Diane Felix

Diane Francis Christine Felix (born March 15, 1953), also known as Chili D, is an American disc jockey and LGBT activist. She attended San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, where she learned to DJ. She worked at Intel while at San Jose University in San Jose. She later started her own business, Felix Computers, building computers at home while in San Francisco.

Activism Diane Felix attributes her passion for activism to the various events that she experienced including the murder of the Chicano journalist, Ruben Salazar, by police during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War.

However, despite her efforts to address the misogyny in the group, the sexism only escalated when two GALA members, Anthony Lopez and Manuel Quijano, sold their house to buy a bar. The bar, Esta Noche, served to further marginalize queer women in queer spaces. In an interview with Horacio Roque Ramírez, Diane Felix revealed, Because he [the owner] had hired women bartenders, and we would have meetings and we would tell them, there's a lot of straight Latino men coming in and they're harassing the women, they're harassing the lesbians. [He'd say,] "Well, this isn't a political organization, we don't want to hear that anymore, this is a business, this is a bar."

Felix coordinated various projects while at the agency to address Latina lesbian and bisexual health, including the project Lesbianas y Bisexuales Respondiendo con Educación Sexual (LYBRES). LYBRES passed out contraceptives at bars to promote safe sex and also held workshops and discussion for women. Another project she oversaw was the educational performance group called ¡Sinvergüenza! The group performed skits about their experiences, sexual health, and other relevant topics the last Saturday of every month at Felix's club, Colors. This club had its own softball team called Un Poquito Mas, composed of Women of Color. In an attempt to create spaces for queer women of color, she hosted the first club night for queer Latina women in the Mission District in 1986 and called it, "Colors." It closed in 2000. Since arriving in San Francisco, she has been a pivotal person in producing, hosting, and promoting queer Latino-themed club nights in the Bay Area including: Cream (at Space 550) and Kandy in the Castro, Octopussy in San Jose; the dance parties, "Delicious" at The Cafe in San Francisco, and Pan Dulce, an all-gender queer Latino dance party.