In 1989, the Golden Gate Bridge was blockaded for the first time by a group of protesters going by the name Stop AIDS Now…or Else! They were sick of their friends dying in a government-facilitated genocide of queer people (the medical industrial complex and corporate media were complicit, too).

It wasn't till 2016 that another group of protesters (black.seed) blockaded the Bay Bridge, this time propelled by the Ferguson uprisings and the crisis of Black people dying, especially at the hands of police.

And then in 2023 and 2024 the Bay Bridge 78 and Golden Gate 26 blockaded for Gaza; some still face charges.

Actions to take for the Golden Gate 26: linktr.ee/gg26solidarity

Event hosted with Gay Shame (gayshame.net), HALA Collective (thehalacollective.com), and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism! (quitpalestine.org)

Emceed by Lavelle Ridley and Stab and featuring:

Deeg, Stop AIDS Now…or Else!, Gay Shame and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism!

Jemma and Ralowe, black.seed and Gay Shame

Golzar and Turner, Bay Bridge 78

(Follow Golzar for COVID-safer events: instagram.com/cutiecraftyparty/)

Jordan and Mannan, Golden Gate 26

linktr.ee/gg26solidarity

Recorded at Counterpulse on June 24, 2025.

Thanks to Ach and Eddie at Counterpulse, and Healthcare Workers for Palestine (linktr.ee/hcw4pal).

Related episodes:

Deeg on the boycott of Manny's

https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/OTExOGQwNDctNDFkOS00MzE3LTk2ZGQtNjk4NTVkMmFlZDQz

Deeg on queer Bay direct action group LAGAI-Queer Insurrection!

https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/OTIxNTJmOWUtMDAxZi00YjgxLWExZGMtZDJlMzBjN2M0OWMx

Jemma and Ralowe on hating Signal

https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/ZjhjYTc4MDktNzAyNS00NzYyLWIyZWYtNTM0MGUzNjEzOTAw

Jemma, Lavelle and Mama Ganuush: Trans Black-Palestinian Solidarities

https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NmYwYTkxYmEtYmYxNS00ZTQxLTk1OWItMzZjNDY3YWMwZDRm

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Chris Roberts is who you call to learn how the Navy’s atomic weapons tests made parts of SF toxic, and the government’s radiation experiments on people incarcerated at San Quentin, military officers stationed at Pittsburg, and the 49ers.

Read Chris’s reporting and listen to Rebecca Bowe’s companion podcast:

Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter's Point
sfpublicpress.org/exposed

"The Naval Scientist Who Wanted To Know How Football Players Would Survive Nuclear War" (Chris for Defector)
defector.com/the-naval-scientist-who-wanted-to-know-how-football-players-would-survive-nuclear-war

See Chris on July 12, 2PM at the Shipyard Gallery, Building 101, 451 Galvez Ave.
Hunter's Point Shipyard Artists' "Decommissioned" is open Saturdays through August 2
shipyardartists.com/decommissioned

Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco

Zionists are still trying to pinkwash Israel's genocide, co-opting queer and trans institutions in the service of the Netanyahu dynasty and the Christian Zionists behind Project Esther.

One way they're doing this is by attempting to de-fang the radical history of Dyke March, a march that has happened every Saturday of Pride weekend in San Francisco since the early 1990s.

With Lisa Roth of Dykes for Palestine, and Jemma and Kira from Gay Shame.

The Diametric Dyke March for a Free Palestine
June 28, 2025
18th and Dolores, San Francisco
Gather at 4PM
March at 5PM

Gay Shame
gayshame.net
https://www.instagram.com/gay.shame/
Kira's Linktree
https://linktr.ee/kira_is_cold
A report back from the san Francisco dyke march town hall, April 2025 (Stab, in UltraViolet)
https://lagaiultraviolet.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/a-report-back-from-the-san-francisco-dyke-march-town-hall-april-2025/
"No Gay Rights, Only Queer Wrongs" with Deeg, Deni and Jemma
https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NjA2NTZkZDgtODQ1Mi00MzlhLTliNDEtM2EyZWVmOGM4NThi

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