Have a Happy Anti-Technofascist May Day Workers' Tour of the Mission with Gay Shame
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May Day 2026, QUEER & TRANS NON/WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE for a tour of some historically significant sites in the Mission, detailed on this episode. All hookers, loiterers, shoplifters, street sellers, truants, 1099 queens, gig workers, students, time theft recidivists, hustlers, welfare fags, & SSDI dykes are encourage to attend. May 1 at 7pm, 16th BART Plaza in San Francisco Gay Shame Map of Technofascist Terror in the Mission Gay Shame on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gay.shame/ Gay Shame: The Podcast: Anti-Sex Worker Barricades at Capp Street...
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Black Anarchism vs. State Terror and Billy Porter with Prince Shakur (The Dugout)
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Prince Shakur is an anarchist political educator with a book dealing with how he was politicized (When They Tell You To Be Good), a big library of video essays on YouTube, and a Black anarchist podcasts he co-hosts called The Dugout. Prince's site The Dugout's site On YouTube: How To Be A (Better) Organizer in 2026 More episodes on anarchism
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AIDS Nonprofit to Gays: Stop “Sexual Mixing” with Michael Scarce
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Michael Scarce worked at a now-defunct nonprofit called the Stop AIDS Project till in 2007, he blew the whistle when it began suggesting that to end AIDS, we need to “prevent sexual mixing.” Michael’s Substack: ‘A Parable of Second-Hand Sodomy: Lessons Learned From San Francisco's Failed Attempt at Viral Apartheid in the Name of HIV Prevention’ Center for HIV Law and Policy’s project against HIV surveillance
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Who's Afraid of Gender Studies? with Jane Ward and Trung Nguyen
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In March, viral depositions of a couple of 20-something white twinks named Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh (referred to on social media as "DOGE bros") made explicit how careless and nihilistic the federal government was in cutting humanities funding last year, as part of Elon Musk's short-lived Department of Government Efficiency. Jane Ward is a Feminist Studies professor at UC Santa Barbara who wrote about recent closures of gender and women's studies departments at US colleges on her Substack, the Sapphic Cut. Co-hosting! Trung P. Nguyen, friend/ who teaches Ethnic Studies at San Jose...
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Being Seen: It's Complicated with Raquel Willis
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Raquel Willis' resume is long: the first trans lead editor at Out magazine, a TIME 100 awardee, memoirist (The Risk It Takes To Bloom), and co-founder of the group Gender Liberation, whose direct actions at the US capitol calling for basic needs like trans healthcare reverberate far outside the DMV. We discuss the limitations of mainstream visibility in saving trans lives, and her podcast series AFTERLIVES, whose first two seasons cover the lives and passings of Layleen Polanco and Marsha P. Johnson. Raquel's site https://www.raquelwillis.com/ AFTERLIVES podcast...
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Trans SanFrisco with Susan Stryker
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The return of Susan Stryker! On this episode: The utopian potential of Trans SanFrisco of the 1990s, and why the new third edition of Transgender History may be her last time editing the classic tome. Transgender History https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/susan-stryker/transgender-history-third-edition/9781541605886/ When Monsters Speak https://www.dukeupress.edu/when-monsters-speak Susan's upcoming book: Changing Gender https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250453921/changinggender/ Episode: Susan on the Compton's Cafeteria riot https://www.patreon.com/posts/jail-at-comptons-79134233
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Re: the recent Wired magazine piece "Inside the Gay Tech Mafia"
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Friends Stab and both texted me when about a recent, very Sad Francisco-coded feature in Wired magazine. Here's a little response, inspired partially by an impromptu reading group a few friends did around the piece. Mentioned: Alexandr Wang Barry's Bootcamp Melania's box office Peter Thiel Sam Altman Tim Cook TW for brief mention of Sam Altman sexually assaulting his sister, and the US war assault on Iran including the AI-assisted murder of kids there. Zoë Bernard, Wired: Inside the Gay Tech Mafia Ryan Grim, The Intercept: The Death of Peter Thiel's "Kept" Romantic Partner is Being...
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Movie Club: Dirty Harry with dee(dee) and Jemma
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First episode covering movies set in the Bay! Starting with: 1971’s DIRTY HARRY, in which Clint Eastwood plays a vigilante cop tracking down a gay Zodiac killer clone in a San Francisco overrun with hippie scum. Jemma on her book “The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us” dee(dee) on the 1970s queer zine “Gay Sunshine” Support the show and get new episodes early on Patreon:
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Batman of San Jose, Black Phoenix, Crimson Fist, and Queen Bee (Bay Area Super Heroes)
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Uncover the lore of four masked comrades who meet up regularly to offer aid to unhoused neighbors and teach self-defense. We talk about the discourse around wearing frog costumes to ICE protests and giving public comment at San Jose City Hall dressed as Batman (that’s the clip at the beginning of the episode). BASH Linktree BASH IG Kai Kai’s Linktree Absolute Batman Episode with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tyger Ligon. Support the show and get new episodes early on Patreon:
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'The faggots and their friends between revolutions' with Morgan Bassichis
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Morgan Bassichis brought the 1977 queer cult fairy tale "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions" back to print and stage a few years ago. Its messages about how to live under patriarchy feel extra prescient in 2026. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions By Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta With essays by Morgan and Tourmaline Morgan's website Can I Be Frank? - Morgan's show, coming to New York this summer https://www.canibefrank.nyc/ Morgan's Instagram Love in a F*cked-Up World Podcast (with Morgan and friend of the pod Dean Spade) Episode: "Marsha P. Johnson Beyond...
info_outlineOffensively bland art results from the tyrrany of homeowners with too much time on their hands. Two recent cases where Nextdoor.com creeps and gentrifiers at community benefits district meetings made decisions that censored murals and the like, discussed with Christen Cioffi.
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