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40 Years of Building Community 9th Annual Pride Breakfast

40 Years of Building Community 9th Annual Pride Breakfast
Program Agenda
• Breakfast/Networking

• Welcome from Board President Lisa Hu

• Opening Remarks from Congresswoman Barbara Lee

• Presentation of Awards
Trailblazer Award: Hon. Lori Droste (she/her)
Frontline Changemaker Award: Parivar Bay Area
Community Voice Award: Maestro Michael Morgan (he/him)
Community Champion Award: Hon. Brendalynn Goodall (she/her)

• Keynote Speakers
Dublin City Councilmember and Candidate for California State Assemblymember Shawn Kumagai
Oakland Vice Mayor and Candidate for Alameda County Supervisor Rebecca Kaplan

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 Opening Remarks Congresswoman Lee serves on the House Budget
Committee and the powerful Appropriations
Committee, which oversees all federal government
spending. Congresswoman Lee is the highest-ranking
Woman of Color in Congressional Leadership, serving
as Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee
on State and Foreign Operations (SFOPS). She is the
first African American Member of Congress to serve as
Chair of the subcommittee, which funds many of the
nondefense international affairs activities of the United
States. Rep. Lee also serves as the House Democratic
Co-Chair of the Policy and Steering Committee. As
Co-Chair, Rep. Lee works to ensure that committees
reflect the diversity, dynamism, and integrity of the
Democratic Caucus. In addition, she currently serves as
the Chair of the Majority Leader’s Task Force on Poverty
and Opportunity, Co-Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus,
Co-Chair of the Cannabis Caucus, and Vice Chair of
the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus. She is the
former Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and
current Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Progressive

Congresswoman Caucus.

Barbara Lee
The 2020 feature documentary about her life, “Barbara
Lee: Speaking Truth to Power,” by filmmaker Abby
Ginzberg, won a 2022 NAACP Image Award.

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 Trailblazer Award
Councilmember Lori Droste has served on
the Berkeley City Council for nearly eight
years, and in that time she has been a
champion for housing opportunity, high
quality infrastructure, and good governance.

Lori has broad experience in public service

and politics, working as an educator
and serving in numerous progressive
organizations. Although Councilmember
Droste is retiring from the Berkeley City
Council this year, she leaves a legacy of
working constructively with her colleagues
to advance equity, public safety, and climate
action.

Lori Droste

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 Frontline Changemaker Award

Parivar Bay Area is America’s only Trans Led Trans Centering South Asian Organization.
Parivar celebrates the intersectionality of our Trans Queer and South Asian Indian
identities and builds a community of light, love, and acceptance.

Since 2018, Parivar Bay Area has been committed to Global Disaster Relief, Advocacy
through Arts and Community Building.

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 Frontline Changemaker Award
Key Achievements
• Holding over 56 spaces for Queer Transgender
Hijrah events and discussions across San Francisco
Bay Area and virtual places.
• Building the largest relief and rehabilitation Trans-
gender grassroots initiative in India- SITAL(Save In-
dian Trans ALLINDIA Lives), raising over $350,000(
over 2.75 Crores INR) serving over 90,000 Trans
Hijrah Kinnar Folx.
• Driving health care equity with holding vaccine
drives for COVID-19 & MPX centering Transgender
folx.
• Co-founding, Chairing the SF LGBTQ+ COVID
Relief Coalition serving the needs of the LGBTQ+
communities across the Bay Area’s nine counties,
raising over $200,000 to provide microgrants, gro-
ceries, rent relief and vaccinations.
• Co-founded and lead the QTAPI(Queer Trans API)
coalition bringing awareness to Queer Trans Asian
Pacific Islander Week holding over 15 events nation-
wide.
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• Holding support group (Robaroo), vaccination
drives, COVID testing sites, trans-affirming surgery
funding in partnership with San Francisco AIDS
Foundation, Alameda County Health Department,
Santa Clara County & San Francisco County and many
more.
• Launched and successfully enabled over 130 Trans
Hijrah folx to rebuild livelihoods from micro enter-
prises as part of our SITAL livelihoods programs to
achieve trans economic justice. Programs in progress
include locations in India, Guyana and Bangladesh.
Businesses include sewing, drinking water, cooking/
hoteling, beauty salons, trans-care medical clinic and
many more.
• Developed and launched parivarbazaar.com, a full
fledged e-commerce site showcasing products and
art made, touched, finished and/or sourced by Trans
Hijrah folks of the global south.
• Established the Transgender Immigrant Global
South Coalition with El/La Para Trans Latinas. The
LGBT Aslyum Project to provide legal, socioeconomic
and mental support to immigrant LGBTQ Transgender
Hijrah Kinnar arriving into America.
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 Community Voice
Award Michael Morgan was the Music Director
and Conductor of Oakland Symphony for
30 years and he passed away on August
20, 2021.

Morgan made the Oakland Symphony

Orchestra socially authentic, demanded
equality, and he fashioned a unique,
informed artistic profile that attracted
one of the most diverse audiences in the
nation. His music reflected his beliefs:
reverence for the past, attuned to the
future, rooted in his adopted home of
Maestro Oakland. His spirit will always guide
the enduring future of the Oakland
Michael Morgan Symphony.

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Community Voice Award
Maestro Michael Morgan
Michael Morgan was born in Washington, D.C., where
he attended public schools and began conducting
at the age of 12. While a student at Oberlin College
Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the
Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, studying with
Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa. He first worked with
Leonard Bernstein during that same summer.
His operatic debut was in 1982 at the Vienna State
Opera, conducting Mozart’s The Abduction from the
Seraglio. In 1986, Sir Georg Solti chose him to become
the Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, a position he held for seven years under both
Solti and Daniel Barenboim. In 1986, he was invited by
Leonard Bernstein to make his debut with the New York
Philharmonic. As guest conductor, Morgan has appeared
with most of America’s major orchestras, as well as
the New York City Opera, St. Louis Opera Theater, and
Washington National Opera.
In addition to his duties with the Oakland Symphony,
Maestro Morgan served as Artistic Director of Oakland
Symphony Youth Orchestra, Music Director at Bear
Valley Music Festival, and Music Director of Gateways
Music Festival. He was Music Director Emeritus of the
Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera and was on the
boards of Oaktown Jazz Workshops and the Purple Silk
Music Education Foundation.
In 2020, he began an association with the San Francisco
Symphony as the first curator of their Currents online
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series, and he recently led the Orchestra on July 23 at
Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco in what the
San Francisco Chronicle’s Joshua Kosman said, “Some
conductors use a guest appearance with a major
orchestra as an opportunity to show what they can do.
Michael Morgan uses it to show what the orchestra can
do. I like his way better.”
His programming engaged new audiences and many
returned for subsequent concerts. Notable personalities
like W. Kamau Bell and Dolores Huerta were invited to
share the “Playlist” of music that shaped their lives and
values. Michael’s “Notes From…” concerts explored
the music and musicians of such specific communities
as Vietnam, Korea, Native American, and LGBTQ+.
“Lost Romantics” gave deserving, neglected works of
the late 19th century a new hearing. And “American
Masterworks” presented performances of such seminal
stage works as “West Side Story,” “Candide,” “Street
Scene,” “Porgy and Bess,” and “Show Boat.” The San
Francisco Chronicle proclaimed, “In his 30 years as
music director of the Oakland Symphony, Morgan has
made that orchestra a vibrant hotbed for innovative
programming.”
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 Born and raised in Oakland, California,
Community Champion Brendalynn’s activist and social justice roots
Award are anchored in the East Bay. Brendalynn is
a retired accomplished administrator and
social worker with more than 30 years in the
fields of mental health, aging, and workforce
development.

Brendalynn is an out and proud 71 years old

African American Lesbian who is passionate
about social justice, civil rights and equality.
Brendalynn was the 2018 Oakland Pride
Legacy Grand Marshal and a recipient of the
National Taskforce “Community Builder’s
Award” because she was instrumental in
providing funding for a monthly lunch/social
program for LGBTQ Elders -Lavender Seniors
Lunch Bunch. Last June 2021, the Urban
Brendalynn Goodall League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area,
presented Brendalynn the Black LGBTQ+
Champion Recognition Award.

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 Community
Champion
Award:
Brendalynn
Goodall
Brendalynn joined the Board of East Bay Stonewall
Democratic Club in 1997, because she felt it
was important to represent and promote the
visibility of African American LGBTQ individuals.
Serving as treasurer, secretary, vice-president,
and president, she doubled the membership of
the club and outreached to guarantee a more
inclusive membership with greater participation.
As Club President, Brendalynn led Stonewall in
holding the first Oakland Pride Breakfast. The event
honors individuals and organizations for providing
leadership and promoting equality in the LGBTQ
community.
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Brendalynn has served on numerous boards,
advisory groups and commissions. She is an
advocate and voice for elders, People of Color, and
LGBTQ+ individuals on a local, state and national
level. Governor Newsom recently appointed
Brendalynn as a Commissioner to the State
Commission on Aging. In addition, she was elected
in 2020 to the Alameda County Democratic Party
Central Committee representing Assembly District
18 and last year re-elected as the Treasurer for the
State Dem Party LGBTQ Caucus. Brendalynn is an
Oakland Mayoral Schaaf appointee to the Selection
Panel for Police Commission and recently ended her
term as the Vice Chair. Brendalynn is currently on
the Boards of Health & Human Resource Education
Center, Inc. and California Foundation on Aging.
Brendalynn has been in a committed and loving
relationship with Nancy Hinds for 29.5 years.
Brendalynn and Nancy were one of the first LGBTQ
couples legally married by Oakland Mayor Ron
Dellums and U.S. Senate Representative Barbara Lee
on June 16, 2008.
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 Dublin City Councilmember Shawn is a third-generation military
and Candidate for veteran. Son of a first generation
Japanese immigrant and only Asian
California State Assembly American Pacific Islander (AAPI)
candidate in the race for Assembly.
Lifelong Democrat and Dublin’s first
openly gay City Councilmember whose
been keeping promises and delivering
results for Alameda County families.

After losing his mother, Shawn stepped

up to become legal guardian to his
younger brother. They planted roots
in Dublin, but with out-of-control
housing costs keeping families from
homeownership, Shawn made affordable
housing his mission.

Shawn Kumagai

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 Dublin City Councilmember
and Candidate for
California State Assembly
Shawn
Kumagai
In 2018, Shawn was elected to the Dublin
City Council. He promised to build more
transit-oriented affordable housing for
seniors and low-income residents, and
Shawn delivered with over 1,000 new
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units. He promised he’d stand up for
small businesses, and Shawn delivered
by helping local small businesses stay
afloat during the pandemic, expanding
good-paying union jobs, and making
his city safer. And Shawn promised to
respect our tax dollars, and he delivered
again by balancing his city’s multi-million
dollar budget every year and earning the
highest possible credit rating.
Shawn is currently running for California
State Assembly, District. 20. Shawn has
a real record of delivering results and
would make history as the first openly
gay member of the Assembly from this
district. Shawn is endorsed by the East
Bay Stonewall Democratic Club.
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 Oakland City Councilmember
and Candidate for
Alameda County Supervisor Rebecca Kaplan was born in Ontario,
Canada and grew up living with a
universal healthcare system, in a family
and community which encouraged her
to fight for the rights of workers.

Stories about the history of worker

abuses and the fight for worker rights,
such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Fire, as well as people giving their lives
for social justice, such as the murder
of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney
and Michael Schwerner were part of
Rebecca Kaplan Rebecca’s upbringing and inform her
values.

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 Oakland City Councilmember
and Candidate for
Alameda County Supervisor
Rebecca
Kaplan
Rebecca attended MIT as an undergraduate, where she
was actively involved in organizing for women’s rights
and reproductive freedom, LGBT equality, and part of the
successful effort to get her campus to divest from apartheid-
era South Africa. She volunteered on the re-election
campaign of Senator Kennedy and worked for the City of
Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women.
Rebecca obtained her law degree from Stanford Law School,
where she had the opportunity to learn from teachers
like Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow) and
became involved in advocacy for prisoner rights and against
mass incarceration. She worked in Oakland as a tenant’s
rights attorney and advocate and helped pass “Just Cause
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for Eviction” on the ballot. She served for over
seven years on the AC Transit Board of Directors,
an elected position, and expanded late night bus
service, opposed outsourcing, expanded bike-transit
connections, solar power, and sustainable fuel
initiatives.
In 2008, Kaplan was elected city-wide as Oakland’s
Council member at-large, where she has launched
major projects and policies, including a vacant
property tax to fund homeless services, zero
emission vehicle technology, bicycle and pedestrian
safety and access improvements, and has been
elected unanimously by her Council colleagues to
serve as Oakland’s Vice Mayor. Kaplan also works
for improvements throughout our region, serving
on the Board of the Alameda County Transportation
Commission, and the Oakland-Alameda County
Coliseum Authority Board. Kaplan has also served
on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Board where she launched new projects to reduce
dangerous pollution in hard-hit communities.
Rebecca is currently running for Alameda County
Supervisor, District 3 and is endorsed by the East Bay
Stonewall Democratic Club.
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 Thank You to our Sponsors!
Pink Level

Red Level

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 Thank You to our Sponsors!
Orange Level

Congresswoman
Joe Greaves
Barbara Lee

Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan

Yellow Level

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 Green Level
California Assemblymember Alex Lee
California Assemblymember Mia Bonta
Equality California
Brendalynn Goodall, Elected Member,
Alameda County Democratic Central
Committee, 18th AD
Peralta Federation of Teachers, 1603
Lisa Hu
The Franco-Clausen Family
Ignacio De La Fuente for Oakland Mayor
Indigo Level
Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb
Kaleb Lawson
Day Thinking Trivia
BART Director Robert Raburn
Alfred Twu for AC Transit Board 2022
Alameda County Democratic Party Chair Igor Tregub
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Turquoise Level
Congressman Eric Swalwell
Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley
Alameda County Supervisor Dave Brown
Alameda County Assessor Phong La
Oakland Councilmember / President Pro Tem Sheng Thao,
Candidate for Oakland Mayor
City of Haward Mayor Pro Tem Sara Lamnin
Nick Resnick for Oakland School Board
Pecolia Manigo for Oakland School Board
Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition
Hon. Alex Randolph & Trevor Nguyen
Matt Lardner
Sean Dugar, DNC Member
East Bay Regional Park District Director Elizabeth Echols
Alameda County Sheriff Elect Yesenia Sanchez
Alameda County Democratic Party Vice Chair Tonya Love
Ces Rosales
Loren Taylor for Oakland Mayor
UC Berkeley Haas Evening-Weekend MBA Association President
James Chang
East Bay Regional Park District Director Dee Rosario
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 East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club Board

Executive Board
President: Lisa Hu (she/hers)
Vice President: Matt Lardner (he/him)
PAC Chair: Joe Greaves (he/him)
Treasurer: George Perezvelez (he/him)
Secretary: Terry Taplin (he/him)

At-Large Board Members

Alex Randolph (he/him)
Kaleb Lawson (he/him)
Shane Krpata (he/her/they)
Shay Franco-Clausen (she/her)
Victor Aguilar (he/him)

40 Years of Building Community 9th Annual Pride Breakfast