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| WTF: Women's, Trans/Genderqueer, and Femmes' Night Bike Kitchen | Last Monday of every month, 6:30pm | South of Market | |
| In the name of Miriam Bengoetxea, Basque bike engineer (of Orbea Orca fame), we command you to attend WTF: the Women, Transgenderqueer, and Femme bike-fix night! Bengoetxea is one of the only women in the world designing carbon-fiber bicycle frames, partly because she's had the support of the... More >> | |||
| "Pink Slip: All You Can Eat" The Stud | Tue., November 25, 11:00pm | South of Market | |
For over a decade, Trannyshack and hostess Heklina wooed us with shocking drag shows and celebrity appearances. But theres a new sheriff in town and her name is Virginia Suicide. Her variety show, Pink Slip, consists of 10 (more or less) acts of drag queens singing (not lip syncing) and... More >> |
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| The Garden and Wittgenstein San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Sat., November 29, 1:00pm | South of Market | |
The main takeaway from Milk -- dont worry, were not going to spoil the ending -- is the importance of gays and lesbians expressing who they truly are. Gay expression, with all its iconoclasm, eroticism, and mystery, is the overriding theme of an ongoing Derek Jarman retrospective.... More >> |
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| Blackbird: A Queer Vocal History Mama Calizo's Voice Factory | Daily from Fri., November 14 until Sun., November 23, 8:00pm | South of Market | |
Blackbird: A Queer Vocal History promises to be the best homage to singing outsiders since Cant Stop the Music, shining the spotlight on half a dozen favorite and soon-to-be-favorite queer musical obscurities. Through a hodgepodge of puppetry, live performance, and jazzy media, Seth Eisen... More >> |
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| Milk Castro Theatre | Daily from Tue., November 25 until Tue., December 23 | Castro/Noe Valley | |
Harvey Milk was a 42-year-old nobody, a wisecracking Manhattan worker bee, when he moved to San Francisco in 1972. In fact, in his mind a homosexual who couldnt tell and live the truth was worse than a nobody. Of course, as we all know even those of us who migrated or were born... More >> |
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| "Open Eyes: Queer Film Friday" Femina Potens | First Friday of every month | Castro/Noe Valley | |
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| Jackie Beats Cups Overfloweth with Drag Nog! The Rrazz Room | Daily from Fri., November 28 until Sat., November 29, 10:30pm | Union Square/Financial District | |
If December is the stressiest month, and if laughter is a stress-buster, then Jackie Beat's Cups Overfloweth with
Drag Nog! is the strong medicine you need. New York drag star Beat's act involves her singing (yes, sound comes out of her mouth, even though it is a drag show -- you can't... More >> |
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| Veronica Klaus Enrico's | Every week Tuesday, 7:00pm | North Beach/Chinatown | |
Maybe you already know North Beach was nationally famous in the 1940s and '50s as a place to see male and female "impersonators." Maybe you don't: Ask any grandfather-aged former serviceman who was stationed on the West Coast during that time, and he'll tell you alllll about Finocchio's. Either... More >> |
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| "K'vetsh" Eros | First Sunday of every month, 8:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
All 12 acts on the bill at the Kvetsh 12-Year Anniversary Show are great: Sister Spit superstar and author Sara Seinberg is kind of a big deal, for example. And the lineup at the queer-friendly open mike and multi-genre reading/screening series goes on and on: John Waters torch-bearer... More >> |
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| "Manic Monday" The Bar on Castro | Every week Monday, 9:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
For readers who spent the 80s in utero, it's never too late to get drunk at a gay bar where the eras music is experiencing an enthusiastic renaissance. Courtesy of DJs Dangerous Dan and Mark Andrus, the offerings at Manic Mondays include artists secured within the... More >> |
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| Were the World Mine Opera Plaza Cinema | Daily from Fri., November 21 until Thu., November 27 | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
Tom Gustafsons queer-centric take on Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream teeters between banal conceptualizing and inspired execution. When high school homo and jock punching bag Timothy (Tanner Cohen) is cast as Puck in his all-boys schools production of Midsummer, he... More >> |
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| Passing on the Pen Museum of GLBT History | Daily from Tue., March 25 until Wed., December 10 | Union Square/Financial District | |
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| "Planet Big" The Stud |
Second Sunday of every month, 5:00pm more dates/times |
South of Market | |
If you think San Franciscos gay club scene is populated exclusively by fabulous gangs of slender men in tank tops, youve overlooked important niche parties like Planet Big, where fabulous gangs of large men in tank tops rule the dancefloor. Planet Big is a gay party for... More >> |
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| Queer Dance Lessons Queer Ballroom Studios |
Thu., August 2, 7:00pm more dates/times |
South of Market | |
By the time you read this, the election will be over: You'll know whether Proposition 8 was defeated or not. Since we're writing this from the other side of the past, we're going to pretend that IT WAS DEFEATED! Yay! This leaves you with only one major problem: You have too many gay weddings to... More >> |
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| Sisters Bingo War Memorial and Performing Arts Center's Green Room | Third Wednesday of every month, 7:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
We hear wedding bells! At the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence-run Wedding Bells Bingo, the usual monthly gay bingo madness is augmented with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Molly McKay, cake, flowers, and other nuptial-themed frippery. Think the chorus will sing "Going to the Chapel?" We'd... More >> |
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| San Francisco Gay Basketball's Open Court Play Eureka Valley Recreation Center | Every week Sunday, 5:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
What with Indiana Pacer Tim Hardaway's declaration that he hates gay people (and recently out former NBA player John Amaechi's level-headed and articulate response), gay basketball has been on everyone's mind. No doubt you've been wondering where you could get some of that gay basketball,... More >> |
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| "Sizzle" Femina Potens | Last Saturday of every month, 8:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
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| "Smack Dab" Magnet | Third Wednesday of every month, 7:30pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
Time was, the Castro District was about dumpster diving for costumes, puttin' on a show, and expressing yourself in opposition to a stultifying, consumer-driven status quo. Monthly open-mike night "Smack Dab"'s co-producers, Kirk Read and Larry-Bob Roberts, are dedicated to bringing some of... More >> |
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| After-School Program LYRIC | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 3:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
| The Audre & Langston Salon Black Coalition on AIDS | First Friday of every month, 7:00pm | Potrero Hill | |
| Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits SF LGBT Community Center | Fourth Friday of every month, 7:00pm | South of Market | |
| Down & Dirty: the Intimate World of Queer Filmmaking Femina Potens | Third Saturday of every three months, 8:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
| Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Book Discussion Group Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Branch Library | Fourth Wednesday of every month, 7:30pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
| First Sundays Queer Fiction Book of the Month Group A Different Light Bookstore | First Sunday of every month, 4:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
| Gay Men's Sketch Mark I. Chester Studio | Every week Tuesday, 6:30pm | South of Market | |