Carol Queen

23 Oct 2024

A Love Letter to San Francisco’s Freaks and Weirdos

San Francisco has always been a city of change, from the tech boom to the rise of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and continues to be a place where people can find their place and make their art.

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10 Jul 2024

This Literary Magazine Release Party Will Be Epic!

The Huge Release Party for the Literary Magazine In case you haven’t heard, we just put out an incredible literary magazine called The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco thanks to a grant from the Civic Joy Fund. It’s a gift to San Francisco, where 19 of The City’s

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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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26 Jul 2016

How You Can Stop Complaining About San Francisco

Oprah and Maya Angelou almost always know what’s best and they don’t want you to complain about San Francisco anymore. Here’s why. I get it. There are a lot of things that suck about San Francisco. Hoards of tech bros roam the streets performing awkward bromantic gestures towards each other. The gentrification shit

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30 Apr 2015

Remembering When San Francisco was ‘the Porn Capital of America’

LA and the San Fernando Valley didn’t used to be the capital of the porn industry. It used to be San Francisco, back when porn movies were real movies shot on real film and shown in, well, “real” theaters. San Francisco was the first city in the US to show

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22 Apr 2015

Pornstar-studded Premiere for ‘Marriage 2.0’, the First Must-See Porn of the Modern Era – GIVEAWAY!

  Be sure to check out our Marriage 2.0 giveaway at the end of this piece. The ‘Citizen Kane’ of porn has finally arrived, and has its theatrical premiere at the Victoria Theatre on May 2. ‘Marriage 2.0’ is a groundbreaking new intellectual porn flick examining the polyamory relationship model

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21 Apr 2015

The Kinda Late Show Live April 23rd

Thursday 8pm Doors, $15, 124 Columbus Ave @ Doc’s Lab! Our guests for this episode are DOPE! They include: – Carol Queen (Sexologist and Sociologist) – Michelle Tea (Author and Poet) – Hermione Way (Reality TV Star & New Media Journalist) – Musical Guest: Sambaxé Dance-Company – House band MegaFlame

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06 Nov 2014

‘Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary’ memoir launches with a bang Sunday at CSC

The newly released book “Polly” is a true ‘memoir for the boudoir’, detailing the fast times, debauched morals and life story of Kinky Salon and the creative superstar behind San Francisco’s favorite and longest-lasting sex party. The book rolls out Sunday night at the Center for Sex and Culture event Sex

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13 Feb 2011

FREE Vibrators! FREE Beer! FREE Ice Cream! And More!

This is either ice cream or a vibrator – we’re not sure. Yupyupyup. You’ve read that correct. Who knew that you’d wake up today and find out that all your dreams were about to come true. Courtesy of your Fairy Godmother, er.. Good Vibrations: “the Pop-up Dildo Shop and Ice

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