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Theresa Sparks is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and was a candidate for San Francisco Supervisor for District 6 in the November 2010 election. She is a former president of the San Francisco Police Commission and former CEO of Good Vibrations. She is also one of San Francisco's most famous transgender women and was a Grand Marshal in the 2008 San Francisco Pride Parade.Sparks is also a member of the Emeritus Board of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, a Navy veteran and a trained engineer. She is a member of the board of directors of the Horizons Foundation, a community-based LGBT philanthropic organization. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. April 1949
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Famous Theresa Sparks Quotes

“The lack of political attention to candidates and issues, history has shown us, is a sure-fire way to end up left out of the policy debates altogether.”

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The Transgender Community Needs to Reestablish Its Voice (2005)

“We need to continue to educate our elected officials and candidates for office on who we are, what we need and why they should stand in solidarity with us.”

Theresa Sparks

The Transgender Community Needs to Reestablish Its Voice (2005)

“[The gay community can] fight for our rightful voice, or we can continue to … slap one another and one day find ourselves without the electoral base to sustain the voice we already have.”

Theresa Sparks

Letter to Bay Area Reporter as cited by the San Francisco Chronicle (October 21, 2001). Senate redistricting splits Castro: Gays accuse Burton of smoothing political path for Willie Brown http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/17/MN237054.DTL

“We were fed up being harassed and strip-searched by the police, denied medical treatment, refused housing and even barred from using public bathrooms just because we were trans. We were tired of being beaten and murdered. So we went out and worked.”

Theresa Sparks

The Transgender Community Needs to Reestablish Its Voice (2005)

“Our community is organized, it’s strong, it’s paying attention and it needs to ensure a place at the political table, now and for future generations of transgender leaders.”

Theresa Sparks

The Transgender Community Needs to Reestablish Its Voice (2005)

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