"When I arrived in San Francisco in 1992, the city sheltered outsider queer cultures unimaginable in most places. Twenty years of gentrification, homogenization, and assimilation later, and yes, these cultures still exist in some form, even if they have been decimated in both density and imagination. Perhaps what's changed the most for me is that now I need to live elsewhere in order to dream."

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads excerpts from The End of San Francisco at Modern Times Bookstore.

In 2010, Democracy Now hosted a debate between Lt. Dan Choi and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on whether the queer rights movement should be focused on repealing the Don't Ask, Don’t Tell law.  Celebrating the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sycamore says, only makes progressive movements in the US complicit with American wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.