Kin-Streets is a love letter to the LGBTQIA+ Bay Area community in the midst of 2020. This photographic public art project in San Francisco’s Market St honors and celebrates transhistorical kinship, tenderness, resilience, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the 54th Anniversary Compton's Cafeteria Riots.

The project consists of photographing queer folks from the past -sourced from the GLBT Historical Society archives- with queers presently living in the Bay Area. These borrowed images have been cropped, printed life-size and rephotographed alongside numerous LGBTQIA+ folks currently living and shaping the Bay Area. The chosen images highlight gestures of care, intergenerational connection and support, and resiliency throughout it all.

There are 18 photographs with 60+ collaborators, including folks from the Transgender District, The Stud Collective, dancers, artists, drag queens, performers, mentors, activist, healers, etc. This project is a way of honoring the queer folks who walked the streets we now walk in, and to celebrate the work we are all doing to keep this city at its queerest, specially in this moment in time; in the midst of a poorly managed health and economic crisis due to COVID-19 and historical uprisings against police brutality.

This project is part of Art on Market Street organized by the San Francisco Arts Commission and it will be displayed in bus shelters along Market St. from November 1st to December 10th, 2020.