Baymec Community Foundation

This weekend is Silicon Valley Pride so now is a good time to brush up on Pride history in the South Bay. You can do this by going to the Q***r Silicon Valley website and clicking q***rsiliconvalley.org/Pride to learn where all the festivals and parades have been held since 1975 plus lots more!

Cupertino elected its first LGBTQ+ councilmember in 2022, but it wasn’t easy. Winning took a lot of thick skin to withstand the high level of homophobia prevalent in the campaign. Learn more about J.R. Fruen and his vision for a better Cupertino at Q***rSiliconValley.org/jr-Fruen. Baymec Community Foundation Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee (BAYMEC)

🎞️🏳️‍🌈Q***r Silicon Valley Documentary Airs on PBS Stations for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🎞️
The BAYMEC Community Foundation produced the documentary “Q***r Silicon Valley,” skillfully memorializes the work of a generation of activists who were all part of the LGBTQ+ movement in San Jose and Silicon Valley, from the 1970s to now.

Spanning almost 50 years, this groundbreaking documentary showcases 22 history-making activists, as they recount the struggles and discrimination they endured to ultimately build a local society that was accepting and inclusive. The film features many of the people who helped shape the vibrant and cohesive q***r culture that exists today.

The film is directed and co-produced by award-winning documentarian and San Jose State University professor Bob Gliner, for the Baymec Community Foundation (BCF). No such documentary has previously been produced that focuses exclusively on the q***r community in Silicon Valley. Co-Producer and BCF Executive Director Ken Yeager (https://www.facebook.com/KenOnTheGo) – also in the film as the first openly gay elected official in the county – says this: “Each of these 22 inspirational people interviewed deserve their own documentary. Their impact on q***r culture has been that profound.”

In June, the documentary will be playing as part of a double feature on NorCal - Public Media stations.

On KQED:
June 13th at 11:00 p.m.
June 14th at 5:00 a.m.

On KRCB-TV:
June 11th at 2:00 a.m.
June 11th at 4:00 p.m.

If you can’t catch the documentary on PBS, you can watch on demand here:
https://www.q***rsiliconvalley.org/documentary/


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’s election to the Sunnyvale City Council in 2022 illustrated yet another victory for LGBTQ+ acceptance and representation in Santa Clara County's second-largest city, where he joins fellow q***r Councilmember Alysa Cisneros. Read more about how Richard became inspired to be involved with city government and what his campaign was like here: https://www.q***rsiliconvalley.org/richard-mehlinger. City of Sunnyvale, CA

Q***r Silicon Valley is pleased to showcase a group of prominent LGBTQ people in our community that we know the least about. They are our Superior Court judges. As exemplary role models, they signal to young LGBTQ lawyers that becoming a judge is an option open to them. You can read more here: https://www.q***rsiliconvalley.org/politics-activism/judges/

Check out the Special Screening of Q***r Silicon Valley Documentary Film on April 27th at Hammer Theater in San Jose. Tickets are $10 and can be bought online or at the door via bit.ly/qsv-screening.