JOIN THE ADVOCACY
For Mx. Kiki Krunch, activism isn't just a passion—it is the way she survives, thrives, and fiercely protects her chosen family. As a proud Filipina immigrant, a trans woman of color, and a person thriving with HIV, Kiki’s advocacy is deeply rooted in her own lived experiences. She intimately understands the terrifying leap of leaving a home country to seek sanctuary, the exhaustion of having to justify your own existence, and the radical, life-saving power of community support.
KIKI’S CAUSE
Serving as a Community Engagement Coordinator at the San Francisco Community Health Center, Kiki is a fierce frontline advocate for people living with HIV. She actively fights against local funding cuts to life-saving services and champions healthcare that is culturally competent, trauma-informed, and completely free of stigma.
Serving Status, Slashing Stigma
Whether commanding the stage in drag or speaking out at city hearings, Kiki creates spaces where queer and trans people of color are celebrated, not just included. Honored as Ms. GAPA 2023 and an Imperial Crown Princess of the Imperial Court of San Francisco, she uses her platform to demand dignity, safety, and gender-affirming care for the entire LGBTQ+ community.
Dragging the Status Quo
Having navigated the daunting process of leaving her home country to seek asylum and live authentically, Kiki is a dedicated ally to fellow immigrants. She works to ensure that trans and queer newcomers find the same sanctuary, legal support, and chosen family that helped her build a new life in the United States.
Sanctuary & Stilettos
build a longer table
WHERE TO MAKE AN IMPACT
SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
San Francisco Community Health Center celebrates and attends to the health and wellness of the communities that define San Francisco—immigrant and communities of color, queer, trans, unhoused people, and all of us who are most impacted by oppression—through comprehensive medical, dental, and mental health services.
We believe that health care starts with healing justice and meeting the basic needs of our communities. Our culturally informed services are designed by the very people we serve.
Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness, & equality.
glbtq+ asian pacific alliance
Established in 1988 after months
of discussion and soul searching
from several members
of the Asian Gay Men's Support Group
at Berkeley's Pacific Center,
GAPA was formed fundamentally
to organize, integrate, and nurture a growing
gay & bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander (API) identity and to foster positive role models
within our communities.
Three decades on,
we continue forward as a vanguard
for the queer and transgender
API community in the Bay Area.
We helped build institutions
like the SF Community Health Center,
formerly API Wellness Center, and GAPA Runway,
one of the longest-running SF pageants.
SAN FRANCISCO aids foundation
San Francisco AIDS Foundation provides services, community, and spaces for people of all ages, races, ethnicities, immigration status, HIV status, and gender identity. Our priority communities are people living with HIV; gay, bisexual, and queer men; transgender and gender non-binary people; and people who inject drugs.
Within these communities, we further prioritize people of color, people experiencing homelessness and unstable housing, people over age 50, people living with hepatitis C, people who use substances, and people with mental health care needs.
We recognize that these communities are not mutually exclusive nor is this list exhaustive, as there are many intersections in our identities and experiences. For example, people with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, and people for whom English is not a native language intersect with every priority community.