St. James Infirmary provides compassionate and non-judgmental healthcare and social services for all sex workers while preventing occupational illnesses and injuries through a comprehensive continuum of services.

House of Garza Presents: Action!

ACTION! A Cocktail Party hosted by GARZA with special guests and local artists. Benefiting St. James Infirmary @ CAFE FLORE 2298 Market Street in the Castro. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14th, 9 to 11 pm Come show your support, learn about HIV research and the HIV vaccine trials and have some fun!

A Folsom twist on Twister

B.ay A.rea R.eporter October 1, 2009 "Race Cooper plants his tongue on Tony Aziz's nipple during a game of "Nearly Naked Twister" at the Folsom Street Fair Sunday, September 27. Warm weather brought out throngs of people to the leather and fetish extravaganza. The popular Twister game (with a kinkier twist) was ...

AIDS Walk 2009, Hos of Harm Reduction

Tomorrow, St. James Infirmary staff will be strutting their stuff in Golden Gate Park for the SF AIDS Walk. Our team, the Hos of Harm Reduction, is still accepting donations.  By contributing to our AIDS Walk efforts you will be supporting important life saving HIV/AIDS work as well as the ...

10 years, 700 guests, & $15,700–Cirque X, simply spectacular! Much love & gratitude!

To all the Volunteers & Performers- Well the event last night was so amazingly hot!! We sizzled at the door too.  Everyone who came out made the night so much fun and a very successful fundraiser.  As we just celebrated our 10th Year (can you believe that?), we are blessed to ...

June 5th, 2009–St. James Turns 10

[caption id="attachment_306" align="alignleft" width="265" caption="Design By Erin Crawford"][/caption] Like many non-profit organizations in San Francisco, St. James Infirmary has recently suffered mid-year budget cuts from our City and State contracts, and there may be additional cuts in July. While these budget cuts threaten our services to the sex worker community, they ...

The House of Garza Presents: OUT … AND ABOUT

A FUN AND SEXY FUNDRAISER FOR ST. JAMES INFIRMARY at CAFÉ FLORE on SATURDAY 21st from 8 to 11 pm. Please save the date and bring your friends. Hosted by Garza and co-host by Sister Gladys Pantzaroff, sponsored by BUMP from the San Francisco Department of Public Health With: BEBE SWEETBRIAR, PAJU MUNRO, ...

Obama Nation Jan. 20th 8pm @ the Powerhouse!!

Join Hosts Sister Roma, BeBe Sweetbriar and Derrick Hanson for a fun-raiser of Presidential Proportions with a First Lady Drag Off. Where: Powerhouse 1347 Folsom @ Dore Alley. When: January 20th, after Obama gets sworn in, from 8pm-Midnight.

Dec 17th: Vigil & Procession To End Violence Against Sex Workers

To prepare for the Dec 17th/International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers vigil, procession, and memorial, on Tuesday, Dec 16th, from 6:30 to 8pm, St. James Infirmary will be open for us to make signs for the candlelight vigil and procession. Please join us. (More info on the history ...

End of Year Holiday Party Next Wednesday @ 6:30pm

On Wednesday November 26th at 6:30pm we will be hosting our End of the Year Holiday Party with Vegan/Meat Diner & Special Holiday Gift Bags.  This holiday party is open to community members/clinic participants, staff and their families or guests only. There will be NO HIV or STI Testing on Tuesday ...

St. James Infirmary Open House

Join legendary Sex Worker rights activist and St. James Infirmary Founder Margo St. James along with the dynamic staff of the first Occupational Health & Safety Clinic for Sex Workers at our very first Open House Party. There will be food & wine, random door-prizes and a 50/50 raffle. ...

August 27th 2010
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Double Your Pleasure Double Our Funds! Beer Bust & Raffle…

We have a really fun events coming up SATURDAY AUGUST 28. If you are in SF, PLEASE come to this event and bring your friends!!! What's really great, is that not only are the beer busts a LOT of fun, 
but they ALL fall under St. James Infirmary's "MATCHING YOUR ...
August 19th 2010
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Nothing About Us Without Us: The Shared Goals of the Harm Reduction and Sex Worker Rights Movements

The above video and supplementary documents are designed to spark discussion and create inspiration for looking at the ways that peer-led groups providing support and services to sex workers in their communities can collaborate with harm reduction agencies. The materials were developed by a group of ...
August 2nd 2010
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Matching Your Devotion

On Monday, August 2nd, 2010, the St. James Infirmary is kicking off our Matching Your Devotion campaign and we want you to be a part of it!   We have received an extremely generous $10,000 matching grant; we have 2 months to match it and raise a whole lot more. Since ...
July 16th 2010
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St. James Infirmary publishes the 3rd Edition of our Sex Worker Occupational Health & Safety Handbook

The St. James Infirmary "Occupational Health and Safety Handbook, 3rd edition" is hot off the presses and better than ever! The first half of the book is devoted to harm reduction, health, safety and legal rights, and the second half has information for 720 local, national ...
June 29th 2010
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St. James Infirmary works with UNAIDS in Geneva on sex worker rights

Macklean from Uganda of the UNAIDS Global Working Group on Sex Work & HIV from Naomi Akers on Vimeo. In October 2009, the St. James Infirmary Executive Director was appointed to a Global Working Group on Sex Work and HIV Policy to UNAIDS. With its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, UNAIDS, the ...
June 20th 2010
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St. James Infirmary NEEDS YOU!! For Pink Saturday

Come volunteer your time in one of the largest San Francisco events and raise money for your favorite Hooker Clinic. Our Clinic gets CA$H for every volunteer who works one of the fabulous gate shifts at Pink Saturday.  And you get a free Sister's Shirts. Pink Saturday in the Castro ...

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