Per Sia, a Latina trans drag performer who is one of the founders of Drag Story Hour in San Francisco, has been selected by Mayor Daniel Lurie as the city’s second drag laureate. Lurie made the announcement October 29.

“Everything I do is because I love doing what I do,” Per Sia told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview prior to the announcement being made public. “From being a founding member of Drag Story Hour performing all over the Bay, when I heard of this news, it really sort of made me feel kind of a stamp of approval, of really celebrating everything I am and everything I do.”

The announcement was made at the garden of Rooftop Elementary in San Francisco’s Twin Peaks neighborhood, Wednesday afternoon. Per Sia works there at an after-school arts program and wanted her studen

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