Dorsey is a Doris Duke Artist, a United States Artists Fellow, and a Dance/USA Artist Fellow. He has been awarded an Emmy Award, five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, and the Goldie Award for Performance. In 2019, he became the first openly-transgender person on the cover of Dance Magazine. Dorsey is the first openly-transgender US artist to be presented by The Joyce Theater (NYC), American Dance Festival and many other major stages.

As a transgender, white, disabled/Hard-of-hearing and queer longtime social practice artist, Dorsey creates his works over 2-3 years in deep relationship with/in community. Dorsey’s dances are powerful explorations of human experience – a fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious partnering, intimate storytelling and theater. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision and guts and deep humanity, Dorsey’s works have been praised as “exquisite…poignant and important” (BalletTanz), “trailblazing” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “evocative, compelling, elegant” (LA Weekly).

As a teaching artist, Dorsey leads workshops, classes and DREAM LABS with a trans-positive pedagogy – and centers and celebrates gender non-conforming and trans bodies, voices and aesthetics.

Dorsey is the founder and Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions, a San Francisco-based arts organization that invests in the creative expression and cultural leadership of transgender and gender-nonconforming communities. Fresh Meat creates and commissions new work, presents performing arts programs, conducts education and engagement, and advocates for intersectional justice and equity in the Arts.

She has made over 15 films, including MOMMY IS COMING, THE OWLS, MY BABY’S DADDY, and HBO’s STRANGER INSIDE, which garnered her an Independent Spirit award nomination for best director. In 2015, Dunye’s multi-award-winning short film, BLACK IS BLUE (2014), was named one of the top five “Must See Feminist Films” by IndieWire. In 2016, Dunye received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Filmmaking. She is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Often set within a domestic or personal context, her stories foreground issues of race, sexuality, and identity, and are peppered with deconstructive elements, with characters directly addressing the camera and making ironic references to the production itself. These devices, and her appearance in her own films blur the distinctions between fiction and "real life”. Dunye’s work is defined by her distinctive narrative voice, a hybrid of documentary and fiction dubbed "Dunyementary" style. 

In recent years, Cheryl has entered a new wave of her career as a director for episodic television, first by joining Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey for two episodes on Season 2 and Producing Director for Season 4 of OWN’s QUEEN SUGAR, CLAWS for TNT, THE CHI for Showtime, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, UMBRELLA ACADEMY and BRIDGERTON for Netflix, DAVID MAKES MAN for OWN, ALL RISE AND THE EQUALIZER for CBS, and LOVECRAFT COUNTRY for HBO, for which her “Strange Case” episode received a 52nd NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series and has been named one of the best episodes in 2020 by The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Tonight. More recently, Cheryl directed episodes for YOU and THE HUNTING WIVES for Netflix.

In 2018, she launched her Oakland-based production company called JINGLETOWN FILMS, which is actively developing  — THE GILDA STORIES, an adaptation of the beloved 1991 queer vampire novel by Jewelle Gomez, and the feature-length version of her award-winning short, BLACK IS BLUE.

She has helped raise over $1M for charity and created social movements, including Drag Up! Fight Back!, the #MyNameIs campaign, and Sisters Care: Safety First, Sexy Second, to name a few. She has served as the Grand Marshal of Pride in San Francisco, Prague, and Shanghai, and named SF Most Notable Drag Queen (2011), Bay Area Best Activist (2014), SFAF Cleve Jones Leadership Award (2019), and honored as a 2023 Pride Honoree by the California State Legislature LGBT Caucus.

But don't get it twisted, this Sister is no Saint! Her colorful wit and sharp tongue have made Roma one of San Francisco’s favorite entertainers and emcees, landing her front and center on the main stages of the SF Pride, Folsom Street Fiar, and Easter in the Park where she emcees the infamous Hunky Jesus Contest. Roma is blessed to travel the globe as an LGBTQ ambassador, performer, and event host, striving to uphold her Sisterly vows to expiate stigmatic guilt and promulgate universal joy. For those who question her title as The Most Photographed Nun In The World™ Roma has one thing to say: Google it!

Honey Mahogany received her Masters in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and has spent 20 years working in social change and public policy. Honey worked as a legislative aide and then became chief of staff to then Supervisor Matt Haney at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She later worked as Haney’s District Director at the California State Assembly. Honey was elected to her local Democratic Party and eventually became chair, making her the first transgender person to serve as chair of any local Democratic Party in the US. In 2024 Honey served as a delegate to the Democratic National Committee, and she continues to serve as a delegate to the California Democratic Party. Honey also appeared on Season 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is a founding queen of Drag Story Hour, and a singer with nu-metal group Commando having performed at SXSW and headlined Noise Pop and several other festivals. Honey currently works as the Director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives in San Francisco. Her work has earned her Sainthood from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and awards from numerous organizations including Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, The GLIDE Center for Social Justice, and the Women's Foundation of California. Most recently, she was recognized as a 2025 Woman of the Year by the State of California.