Gay Shame

Emmanuel Yekutiel is a marketing associate for conservative causes and Israel who in 2018, opened a gentrification cafe in the Mission that he named after himself. Since then, Manny's has been a safe space for neoliberal figures to gather, including Dr. Jill Biden, Matt Yglesias, Nancy Pelosi, Sam Bankman-Fried, SFPD chief Bill Scott, and the trio of local politicians Manny dubbed the "Power Gays....

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...

oin us for an organizing meeting to abort the walk for "life" The open meeting is Saturday September 24th at 2 pm at the park on the corner of 17th and Folsom in SF. (The meeting will be outside, come masked, the spot is accessible for mobility devices and a few blocks from BART) Every January since 2005, San Francisco has been invaded by fascistic fetus worshippers for what they call the "Walk fo...

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...

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 Darlin...

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...

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 su...

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...

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 yo...

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/o...

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/