The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has declared that this year, Valentine's Day will be "Margo St. James Day" in honor of the sex workers rights advocate who died last month.
Friends are also planning an online celebration of St. James' life this spring. St. James died January 11 in Washington state, where she had been living in a memory care facility before being moved to hospice.
She was 83. St. James, who founded the prostitutes' rights organization COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), and later the St.
James Infirmary, was honored by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at its January 26 board meeting. "It was important to declare Margo St.