On one side of the world, activist and artist Xiangqi Chen could be punished for her LGBTQ activism. But on the other, she is lauded as a trailblazer – the architect behind the first-of-its-kind Chinese queer art museum.
The irony that she left her home in China and found a public platform for her LGBTQ artistic expression in San Francisco’s Chinatown – the United States’ oldest – is not lost on her.
“Here in San Francisco Chinatown, I continued my journey and met so many like-minded community members and friends,” Chen says through an interpreter. “It kind of actually encouraged me and gave me lots of strength to do what I know is my mission, my calling.”
Situated across from the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, the bilingual museum spotlights a demographic that has long felt invisible. It seems like an ideal fit in the progressive city at a time when some US cities, states and the federal government are restricting or abolishing certain LGBTQ rights.
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