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Hotel Hellin the certain roles that individuals take on. I must also take time to clarifythe demographics of the Mission District of San Francisco as historicallyLatino and gentrified white, although mine is incidentally, specifically afable of blackness.Future San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was the muse of our sarcasticasides when I moved in; I’d linger near Cluny’s guard cage while waitingfor the elevator. At the time of my participation with Mission Agenda,I was also doing stuff with Gay Shame—flamboyant clashes with the then-District Supervisor had been our specialty. Most infamous was a direct actionin which Gay Shame called out the hypocrisy of the city’s LGBT Center.Another horrifying nonprofit-run edifice existing for no other purposethan to be the mundane expenditure of community resources, the Centerallowed ruling-class Gavin Newsom to throw them a fundraiser. GavinNewsom up to this point was most well-known for introducing Care NotCash, local legislation that would effectively reduce welfare checks from$350 to $59 a month. The Center called the cops on our action; therewas a line of police waiting in front, and as soon as Gavin and his wifeKimberly Guilfoyle were safely escorted inside, the cops attacked us, pushingpeople into traffic and smashing one person’s tooth out with a baton.The Center’s personnel, including Executive Director Thom Lynch, justwatched the cops attack us. Much like the cameras in my building, theirown eyes perhaps recording the footage to be transmitted to some militaryindustrial nerve center elsewhere to be carefully analyzed and processed.Once Gavin became mayor, time wore on and Care Not Cash wasgradually implemented. While Gay Shame struggled to prevent the gentrificationhappening on Polk Street, Gavin became a gay civil-rightschampion and Mission Housing turned over and became much worse,just as S’ym became manager of the Altamont and Apollo. A vague hopelessnesspervaded the city. S’ym was a tyrant. I can’t remember the firstfucked up thing S’ym did; maybe it had something to do with him flippingout over me wearing a housecoat to get my mail, but by far the worstof it was how Cluny responded when I crossed S’ym. In 2007, GavinNewsom was re-elected for a second term, the media grew concerned thatthe city’s black per-capita had dropped to 7 percent, and I told S’ym thatI thought I had bedbugs in my room. Then things got really bad, and Ihad no choice but to start pulling roots, filing paperwork. Cluny startedto call me Gavin Newsom.Did he feel I was ungrateful for his vouch that got me housed? Clunywould complain that I smelled. Cluny wrote me up for inappropriate attire91