Author Archives: Amelia Aviles

SF Pride and Art Updates

By Amelia Aviles | Published: June 21, 2010
Wow, my last post mentioned the San Francisco LGBT Pride festival & here it is again, the next year later!  Sometimes this blogging thing gets away from me:)  Speaking of the festival, I love Pride week here in SF because it’s like a holy week; Market Street is now lined with rainbow flags, there are [...]
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Harvey Milk for Everyone

By Amelia Aviles | Published: October 11, 2009
Since I’m a queer-identified woman who is very happily out, and because today is National Coming Out Day, I thought it most appropriate to post “Harvey Milk for Everyone,” a photo collage by Atsuko Morita.  I, along with many others, was photographed for this awesome piece while parading around at this years San Francisco LGBT [...]
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Unbuttoned

By Amelia Aviles | Published: September 18, 2009
THIS SUNDAY in SAN FRANCISCO!! Come see me shimmy shimmy as Lexi Lipstick in my burlesque number with Queer Girl Theatre Project! Choreography by the fabulous Amelia Mae Paradise of Diamond Daggers, who among a fabulous host of other lovely women will be headlining!!  xoxo Queer Girl Theatre Project presents UNBUTTONED — taking it all off An [...]
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Lawrence King

By Amelia Aviles | Published: June 15, 2009
Recently I began working on an art mapping project that would focus on a transgender issue. At first I was thinking of mapping trans deaths as the result of hate crimes, but I eventually decided to focus solely on the story of Lawrence King’s murder. The project is still in progress, but let me share [...]
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I’ve Got a Lesbian Magazine in My Basket

By Amelia Aviles | Published: June 8, 2009
This is from January 2008, as I was beginning to maneuver through my own coming out process. I cringe at how scared I was, but am so glad I wrote it. If you yourself are going through the coming out process, my heart goes out to you! In my experience though, with time all of [...]
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