I learned so much at the Tenderloin museum. Learning about how queer white people faced and resisted oppression made me realize how important decommercializing the human existence is. Even though western beauty centers white skin, it obscures the struggle and challenges white people face. Making them, too, subject to erasure. I couldn’t imagine my white brothers and sisters facing oppression and marginalization. I couldn’t imagine my white brothers and sisters having the courage, the resilience, the fierceness to fight back. It was humbling to comprehend that it has been ALL colors of the rainbow that have helped fight for queer freedom. I genuinely encourage anyone who visit SF to visit the Tenderloin museum. Although the neighborhood is associated with crime, poverty and homelessness, the museum offers a perspective on queer histor, I believe not celebrated enough.