On Thursday of last week as we were leading up to Pride Weekend, a Guatemalan drag performer living in SF and performing under the stage name Hilary Rivers was detained after showing up for an immigration court hearing.
We noted in our Pride Weekend roundup today that there weren’t any violent or terribly disruptive incidents at this year’s festivities, but that doesn’t mean the weekend went off without a hitch for everybody. 48 Hills had the news on Friday that an SF drag queen had been detained by ICE Thursday morning, and right on the heels of performing Wednesday at a Galería de la Raza Pride event. The performer’s stage name is Hilary Rivers (his real name is not revealed, but he uses he/him pronouns), and he’s been in the US legally with a pending asylum case. But at a regular Thursday morning scheduled immigration appointment at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency office at 630 Sansome Street, Rivers was detained and taken into custody.
The Chronicle spoke with Rivers’s attorney over the weekend, who said her client has been shipped to an ICE detention facility near Bakersfield, CA…