“C” Words: START READING!
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Motherlode Victorious
The Motherlode has managed to turn around the opinions of many who’ve opposed its presence. When I testified at City Hall regarding the Motherlode’s second attempt to move, the North of Market Planning Coalition vehemently opposed it. The NMPC has since reversed itself…
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Working (parts 1 & 2)
When I asked her what she’d tell the world about prostitution, she told me, “they should make this legal, because it’s something that obviously a lot of people need. If it was legal, it would be a lot safer, a lot cleaner, and nobody would be getting sick behind it.”
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No Wrong Way to be…
Stereotypes become a problem when other people start making our choices for us by saying what we should or shouldn’t do. I have no problem with the femme stereotype; it is my personal choice. I am no more wrong for embracing it than is another woman for not.
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Bambi Bares All
Bambi Lake was a San Francisco Bay Area transsexual woman who transitioned in the 1970s, worked at a famous strip club unbeknownst to clients and management, sang, acted and ran with an impressible collection of artists and other celebrities.
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Secret of Her Success
Tanya wasn’t a hooker because she liked anonymous sex. The best tricks came and went, and the sooner the better. Of course, she occasionally had a John who was a good lover, but that created other problems for her.
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“Long Lost Love”
I submitted this partially-factual short to San Francisco niche publisher Manic D. Press in 1994 for inclusion in their LGBTQ anthology Beyond Definition. They gutted it and tossed half of it away. [Grrrrr…] Here’s the original.
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Dirty Tricks
One amusing and one dysfunctional short story about prostitution, one of which happened to a sexworker I loved very deeply. Fortunately, her story is “Courtney’s” cagey getaway.
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Ask Trixie
Christine’s “advice” column for the underground ‘zine 1000 Punks! Magazine, inspired by her syndicated columnist friend’s weekly feature, “Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain.”
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Queens’ Lost Virginity
Eight studly and not-so-studly men were transformed into, using the words of the press release, “a vast variety of vile and vainglorious vixens and vivacious virgin queens of questionable virtue.”
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Shame on the LA Times
Those who believe they can successfully shame or threaten a trans person from following their path need only look to Christine Daniels’ tragic end to know that putting the mask back on is not the answer.
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Coal for the HRC
In October 2007, the Human Rights Campaign (the HRC) broke a four-year promise by supporting an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that excluded trans people—after collecting a LOT of donations from us.
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Worst Book EVER
While [this book] should be easy to dismiss it as sensationalized exploitation, in reality it is dangerous to the entire transgender community, and especially to transsexual people.