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)
People march during the pride parade in San Francisco on Sunday June 29, 2025. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
A border patrol agent pushes a demonstrator after detonating a flash bang grenade near the entrance of Coast Guard Island in Alameda on Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
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)
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)
Rhodes Odendahl, 3, watches the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2023. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post)
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)
An onlooker holds a Mexican flag 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)
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)
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)
California Highway Patrol officers face a balloon near the entrance of Coast Guard Island in Alameda on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Federal immigration authorities were set to use the island as a base of operations. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
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)
Kids chant and hold signs during a protest at the Mission Education Center in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Parents and staff at Mission Education Center, a public school serving Spanish-speaking immigrants, held a rally to protest the school cuts. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The San Francisco Standard)
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)