15 Facts About Lynn Breedlove

Lynn Breedlove is an American musician, writer, and performer who was born in Oakland, California.

Lynn Breedlove was born in and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during early childhood and then lived in Alameda and Oakland, California, as a teenager.

Lynn Breedlove's father was a high school teacher who claimed to be of partial Native American descent.

Lynn Breedlove's mother was a secretary who originally hailed from Germany.

Lynn Breedlove has performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and criticized the festival's trans-exclusionary policies.

In 2015, Lynn Breedlove returned to playing music with the emergence of his new band, The Homobiles, billed as a "queer-punk supergroup", with Ed Varga, founder of Homo A Gogo, songwriter Mya Byrne, Fureigh, Stephany Ashley, and Corrie Bennett.

In May 2013, Lynn Breedlove appeared on Music Life Radio, discussing Tribe 8, and Homobiles, the new LGBTQ ride sharing non-profit service founded by Lynn Breedlove in San Francisco.

Lynn Breedlove is the founder of the San Francisco based non-profit Homobiles, a California NPO 501 committed to providing secure and reliable transit to the SF Bay Area LGBTIQQ community and its allies.

Homobiles officially launched their donation-based community mutual aid service in 2011 after Lynn Breedlove first began giving rides in 2010 - to protect drag performers and people who didn't feel safe or wouldn't be picked up by traditional taxi services.

Lynn Breedlove co-directed with Jen Gilomen and co-produced with Kami Chisholm, wrote the script, and starred in the film.

In November 2019, Lynn Breedlove was commended by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors during Transgender Awareness Week.

Lynn Breedlove was featured in the 2016 documentary, Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution, directed by Yony Leyser.

Lynn Breedlove self-identified as Native American in his 2019 book 45 Thought Crimes and a subsequent interview with the Advocate.

Lynn Breedlove has not located himself within kinship networks of any specific group of Indigenous Americans.

Lynn Breedlove's mother was raised in Nazi Germany, and his father's family spoke often of their Native American ancestry.