Choreographer Alvin Ailey, Freddie Mercury, Josephine Baker and others are being honored with plaques on the Rainbow Honor Walk — a sort of Hollywood Walk of Fame for important LGBTQ figures. (KQED)
Carlos Duharte, a mason with San Francisco Public Works, takes a good look at the plaque of entertainer Josephine Baker before putting on a protective cover for its installation on Market Street on Aug. 6, 2019, in the Castro District's Rainbow Honor Walk.The sidewalks of San Francisco's Castro District are getting eight new residents this week. And they'll be sticking around.
Most donations to the Rainbow Honor Walk are between $25 and $100. The smallest was $1 and the largest was $22,000. The biggest single donor is retired Teamster Allan Baird, who is straight and lives in the Castro. He has given $30,000, unsolicited, in $5,000 increments.
In that particular board meeting, a young man named George Choy was selected instead. Anyone who stops by his plaque on the west side of Castro Street will learn that he was born in 1960, died in 1993, and was"a passionate activist for queer Asians and Pacific Islanders and AIDS awareness who was instrumental in bringing LGBT counseling programs into San Francisco public high schools."
Anyone can submit a nomination to the 10-member Rainbow Honor Walk board, which Perry has chaired for a decade. There were more than 170 nominees for the latest round of 24 —eight installed in November 2017, another eight this week and eight more in October. Discussions are often fierce about who will and won't get a plaque.
But it's actually a little more complicated than that."We worked really hard on diversity, parity and making sure we're representative of the community," he said."The thing that's least important about the Rainbow Honor Walk is paying tribute to these people. It's more about their stories inspiring other people and another generation."
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