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Supervisors forward Compton’s Transgender Cultural District to full board with amendments
Summary
The Land Use & Transportation Committee voted to send a resolution establishing the Compton’s Transgender Cultural District to the Board of Supervisors with technical and sponsor amendments after testimony from community leaders and allied city staff.
Supervisor Jane Kim asked the committee on Monday to approve the Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, citing the Compton’s Cafeteria riots as early, locally rooted milestones in transgender civil-rights history. She told the committee the district would preserve historic sites, support trans-led small businesses and job training, and create space for arts and cultural programming.
Community leaders, including Honey Mahogany, Janetta Johnson of the Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), and representatives of…
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