipped to address contemporary legal challenges. The organization's open membership policy ensures that all students can participate in building inclusive community, reflecting the school's values. Through OUTLAW, students access the mentorship, professional connections, and supportive networks essential for success—whether in litigation, policy, technology law, or the many other legal fields that define San Francisco's legal landscape.
Since 1980, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom has been a pioneering community of LGBTQI legal professionals based in San Francisco, California, dedicated to creating a world where LGBTQI people live with dignity and equality under the law. Founded with the groundbreaking mission of encouraging LGBTQI legal professionals to become judges at a time when no openly LGBTQI judges existed, BALIF has grown into a transformative force for justice and inclusion in the legal profession.
BALIF's impact extends far beyond its membership. The organization was instrumental in founding the AIDS Legal Referral Panel in 1983, which has since provided free and low-cost legal assistance to over 72,000 people. BALIF played a pivotal role in authoring resolutions that became California Assembly Bill 2601, prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. The organization's leadership helped establish the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association and the Lavender Law Conference, now major national gatherings for LGBTQI legal professionals.
Today, BALIF's mission encompasses advocacy, justice, community empowerment, and professional development. The organization values LGBTQI justice, equality, community empowerment, development, diversity, and inclusion in everything it does. Through committees focused on amicus work, judiciary endorsements, law student programs, diversity and equity, and community activism, BALIF continues to strengthen professional and social ties among its members while building coalitions to combat discrimination. With over 40 years of history serving the San Francisco Bay Area legal community, BALIF remains committed to advancing LGBTQI rights through legal expertise, community connection, and unwavering advocacy.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the National Trans Bar Association represents a vital community of legal professionals committed to advancing trans rights and supporting underrepresented voices in the legal field. The NTBA is a bar association by and for trans legal professionals and cisgender allies who share a deep commitment to supporting trans people both within and outside the legal profession. The organization deliberately welcomes individuals who have historically been marginalized in law, including trans and cisgender women and femmes, people of color, people who have experienced poverty, those with criminal justice system involvement, and members of immigrant communities. Members work across the full spectrum of legal practice—from government positions to nonprofit social justice organizations to private law firms—united by a shared mission to support trans people in the legal profession and increase the trans community's access to affordable, culturally competent legal services. The NTBA's diverse membership hails from different regions across the United States, bringing varied professional experiences and perspectives to the organization's work. Through annual reports, media engagement, and community outreach, the National Trans Bar Association continues to build an inclusive organization that recognizes the intersectional nature of social justice work and fosters bold, creative legal strategies to expand formal protections for transgender and gender nonconforming people.