This weekend features the annual Castro Street Fair, celebrating San Francisco’s most famous gay neighborhood. I’ll be there, working on a project for my film class (more details on that coming up in December, when I finish the film).
The month ends with Halloween in the Castro, a real San Francisco treat. When I first […]

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I just dove into my inbox and found people emailing me about this and that. The first, called the Lesbian Lube Project — but actually for other types of women as well — is a fun little survey on lubricants. The second, a much-anticipated new podcast from my friends Skulk and Urg, is next on […]

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Today, at the Folsom Street Fair, I got handed a postcard advertising “Bang 4 the Buck,” a fundraiser coming up in November, and being hosted by Midori. “Bang” is raising money for the AIDS Lifecycle 2006, a very worthy recipient. The delightful thing about this fundraiser is that it’s a sex party for women. So, […]

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For all my bisexual readers out there, today is our day! Celebrate by doing something bisexual, and then drop me a line and tell me about it. I might celebrate myself by watching one of my all-time favorite bi movies, The Sex Monster, a 1999 comedy feature starring hottie Mariel Hemingway.
Anyone in San Francisco this […]

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The San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local weekly paper, just put out their annual sex issue, and I’m in it. Not as a writer, but as a model!
A bi male friend and I are photographed having some fun with J. Michael Bailey’s implications that bisexual men don’t exist — as if! To do that, […]

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In just a few weeks, I’ll be reading selections from my chapter, “Up the Mountain from Petionville,” in Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally, the new anthology published by Seal Press. With Marlene Barberousse-Nikolin, I wrote about the experiences of the queer daughters of Haitian-American immigrants. Come to a reading! Here are the details:
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Yesterday, I got the following press release about SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, in my inbox. Exciting stuff! I can’t wait to see what comes of it:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Bill Barker (202) 419-3420, Adrienne Verrilli (212) 819-9770
GROUPS FILE LEGAL COMPLAINT AGAINST GOVERNMENT SPREADING FALSE AND MISLEADING SEX EDUCATION
SIECUS […]

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From an email sent to me by a friend:
“The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on […]

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I don’t understand how the jury could consider this anything but a hate crime. And would someone please explain to me why I’ve seen several news reports like this one, emphasizing that Gwen had had sex with the defendants? Excuse me, but what the hell does that have to do with the fact that she […]

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If my years working at Good Vibrations taught me anything, it’s the value of creating a female-friendly environment for sex toy shopping. So, I wrote an article about it, for ASB Magazine! This is a trade magazine for the adult retail market, and the latest issue just arrived hot off the presses. Imagine a country […]

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