Nicki JIZZ!
From first lipsynchs to who's hotter: uber, lyft or taxi drivers. We get up close and personal with the Queen of Cummies, and San Francisco's Best Drag Queen Winner Nicki Jizz.
S02E02 with Queer writer and podcaster Michelle Tea!
On this episode, host VivvyAnne Forevermore speaks with Queer writer and legend, Michelle Tea! We hear about her wild times at The Stud in the 90s, about sobriety, aging and nightlife and about her new Tarot-centric mystical podcast, Your Magic. She also gives The Stud the read of her life- an astrological one!
Year In Review with Honey Mahogany and VivvyAnne Forevermore
Our first episode of season 2 where hosts Honey Mahogany and VivvyAnne Forevermore share their trials and tribulations of transitioning off the stage and into the digital drag world. In this episode we revisit each podcast of 2020 from Etta James and Larry LaRue to the Last Lesbian Bar in SF and Sylvester. Refresh your Stud history with our two favorite Drag Queens and find out all we have in store for you in 2021!
You make me feel Mighty Real with Vivvy and Kelly Lovemonster
You make me feel Mighty Real!
On this episode we’ve invited Kelly Lovemonster, ex Stud Collective member and international creative (curator, promoter, model, actor etc.) to talk all about Sylvester. While learning all about Sylvester Kelly and Vivvy dive deep on ideas around queer kin making and family.
Editing and Production: Terra Haywood
Project Manager: Ben McGrath
Music: Paige Turner
Script: Mica Sigourney
Host: Mica Sigourney
Politics with Honey Mahogany
This week we continue digging into contemporary politics. At this time we want to focus not only where we have come from but where we could be going. In this episode Honey Mahogany speaks with Carolina Morales, a Latina immigrant organizer dedicated to racial and economic justice advocacy in SF for over 16 years. Caro is currently an MSW student, a SF District Attorney Policy Fellow, and advisor for the Center for Political Education.
Editing and Production: Terra Haywood
Project Manager: Ben McGrath
Music: Paige Turner
Script: Honey Mahogany
Host: Honey Mahogany
Election SPECIAL!
An extra Stud Stories Episode? Yes we love you that much that we couldn’t help ourselves!
Fave guest host Honey Mahogany breaks into the political reporting hustle. She talks with Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Matt Haney and Stud Cooperative Worker Owner and political strategist Nate Allbee. We talk about why politics matters on the local level, and what folks can do in San Francisco this election day to create the city the want to live in. Please note this was recorded the day after the first presidential debate- a lot has happened since then, we aren’t not talking about it- because we are time travelers
Editing and Production: Terra Haywood
Project Manager: Ben McGrath
Music: Paige Turner
Script: Honey Mahogany
Host: Honey Mahogany
Leather with Race Bannon
Every September on the last Sunday in San Francisco is Folsom Street Fair. A street fair that celebrates all leather and all kink. People from around the world come to S.F. for this event that has garnered legendary status among kinksters and non-kinsters alike. In honor of Folsom Street Fair which has moved online this year, we are talking with Race Bannon. Race has been involved in Leather and Kink for over 47 years. In this episode we talk about the history of Leather in SF, the changes to the Leather and kink scenes over the years and what it’s like to age and get older in the Leather scene, among many other things.
You can find some photos of the 1964 Life Magazine article here.
Editing and Production: Terra Haywood
Project Manager and research: Ben McGrath
Music: Paige Turner
Script and Production: Mica Sigourney
Host: Mica Sigourney
The Co-Op
In this episode Honey Mahogany talks with Rachel Ryan, Stud Collective President and General Manager, and Nate Allbee, Stud Co-Owner. They talk about our quick and dirty beginnings, some of the hardest moments in co-operative and their favorites moments at the Stud.
Terra Haywood, our editor and producer, even makes a guest appearance at the end.
Editing and Production: Terra Haywood
Project Manager and research: Ben McGrath
Music: Paige Turner
Script and Production: Mica Sigourney
Host: Honey Mahogany
1997 - The Lexington Club
The Lexington Club - Your neighborhood Dyke and Queer Bar opened in 1997, and it all started at a the pool table at the Stud.
We are joined by Lila Thirkield, owner of the Lexington Club which closed just a few years ago in San Francisco. It's a sweet episode talking about queer solidarity, recent past of San Francisco and the changing economic and cultural landscape in queer nightlife.
As always:
Editing and Production: Terra Haywood
Project Manager and research: Ben McGrath
Music: Paige Turner
Host and research: Mica Sigourney
1966 pt 2 with Honey Mahogany and Susan Stryker
It was hot. It was hot in summer in San Francisco in 1966. In 1966 there were riots. 3 years before the Stonewall Riots, in San Francsico’s Tenderloin neighborhood queers, queens and sex workers clashed with the police at Compton’s Cafeteria.
Today the first Transgender Cultural District surrounds the historic site of the riots. In part two of our Queer Liberation episode Stud co-owner and Transgender Cultural District cofounder Honey Mahogany is joined by historian and filmmaker Susan Stryker.
1966 with Honey Mahogany and Aria Sa'id
1966 - the year the Stud was founded and the year of the Compton's Cafeteria Riots
It was hot. It was hot in summer in San Francisco in 1966. In 1966 there were riots. 3 years before the Stonewall Riots, in San Francsico’s Tenderloin neighborhood queers, queens and sex workers clashed with the police at Compton’s Cafeteria. Today the first Transgender Cultural District surroundsthe historic site of the riots.
In the first part of our two part Queer Liberation episode Stud co-owner and Transgender Cultural District cofounder is joined by Aria Sa’id Transgender Cultural District Cofounder and Executive Director.
In part two Honey is joined by historian and filmmaker Susan Stryker.
Punk with Brontez Purnell and John F*cking Cartwright
Our story this week focuses on Larry LaRue famous Stud and SF dj who, allegedly was the first dj to play punk music in a club in SF, as well as the first gay club. Larry’s life intertwined with the Stud’s history when on a fateful night he filled in for a sick DJ and then became resident, he also dated an owner for 15 years after losing a pool game to him.
In this conversation with local DJ,artworker and Stud worker-owner John Fucking Cartwright, and local artist Brontez Purnell, we talk about to social and cultural tensions that lead to the “end” of disco, our first times at gay dance clubs, and the constant comparison between SF’s artsier dirtier SOMA neighborhood and the “cleaner” more mainstream Castro neighborhood.
This episode was
Produced and Edited by: Terra Haywood
Project Management: Ben McGrath
Written and Hosted by: Mica Sigourney
Research: Chloe Miller
Extra Research by: Mark Freeman
Music for this episode by: Los Microwaves
Los Microwaves was a San Francisco based synth-punk trio who formed in 1979.
This song also appears on Josh Cheon's Dark Entries
BART - Bay Area Retrograde Vol.1
Song - Silent Screamers
Date - 1982
Band Members Meg Brazill ,David Javelosa.Todd Rosa
This is a link to short Stud documentary featuring Larry LaRue.
You can hear LaRue’s mixes at the San Francisco Disco Preservation Society created by Jim Hopkins.
Jim “Edie” Fleckenstein (Larry’s partner of 15 years and Stud Owner) and Larry LaRue June 1977
Etta James with Honey Mahogany
By 1976 Etta James had opened for Elvis, toured with Little Richie, released ten studio albums and had several number one hits on the Rhythm and Blues charts. So what brought her to the Stud with it’s “postage stamp sized” stage, and dressing rooms across the street (imagine her crossing Folsom Street in the middle of the block to get from the green room to the stage).
Honey Mahogany joins host Vivvy to dish about Etta James, Beyonce, and queer appreciation of high femme blackness.
Honey Mahogany is a member of the Stud Collective, and cofounder of the Compton’s Transgender Cultural district in San Francisco. She’s also a drag queen, legislative aid in City Hall and was a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Link to the BAR article referenced in this episode is here
This is the Stud’s original contract with Etta James
More photos of more contracts (some handwritten by James) are available to our Patreon members Here
Etta James’ number in the Stud’s rolodex (photo by Chloe Miller)
Preview-Stud Pin Archives
A chat with Stud Pin Archives Creator Chloe Miller-
Gidget made hundreds and hundreds of buttons for the Stud, some of them were just fun and some carried more weight. Chloe Miller tells us why she started archiving the Stud Pin collection and shares three buttons with us. One celebrates Larry LaRue, who brought punk music to the queer dance floors of SF. One shows solidarity with the victims of the Atlanta child murders. One makes fun of the pope and was released just before his visit to SF during the height of the AIDS epidemic
Hosted by Vivvy/Mica Sigourney
Edited and Produced by Terra Haywood
Logistics Produced by Ben McGrath
Design by Neven Samara Music by Paige Turner
Papa Visit 1987
By 1976 Etta James had opened for Elvis, toured with Little Richie, released ten studio albums and had several number one hits on the Rhythm and Blues charts. So what brought her to the Stud with it’s “postage stamp sized” stage, and dressing rooms across the street (imagine her crossing Folsom Street in the middle of the block to get from the green room to the stage).
Honey Mahogany joins host Vivvy to dish about Etta James, Beyonce, and queer appreciation of high femme blackness.
Honey Mahogany is a member of the Stud Collective, and cofounder of the Compton’s Transgender Cultural district in San Francisco. She’s also a drag queen, legislative aid in City Hall and was a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Link to the BAR article referenced in this episode is here
Below is a photo of the original contract with Etta James-
More photos of more contracts (some handwritten by James) are available to our Patreon members Here
An Image of Etta James contact in the Stud Rolodex- photo by Chloe Miller
