 I'm very active with other LGBT historians both across the state in California and also across the country presenting queer youth programs or LGBT history programs to queer youth. So I belong to a bunch of professional organizations and there's a lot of us doing this across the country where we really feel it's important to reach out as historians to get these stories to young people so they hear that they have this wonderful history that came before them. One of the things that I so in terms of creating a good atmosphere and excellent atmosphere for LGBT and Q and A students is right now I am part of the statewide AB 1266 initiative program that's it's been passed as a bill and now there's a whole group of us statewide that are working to support the bill and that's the gender neutral bill so that what we're doing is not only a rollout but we formed an organization to help keep it going in terms of we know we're against a statewide fight there's a group that's still organizing and collecting petitions to overturn the bill AB 1266 so we're in support of it and then we're also trying to roll it out and do cultural competency trainings to school districts all across the country to help roll out for their own states to do bills like AB 1266 but also in the state to support the bill and to support the aspects of the bill to make sure that students across the state of California are safe in the classroom in the bathroom in the locker room all across the campus that they are allowed to be themselves while they're on campus I came out in terms of knowing my own identity when I grew up as a little girl I didn't know but when I came out I came screaming out of the closet at right around the cusp of 1819 fell in love with a woman and have not looked back it's been great my favorite movie I would have to say is a movie that I saw about six seven years ago now it's called paragraph 175 and it's a movie about the gay men who were the triangles in the concentration camps on their tunics they were the pink triangles and it's a documentary made by a wonderful pair of filmmakers who would also also this was their second or third film that they made several of them they made the also The Times of Harvey Milk another wonderful documentary and paragraph 175 talks about the gay men who again really were just treated horribly in the camps the ones with the pink triangles were singled out for particularly abusive treatment in the labor camps and some of the experiments that went on and one of the things that struck me about the film was that there were so few of them left that the tens of thousands of men who had worn that pink triangle that there was only 12 left in all of Europe that they could find that had worn the pink triangle and it really struck me that that we were losing a whole generation of LGBT elders to tell their stories so seeing that film is is what got me excited about starting my own history project here in California so I would have to say the rainbow because it's not well known but there's not a lot of us left but I was one of the original rainbow flag volunteers I helped to make the two original rainbow flags in June of 1978 and so I have such fond memories so whenever anyone asks me about a favorite color I usually say rainbow because I remember so fondly working on those two huge flags they were 40 by 60 and they were raised at UN Plaza in San Francisco in June of 1978 and they are the original rainbow flags so I would say rainbow is my favorite color