This is a story about what happens when you are a minority in a city whose minority population is shrinking, and what it means to be part of that gentrification.

The media’s buzzing with the old news of artists’ displacement in San Francisco. Every month the remaining members of the city’s arts community mourn the loss of yet another place where creative people lived or worked together for years. The cause celebre of artist David Brenkus ‘s eviction from his