Welcome to the Gay Shame "reparations salon," where we talk about the hot topic of taking back what's ours.   We all deserve a check, but what forms can reparations take outside of capitalism?   Your host Mary ponders the question from indigenous and/or transgender angles, with the aid of two Bay Area activists working to rematriate land and power to people in the Bay Area.   For more: Justice for Kayla Moore Sogorea Te’ Land Trust Recorded December 4, 2020. Transcripts and links to more info at gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast ..read more

JOIN GAY SHAME for the Night of the Living Nextdoor The demons on Nextdoor App use their wicked powers of policing and evictions to remake the city in their devilish image. Let’s come together to cast them out forever! We will assemble at the 24th BART station at 7pm sharp on Friday October 30th and begin our paranormal procession through the Mission. Stay masked, get distanced, and show out in your hottest cannibalistic Karen couture or ghoulish gentrifier getup. * access info: let us know if you have ASL hookups, route will be flat and outside ..read more

In which The Marys of Gay Shame's express faux-nostalgia for the early 2000s when vodka companies sponsoring Pride was of great concern, and today's neo/liberal embrace of anti-police movements. Recorded August 6, 2020. Transcripts for episodes here: https://gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast ..read more

Gentrifying neighbors, local politician Hilary Ronen, the SFPD, and the media conspired to shut down parts of Capp Street in the Mission using concrete blockades. Why? Because they hate sex workers. While they continue to sink millions into a fire hazard that makes sex workers less safe, we talked to four friends from groups including Mission DeFence (instagram.com/missiondefence_sf), Rad Mission Neighbors (radmissionneighbors.org) and the People’s Mission Coalition (thepeoplesmissioncoalition.com).  Joining us: Celestina Pearl (St. James Infirmary | stjamesinfirmary.org), Dilara Yarbroug ..read more

The Marys are begging to know why SF mayor London Breed is so obsessed with killing houseless people, especially in the Tenderloin district (also known as the TL).    In late December 2021, Breed declared a "State of Emergency" in the TL: her Xmas gift to her funders in the Real Estate and Tech industries.   Joining us is a special investigator and longtime organizer against the city’s escalating killing spree in the TL. She helps us unravel the Mayor's bloodlust, as we dive deep into Breed's unquenchable thirst to please her wealthy donors, and create a safe haven for billionai ..read more

The Marys interview one of their own to learn more about LAGAI-Queer Insurrection (formerly Lesbians And Gays Against Intervention), a radical collective that started organizing in 1983 against the USA's murderous meddling in Central America.   How do you keep a group going for 40-plus years? Avoid burnout? Stay radical when so many others become liberals? If you're feeling nihilistic, learn from people who've worked toward another world for longer than some of us have been alive. More: LAGAI - Queer Insurrection! https://www.lagai.org Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) https ..read more

The Marys report on the formerly empty hotel rooms now housing previously homeless people in San Francisco. The city wants to close the "Shelter in Place"/S.I.P. hotels ASAP, but has promised to permanently house the current tenants at the hotels. Mary Crisis, who works inside one of the hotels, joins us. (The City's preferred term for people inside is "guests" - a weird term, given the extreme surveillance, lack of toilet paper, and no real plan for getting people into housing...at the same time as hundreds of thousands of condos sit empty throughout the Bay Area.) More: “Mayor Breed Opts for ..read more

After the uprisings started in June 2020, the neoliberal vultures started circling. The Marys of Gay Shame's response: 'Abolition is the Floor Not the Ceiling' - an intervention against the capitalist death cult turnup, neoliberal mayors, cop diversity trainings, and reformist nonprofits. Recorded July 9, 2020. Transcript here: https://gayshame.net/index.php/podcast-episode-1 ..read more