An outsiders club for body rebels, size queens, radical fatties, chubsters, trans folk, queers and our friends and lovers of all colors, genders, sexualities and ages 21 and beyond!!!

Heavy Rotation is Benefiting the St. James Infirmary this Friday, September 10th at El Rio 3158 Mission St, San Francisco

10pm in the back room of El Rio

Featuring:
Short film by Annie Danger

Palo Verde (PDX improv metal duo) (www.myspace.com/paloverdeband)

Burlesque performances by
Kwid St. James and
Chan Dynasty

Dance party with DJ’s Jiggles and Durt!

$5
www.myspace.com/heavy_rotation

To raise some extra cash for our wonderful services, we are going to be raffling off some really great prizes including a weekend at the Russian River, a $100 Blowfish gift card, Kabuki spa passes and tickets to the Castro Theater.

When: Sunday, September 5th 3pm-6pm

Where: The Eagle Tavern, 398 12th Street, San Francisco

What: Beer Bust Fool! All the Beer you can drink and food you can eat for $10

Why: Benefiting the St. James Infirmary.  All money raised will be doubled by our Matching Your Devotion matching grant campaign

Who:  You, and all your friends, the lovely St. James Infirmary Staff and volunteers, the hot & generous Eagle staff and all the thirstiest guys in SF.

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 DEVOTION” $10,000 Matching Grant period, so all the money SJI raises will be doubled by a very generous anonymous donor!

TOAD HALL BEER BUST
4146 18th Street
3:00pm – 7:30pm
8$ ALL the beer you can drink!
2$ Jello Shots & Raffles!

Since our inception, the St. James Infirmary has provided compassionate and non-judgmental health care & social services to sex industry workers; we prevent occupational illnesses, injuries, and provide a safety net for sex workers through our comprehensive social service programs. We are the only occupational health and safety clinic run by and for sex industry workers in the entire nation.  Compassionate friends like you have enabled us to put this revolutionary idea into action. Your support is just as important as ever.

Join the St. James Infirmary, several fabulous guests, and Margo St. James in September for a party celebrating 11 wonderful years of service and to raise money for our clinic.  There will be entertainment, a no-host bar and complimentary diner.  We will be making several exciting announcements at 7:00 PM, so please don’t miss out.

This event is invitation only and you must RSVP with your email address to receive the exact address of the event through an E-vite invitation. Please email Development to let us know that you are interested in attending this exclusive event held at a legendary private venue.

If you are unable to make the event, please contribute anyway.  Mail us a check to the address below or donate button below to donate on-line

St. James Infirmary
C/O Matching Your Devotion Campaign
1372 Mission Street.
San Francisco, CA 94103

Working Sex: Power, Practice, and Politics

July 25-30, 2010

Las Vegas, NV

What: This year St. James Infirmary will be giving out full and partial scholarships to attend the Desiree Alliance Conference in Las Vegas July 25-30.  Full scholarships include hotel, flight and registration, some ground transportation.  Partial scholarships include hotel and registration.

Who: Scholarships are for current and former sex workers in the Bay Area ONLY, with priority to people who are low income,  who are presenting at the conference or who are working in the field of sex worker rights or direct services

When: Applications must be received by April 15th, 2010. All applicants will hear of the process outcome by May 9th, 2010

How: Complete this application and follow the instructions.

Contact: Kimberlee Cline
Phone: 877-776-2004 ext. 2
Email: press(at)swopusa(dot)org

This December 17th marks the 7th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Events are being planned in over two dozen countries and in dozens of cities. In San Francisco, sex workers Annie Sprinkle and Kimberlee Cline will host a remembrance ritual and a solidarity stroll down Market Street.

This annual event was created in 2003 in response to Gary Ridgway a.k.a. the Green River Killer’s trial and his brutal statements about choosing prostitutes because he could “get away with it.” Many believe that the Green River Killer did in fact get away with it in the Seattle area for over 20 years because of law enforcement’s disinterest in solving the murders of prostitutes and society’s general acceptance of violence against sex workers.

“If the victims had been teachers, nurses or secretaries or other women, I suspect–as Ridgway did– that the killer would have been caught much sooner.” Says Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. a former prostitute and adult film star of twenty years, turned sexologist and artist. “While I personally feel that I came out of the sex industry a winner, I’m aware that there are those that aren’t as lucky as I was and are real victims of bad laws, whore-phobic hate crimes, rape and worse. It’s so important to remember those people, and to let the public know we care and we need and deserve safer working conditions.”

In 2008, San Francisco voters narrowly turned down Proposition K, an initiative that would have created more safety measures for sex workers in the City. “There is a distinct difference between consensually providing sexual services and being forced or trafficked. Efforts by opponents of Prop K to conflate these two very different scenarios confused voters. I’m speaking out about this because I think that when voters hear real stories from people like me and understand that criminalization is doing all of us more harm than good, they will support our reform efforts,” stated Kimberlee Cline, a woman working in San Francisco independently as an escort and adult film model.

Sex workers, their friends, the victims families, clients, supporters and people who want to learn more about these issues are invited to come together at Femina Potens, an art gallery owned and run by sex worker Madison Young for a memorial vigil ceremony. “As sex workers we open up our souls, our bodies, our minds and our spirits to guide others through to sexual pleasure and enlightenment.,” says Young, “We are educators, we are mentors, we are gladiators and athletes, performance artists using our bodies as a material for your entertainment and pleasure. We are survivors of a world that is so often ashamed by its sexual desires and frightened to engage in communication about sexual needs. This day, this moment is to acknowledge the damage that this fear, shame and hatred has inflicted upon our fellow sex workers. And I do hope that through our awareness and visibility we might prevent further injustices and cultivate compassion.”

After the ceremony will be a Solidarity Stroll down Market street, with people carrying red umbrellas (the symbol of the sex workers rights movement) and signs with names and photos of those victims that will be remembered. The stroll will end at the St. James Infirmary.

Media are welcome at the pre-event press conference, at the memorial, and for the stroll.

For more information about the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, see Annie Sprinkle’s article “Remembering Our Dead and Wounded”

* Who: Annie Sprinkle, Kimberlee Cline, SWOP-SF
* What: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
* When: Press Conference 6:00-7:00pm
Ceremony 7:00-8:30pm
Solidarity Stroll: to the St. James Infirmary 8:30- 9:30pm

* Where: Femina Potens Art Gallery
2199 Market St
San Francisco, CA 94114

On the following evening a night of spoken word performance by Bay Area sex workers will be hosted at the Center for Sex and Culture. Details:

Ecstacies & Elegies: In Honor of International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Friday, December 18th, 2009
7:30 doors, 8pm show
Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission Street @ 11th, San Francisco
$10-20 sliding scale (nobody turned away)

Location: 1372 Mission Street @10th

When: Thursday, December 10, 2009

6:00pm-8:00pm

Speakers (confirmed):

Naomi Akers, St. James Infirmary (San Francisco, California)

The Honorable John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI)

John Hassell, UNAIDS (Washington, DC)

The Honorable Jim McDermott (D-WA)

Michele Moloney-Kitts, Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator

Kolawole Muyideen Oreoluwa, Youth Action for Development

Dr. Steave Nemande, Alternatives (Douala, Cameroon)

This event is FREE and will be at the

Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Room: Regency A
Washington, DC 20001

Register Here