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Theresa Sparks is an American transgender woman, and is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and was a candidate for San Francisco Supervisor for District 6 in the November 2010 election.[1]

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  1. 101 relations: Adolescence, Affiliate marketing, Alice B. Toklas, Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, Amazon (company), Associated Press, Bachelor's degree, Bank teller, Bay Area Reporter, Ben & Jerry's, Board of directors, California Fair Employment and Housing Act of 1959, California State Assembly, Carol Queen, Castro District, San Francisco, Cecilia Chung, Census, Chief executive officer, Community service, Company, Compton's Cafeteria riot, Dehumanization, Democratic Party (United States), Divorce, Drugstore.com, Ed Lee, Electroconvulsive therapy, Emeritus, Engineer, Engineering, Environmental consulting, Femininity, Gavin Newsom, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns, Gender-affirming surgery, General manager, Good Vibrations (sex shop), Governor of California, Grand marshal, Gray Davis, Hate crime, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Identity documents in the United States, Jay Leno, Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas State University, KCBS (AM), ... Expand index (51 more) »

  2. American transgender politicians
  3. Female United States Navy personnel
  4. LGBT law enforcement workers
  5. LGBT people from Kansas
  6. San Francisco Police Department
  7. Transgender businesspeople
  8. Waste managers

Adolescence

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically corresponding to the age of majority).

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Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a marketing arrangement in which affiliates receive a commission for each visit, signup or sale they generate for a merchant.

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Alice B. Toklas

Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein. Theresa Sparks and Alice B. Toklas are LGBT people from California.

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Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club

The Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club (first known as The Alice B. Toklas Memorial Democratic Club and later the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club) is a San Francisco-based association and political action committee for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and queer (LGBTQ) Democrats.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Bank teller

A bank teller (often abbreviated to simply teller) is an employee of a bank whose responsibilities include the handling of customer cash and negotiable instruments.

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Bay Area Reporter

The Bay Area Reporter is a free weekly LGBT newspaper serving the LGBT communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Ben & Jerry's

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., trading and commonly known as Ben & Jerry's, is an American company that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet.

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Board of directors

A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

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California Fair Employment and Housing Act of 1959

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act of 1959, codified as Government Code §§12900 - 12996, is a California statute used to fight sexual harassment and other forms of unlawful discrimination in employment and housing, which was passed on September 18, 1959.

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California State Assembly

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate.

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Carol Queen

Carol Queen (born 1957) is an American author, editor, sociologist, and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminism movement.

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Castro District, San Francisco

The Castro District, commonly referred to as the Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco.

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Cecilia Chung

Cecilia Chung (鍾紹琪) is a civil rights leader and activist for LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS awareness, health advocacy, and social justice. Theresa Sparks and Cecilia Chung are American LGBT rights activists, American transgender women and LGBT people from California.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Community service is selfless work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community contributing to a noble cause.

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Company

A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective.

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Compton's Cafeteria riot

The Compton's Cafeteria riot occurred in August 1966 in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.

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Dehumanization

Dehumanization is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Divorce

Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union.

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Drugstore.com

drugstore.com was an internet retailer in health and beauty care products.

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Ed Lee

Edwin Mah Lee (May 5, 1952 – December 12, 2017) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco from 2011 until his death in 2017.

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Electroconvulsive therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders.

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Emeritus

Emeritus (female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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Engineering

Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems.

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Environmental consulting

Environmental consulting is often a form of compliance consulting, in which the consultant ensures that the client maintains an appropriate measure of compliance with environmental regulations.

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Femininity

Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls.

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Gavin Newsom

Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California. Theresa Sparks and Gavin Newsom are American LGBT rights activists and American businesspeople in retailing.

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Gender dysphoria

Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assigned at birth.

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Gender identity

Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender.

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Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns

A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener.

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Gender-affirming surgery

Gender-affirming surgery is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender.

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General manager

A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility.

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Good Vibrations (sex shop)

Good Vibrations is a sex-positive San Francisco-based corporation selling sex toys and other erotic products.

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Governor of California

The governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Grand marshal

Grand marshal is a ceremonial, military, or political office of very high rank.

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Gray Davis

Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is an American attorney and former politician who served as the 37th governor of California from 1999 until he was recalled and removed from office in 2003.

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Hate crime

A hate crime (also known a bias crime) is crime where a perpetrator targets a victim because of their physical appearance or perceived membership of a certain social group.

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Homelessness

Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.

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Hormone therapy

Hormone therapy or hormonal therapy is the use of hormones in medical treatment.

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Identity documents in the United States

In the United States, identity documents are typically the regional state-issued driver's license or identity card, while also the Social Security card (or just the Social Security number) and the United States passport card may serve as national identification.

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Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American television host, writer and comedian.

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Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City (abbreviated as KCK) is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Wyandotte County.

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Kansas State University

Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas.

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KCBS (AM)

KCBS (740 kHz) is an all-news AM radio station located in San Francisco, California.

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Legal separation (sometimes judicial separation, separate maintenance, divorce, or divorce from bed-and-board) is a legal process by which a married couple may formalize a separation while remaining legally married.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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LGBT culture in San Francisco

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in San Francisco is one of the largest and most prominent LGBT communities in the United States, and is one of the most important in the history of American LGBT rights and activism alongside New York City.

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List of LGBT firsts by year

This list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) firsts by year denotes pioneering LGBT endeavors organized chronologically.

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Male

Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.

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Margaret Cho

Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, musician and activist.

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Mark Leno

Mark Leno (born September 24, 1951) is an American politician who served consecutively in both houses of the California State Legislature from 2002 to 2016. Theresa Sparks and Mark Leno are American LGBT rights activists.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body of San Francisco, California, United States.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Morale

Morale is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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National Transgender Advocacy Coalition

The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) was a federal level political lobbying and advocacy organization which was founded in 1999 and established as a 501(c)(4) lobbying group in Virginia of 2000.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".

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Progressivism

Progressivism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology.

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Recycling

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Times

The San Francisco Bay Times, the first LGBTQ newspaper founded jointly by gay men and women, launched in 1978 and remains one of the largest and oldest LGBTQ newspapers in Northern California.

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body within the government of the City and County of San Francisco in the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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San Francisco Human Rights Commission

The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is a charter commission of the City and County of San Francisco that works to increase equality, eradicate discrimination, and to protect human rights for all people.

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San Francisco Police Commission

The San Francisco Police Commission is the governing body of the San Francisco Police Department. Theresa Sparks and San Francisco Police Commission are san Francisco Police Department.

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San Francisco Police Department

The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is the municipal law enforcement agency of the City and County of San Francisco, as well as the San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County.

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San Francisco Pride

The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration (formerly "International Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day", "Gay Freedom Day", and "Christopher Street West"), usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a pride parade and festival held at the end of June most years in San Francisco, California, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

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Sensitivity training

Sensitivity training is a form of training with the goal of making people more aware of their own goals as well as their prejudices, and more sensitive to others and to the dynamics of group interaction.

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Sex industry

The sex industry (also called the sex trade) consists of businesses that either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment.

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Sex toy

A sex toy is an object or device that is primarily used to facilitate sexual pleasure, such as a dildo, artificial vagina or vibrator.

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Sex worker

A sex worker is a person who provides sex work, either on a regular or occasional basis.

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also called Order of Perpetual Indulgence (OPI), is a charitable, protest, and street performance movement that uses drag and religious imagery to satirize issues of sex, gender, and morality (particularly Christian perspectives on these topics) and fundraise for charity.

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Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.

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Talk show

A talk show (sometimes chat show in British English) is a television programming, radio programming or Podcast genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.

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Temporary work

Temporary work or temporary employment (also called gigs) refers to an employment situation where the working arrangement is limited to a certain period of time based on the needs of the employing organization.

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Tenderloin, San Francisco

The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping district to the northeast and the Civic Center office district to the southwest.

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Term of office

A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office.

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The Advocate (magazine)

The Advocate is an American LGBT magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has been broadcast on NBC since 1954.

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Trans woman

A trans woman (short for transgender woman) is a woman who was assigned male at birth.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Transgender Day of Remembrance

The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), also known as the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, has been observed annually from its inception on November 20 to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia.

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Transgender Law Center

The Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest American transgender-led civil rights organization in the United States.

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Transphobia

Transphobia consists of negative attitudes, feelings, or actions towards transgender people or transness in general.

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Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.

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Violet Blue

Violet Blue is an American journalist, author, editor, advisor, and educator.

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Waste management

Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.

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Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is an American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from hydrogenated fats and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.

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Willie Brown (politician)

Willie Lewis Brown Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is an American politician.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Worker cooperative

A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and self-managed by its workers.

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See also

American transgender politicians

Female United States Navy personnel

LGBT law enforcement workers

LGBT people from Kansas

San Francisco Police Department

Transgender businesspeople

Waste managers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Sparks

Also known as Sparks, Theresa.

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