Last week’s election triumph for incoming NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani got attention for a lot of reasons, among them the fact that he’s one active politician who remains openly supportive of trans communities—as opposed to demonizing them for conservative brownie points, or avoiding the subject whenever possible like most mainstream Dems now. It was a rare piece of good news in that sphere these days, after years of transpersons being the target of choice for gratuitous, paranoid attacks by public personalities from the GOP in general to J.K. Rowling.

Which makes this current Transgender Awareness Week a moment more upbeat than embattled (though of course it’s still both) for the return of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. At nearly 30 years old now—having launched as Tranny Fest

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