Kai Proschan

27 Years of Punk Energy: How the San Francisco Trans Film Festival Thrives Against All Odds

“Here we are in this moment,” Shawna Virago, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, says to the movie theatre full of LGBTQI and A’s. “But we’re always in this moment.” The crowd roars in cheers and snaps. This moment that Shawna refers to is this...

Five Lessons I Learned from My Veteran Ex

I didn’t expect my love life to come with military-grade life lessons, but when you’re dating a veteran, it’s part of the package deal. We met a couple of years into my living in LA and over seven months I went from calling him “military guy” to...