Keep democracy alive every Saturday by joining together to stand against the Trump/MAGA regime.
It’s better to stand together than alone. Think of it as our democracy corner—a space to voice opinions, hang out with like-minded protesters, and experience a cathartic moment. Bring friends or come solo.
Let’s make this the liveliest, loudest weekly protest in the city!
Zoom reading Wednesday 6pm PST: Kevin Killian’s Padam Padam sponsored by City Lights and Nightboat Books
https://citylights.com/events/kevin-killians-padam-padam/
#Vegan lunch: fava beans and grilled artichokes with lemon, pomegranate, crispy garlic and daikon greens, plus pita with za’atar.
There is precedent for civil disobedience in churches. See #AIDS activist group #ACTUP 1989 action “Stop the Church” at St Patrick’s Cathedral in #NYC. The #Catholic church opposes the use of condoms, which help prevent the transmission of #HIV. They still have this ridiculous position.
Tonight, Thursday Jan 22, 7pm: reading for new book collaboration between poet Trebor Healey and photographer Arthur Tress, English/Spanish bilingual book Navel of the Moon / Ombligo De La Luna. At Fabulosa Books, 489 Castro St, #SanFrancisco
Wednesday is free day at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and I suggest you go see Bay Area Then, a retrospective of 90s #SanFrancisco artists and art and counterculture venues. Here’s the section on Rick Jacobsen’s Kiki Gallery. Show closes Jan 25.
https://ybca.org/event/bay-area-then/
Wednesday is free day at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and I suggest you go see Bay Area Then, a retrospective of 90s #SanFrancisco artists and art and counterculture venues. Here’s the section on Rick Jacobsen’s Kiki Gallery. Show closes Jan 25.
https://ybca.org/event/bay-area-then/
Tuesday Jan 13, 7pm: Tim Xonnelly book release reading at Fabulosa Books, 489 Castro, #SanFrancisco for new book of poems The Invasion of Pantomime. Featuring Maw Shein Win, Colleen Shoshana McKee and Glenn Ingersoll
https://www.fabulosabooks.com/events.html#/
"Building Queer New Worlds: The Emergence of Queer Ethnoracial Literary Anthologies, 1982-2024," by Corey Clawson, featured on OutHistory. The online exhibit is about queer and trans people of color literary anthologies published in the United States in the 1980s, 90s and beyond. #qtpoc
https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/building
Save the date: Pride in Panels queer comics festival, free at the main #SanFrancisco Public Library Sunday Feb 15, 2026
https://www.prideinpanels.org
That time back in 2009 when #SanFrancisco Pride posted the covers and themes of past Pride guides. Archive via @internetarchive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090624234352/http://www.sfpride.org/
Tonight, December 10: City Arts & Lectures - Celebrating the Life of Marsha P. Johnson - Tourmaline in conversation. Tickets still available ($49)
This is a shitty opinion, and by the transitive property, anybody who likes it also has a shitty opinion.
Poet Anne Waldman is at City Lights on Thursday and at the Roxie on Saturday Dec 6 12:14 for a screening of Outrider
#SanFrancisco
PSA: try not to get arrested the next couple of days, because you probably won’t be arraigned until after the long #Thanksgiving weekend.
Howard Zinn Book Fair
Sunday, December 7, 10am–6pm
City College of San Francisco
Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia
#SanFrancisco
https://www.zinnbookfair.org
Make sure to go see Peter Hujar’s Day at the Roxie. Screens almost daily the rest of November.
https://roxie.com/film/peter-hujars-day/
Thursday Nov 13, 6pm: Mattachine Society 75th Anniversary commemoration at #SanFrancisco Main Library Koret Auditorium
https://sfpl.org/events/2025/11/13/panel-they-lit-fuse