In its short life, the Tenderloin Museum has quickly emerged as a powerhouse of highly informative programming and this screening of Tenderloin Tuesdays: A Clinic in the Tenderloin is yet another brilliant example. A crowdfunded look at Tom Waddell Urban Health Clinic, the first medical facility to care exclusively for transgender individuals —and one that opened at the height of the AIDS crisis —it shows the courage and the humanity of the "bad old days," when hormones were difficult to find in safe surroundings. While nearly all the stories are poignant, two of the more jaw-dropping involve a transwoman who, post-transition, opens a successful salon that gets repeatedly robbed, and another who was sexually abused by the very psychiatrist she had been sent to. Director Mark Freeman, who was a nurse at the clinic back in the '90s before turning to film, will be there, too.
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