Meet Our Team

The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District aims to highlight the importance of LGBTQ people to Castro’s history and ensure we have a place in its future. The Cultural District is a tool that will help to identify the problems LGBTQ people, communities, and allies face, and establish collaboration with city hall to create effective solutions. More details and background are available in the Ordinance here (approved by the board of supervisors June 17th, signed by Mayor London Breed in July

The currently elected Advisory Board members are:

Executive Committee

Alfredo Bracamontes Ochoa (he/him)
**Advisory Board Executive Co-Chair**

Jen Reck, Ph.D. (she/her)
**Advisory Board Executive Co-Chair**

Non-Executive Committee Members

Steven Bracco (he/him)
**Advisory Board Member**

Cesar Cadabes (he/him)
**Chair, Communication Committee**

Ernesto Cuellar (he/him)
**Advisory Board Member**

Andrew Gutierrez III (he/they)
**Advisory Board Member**

Anh Ha (he/him)
**Advisory Board Member**

Braeden Mansouri (he/him)
**Co-Chair, Land Use Committee**

Nathanial Owen (he/him)
**Chair, Econ. & Workforce Dev. Committee**

Wyatt Robertson (he/him)
**Advisory Board Member**

M Rocket (she/they)
**Advisory Board Member**

Eli Sokol (he/him)
**Advisory Board Member**

Shayne Watson (she/her)
**Advisory Board Member**

Staff

Tina V. Aguirre (they/them)
**Cultural District Director**

T.S. Leonard (he/him)
**Administrative Assistant**

Mission: The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District is committed to preserving, sustaining, and promoting the rich cultural legacy of the Castro and its significance to San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community and beyond. Our goals are to highlight the structures and sites important to our history; foster racial, ethnic, gender and cultural diversity among residents and businesses; and create a safe, beautiful, and inclusive space for LGBTQ+ and allied communities, to visit from around the world and call the Castro home.

The map of the district, as laid out in the ordinance, are as follows:

The area bounded by Market Street to the north and west, Grand View Avenue to the west; 22nd Street to the south between Grand View Avenue and Noe Street; Noe Street to the east between 22nd Street and 19th Street; 19th Street to the south between Noe Street and Sanchez Street; and Sanchez Street to the east between 19th Street and Market;
The lots along the north side of Market Street between Castro Street and Octavia Boulevard, including the Market Street public right-of way and bookended by Block 0871, Lot 014 (occupied by the San Francisco LGBT Center as of 2019) and by Block 3562, Lot 015;
Laguna Street between Market Street and Waller Street, including the public right-of-way only;
The footprint of the 65 Laguna Street building (historically known as Richardson Hall, San Francisco Landmark No. 256) and the footprint of 95 Laguna Street (known as Marcy Adelman & Jeanette Gurevitch Openhouse Community building as of 2019), both located at the northwest corner of Laguna and Hermann Streets in the southeast portion of Block 0857, Lot 002;
Block 3502, Lot 013 located on the west side of Valencia Street between Market Street and Duboce Avenue;
Pink Triangle Park located to the west of the juncture of 17th and Market Streets, immediately adjacent to Block 2648, Lot 001 on the east; and
The triangular area bounded by Market Street to the north; 15th Street to the south; and, Church Street to the east.

Bylaws of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District Download