“I used for the redevelopment agency, the planning department back in the 70’s said they were gonna make this a city for the rich, and they did. A guy once told me, if you ever wanna know what’s going on with a city, going to the planning department and see what’s on the plan. A lot of people don’t realize that information is public.”

“One thing I like about here is that people vote intelligently. But, there is a lot of corruption going on. I’m newly retired from the city of San Francisco. Treasurer of Tax…bad bad situation. They run the smart people off, I’m black so they wanted to get rid of me. I’d been there a long time and they couldn’t fire me because I had tenure. They tried to get me on a performance improvement plan. Usually there’s one thing they want you to improve, ok fine, they get you some help and you work it out. But me, I was on a perpetual one. They were just looking for a reason and I had a breakdown. The doctors they sent me to told them they were wrong and to not send me back to those people. They sent me back and I started having panic attacks. There was this one guy, and this is an issue that nobody wants to talk about, and I don’t care what people do sexually, but when you have a situation where you have gay males in power that have an issue with straight women, it’s a problem I’ve had too many of my girlfriends have trouble with gay men in power. They’re twisted. And I have lot of gay friends, I have one in Vegas I call my gay husband, but what do you do when a man comes after you just because you’re a female?”
“Do you feel like he came after you because he was a gay man in power or that maybe there was just something off about this particular person?”
“I think there was something off about him. I say live and let live.”
“So it’s not gay men, it’s just this guy right?”
“Well I know a gay guy who wouldn’t speak to his secretary for a year because she’s female. No one wants to deal with that because this is the gay capital of the world. White gay capital of the world. Atlanta is the black gay capital of the world. I don’t care what people do sexually, just don’t come at me when I’m trying to do my job. Somebody just needs to say this exist, because nobody cares. There was one union rep who was gonna help me fight all this and she got sent back east. People don’t wanna help because they’re scared of the power structure here.”