The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, And Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco
10th Anniversary Edition Book Launch
Author Randy Shaw in conversation with TLM’s Executive Director Katie Conry
Thursday February 27, 2025 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm
At the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
And online via zoom (link will be sent to registered attendees)
Free or Suggested Donation | Register to attend via Humanitix
Click here to purchase the book directly– all net proceeds support TLM.
Tenderloin Museum turns 10 this year, and founder Randy Shaw’s seminal neighborhood history— The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco—has been updated through 2025. Join us in celebrating the publication of a new, updated edition of this foundational book at a public program featuring Shaw in conversation with TLM’s Executive Director Katie Conry.
Originally published in 2015, Randy Shaw’s The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco offered readers a dedicated, comprehensive history of SF’s Tenderloin for the first time. Shaw’s Tenderloin considered our city’s most misunderstood and maligned neighborhood with a richly detailed and nuanced perspective that tells a powerful story of over 100 years of resistance and resilience. The book weaves together narratives of anti-establishment social movements, working class culture, and vibrant ethnic diversity–as well as the vice that earned the neighborhood its name.
The research and writing of that book dovetailed with the creation and opening of the permanent exhibit at the Tenderloin Museum, itself a culmination of Shaw and others’ decades of advocacy for the neighborhood. Now, both the book and museum are celebrating an important milestone: a 10th anniversary. San Francisco has gone through a lot since the original edition; so has the Tenderloin neighborhood. That’s why we are so excited about Randy Shaw’s new edition of his Tenderloin book that brings this vital history into the present. Shaw’s depiction of the Tenderloin as an historic center of resistance perfectly fits the current moment.
Join us on February 27th to celebrate the launch of Shaw’s 10th Anniversary Edition of The Tenderloin book for a public program featuring the author & museum founder Randy Shaw in conversation with TLM Executive Director Katie Conry.
Click here learn more about the book and purchase directly– all net proceeds support TLM.