Mary writes, "With the city closing public services in the name of an alleged budget crisis while fattening salaries in the Mayor's Office, Gavin Newsom going forward with a Community Justice Center to help process the costly volume of tickets police together with social workers have been giving out for sleeping on the street, and diversity-washed ads proclaiming SF a 'Sanctuary City' while continuing ICE raids and gang injunctions, Gay Shame has decided to turn in an unexpected direction: spirituality.

"Because the gentrification of the Polk Street area in the Tenderloin is an intersection of so many different wars City Hall is waging -- against people of color, sex workers, homeless people, immigrants, drug addicts, youth, and marginalized queer/trans people -- it's the perfect place to channel voices of resistance." On Tuesday, June 3rd, at the intersection of Polk and Hemlock Streets, Gay Shame will conduct a séance to "summon the ghosts of Polk Street's past", defend street culture and protest Lower Polk Neighbors, whose "business improvement district" has been slowly squeezing the spirit out of Polk Street.

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