Transgender History Walking Tour with Ms. Billie Cooper & Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer

$35 ticket for tour + museum admission includes a copy of Megan Rohrer's recently published "Images of America" photo book: San Francisco's Transgender District (valued at $25).

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$20 ticket for tour + museum admission

The Tenderloin has been a space of trans art, resistance, nightlife and organizing since the 1800's. Stroll the Tenderloin with Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer and Ms. Billie Cooper for a tour of the neighborhood that explores the extraordinary and ordinary lives of trans people from the perspective of a trans elder, activist, and longtime TL resident. 

TLM is honored to host a walking tour organized by Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer that explores the Transgender history of the Tenderloin through the personal lens of Ms. Billie Cooper. An “unapologetically Black” transgender woman, long-term survivor living with HIV, and disabled US Navy veteran, Cooper has lived in the Tenderloin for over 40 years, during which she has tirelessly advocated for her community, the stories of Black trans women, and social justice. She is a “lifer” of the TL, with an incredibly deep knowledge and memory of how she and other trans women lived, survived, and overcame in this area of San Francisco that has been a space for trans and gender variant people for over 100 years. Cooper’s personal history is both invaluable and under-told, and she delivers it with thrilling panache. 

Megan Rohrer, PhD and DMin, is a social justice influencer known for their advocacy with the homeless and LGBTQ communities who has been featured on Netflix's Queer Eye, Cosmopolitan, People, and other publications around the globe. He just released a book for Arcadia Publishing's “Images of America” series that tells the history of San Francisco's Transgender District with historic images from the 1880's through the present. In doing so, Rohrer situated the nation’s first Transgender District amongst this prolific and approachable coffee-table series, a radical act of place-making that illuminates untold and misunderstood histories in an everyday light. Ms. Billie Cooper is a key feature in the book and was an essential resource in its compilation. A walk with Ms. Billie through the neighborhood is a very special opportunity to witness and learn this history firsthand. Join us!