Tina Valentin Aguirre (they/them) is the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District Director and is a 2025 Walter & Elise Haas Fund Creative Power Award Winner. Tina holds a BA in Communication from Stanford University, has worked in nonprofit grant-writing for decades, served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the GLBT Historical Society for four years and has made documentaries, produced arts festivals, and is published in a poetry anthology. Tina curated the Chosen Familias exhibition on LGBTQ Latinx family photo albums (June 7-October 20, 2019) at the GLBT Historical Society Museum, along with the Giving Them Their Flowers/Living Lesbian Legends exhibition (November 1, 2024- January 31, 2026) at Queer Arts Featured.  Tina is married and has lived in San Francisco since 1987.