Drag, AI-powered vibrators, and ‘Ask a Sexologist’: A recap of our first Chat Room

Last Thursday was the first entry in our Chat Room series, Love. The good folks who came through to our inaugural event at Swedish American Hall were treated to a night of plentiful booze and delights. (I know I’m writing as a person on the Gazetteer payroll, but it really, really was a good time.) When I saw Anna Lee, the CEO of AI-powered sex toy company Lioness, pull up a slide deck of orgasm charts, I knew we were in for a hell of an evening. 

Elizabeth Dell, CEO of relationship intimacy app Amorus, introduced the concept of “high possibility, low expectation” events as a balm for lonely hearts. Bay Area sexologists Carol Queen and David Khalili dropped insights on kinky lit and the magic of working out your pelvic floor, among many other titillating subjects. As for Anna’s orgasm slide deck, well, you really had to be there to get the full effect.

We were also incredibly lucky to have some of the city’s finest drag performers — Mary Vice, Militia Scunt, and Bonita Rose — punctuating the evening with some jaw-dropping numbers. (I can’t stop thinking about Bonita Rose’s Gaga rendition, for one.) And, of course, emcee Jillian Gnarling was a star, holding the crowd in the palm of her hand, even while she was roasting the straight folks in it. 

A huge thanks to all who came out — no small feat on a weeknight. No worries if you couldn’t make it out to this one, though. We’ve got more Chat Rooms in store for Gazetteer SF subscribers. We’ll tell you all about them soon.