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From gay rights in Harvey Milk’s electn – and vastatg assasatn – through to last year’s regnn of the cy’s gay and leather cultural district, San Fran has always been a vibrant LGBTQ+ haven.
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But rarely has a show ever been this pro-LGBTQ, as evinced by the terracial, trans-cis gay uple of Nomi & Amana (trans actrs Jamie Clayton & Freema Agyeman). The San Francis-based show about the everyday liv of gay men ed s often soapy storyl of sex, datg, backstabbg, and iendship drama as a greater prism by which to view the changg inty of the LGBTQ muny, and s place the world.