Editing Queer Nation (section)

=== San Francisco ===
Queer Nation/San Francisco was founded in June 1990 by Mark Duran, Steve Mehall and Daniel Paíz; they organized a meeting at the San Francisco Women's Building the following month where the group was launched publicly.<ref>"An Open Letter to Jonathan Katz" (Feb. 15, 1996); [[GLBT Historical Society]] (San Francisco): Queer Nation/San Francisco Records (collection no. 1993-02), Box 1, Chronological Series.</ref><ref>Dennis Conkin, [http://70.90.168.98/olo/imagedb/1996/08/22/19960822_Mehall_Steve/m19960822_0.jpg "Queer Nation SF co-founder dies at 37,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810215931/http://70.90.168.98/olo/imagedb/1996/08/22/19960822_Mehall_Steve/m19960822_0.jpg |date=2011-08-10 }} ''[[Bay Area Reporter]]'' (Aug. 22, 1996).</ref> In the fall of 1990 the group helped organize a protest against a visiting televangelist who vowed to "exorcise the demons" from San Francisco on Halloween.<ref name="qnsf">{{citation |periodical=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=30 October 1990 |title=The Devil, You Say? San Francisco Faces Halloween Exorcism |first=Chip |last=Johnson |access-date=2008-03-29 |url=http://www.toobeautiful.org/wsj_901030.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026111321/http://www.toobeautiful.org/wsj_901030.html |archive-date=26 October 2007 }}</ref> In another campaign, they distributed their trademark neon stickers that read "Trans Power/BI Power/Queer Nation".<ref>[[Susan Stryker|Stryker, Susan]]. Transgender History. First Printing edition. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008.</ref> The organization was active through 1991; an attempt to revive the group in 1992 was unsuccessful.<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf029000gc;query=queer%20nation;style=oac4;view=admin#descgrp-1.7.2 "Collection Details," ''Guide to the Queer Nation Records''] (San Francisco: [[GLBT Historical Society]])</ref> An offshoot, the San Francisco Street Patrol, was a neighborhood safety patrol in the Castro District; it outlived QN/SF itself by a year.<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2s2025pb/ "Collection Overview: Background," ''Guide to the San Francisco Street Patrol Records''] (San Francisco: [[GLBT Historical Society]])</ref>

In 1992, Transgender Nation was founded by members of Queer Nation as the "first explicitly queer transgender social change group in the United States."<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity|journal=Radical History Review|doi=10.1215/01636545-2007-026|year=2008|last=Stryker|first=S.|author-link=Susan Stryker|volume=2008|issue=100|pages=145–157}}</ref>