I saw a notice in the San Francisco Bay Guardian that a group of dancers from the Gold Club have filed a lawsuit against the club.
From the time that I first moved to San Francisco, in 1997, I have been hearing dancers from various strip clubs around the city talk about being required to work […]

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Just this. That’s all.

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Is it wrong of me to be slightly disturbed by the current American Apparel advertising campaign?
Let me explain: American Apparel takes out ads on the back page of the San Francisco free weekly papers. Maybe they have ads in the newspapers in your town too. Perhaps these ads appear in print elsewhere, but I’ve only […]

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In case anyone is still wondering about the intersection of race, skin color, and gender, here’s a black man, light-skinned woman, and white man to show you how it works:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/01/photo_controversy/
And, from the “Telling It Like It Is” File, my brother Eric sent in this:
For those who missed it but heard about it (or didn’t) here […]

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from Ann Rostow’s weekly column, “National News,” in the San Francisco Bay Times, Sept 1, 2005:
“I’ve been reading blogger speculation that John Roberts is gay, based mainly on the fact that he married late, he adopted his kids, and he was once photographed sharing a lobster feast on Martha’s Vineyard with a couple of handsome […]

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How much time have you spent listening to a hot-for-each-other, sexed-up, overeducated female couple in Texas transmitting podcasts from what they refer to as “the cave” but is actually probably a cozy, low-ceilinged basement bedroom? If you’re like most, the answer might be, “not that much.” All that’s about to change…

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