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Screen Grabs: ‘5 Blocks’ delves into Mid-Market development quandary

Dennis Harvey - May 12, 2020

Many everyday things have been notable for their absence during the shutdown, so something that stood out was construction—because it never seemed to stop,...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Homage to a gorgeous legend + 2019’s best films

Dennis Harvey - January 2, 2020

We’ve gotten to the point where icons of the 1960s are now dying off of old age, and last month that number was joined...

Onstage

Lesbian history finally takes center stage in ‘The Daughters’

Emily Wilson - October 23, 2019

The first act of The Daughters, a comedy by Patricia Cotter (at the San Francisco Playhouse through November 2), imagines the Daughters of Bilitis’ first meeting...

News + Politics

Supes want to crack down on massage businesses

Tim Redmond - October 15, 2018

The Board of Supes Land Use Committee approved stricter rules for massage establishments despite opposition from both therapeutic massage businesses and sex-worker advocates who...

News + Politics

Appeals court considers challenge to prostitution laws

Dan Raile - October 19, 2017

On Oct. 19, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a case aimed at overturning California’s anti-prostitution laws. It will be...

News + Politics

Will the courts legalize sex work?

Tim Redmond - October 4, 2016

A sex-worker advocacy group has filed what could be a dramatic precedent-setting appeal in federal court, seeking a ruling that would overturn the laws...

News + Politics

Dem Party Chair Mary Jung’s sex-work hypocrisy

Tim Redmond - June 2, 2016

Truth is a pretty fungible commodity during election season, and we all give candidates a little slack. But an oped in today’s Examiner by...

News + Politics

Some Mother’s Daughter: Fighting the criminalization of sex workers

Sana Saleem - March 23, 2016

Imagine a woman goes missing and no one looks for her. There’s no inquiry, no need for forensics, and no further investigation required. In...

News + Politics

Move to overturn prostitution laws advances, for now

Tim Redmond - January 19, 2016

A federal judge has asked for additional briefings on a case that raises a profound question – are the laws against prostitution unconstitutional? –...

News + Politics

Homeland Security: The new morals police?

Tim Redmond - August 31, 2015

Are we going back to the days when the cops raided queer clubs and harassed street queens? by Tommi Avicolli Mecca AUGSUST 31, 2015 -- “What...

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Screen Grabs: ‘5 Blocks’ delves into Mid-Market development quandary

Screen Grabs: Homage to a gorgeous legend + 2019’s best films

Lesbian history finally takes center stage in ‘The Daughters’

Supes want to crack down on massage businesses

Appeals court considers challenge to prostitution laws

Will the courts legalize sex work?

Dem Party Chair Mary Jung’s sex-work hypocrisy

Some Mother’s Daughter: Fighting the criminalization of sex workers

Move to overturn prostitution laws advances, for now

Homeland Security: The new morals police?

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