Lynn Breedlove

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.

[1] Breedlove is the queer founding member and lead singer of the San Francisco dyke punk band Tribe 8.

The band appeared on film in A Gun for Jennifer and also performed in She's Real, Worse Than Queer, and Rise Above: A Tribe 8 Documentary by Tracy Flannigan.

[2] Tribe 8 also played at the San Francisco Transgender March, multiple Ladyfests, and LGBT Pride Festivals, including Europride 2000 in Rome, Italy.

[3] In 2015, 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 (former guitarist for The Shondes), Stephany Ashley (executive director of St. James Infirmary Clinic), and Corrie Bennett.

Breedlove has performed spoken word on Sister Spit tours, and from 2000 to 2006 he and Tara Jepsen co-hosted a monthly sexuality and gender identity-based cultures open mic in San Francisco called K'vetch.

Breedlove is the founder of the San Francisco based non-profit Homobiles, a California NPO 501(c)(3) committed to providing secure and reliable transit to the SF Bay Area LGBTIQQ community and its allies.

Homobiles is also credited by members of the business community with pioneering the operating model that helped lead to Lyft and Uber's success.

Godspeed was produced as a short film, starring Breedlove as Jim, the antihero, Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys as the dispatcher, and Jillian Lauren, aka Sparkle Diamonds of the LA burlesque troupe Velvet Hammer, as the stripper love interest.

It features music by Tribe8, Lunachicks, The Gossip, Katastrophe, MDC, All The Pretty Horses, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Blatz, and Dirtbox.

Breedlove receiving a certificate of honor from San Francisco supervisor Matt Haney and his legislative aide Honey Mahogany , November 2019