These Sex Toy retail stores and vendors are local companies, queer-owned and operated, and/or support our queer community.
BlowfishOur fabulous distributor, Blowfish Video, is a great online resource for all things kinky. Buy our films from Blowfish, and shop around for other fun toys while your at it. |
Toys in BabelandOne of the few Lesbian-owned and operated sex toy stores around, located in Seattle and New York. From events to sex ed articles and quality dildos and harnesses, these queer folks show you how it’s done. |
Good For HerToronto’s Good For Her produces the annual Feminist Porn Awards, of which we’re very very proud to be awarded. |
Good VibrationsLegendary sex retailer Good Vibrations is still around, selling high-quality sex toys online and in their SF Bay Area stores. |
Smitten KittenOur friends at Smitten Kitten know a good thing when they see it, and even though they’re far from SF they are close to our hearts. |
StockroomA go-to place for all things kinky and BDSM, Stockroom is a familiar face in SF and we hope you’ll also enjoy their website. |
Come As You AreToronto’s Come As You Are currently stands as the only worker-owned sex toy shop in the world! |
Vixen CreationsSan Francisco based dildo company that makes some of the best cocks around. They also donate year-round to local non-profits and really support the queers. |
Tantus SiliconeQueer woman owned silicone toy company with strong political ethics and high-quality silicond dildos and vibrators. |
Aslan LeatherSome of the best harnesses around are made by Aslan Leather. They support their queer community so show them love! Harnesses include the popular Jaguar Lux Harness and other harnesses and bondage gear made from leather, rubber, and vinyl. |
InHerTubeInHerTube makes quality custom fit harnesses out of bike innertubes. Fashionable and fit. |
Outlaw LeatherManufactures high-quality sex accessories such as leather harnesses like the Annie-O and the Syd. |
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Art XX MagazineArt XX is an intervention, a fresh reaction to the often elitist world of art magazines that continues to ignore female, queer, trans, outsider and non-white artists. Our goal is to improve the visibility of these folks not only in magazine publications that quite often omit them in favor of more mainstream artists, but to serve as a space of free artistic expression and a vehicle for social change. |
Curve MagazineCurve, the nation’s best-selling lesbian magazine, spotlights all that is fresh, funny, exciting, controversial and cutting-edge in our community. Curve brings you the latest in lesbian-related celebrity interviews, news, politics, pop culture, style, travel, social issues and entertainment. |
Hyphen MagazineHyphen is a magazine about Asian America for the culturally and politically savvy. Built around a clarity of image, word and social awareness, Hyphen takes form from the artists, thinkers and creators who are shaping a new multiethnic generation. Interview with Shawn and Jiz Lee: Changing the Color of Porn |
Velvet ParkVelvetpark, Dyke Culture in Bloom is an exclusively on-line magazine. Our Mission is to articulate and foster the inherent aesthetic and cultural values of the contemporary queer and women’s movement. To honor our LGBTQ cultural heritage and bring it’s discourse into everyday dialog. |
Bitch MagazineB-Word Worldwide is a nonprofit (501c3), independent, feminist media organization best known for publishing Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, a print magazine devoted to feminist analysis and media criticism. Bitch features critiques of TV, movies, magazines, advertising, and other elements of pop culture. |
DIVADIVA is a UK magazine |
On Our BacksThis magazine stopped production years ago, however it’s site is still online for archival. |
GV Online MagGood Vibrations Online Magazine furthers the mission of the legendary sex toy retailer by providing Sex Education and Entertainment for a sex positive world. Interviews: |
No Fauxxx‘Porn that doesn’t fake it’, this artcore porn company is directed by our very own Trouble. Queers of all kinds can be found at No Fauxxx. |
Good Dyke PornBren Ryder was inspired by Shine Louise Houston and started her OWN dyke porn company in Canada. |
Trannywood PicturesWe have a hard on for these boys. Safer Sex heroes, the guys (mostly FtM) from Trannywood make us sweat. A few of them have also graced our site. |
Comstock FilmsTony Comstock makes touching docu-porns, including our favorite “Ashley and Kisha”, a couple we’d like to see here. |
Madison Bound ProductionsThere isn’t much that Madison Young can’t do. One of the things she does very well is her own site, where she also directs her own films. |
Bleu ProductionsMaria Beatty directs gorgeous artsy porn, with a cast member or two who you might recognize from Pink & White Productions. |
Kink.comKink.com hosts female wrestling site Ultimate Surrender and royal electro-shock treatment at Wired Pussy. You just may recognize some familiar faces from CrashPadSeries.com. |
Hot Movies for HerThe gals at Hot Movies for Her know a thing or two about film. Pink & White Productions will be making an appearance on their site very soon! |
AbbyWintersAustralian girls next door, AbbyWinters features three sites with natural girls. |
Michelle AstonPro Porn Star Michelle Aston was a huge hit at the Crash Pad Series. If you crave more Michelle, visit her site here. |
Buck AngelBuck Angel made history as the world’s first female-to-male transsexual (FTM) Porn Star. He’s an entrepreneur with a look and style all his own. Visit buck’s fansite, Buckangel.com. |
DragonLilyWe’ve been dying to get this drop-dead sexy model on CrashPadSeries.com… in the meantime we’re happy to include her here. |
More resources:
IndieNudes.com, Dark Play, Belladonna, Real Lesbian Porn, Girls Out West, Veg Porn, NerdPr0n, Eon McKai, redhandedporn.com, Fatale Media, Skin Video, JanesGuide
See more at our store.
Rigged OutfittersRIGGED Out/fitters is a vintage-inspired, queer-owned clothing label with an irreverant attitude towards the concept of gender and clothing. Rigged recycles vintage menswear and “rigs” them with subversive and humorous messages, graphics, and patches that result in original garments suitable for the female body, but with a masculine attitude. Rigged has also launched an entire line of graphic tees, undies, hoodies, dresses, and accessories that tie the collection together.
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Dykes in the CityIn the summer of 2000, a group of women got together on a steamy afternoon in Baltimore, MD. They gossiped, bitched, drank coffee and plotted to find love — or at least sex. It was during one of these frequent rendezvous that the term DITC was born. DITC, meaning “dykesinthecity”, became the code word for this group as they hung together through thick and thin, girlfriends, dogs, cats, kids, surgeries, houses, moves, and yes, even heartbreaks. On a whim years later, they created DITC t-shirts. Never wanting to keep anything solely to themselves, the dykesinthecity apparel line was born. Six women, many ideas, and one dream to share…
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Wear Me NakedCute hirts, undies, and other clothing that are hand-screened and stitched the minute you order. 10% of all proceeds to go a charity of your pick!
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Tomcat ThreadsTomcat is a queer clothier with a focus on our community. Founded in 2007, we are perpetually evolving, striving to meet the fashion needs of our people.
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Violet BlueViolet Blue is our favorite overachieving author, sex educator, blogger, podcaster, lecturer, GETV reporter, The San Francisco Chronicle’s sex columnist, robotic artist, and a Forbes Web Celeb. She’s a bestselling, award-winning author/editor of over 2 dozen books, 5 translations. Webnation: “Violet Blue is the leading sex educator for the Internet generation.” |
Tristan TaorminoTRISTAN TAORMINO is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, sex educator and director. She runs her own adult film production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment. She was a syndicated columnist for The Village Voice and writes an advice column for Taboo Magazine and has been featured in over 200 publications. |
Audacia RayOver the last seven years, Audacia Ray has worked as a researcher, curator, blogger, writer, magazine editor, adjunct professor, public speaker, and producer/host/editor of video podcasts. Presently, Audacia is the Program Officer for Online Communications and Campaigns at the International Women’s Health Coalition and an adjunct professor of Human Sexuality at Rutgers University. |
Diana CageDiana Cage is the editor of Velvetpark and the former editor of On Our Backs magazine. She has written for Curve, Girlfriends, On Our Backs, GV Weekly, and many other publications. She writes about sex and relationships for Frontiers and Velvetpark, and has dispensed sex advice in Maxim magazine, GQ, and on the Derek and Romaine show on Sirius OutQ. |
Felice NewmanFelice Newman is a sex educator and Somatic Coach certified by the Strozzi Institute. She studied human sexuality through San Francisco Sex Information and the Body Electric School. She is the author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book and a founding co-publisher of Cleis Press. Felice is the resident sex coach on ClassicDykes.com and has offered online sex advice on About.com, and LesbiaNation.com. She is a member of The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). |
Dr. Carol QueenDr. Carol Queen is a writer, speaker, educator and activist with a doctorate in sexology. First as an organizer in the lesbian/gay community, where she helped found one of the first gay youth groups in the United States, and later in the emerging international bisexual community, as a sex worker and a practitioner of alternative sexualities, she typically teach and write from her own experience and that of her communities even as she reference academic thought on these subjects. |
Morty DiamondMorty Diamond is a transgender performance artist, filmmaker and writer originating from Los Angeles, California. Some of the primary ideas in his work are deconstruction of gender, power dynamics, erotic methodology, and public personas. Morty’s first anthology From the Inside Out, FTM and Beyond, published in 2004, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and was given continuous positive reviews in magazines such as Curve, Bust and the Brooklyn Rail, it is now in its second printing. |
Tony ComstockComstock Films founder Tony Comstock came to New York City in the early 90’s as a journeyman commercial photographer and advertising copywriter. In short order, New York City decided his talents were better suited to film and video. Over the course of a dozen or so years he directed films for Fortune 500 companies, and circled the world several times on both commissioned and self-financed documentary projects. |
Melissa GiraMelissa Gira Grant is a writer and sex worker. She and the Desiree Alliance founded the sex worker group blog Bound, Not Gagged and reports daily on sex and the internet for Valleywag. She founded Sexerati and consults with the Soros Foundation’s Sexual Health and Rights’ Project and the St. James Infirmary on using technology for advocacy and movement building among sex workers. She lectures to public health, sexuality, political science and sociology students on sex, media, technology, and human rights, and teaches hands-on media skills for community-based organizations. |
Jamye WaxmanJamye Waxman, dubbed “the nexxxt generation of sex educator” by Wired.com, is the sex advice columnist for Playgirl Magazine and one of the hosts of Fresh Advice on Cherrytv.com. Jamye wrote the books Getting Off and Women Loving Women. She is the creator and host of the Personal Touch video series. She is the former radio producer of The Joan Rivers Show, The Joey Reynolds Show (WOR), The Alan Colmes Show (WEVD) and LoveBytes with Bob Berkowtiz. Jamye is President of Feminists for Free Expression. |
Lux AlptraumLux Alptraum has been obsessed with the Internet since 1994, obsessed with computers since 1987, and obsessed with sex since 1982. Career highlights include founding and running That Strange Girl (the first altporn site to feature both male and female models), interning at Nerve, and keeping the masses educated about sex for the past ten years. When not running Boinkology, she works as the Editor of Fleshbot, Gawker Media’s blog about sex, porn, and the web. Her writing has also appeared in Time Out New York, Best Sex Writing 2008, and GOOD Magazine. |
Thomas RocheThomas Roche has written or cowritten, edited or coedited ten books, plus about another forty under pseudonyms, shhhhh don’t tell. In addition to the 10 published books he has written more than 400 published short stories and more than 400 published articles. Since 1996 he has been an instructor at San Francisco Sex Information, where as part of a team he teaches twice-yearly 60-hour trainings on sexuality for volunteers on SFSI’s phone lines as well as therapists, nurses, writers, teachers and sex educators. |
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Femina PotensFemina Potens is a non-profit arts gallery and performance space dedicated to the advancement of women and transgendered artists. First founded in 2001 by artistic director Tina Butcher and Madison Young, who recognized a need for greater visibility of women and transgendered artists and set out to create Femina Potens with no financial backing for the project, only a mission and a vision. |
Lusty LadiesThe world’s only unionized, worker-owned peep show co-op! The Lusty Lady is a San Francisco original. You might recognize some of the dancers here at the Crash Pad. |
Center for Sex & CultureThe Center for Sex & Culture is to provide non-judgmental, sex-positive sexuality education and support to diverse populations by means of classes, workshops, social gatherings, and hands-on, practical skills-building events; to maintain and house these events and supporting materials and functions; to maintain a publicly-accessible library and archives; to staff and support this learning environment. |
Mama Calizo’s Voice FactoryMama nurtures the development of Queer Performers, Educators and Activists by providing Artist in Residence Programs and Arts programming. The process and product of creative activity has equal value, all talent is worthy of development, and artistic expression is essential to our community’s health, placing special emphasis on supporting the work of Queer People of Color, Trans People and artists living with HIV/ AIDS. |
Sex Workers Art ShowThe show includes people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves beyond “positive” and “negative” into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives. The Sex Workers’ Art Show entertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathing and insightful commentary on notions of class, race, gender, labor and sexuality! |
Poly Patao ProductionsPoly Patao Productions is dedicated to producing sex-positive workshops, performance pieces, play parties, panel discussions, teach-ins, social/political groups and educational opportunities that are specially geared toward queer women, transgender, multi-gender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming and gender variant folx of color. |
QWOCMAPQueer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) promotes the creation, exhibition and distribution of new films and videos that increase the visibility of queer women of color, authentically reflect our life stories, and address the vital social justice issues that concern our communities. |
CounterPULSE TheaterCounterPULSE provides space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators, serving as an incubator for the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture, and acts as a catalyst for art and action; creating a forum for the open exchange of art and ideas, catalyzing transformation in our communities and our society. We work towards a world that celebrates diversity of race, class, cultural heritage, artistic expression, ability, gender identity & sexual orientation. We strive to create an environment that is physically and economically accessible to everyone. |
Cabaret Dé Nude“Providing sexy entertainment for the lezzi queer girl tranny community” |
DigiRompErotic Lesbian Social Networking Site |
Mangos with Chillithe floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares |
Creative FilthThis membership site is inspiring. It’s a great example of a good smutty online community at its finest. |
Free Speech CoalitionThe Free Speech Coalition was founded in 1991 as a result of numerous government attacks against producers and retailers of adult products. But its roots are embedded deep within the birth and development of adult entertainment in the United States. |
San Francisco Sex InformationSan Francisco Sex Information (SFSI) trains people to become sex educators and operates a free information and referral switchboard. We provide free, confidential, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex and reproductive health. |
St. James InfirmerySt. James Infirmary offers free, confidential, nonjudgmental medical and social services for female, transgender, and male sex workers. We are the first occupational safety and health clinic for sex workers run by and for sex workers! |
Lyon Martin Health ServicesLyon-Martin Health Services is the only free-standing community clinic in California with a specific emphasis on lesbian/bisexual women and transgender health care. |
C.U.A.V.Founded in 1979, Community United Against Violence (CUAV) is a multicultural, anti-oppression organization working to end violence against and within our diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) communities. We believe that in order to end homophobia and heterosexism, we must confront all forms of oppression, including racism, sexism, ageism, classism, and ableism. |
Austin Law GroupThe Austin Law Group advises its clients in civil matters and business transactions, with an emphasis on Arts and Media, Entertainment, Land Use, Sports Law, Technology, Non-Profit Organizations, Copyrights and Trademarks. |
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