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The radical drag queen at the heart of nightlife harm reduction

Marke B. - September 22, 2022

Punk rock party princess Kochina Rude on her mission to educate about safer drug use—and why it's deeply personal

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two deeply different narratives of sex work in ‘Working Girls’ and ‘Medusa’

Dennis Harvey - July 8, 2021

Plus: Saudi Arabian feminist mythology soars in 'Scales' and 'Dachra's creepy atmospherics.

Culture

The lady was a champ: Remembering Margo St. James, patron saint of sex work

Caitlin Donohue - January 22, 2021

Groundbreaking SF icon, who passed this month at 83, left an indelible mark on the fight for sex workers' rights

News + Politics

PHOTOS: Tenderloin streets filled with trans activists, allies for Courthouse 2 Compton’s march

Marke B. - June 21, 2020

Honoring the historic Compton's Cafeteria Riot, the trans and sex worker uprising against police which helped launch the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement—and in the...

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

The agenda: What’s ‘divisive’?

Tim Redmond - February 6, 2017

I keep hearing the same song from one side of San Francisco’s Democratic Party, and it goes like this: We are all Democrats here, and...

News + Politics

Oakland party fire claims nine lives, dozens are missing

Marke B. - December 3, 2016

A fire broke out around 11:30pm Friday night at during a party at GhostShip in Oakland's Fruitvale district -- an artist-collective space that regularly...

News + Politics

Black Lives Matter, others pull out of SF Pride Parade

Marke B. - June 24, 2016

Three major participants have dropped out of this year's SF Pride parade, after the SF Pride organization announced earlier this week that it would...

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

Anger, sadness, hope as St. James Infirmary forced out

Caitlin Donohue - October 21, 2015

San Francisco's beloved sex worker health clinic will have to find a new home after losing its building, but a fundraising campaign looks to...

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The radical drag queen at the heart of nightlife harm reduction

Screen Grabs: Two deeply different narratives of sex work in ‘Working Girls’ and ‘Medusa’

The lady was a champ: Remembering Margo St. James, patron saint of sex work

PHOTOS: Tenderloin streets filled with trans activists, allies for Courthouse 2 Compton’s march

Supes want to crack down on massage businesses

The agenda: What’s ‘divisive’?

Oakland party fire claims nine lives, dozens are missing

Black Lives Matter, others pull out of SF Pride Parade

Dem Party Chair Mary Jung’s sex-work hypocrisy

Anger, sadness, hope as St. James Infirmary forced out

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