Pink Saturday in the Castro on June 26th, 2010 by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Shifts are from 5pm-9pm (check-in at 4pm) & 7:30pm-11:30pm (check-in at 6:30).

Go to this website and pick your shift. Enter the code: PEACE for the St. James Infirmary.

Or you can email our Events Coordinator and he will register you.

Or you can simply show up for the shift… BUT MAKE SURE TO SAY YOU ARE WITH ST. JAMES!

Thanks for all your help and HAPPY PRIDE!!

Come show your support, learn about HIV research and the HIV vaccine trials and have some fun!

The process for choosing Las Vegas as our next conference site was a lengthy one, that first involved a broadly distributed community survey that revealed the top three location sites for the next conference: Washington DC, Las Vegas and Tucson.  Next, the Desiree Alliance Board of Directors, a working group of sex workers and allies, assessed all three cities for viability by conducting interviews with various sex worker community members (stakeholders) in each of the three cities, and another survey that specifically measured “people power” and volunteer commitment to manage all conference logistics. After 6 months of this process, Las Vegas was chosen for both its affordability and on-the-ground commitment from volunteers.

For those of you who have attended the Desiree Alliance conference in the past, you will be pleased to know that next year’s conference in Las Vegas will include pre-planning preparations for the next (2011 or 2012) Desiree Alliance National Sex Worker conference to be held in the dynamic town of Washington DC.

On behalf of the Desiree Alliance Board of Directors, we would like to thank all of you who contributed to this process and for your patience.  We are thrilled and excited about another hot and stimulating conference where we can learn, share and network with all of you.  More than ever, we are eager to meet new community members.

See you next year in Las Vegas!

We are looking for people to help out St. James Infirmary and volunteer for a shift at Folsom Street Fair. Sunday, September 27, 2009!!! For St. James supporters with a darker dirtier side, this should be a perfect event for you to give of yourself and express your kinkier sides! For more information on how you can help by making a donation or volunteering your time, please email our Events Coordinator

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 have so many amazing people in our community.

We grossed just over $15,700 with a net of $13,200 in unrestricted funds!! What a huge success this is. Thanks to those of you who donated and if you still want to donate it is not too late! Because we are in jeopardy of losing much of our funding from the upcoming State/City budget cuts, so any help you can give us right now is greatly appreciated.

Special thanks go out to the one and only, volunteer supreme, Johanna Breyer for her tireless coordination and planning of this event for months, many months!

To all the MC’s, DJs and performers and their assistants who came and made the show so spectacular, we are so grateful.  To the dancers in the VIP room: thank you for hustling and shaking your hot sexy stuff for a good cause.

To all the volunteers who worked tirelessly last night, some without breaks (sorry!), we are so grateful for everything you have given to us and the clinic.  To those of you who came with volunteers and performers who got held up coming in, we apologize, thank you for your patience.

Thanks to Derrick Hanson and Kimberley Kline for assisting Johanna these past months with coordinating the event.  Thanks to Dakini, Jeff Palmer and Dan Ingwersen for their volunteer time setting up and breaking down the event (stage, rigging, lights, music, etc.).  Thanks to Paradise for having us, and waiving our event fee!

Thanks to the Sugar Plum Elves for hustling our 50/50 raffle and thanks to Jake Berkowitz the winner for donating his half of the raffle back to the clinic!  Special thanks go out to our Silent Auction donors: American Laser Center, Raging Stallion, The Russian River Resort, Opal Hotel, and Eco Boutique.

We so proud and amazed to see such an ecclectic group support the clinic.  We are so, so thank full to have seen such amazing outfits!! and performances!!  This one is going down in history.  Margo St. James was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and is now: Sister Trixxter!  I am so glad I was a part of it.

Naomi Akers
Executive Director

Design By Erin Crawford

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 have also provided us with the motivation to become creative in our fundraising. As pioneers in the sex worker community, St. James Infirmary has never been a stranger to adversity and struggles, so we plan to party hard and make some money doing it!

You should join us!

This June, 2009 we will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary with a carnival of decadence – “Cirque X!” This event is both a celebration of our incredible achievements thus far, as well as an opportunity for our supporters to give back and help us stay open for at least another 10 years! Cirque X will be a fabulous night to remember with performances ranging from amazing fire troops and aerial acrobatics to sexy burlesque shows, exotic dancers, XXX porn stars, drag queens and fierce DJs! We will also have a great V.I.P. room with strippers, lap dances, and erotic shows for a more sensual and seductive experience.

SAVE THE DATE!!!

Cirque X is on Friday, June 5, 2009 at the Paradise Lounge in San Francisco from 9pm-3am.

Buy tickets now

Buy a VIP Pass and receive $15 off the admission price of our official After Party at The End Up

We are looking for people to help out St. James Infirmary and volunteer for a shift at Folsom Street Fair September 28, 2008!!! For St. James supporters with a darker dirtier side, this should be a perfect event for you to give of yourself and express your kinkier sides! For more information on how you can sign up for a shift, please email our Events Coordinator

By volunteering, you will help St. James Infirmary in our partnership with the Folsom Street Fair Events to receive a grant of $9,000 to help expand our under-funded Transgender Health Services Program.