Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot is a sweeping history of San Francisco from the turbulent 1960s through the early 1980s, tracing the city’s transformation from a center of counterculture and idealism into a place shaken by violence, political upheaval, and profound social change.

SF Slow is a Jane’s Walk created by BIG Creative exploring the ways San Francisco tells its story through streets, buildings, public spaces, memory, and change. Part walking tour and part conversation, it invites participants to slow down and read the city together.

Breonna McCree is Co-Executive Director of The Transgender District in San Francisco. She leads groundbreaking programs focused on economic empowerment, public safety, and wellness for trans and TGNC communities. With over a decade of experience in community health and advocacy, Breonna is a powerful voice for equity, healing, and trans liberation.

Stryker is the author of Transgender History, a widely used introduction to the political and cultural history of transgender communities in the United States, and co-director, with Victor Silverman, of the Emmy Award-winning documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. The film helped recover the history of a 1966 uprising by transgender women and queer people at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin—one of the earliest documented acts of collective queer resistance to police harassment in the United States.

Founded by three black trans women in 2017 as Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, The Transgender District is the first legally recognized transgender district in the world.

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through our integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, we empower individuals, families and children to achieve stability and thrive.

Compton’s x Coalition is working to reclaim 111 Taylor Street, the former site of Gene Compton’s Cafeteria and the historic 1966 transgender uprising. The campaign seeks community stewardship of the property and a future centered on culture, care, belonging, and the site’s living legacy of resistance.

The Tenderloin Museum celebrates the rich history of one of San Francisco's most misunderstood neighborhoods. The 31 blocks of the Tenderloin district are the beating heart of the city peopled by immigrants and iconoclasts, artists and activists, sinners and saints. Visit the Tenderloin Museum today and encounter a kaleidoscopic American city in all its grit and glory.

The Tenderloin welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, experiences, and circumstances. We believe our neighbors deserve pathways and opportunities to thrive.

Screaming Queens recovers the story of the 1966 uprising at Compton’s Cafeteria, when transgender and queer residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin fought back against police harassment. The documentary helped restore this largely forgotten event—and the community surrounding it—to its place in transgender and LGBTQ+ history.

Compton’s Cafeteria Riots is an immersive theatrical production bringing audiences into the history of the 1966 uprising by transgender and queer people at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. The production used performance and place to reconnect contemporary audiences with a pivotal piece of neighborhood and transgender history.

Mark Nassar was a writer/ producer for Compton’s Cafeteria Riots, an immersive theater production reliving the 1966 Trans uprising in San Fransisco’s Tenderloin District.

Kate Robinson is Executive Director of the Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD) in San Francisco, where she leads work to improve quality of life and strengthen community in one of the city’s most diverse and complex neighborhoods. Her work brings together public-space stewardship, clean and safe programs, community engagement, economic opportunity, and neighborhood advocacy, with an emphasis on solutions shaped by the people who live and work in the Tenderloin.

Katie Conry is Executive Director of the Tenderloin Museum, which celebrates and preserves the history, culture, and people of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Through exhibitions, public programs, performances, walking tours, and community partnerships, her work uses the neighborhood’s rich history as a foundation for storytelling, cultural preservation, and engagement with the Tenderloin as a living, evolving community.

Tinisch Hollins is a San Francisco-born organizer, policy advocate, and civic leader working at the intersection of public safety, economic justice, and Black community power. As co-founder of SF Black Wall Street, her work asks a fundamental city-making question: who gets to stay, build wealth, and help shape the future of a place?

SPUR — the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association — is a nonprofit public policy organization. We bring people together from across the political spectrum to develop solutions to the big problems cities face. Based in San Francisco, San José, and Oakland, we are recognized as a leading civic planning organization and respected for our independent and holistic approach to urban issues.

A project of SPUR was featured in Episode 3

SF Black Wall Street works to strengthen Black economic power, entrepreneurship, and community in San Francisco by connecting and supporting Black-owned businesses. Through advocacy, events, business development, and community-building, the organization helps sustain a thriving Black business ecosystem while celebrating the culture, history, and contributions of San Francisco’s Black communities.

Gwen Brown is a San Francisco community leader and co-founder and co-director of SF Black Wall Street, an organization advancing Black economic empowerment, cultural preservation, and community-building in San Francisco. Her work has included youth and workforce development, neighborhood investment, public-space activation, and creating opportunities for Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs; she has also served on San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee.

Rob Ready is a San Francisco theater-maker, neighborhood connector, and the kind of person who seems to know everyone. In Sidewalk Ballet’s first episode, he served as a spirit guide to the neighborhood bar as third place—demonstrating how much of city life is built through relationships.

Abra Allan is Cofounder of Big Creative Consulting and Sidewalk Ballet’s unofficial Foreign Correspondent.