Gina de Vries

Email Address: gina@bilerico.com

Location: San Francisco, CA

Project Contributor Since: June 2007

Entries by this Contributor: 37

Gina de Vries is a queer femme writer, rabble-rouser, sex worker, pervert, and Paisan. She grew up in San Francisco, where she cut her activist and artist teeth on the riot grrrl and queer arts movements in the 1990s. Her fiction, journalism, memoir, and smut have appeared dozens of places, including: Baby, Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing, Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women, TransForming Community, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Bound to Struggle: Where Kink & Radical Politics Meet, make/shift magazine, and Curve magazine (where she was a columnist from 1997-2004).

Currently, Gina curates shows for long-running queer performance series San Francisco in Exile, blogs for national LGBT blog Bilerico right here ;), and teaches a writing workshop for sex workers at San Francisco's Center for Sex & Culture (where she also serves on the Advisory Board).

Gina can be cruised online at ginadevries.com and queershoulder.livejournal.com.

• A Shotgun Wedding in Connecticut

  - Father Tony

• Santa Baby (Transgender Version)

  - Monica Roberts

• "Ex-Gay" Raises Money to Target LGBT Youth

  - Michael Crawford

• Report: anti-gay org to run ad in NYT blaming gays for 'Campaign Of Violence' in wake of Prop 8

  - Pam Spaulding

• The Hardest Word

  - Terrance Heath

• Bilerico DC Meetup: The Red-Hot Details

  - Michael Crawford

• The Pro-LGBT galvanization of American Majorities

  - Father Tony

• Prop 8 - The Musical

  - Jason Tseng

• Why So Many of Us Love That Holiday Tree

  - Patricia Nell Warren

• FL: David Duke comes to aid of ex-Klan leader's son in dustup over County GOP seat

  - Pam Spaulding

• Indiana's marriage amendment to make a comeback?

  - Bil Browning

• Miley Cyrus Bangs Head on X-Factor! Bah Humbug Oprah!

  - Michael Buckley