A few years ago, the New York Times referred to “a battle cry for a new generation of post-gay gender activists,” one that would reach far beyond the familiar four-letter LGBT acronym into other letters, other identities. With 2016 upon us, that generation is now coming into its own, as are our emerging new allies.
To learn more about them—their hopes, goals, concerns and more—we interviewed several students from the Department of Sexuality Studies, the College of Ethnic Studies and the Women and Gender Studies Department at San Francisco State University. These students simply blew us away with their intelligence, perceptiveness and genuine concern over issues that face all of us, gay and straight.
We thank them, as well as Dr. Sue Rosser, Dr. Debo- rah Cohler, Paul Asper, Carla Garcia, Dr. Luoluo Hong, Dr. Amy Sueyoshi, Dr. Jessica Fields, Dr. Kenneth Monteiro, Adrianne Bee, Thao Pham and everyone else at SFSU who helped in the creation of this special section for the San Francisco Bay Times. We are also grateful for their mentorship of LGBTQ- IA young adults and supporters of our community. They give us tremendous hope that, in 2016 and beyond, despite the major challenges that lie ahead, the best is truly yet to come.
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