Jeri Estes

Book review of “Stilettos and Steel” by Jeri Estes.
By Chandler Warren
I have recently read a book by Jeri Estes which is based on her life story, or at least a part of it. The book is filled with fascinating characters from the lesbian underground of the Tenderloin in San Francisco in the late nineteen-sixties. It is filled with intrigue, danger, sex, laughter and love and is written with such style, grit and emotion that it’s impossible to put down.
The lead character, Jessica, is at first down and out having come to San Francisco from a small town where she felt like an outcast because of her sexual orientation. It’s hard for her at first as a prostitute until she discovers that she has all the makings of a madam which begins with paying off the cops and setting up her own empire which she rules with a steel hand. Throughout all this she has to endure arrests, police raids and destructive actions by the male criminal gangs which roam the TL as the Tenderloin is called.
We live through Jessica’s trials, her loves (both lost, re-found and lost again) and her business which is in constant peril from outside sources. But we see her heart as well as her iron (or steel) fist which protects her girls and her empire.
The book is a must read for those who have never heard of the San Francisco TL as I had not. But now I feel I lived through it along with Jess and her band of fabulous (and sometimes insane) characters.
I give this book five stars without reservation.

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Happy to be friends. The screenplay is being submitted next month to A-list producers. Your review would be greatly appreciated. My best, Jeri Estes
The Advocate Book Shelf: Stilettos and Steel
In a novel based on her true story, Jeri Estes takes us to the 1960s in San Francisco's red-light Tenderloin district, the original gay ghetto before the Castro. Estes's ingénue, Jesse, leaves her suburban town to make a name for herself, only to fall into prostitution in the gritty Tenderloin. With over-the-top characters, witty dialogue, and funny situations, the intensity of the world in which she takes the reader will be sure to entertain and educate. Populated with hookers, butch pimps, ringers, feminine tricks, and more, this book is a guaranteed guilty pleasure. A must-read!
http://www.amazon.com/Stilettos-Steel..

glad to become your friend. Though "The Promise of America" is a novel about the struggles of Irish immigrants in 1880's New York, there is a (what I think) powerful Lesbian sub-theme.

Next to the dangerous Tenderloin I find the New York publishing world scary ;-}
Street people are a little more direct. I love the review. I am working on the screenplay and the second book. Happy Holidays!

It had to be scary and difficult to live this
experience, but putting it down on paper for the world to see, even in fictionalized form, had to be even more difficult. Did you get it? She actually survived in the TL for 5 years. I can't imagine what that would have done to my head.
Woman, you have guts! I hope there is a Stilettos and Steel #2.
BTW where is the movie? The series? Hello out there! This is a no brainer.

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Spinning the literary world upside down with a brand new gender-bending underworld adventure, Wordsmith Productions has formally released Jeri Estes’ new novel Stilettos and Steel.

What does it take to be the toughest pimp in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district during the 1960s? How about the toughest female pimp? Based on her life experiences, Jeri Estes tells us what it takes.

Readers enter the Tenderloin, known as the TL, a previously unexposed mysterious, violent world of lesbian prostitutes and gangsters. The underbelly of strip joints, bars, cheap hotels and liquor stores was a different than typical red-light districts; the TL was a Camelot for homos. It offered freedom to dress in drag, which was against the law. Colorful queens peppered the neighborhood, dressed to the nines in high heels and high hair. Lesbians dressed like men boldly walked in public, holding hands with their femme girlfriends. Explorers are guided by the vibrant, unapologetic and humorous narrative of a lionhearted protagonist named Jesse.

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Spinning the literary world upside down with a brand new gender-bending underworld adventure, Wordsmith Productions has formally released Jeri Estes’ new novel Stilettos and Steel.

What does it take to be the toughest pimp in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district during the 1960s? How about the toughest female pimp? Based on her life experiences, Jeri Estes tells us what it takes.

Readers enter the Tenderloin, known as the TL, a previously unexposed mysterious, violent world of lesbian prostitutes and gangsters. The underbelly of strip joints, bars, cheap hotels and liquor stores was a different than typical red-light districts; the TL was a Camelot for homos. It offered freedom to dress in drag, which was against the law. Colorful queens peppered the neighborhood, dressed to the nines in high heels and high hair. Lesbians dressed like men boldly walked in public, holding hands with their femme girlfriends. Explorers are guided by the vibrant, unapologetic and humorous narrative of a lionhearted protagonist named Jesse.

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Spinning the literary world upside down with a brand new gender-bending underworld adventure, Wordsmith Productions has formally released Jeri Estes’ new novel Stilettos and Steel.

What does it take to be the toughest pimp in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district during the 1960s? How about the toughest female pimp? Based on her life experiences, Jeri Estes tells us what it takes.

Readers enter the Tenderloin, known as the TL, a previously unexposed mysterious, violent world of lesbian prostitutes and gangsters. The underbelly of strip joints, bars, cheap hotels and liquor stores was a different than typical red-light districts; the TL was a Camelot for homos. It offered freedom to dress in drag, which was against the law. Colorful queens peppered the neighborhood, dressed to the nines in high heels and high hair. Lesbians dressed like men boldly walked in public, holding hands with their femme girlfriends. Explorers are guided by the vibrant, unapologetic and humorous narrative of a lionhearted protagonist named Jesse.
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Spinning the literary world upside down with a brand new gender-bending underworld adventure, Wordsmith Productions has formally released Jeri Estes’ new novel Stilettos and Steel.

What does it take to be the toughest pimp in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district during the 1960s? How about the toughest female pimp? Based on her life experiences, Jeri Estes tells us what it takes.

Readers enter the Tenderloin, known as the TL, a previously unexposed mysterious, violent world of lesbian prostitutes and gangsters. The underbelly of strip joints, bars, cheap hotels and liquor stores was a different than typical red-light districts; the TL was a Camelot for homos. It offered freedom to dress in drag, which was against the law. Colorful queens peppered the neighborhood, dressed to the nines in high heels and high hair. Lesbians dressed like men boldly walked in public, holding hands with their femme girlfriends. Explorers are guided by the vibrant, unapologetic and humorous narrative of a lionhearted protagonist named Jesse.

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Stilettos And Steel by Jeri Estes
Spinning the literary world upside down with a brand new gender-bending underworld adventure, Wordsmith Productions has formally released Jeri Estes’ new novel Stilettos and Steel.

What does it take to be the toughest pimp in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district during the 1960s? How about the toughest female pimp? Based on her life experiences, Jeri Estes tells us what it takes.

Readers enter the Tenderloin, known as the TL, a previously unexposed mysterious, violent world of lesbian prostitutes and gangsters. The underbelly of strip joints, bars, cheap hotels and liquor stores was a different than typical red-light districts; the TL was a Camelot for homos. It offered freedom to dress in drag, which was against the law. Colorful queens peppered the neighborhood, dressed to the nines in high heels and high hair. Lesbians dressed like men boldly walked in public, holding hands with their femme girlfriends. Explorers are guided by the vibrant, unapologetic and humorous narrative of a lionhearted protagonist named Jesse.

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Spinning the literary world upside down with a brand new gender-bending underworld adventure, Wordsmith Productions has formally released Jeri Estes’ new novel Stilettos and Steel.
What does it take to be the toughest pimp in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district during the 1960s? How about the toughest female pimp? Based on her life experiences, Jeri Estes tells us what it takes.
Readers enter the Tenderloin, known as the TL, a previously unexposed mysterious, violent world of lesbian prostitutes and gangsters. The underbelly of strip joints, bars, cheap hotels and liquor stores was a different than typical red-light districts; the TL was a Camelot for homos. It offered freedom to dress in drag, which was against the law. Colorful queens peppered the neighborhood, dressed to the nines in high heels and high hair. Lesbians dressed like men boldly walked in public, holding hands with their femme girlfriends. Explorers are guided by the vibrant, unapologetic and humorous narrative of a lionhearted protagonist named Jesse.