Category: Journalism Archive
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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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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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Lusty Ladies Get Feisty
In the decade I was on the masthead of San Francisco area adult weekly Spectator, I often covered sexworker activism. I took great pride in my 1997 article about how the women of the Lusty Lady Theater fought back and unionized against an abusive workplace. For posterity I offer an edited, condensed version of that […]