Papi Churro celebrates winning the 28th annual San Francisco drag king contest, hosted at Oasis in San Francisco on Sunday, September 8, 2024. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
Praise dancer Kendra Mosley performs during a memorial for sisters Jayla Brown, 9, NyJae Meade, 6, and NaJhari Meade, 1, outside of their home in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, where the girls were killed in a fire a week prior, on Monday, July 26, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post)
A security guard checks the door near The Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, which is hosting the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. Following the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, security from both private companies and the San Francisco Police Department has been increased around the conference. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
People march during the pride parade in San Francisco on Sunday June 29, 2025. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
A Department of Public Works employee puts cleaning chemicals near a person sitting on a street at the corridor near 6th Street and Market in San Francisco on Thursday, July 10, 2025. This stretch of the Tenderloin has seen improvements, but at night it turns into an open air drug market. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
Monica Morales coaches Emily L. Silverman on how to phone bank for Vice President Kamala Harris while reflected in a mirror at democratic headquarters in San Francisco on November 4, 2024. The former Nordstrom Rack space has served as a base of operations for both national and local races. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
Participants work together to build a makeshift shelter during a wilderness survival camp at Boulder Creek Boy Scout Reservation in Boulder Creek on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
: Children crowd onto a slide at Marie H Reed Recreation Center in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post)
Former mayor Willie Brown socialized with people during an election party at John’s Grill in San Francisco on November 5, 2024. The party, which has become an Election Day tradition, offers free food and attracts people from all walks of life, including reporters, politicos and passersby. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
Mary Clement wipes her face as Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II speaks during the Make Good Trouble Rally, which advocates for increased voting rights protection and other social justice measures, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, August 28, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post)
People watch demonstrators during a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at 24th and Mission in San Francisco on Monday June 9, 2025. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
Kaori Watts looks up in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco on Thursday, July 31, 2025. Teaja Watts’ daughter Kaori Watts has been in the hospital since December 12, 2024, after she was born prematurely and suffered numerous health issues as a result.
LaDonna Martin teaches her third grade class at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday, August 19, 2021. The Alexandria City Public School district has mandated that everyone wears masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post)
A pro-Palestine march takes over the street starting outside of the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Embarcadero in San Francisco on April 14, 2025. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
Go-go dancers with DJ Miss Toto perform on the second day of Outside Lands Music Festival hosted in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, August 9, 2025. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
Rhodes Odendahl, 3, watches the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2023. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post)
Ballet dancers take a bow after an outdoor performance at The Washington Ballet Gala, which was hosted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Friday, June 4, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post)