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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 billionaires who collect luxury condos just to leave them empty.   Along the way, you'll hear about Breed's bootlicking operation and its sordid details.  Thousands of hours in overtime for cops guarding a beloved Louis Vuitton store!  The reopening of a decrepit jail!  Her ex-boyfriend's legion of private cops who work for the shadow agency "Urban Alchemy"! And who can forget the super-spreader premiere at the soon-to-be-history Castro Theater, to celebrate Breed's no-line cameo in the locally shot, long forgotten film “Matrix 4Ever: The Revenge of Lana's Cornrows”? Related: "Tents and Cash Not Cops that Bash" Gay Shame declares more CASH NOT CONSERVATORSHIP https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/26/18847606.php "I am a mother in the Tenderloin. I fear and oppose the mayor's plan: More police will make life less safe and secure for my daughter and me." By Tracey Mixon in 48Hills.
 https://48hills.org/2021/12/i-am-a-mother-in-the-tenderloin-i-fear-and-oppose-the-mayors-plan/ Recorded January 2022. Transcripts and resources at gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast/.

Warning to all Marys everywhere: YIMBYs are a front for the real estate industry, and they are coming to evict you. MORE: James Baldwin's 'Take this Hammer' film, on racist gentrification in San Francisco, 1974 - https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/187041   Unhoused Folks Deserve All These Vacant Condos and More - https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKnd2NSh8pr/ 'YIMBYs: The Alt-Right Darlings of the Real Estate Industry,' Truthout - https://truthout.org/articles/yimbys-the-alt-right-darlings-of-the-real-estate-industry/ 'The Racial Contours of YIMBY/NIMBY Bay Area Gentrification,' Berkeley Planning Journal - https://escholarship.org/content/qt4sw2g485/qt4sw2g485.pdf?t=qb8x8c 'YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Nation's Housing Crisis,' In These Times - https://inthesetimes.com/features/yimbys_activists_san_francisco_housing_crisis.html 'Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space' - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2163-extrastatecraft  Video depicting YIMBYs being YIMBYs by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project - Facebook video: https://fb.watch/5gAYay0iFW/ (archived at https://gayshame.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sonja-trauss-vincent-woo-city-hall.mp4) 'Take This Hammer,' LA Tenants Union on their action against the Hammer Museum holding a pro-YIMBY event - https://latenantsunion.medium.com/dropping-the-hammer-on-yimbyism-97724dfdb6a9 @shooktwinks deconstructs the YIMBY myth that building more luxury condos will solve San Francisco's affordable housing crisis - https://www.instagram.com/p/COXI1BmBIAi/ This jester - https://www.instagram.com/tv/CN-qwbvBoIR/ --- More on conservatorship -> Gay Shame Podcast Episode 3: 'FreeBritney, Free Them All' - https://gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast/gay-shame-podcast-episode-3-freebritney-free-them-all-october-15-2020/ Recorded May 3, 2021. Transcripts and resources at gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast/.

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://www.quitpalestine.org UltraViolet newsletter https://lagaiultraviolet.wordpress.com LAGAI Propaganda (in PowerPoint format) Stop AIDS Now or Else's Golden Gate Bridge Shut Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKAIPOBWlY Writing including interviews with LAGAI members: Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Fillmore_Street_1960 How a queer liberation collective has stayed radical for almost 40 years - Waging Nonviolence https://wagingnonviolence.org/2016/07/how-a-queer-liberation-collective-has-stayed-radical-for-almost-40-years/ --- Recorded February 22, 2021. Transcripts and resources at gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast/.

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 Mass Indoor Camps” at Moscone Center, from Street Sheet http://www.streetsheet.org/mayor-breed-opts-for-mass-indoor-camps/ “MOMS4Housing Vs RealESnakkkes Fierce Mamaz Resist Devil-Opers for Thousands of us houseless mamaz” https://www.poormagazine.org/node/5945 “Postal Service Data Underscores Tech Exodus” in SF Weekly https://www.sfweekly.com/news/postal-service-data-underscores-tech-exodus/ KPIX CBS News “Coronavirus Update: San Francisco Paid $30,000 A Day For Empty Hotel Rooms During Pandemic” https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/05/09/coronavirus-update-san-francisco-paid-30000-a-day-for-empty-hotel-rooms-during-pandemic/ James Baldwin interview from the documentary “Take This Hammer” https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Fillmore_Street_1960 ABC 7 News Coverage of “Rainbow Rock” https://abc7news.com/5357320/?ex_cid=TA_KGO_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_content=5d0e57b2e84fc20001cf3f59&utm_medium=trueAnthem “Shelter-in-Place Hotel Wind-Down Plan Lacks Adequate Data, Strategy on Race” in SF Public Press - https://www.sfpublicpress.org/shelter-in-place-hotel-wind-down-plan-lacks-adequate-data-strategy-on-race/ A worker's letter to officials: “The lack of basic needs and supplies, funding, and staffing at the SIP hotel" https://www.instagram.com/p/CJha2rVHDdt/ Recorded December 27, 2020. Transcripts and resources at gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast/.

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/.

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.

The toxic womanizers in power have a new reason to hate Britney Spears: Her fame is bringing attention to the evils of "conservatorship" laws. In dystopian 2020, rich people and their politician-servants are using conservatorship - when a court takes away your self-determination and gives it to a family member or a stranger - to further criminalize disabled people, people who use substances, and/or homeless people through enhanced conservatorship - indefinitely detaining people so they are out of the line of sight of gentrifiers. The Marys were joined by our first guest, the inimitable Gentry, aka @catpowerman5000 on Instagram. Also featured in this episode: Mental Health First - if you're in Oakland, there's a new hotline you can call if you know someone is having a psychiatric emergency: 510-999-9MH1. (Mental Health First also responds to email, and direct messages on social media platforms listed on their site.) Gay Shame made a zine about conservatorship. Mad Mob (♥ Eddie + Peter J) editorial in the SF Examiner. "Cities Across the US are Stripping Homeless People of Their Autonomy," is a conservatorship explainer that ran in Truthout. Recorded October 9, 2020. Transcripts and links to more info at gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast/.

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/

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/