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While searching for actors to perform the Juneteenth-themed \u003cem>The Blackest Wrench\u003c/em> and the LGBTQIA+ show \u003cem>Infinite Pride\u003c/em>, the reality of the Bay Area’s new demographics were made manifest, and the company had to bring in cast members from outside chapters of the Neo-Futurists.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Because the New York and Chicago chapters have larger ensembles, “we don’t tend to go out there for their specialty shows,” says co-artistic director Jeb Lehrman. “Generally, though, San Francisco sees a few more visitors and transfers than the other companies.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-2025-Infinite-Pride-El-Rio-84.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13990824\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-2025-Infinite-Pride-El-Rio-84.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-2025-Infinite-Pride-El-Rio-84-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-2025-Infinite-Pride-El-Rio-84-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-2025-Infinite-Pride-El-Rio-84-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A scene from the 2025 edition of the SF Neo-Futurists’ ‘Infinite Pride’ at El Rio in San Francisco. 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This year’s edition will be a two-night event, performed at legendary San Francisco queer bars El Rio and The Stud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think it’s generally a little easier to sell a specialty show,” says \u003cem>Infinite Pride\u003c/em> cast member Aster Light. “The regular show happens every weekend, so it’s less of an event, and because all my friends are queer, they tend to be drawn in to see an all-queer cast sharing our stories and our culture.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-125.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13990821\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-125.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-125-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-125-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-125-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A scene from the 2025 edition of the SF Neo-Futurists’ ‘The Blackest Wrench.’ (Kayleigh Shawn)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the second annual \u003cem>Blackest Wrench\u003c/em> has been a tougher sell. The one-night show will be performed in Oakland, as if reflecting the mass migration of Black artists away from San Francisco. It’s also the show that required bringing in the most out-of-towners to fill an ensemble of just a half-dozen performers.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The parallels aren’t lost on Ray Ray Young, a San Francisco Neo-Futurist since 2023, and one whose Black and queer identities reflect the intersection between the two casts. (Of the two shows, Young is only in \u003cem>Blackest Wrench\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Honestly, this has been a multiyear effort in the making,” says Young, who’s led efforts to diversify the troupe, and has been instrumental in the production of \u003cem>Blackest Wrench\u003c/em>.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“Even with all of that effort, we still unfortunately don’t quite have enough Black Neo-Futurists in the Bay Area to fill a show like this.”\u003cbr>\u003cbr>With one member from Chicago and one from New York, “[It’s] been really exciting to work with them,” Young says. “And it strengthens our Neo-Futurist practice to get to collaborate with members of different ensembles.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13990823\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-34.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-34-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-34-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/SFNF-The-Blackest-Wrench-34-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A scene from the 2025 edition of the SF Neo-Futurists’ ‘The Blackest Wrench.’ (Kayleigh Shawn)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Though some cast members were facetious about what audiences could expect in the two shows (one \u003cem>Pride\u003c/em> cast member celebrated “[feeling] so represented by gorilla masks and basketballs and arm-heavy choreography in this particular show”), all involved agree that their shows represent activism in the face of nationwide hatred against both Black and queer Americans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When asked whom they’d like most to see their show, Light is direct and uncompromising: “I hope the ghost of Charlie Kirk is forced to watch it on repeat in hell.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/the-lower-bottom-playaz/69f135bd4462ee1056dde748/\">\u003cem>The Blackest Wrench\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>’ takes place Friday, June 19, at BAM House (540 Broadway, Oakland).\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfneofuturists.org/pride\">\u003cem>‘Infinite Pride 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>’ runs Monday, June 22, at El Rio (3158 Mission St., San Francisco) and Tuesday, June 23, at The Stud (1123 Folsom St., San Francisco).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(ARC patients were granted less social security and disability benefits than AIDS patients.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shortly after Bert and Russell’s protest began, Pat Norman — the first openly gay employee of San Francisco’s Health Department — \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJ_l-rHeN8\">told documentary filmmakers\u003c/a> she believed ARC patients were being sidelined on purpose. “[Government officials] don’t want to spend money treating and providing services for people with ARC because it is larger and larger and larger than anybody wants to concede,” she said. “They are trying very hard not to expand the definition and diagnoses of ARC.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It did not take long for people to start sympathizing with Bert and Russell’s cause. Four days into the protest, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> published a photo of the men titled “Other casualties of AIDS.” They sat peacefully under a blanket, wearing multiple layers of clothes, still chained to the doors. The 24/7 protest was kept alive by allies who showed up to give Bert and Russell breaks. The first two helpers were Paul Ramirez, 27 and Wes North, 31.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I’m out here, there’s so much love,” North told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> a few weeks later. “When I’m at home alone, I get scared. I think of dying. Here, I feel I’m doing something.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1324\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-Night-Final-2000x1324.png\" alt=\"A government building with two mattresses visible in its doorway. Opposite, on a grassy area, several tents are set up.\" class=\"wp-image-13990619\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-Night-Final-2000x1324.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-Night-Final-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-Night-Final-768x509.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-Night-Final-1536x1017.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-Night-Final-2048x1356.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The ARC-AIDS Vigil at San Francisco’s old Federal Building, as it looked at night. (Courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>North wasn’t alone. The longer Bert, Russell and their cohort stayed at U.N. Plaza, the more the protest transformed into a community hub. By the end of 1985, 100 people were in attendance, some of whom slept in tents. Federal Building employees started bringing coffee and donuts. A nurse donated a grill. Others dropped off Thanksgiving turkeys and a Christmas tree to get the makeshift village through the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A woman named Serena Wylie who regularly donated casseroles to the vigil told the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> in December: “[The protesters] have come to be part of my family. There is joy here and a lot of laughter and smiles. There is strength and hope.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The prolonged action was not without its risks, however. In the early hours of Nov. 3, two straight allies were attacked by strangers at the federal building. (“It is not going to scare us away,” Russell told the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> at the time. “If we need to, we will stay here indefinitely.”) In the first week of December, a 39-year-old protester named Jän Beck was rushed to SF General after enduring three seizures and a stroke at the federal building. As soon as he was back on his feet, he went straight back to U.N. Plaza, telling reporters, “I have felt a home here that I have not felt in a long, long time.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Beck added, “It started out as a desperate, last-ditch effort by people who had seemingly tried everything to get the government to listen. It gained a new spirit and power because people have become empowered.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That spirit proved to be contagious. Folks gathered at the vigil were not placated by the House and Senate approving $221.5 million for AIDS research at the end of 1985. Everyone stayed put. Some began writing letters to their local and federal representatives, including Mayor Dianne Feinstein and President Ronald Reagan. The Board of Supervisors endorsed the vigil, and Congresswoman Barbara Boxer shared her support too.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The core members of the vigil began fundraising, sending out press releases, and set up an information table on site. An official organization was established to run things, led by project director William Davis and secretary Lance Hunt. Smaller ARC-AIDS vigil committees were formed to create sit-in schedules, plan other political actions and coordinate community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By February 1986, Hal Freeman, the manager of the Department of Health and Human Services, had resigned after 18 years of service — in protest of his own department’s inaction on AIDS and ARC. At the time, Freeman shared that, “a director in one meeting in Washington was heard to say ‘We don’t want to lend an aura of dignity to these AIDS cases,’ and that, to me, is simple homophobia.” (Freeman died of AIDS just two and a half years after his resignation.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-88.jpg\" alt=\"Four men of varying ages stand outside doors to an office building. 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(“It is not going to scare us away,” Russell told the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> at the time. “If we need to, we will stay here indefinitely.”) In the first week of December, a 39-year-old protester named Jän Beck was rushed to SF General after enduring three seizures and a stroke at the federal building. As soon as he was back on his feet, he went straight back to U.N. Plaza, telling reporters, “I have felt a home here that I have not felt in a long, long time.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Beck added, “It started out as a desperate, last-ditch effort by people who had seemingly tried everything to get the government to listen. It gained a new spirit and power because people have become empowered.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That spirit proved to be contagious. Folks gathered at the vigil were not placated by the House and Senate approving $221.5 million for AIDS research at the end of 1985. Everyone stayed put. Some began writing letters to their local and federal representatives, including Mayor Dianne Feinstein and President Ronald Reagan. The Board of Supervisors endorsed the vigil, and Congresswoman Barbara Boxer shared her support too.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The core members of the vigil began fundraising, sending out press releases, and set up an information table on site. An official organization was established to run things, led by project director William Davis and secretary Lance Hunt. Smaller ARC-AIDS vigil committees were formed to create sit-in schedules, plan other political actions and coordinate community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By February 1986, Hal Freeman, the manager of the Department of Health and Human Services, had resigned after 18 years of service — in protest of his own department’s inaction on AIDS and ARC. At the time, Freeman shared that, “a director in one meeting in Washington was heard to say ‘We don’t want to lend an aura of dignity to these AIDS cases,’ and that, to me, is simple homophobia.” (Freeman died of AIDS just two and a half years after his resignation.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-88.jpg\" alt=\"Four men of varying ages stand outside doors to an office building. 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"content": "\u003cp>After her art collective \u003ca href=\"https://pussyriot.love/\">Pussy Riot\u003c/a> staged a performance protest inside a Moscow cathedral in 2012, Nadya Tolokonnikova spent 16 months in a remote Russian penal colony where she was consigned to 17-hour days of forced labor. Most people would have understood if she’d retreated to a quiet, comfortable life after surviving violent conditions and a hunger strike. But Tolokonnikova isn’t like most people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since her release in 2013, she’s leveraged her notoriety to support humanitarian causes and speak out against authoritarianism at great personal risk. In 2023, a performance piece called \u003ci>Putin’s Ashes\u003c/i> landed her on Russia’s wanted list, and she was \u003ca href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/858071/russia-arrests-pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-in-absentia/\">arrested in absentia\u003c/a>, essentially exiled from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As authoritarian governments rise not just in Russia but around the globe, Tolokonnikova’s work continues to be timely. Just last week, she completed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state\">\u003ci>Police State\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, an endurance performance piece inside the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) for which she spent 13 days inside a recreation of her Russian prison cell. Visitors were able to observe her behind bars, making art about political conditions in Russia, where acts of protest against the war in Ukraine are punishable by 15 years in prison. [aside postid='arts_13977080']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the museum walls, another sort of repression played out in real time. Midway through the run of \u003cem>Police State\u003c/em>, MOCA closed its doors after President Trump deployed 4,700 military personnel to Los Angeles to quell those protesting masked I.C.E. agents snatching immigrants from their communities without due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, a Russian immigrant who’s lived in the Bay Area since childhood, current conditions in this country feel reminiscent of home in more ways than one. As right-wing politicians in the U.S. threaten \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trans-rights\">trans rights\u003c/a>, they echo their Russian counterparts who use the pretense of protecting children to brand any outward expression of queerness as illegal “propaganda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Pride weekend, Tolokonnikova prepares to take the stage in San Francisco for a rare musical performance at the party \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queerly-beloved-pride-pussy-riot-tickets-1320472732489\">Queerly Beloved\u003c/a> at 1015 Folsom on June 29. I spoke with her about her recent work and why this year’s Pride feels especially like a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadya Tolokonnikova speaks at TED2023: Possibility. April 17-21, 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada. \u003ccite>(Gilberto Tadday/TED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nastia Voynovskaya:\u003c/b> You recently completed \u003ci>Police State\u003c/i>, even though visitors weren’t able to come in for several days because Trump sent the National Guard to LA. What was going through your mind as you were in your makeshift prison cell alone, and why did you think it was important to complete the piece?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nadya Tolokonnikova:\u003c/b> I like to finish what I start and if I think the idea is worth it, I like to see it through to the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think as an artist you try to work with underlying trends, and unfortunately the police state has been a trend of the times I’ve lived in as long as I can remember. Of course I couldn’t predict that it would be such a great coincidence, in the dance between reality and art. But that’s what happens when you work with trends, and autocracy and the police state are spreading around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>These crackdowns on protesters, and also the anti-LGBT policies in the U.S., feel very reminiscent of Russia. I’m wondering about your thoughts on those parallels. Is there anything that Americans could learn from the political situation in Russia?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, currently it’s almost impossible to speak out in Russia. You just go directly to the gulag for the next 15, 20, 25 years. A woman named Nadine Geisler, who helped people in Ukraine, was just sentenced to 22 years in jail. So, I mean, I guess the lesson is, you should speak out while you still can, and you should not just assume that the democracy you have is gonna last forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we’re trapped a little bit in the idea that history is going towards progress, whether we do anything about it or not, but I don’t think that’s the case. History only will move towards progress if we consciously work on it and protect freedoms that our grandfathers and grandmothers achieved for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complacency allows for autocracies. I’m not a political scientist or a sociologist to really dig deeper into reasons for complacency. I guess they’re pretty different in Russia and the United States, but I think the common thread here is political apathy and people’s feeling of helplessness and hopelessness. [aside postid='news_12044426']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why it was really awesome to see people coming together recently for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044426/no-kings-protests-draw-thousands-across-the-bay-area-to-rally-against-president-trump\">No Kings march\u003c/a>. When we’re together, we feel that we’re not powerless. We’re actually more powerful than the elites. I think one thing that art can help with is to remind us about this once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I’m curious to hear more about how you see your role as an artist and what’s kept you committed to making art that often requires you to sacrifice your personal comfort, your safety and even your ability to return home.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly natural stubbornness, and partly the fact that I like to see what I’m doing through to the end, whether it’s a big, overly ambitious goal, like trying to make Russia free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think this is about values as well. I mean, of course I like a comfortable bed, but it’s not the ultimate goal of my existence. When I ended up in jail, it’s not cozy there, but I was not really bummed out about it because I thought that I’m trying to make my country a little bit better, and that’s why they diagnosed me with some sort of mental disease. I have it in my sentence, they say she’s overly idealistic and it’s a grandiose thinking, how they called it. It’s not always a bad thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978062\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-2000x1055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-2048x1080.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadya Tolokonnikova will be automatically arrested if she returns to Russia because of her multimedia art piece titled ‘Putin’s Ashes.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How do you go from doing such an intense performance like \u003ci>Police State\u003c/i> to then performing at a Pride party in San Francisco the following weekend? What are you doing to mentally switch gears for that?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fostering a kitten. I found the kitten yesterday on the street. By the way, if any of the readers wants to adopt a cat, I already have four animals living in the house. I found if you care about someone else then you don’t self-center. Maybe it’s not the best self-care, but it kind of works for me so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>We mentioned the attacks on LGBT rights here in the U.S., so this year, for a lot of people, Pride feels more like a protest than a celebration. What does Pride mean for you in 2025?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like little kittens who get imprinted by their first caregivers, I think I also got imprinted. I had a really bad experience trying to participate in gay Prides in Russia. Back in the day in 2010, 2011, I was in Moscow and we would get beaten up by neo-Nazis, by the ultra right-wing activists, religious fanatics and cops. Pride for me was always a riot. Even at the more peaceful Prides that I got to perform all over the world, in Europe and in the United States, I still was very drawn to people who were showing up with posters that say “Pride was a riot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully the humanity of the future will use gender roles and sexuality as paints and brushes, just juggling them and changing them as they feel like, without needing to prove anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Is there anything you’re looking forward to about returning to San Francisco?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love performing at Pride, this is easily my favorite audience. People are just there to support each other and support you as a performer, and you totally feel that. Even if people don’t know the songs, they still dance and jump around. It’s a very caring environment to perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2186531660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2186531660.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2186531660-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2186531660-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadya Tolokonnikova poses in front of the Pussy Riot collection at The Bomb Factory on November 23, 2024 in London, England. \u003ccite>(Ben Montgomery/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In these challenging times, how do you balance raising awareness or inspiring people to take action with using your art to create spaces for people to get together and to celebrate?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absurdly and paradoxically, it always comes together. For me, even at the \u003ci>Police State\u003c/i> performance, I put a few church pews for people to sit at because I wanted to create something like a public space in Los Angeles, which doesn’t have any public spaces, really. It’s just a city that’s down for people who own private property, and if you don’t own it, then well, tough life. I don’t love that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the limited space that I have, I was trying to do that. So that the space would become not only a place where you come to get sad or scared about life, about the state of the world, about the state of Russian and American prisons, but it’s also a place to connect with others, meet new friends and get inspired. The soundscape was not just the sounds of torture or metal doors closing and opening. Also there were prayers, there were some old Russian lullabies. Whether you know Russian or not, it’s very comforting. It’s something that a loving mom sings to her kids. And so that’s the source of light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always like to point out that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and we can achieve it if we come together and work hard enough. Together with hard work should come joy, a joy of having each other, music and good food. Otherwise the protest is not going to be sustainable. I always come back to art.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nadya Tolokonnikova performs on Sunday, June 29, at 1015 Folsom as part of the party Queerly Beloved. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queerly-beloved-pride-pussy-riot-tickets-1320472732489\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Pride weekend, Tolokonnikova prepares to take the stage in San Francisco for a rare musical performance at the party \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queerly-beloved-pride-pussy-riot-tickets-1320472732489\">Queerly Beloved\u003c/a> at 1015 Folsom on June 29. I spoke with her about her recent work and why this year’s Pride feels especially like a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Gilberto-Tadday-1-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadya Tolokonnikova speaks at TED2023: Possibility. April 17-21, 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada. \u003ccite>(Gilberto Tadday/TED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nastia Voynovskaya:\u003c/b> You recently completed \u003ci>Police State\u003c/i>, even though visitors weren’t able to come in for several days because Trump sent the National Guard to LA. What was going through your mind as you were in your makeshift prison cell alone, and why did you think it was important to complete the piece?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nadya Tolokonnikova:\u003c/b> I like to finish what I start and if I think the idea is worth it, I like to see it through to the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think as an artist you try to work with underlying trends, and unfortunately the police state has been a trend of the times I’ve lived in as long as I can remember. Of course I couldn’t predict that it would be such a great coincidence, in the dance between reality and art. But that’s what happens when you work with trends, and autocracy and the police state are spreading around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>These crackdowns on protesters, and also the anti-LGBT policies in the U.S., feel very reminiscent of Russia. I’m wondering about your thoughts on those parallels. Is there anything that Americans could learn from the political situation in Russia?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, currently it’s almost impossible to speak out in Russia. You just go directly to the gulag for the next 15, 20, 25 years. A woman named Nadine Geisler, who helped people in Ukraine, was just sentenced to 22 years in jail. So, I mean, I guess the lesson is, you should speak out while you still can, and you should not just assume that the democracy you have is gonna last forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we’re trapped a little bit in the idea that history is going towards progress, whether we do anything about it or not, but I don’t think that’s the case. History only will move towards progress if we consciously work on it and protect freedoms that our grandfathers and grandmothers achieved for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complacency allows for autocracies. I’m not a political scientist or a sociologist to really dig deeper into reasons for complacency. I guess they’re pretty different in Russia and the United States, but I think the common thread here is political apathy and people’s feeling of helplessness and hopelessness. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why it was really awesome to see people coming together recently for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044426/no-kings-protests-draw-thousands-across-the-bay-area-to-rally-against-president-trump\">No Kings march\u003c/a>. When we’re together, we feel that we’re not powerless. We’re actually more powerful than the elites. I think one thing that art can help with is to remind us about this once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I’m curious to hear more about how you see your role as an artist and what’s kept you committed to making art that often requires you to sacrifice your personal comfort, your safety and even your ability to return home.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly natural stubbornness, and partly the fact that I like to see what I’m doing through to the end, whether it’s a big, overly ambitious goal, like trying to make Russia free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think this is about values as well. I mean, of course I like a comfortable bed, but it’s not the ultimate goal of my existence. When I ended up in jail, it’s not cozy there, but I was not really bummed out about it because I thought that I’m trying to make my country a little bit better, and that’s why they diagnosed me with some sort of mental disease. I have it in my sentence, they say she’s overly idealistic and it’s a grandiose thinking, how they called it. It’s not always a bad thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978062\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-2000x1055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Putins-Ashes-General-Stills_2.20.1-2048x1080.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadya Tolokonnikova will be automatically arrested if she returns to Russia because of her multimedia art piece titled ‘Putin’s Ashes.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How do you go from doing such an intense performance like \u003ci>Police State\u003c/i> to then performing at a Pride party in San Francisco the following weekend? What are you doing to mentally switch gears for that?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fostering a kitten. I found the kitten yesterday on the street. By the way, if any of the readers wants to adopt a cat, I already have four animals living in the house. I found if you care about someone else then you don’t self-center. Maybe it’s not the best self-care, but it kind of works for me so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>We mentioned the attacks on LGBT rights here in the U.S., so this year, for a lot of people, Pride feels more like a protest than a celebration. What does Pride mean for you in 2025?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like little kittens who get imprinted by their first caregivers, I think I also got imprinted. I had a really bad experience trying to participate in gay Prides in Russia. Back in the day in 2010, 2011, I was in Moscow and we would get beaten up by neo-Nazis, by the ultra right-wing activists, religious fanatics and cops. Pride for me was always a riot. Even at the more peaceful Prides that I got to perform all over the world, in Europe and in the United States, I still was very drawn to people who were showing up with posters that say “Pride was a riot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully the humanity of the future will use gender roles and sexuality as paints and brushes, just juggling them and changing them as they feel like, without needing to prove anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Is there anything you’re looking forward to about returning to San Francisco?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love performing at Pride, this is easily my favorite audience. People are just there to support each other and support you as a performer, and you totally feel that. Even if people don’t know the songs, they still dance and jump around. It’s a very caring environment to perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2186531660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2186531660.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2186531660-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2186531660-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadya Tolokonnikova poses in front of the Pussy Riot collection at The Bomb Factory on November 23, 2024 in London, England. \u003ccite>(Ben Montgomery/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In these challenging times, how do you balance raising awareness or inspiring people to take action with using your art to create spaces for people to get together and to celebrate?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absurdly and paradoxically, it always comes together. 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"content": "\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/\">San Francisco’s official Pride celebration\u003c/a> takes over the Civic Center this weekend (with headlining sets by Michaela Jaé on Saturday and Saucy Santana on Sunday), and Friday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.transmarch.org/\">Trans March\u003c/a> and Saturday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045907/sf-dyke-march-returns-in-full-force-for-pride-weekend-with-inclusivity-at-its-core\">Dyke March\u003c/a> anchor the festivities at Dolores Park, the city will be filled with queer people of every persuasion and revelry on pretty much every corner, all weekend long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help plan your \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/pride\">Pride\u003c/a> weekend, we’ve rounded up 10 of the hottest parties worthy of adding to your calendar. Remember to stay hydrated, make sure to check the venues’ Instagrams for deets about other parties throughout the weekend, and as always, bring dollar bills to tip your performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in the Trans March fill Market Street in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://tockify.com/elriosf2/detail/3895/1751072400000\">Bustin’ Out: Official Trans March Afterparty Against the Prison Industrial Complex\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>El Rio, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 27, 6 p.m.–2 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$30\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nWith relentless legislative attacks on trans rights underway this year, the Trans March reminds us that Pride has always been a protest. Its official afterparty is a benefit for the \u003ca href=\"https://tgijp.org/\">Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project\u003c/a>, which supports currently and formerly incarcerated trans people. Their work is more crucial than ever as President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two “biological sexes” has relegated trans women to men’s prisons, where they face extreme risk of abuse. DJs Blaize, Based Grace and ASL Princess will get the dance party started at historic queer bar El Rio, known far and wide for its affordable drinks and laid-back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978012\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss International Queen contestant Kataluna Enriquez of the USA is wearing her national costume to compete in the national costume category of the Miss International Queen 2024 transgender beauty contest in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(nusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jolenessf.com/events-tickets\">Trans National and UHaul\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jolene’s and Reverb, San Francisco \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 27, 9 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$20 and $30, or $40 for both parties\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nWhen it comes to sexy dance parties for women who love women, Jolene’s is a San Francisco go-to. On Friday, after the Trans March, the bar will host Trans National, with a lineup including DJs Louie El Ser and Artkoi, performer Epiphany Kali, go-go dancers and a special appearance from Kataluna Enriquez, the first trans woman to be crowned Miss USA. Across town at the swanky new club Reverb, Jolene’s will also host a Pride edition of their popular party UHaul with DJs Von Kiss, Livv, Femme A, Mama San, Jacki, Artkoi and Mashallah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/5Pd3vS1MKT0?si=BXQALiYOH95yKTnM\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://wl.seetickets.us/event/cumbiaton-noche-de-cumbia-y-orgullo/652539?afflky=TheChapel\">Cumbiatón: Noche de Cumbia y Orgullo\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Chapel, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 27, 9 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$24\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nEarlier this month, DJ Sizzle Fantastic spun at KQED’s queer cumbia party for a packed, mostly LGBTQ+ Latinx crowd that beamed ear-to-ear as she remixed classics like Aniceto Molina’s “Cumbia Sampuesana” and “Gasolina” by Daddy Yankee. On Friday, Sizzle brings her Cumbiatón party to the Chapel for a night of sweaty dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915642\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/IMG_5814.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/IMG_5814.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/IMG_5814-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/IMG_5814-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/IMG_5814-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/IMG_5814-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/IMG_5814-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black co-founded Club A.B.L.U.N.T. in the early ’90s. \u003ccite>(Katia Ten)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/just-us-loud-and-proud-tickets-1397120969429\">Club A.B.L.U.N.T. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/\">San Francisco’s official Pride celebration\u003c/a> takes over the Civic Center this weekend (with headlining sets by Michaela Jaé on Saturday and Saucy Santana on Sunday), and Friday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.transmarch.org/\">Trans March\u003c/a> and Saturday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045907/sf-dyke-march-returns-in-full-force-for-pride-weekend-with-inclusivity-at-its-core\">Dyke March\u003c/a> anchor the festivities at Dolores Park, the city will be filled with queer people of every persuasion and revelry on pretty much every corner, all weekend long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help plan your \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/pride\">Pride\u003c/a> weekend, we’ve rounded up 10 of the hottest parties worthy of adding to your calendar. 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Its official afterparty is a benefit for the \u003ca href=\"https://tgijp.org/\">Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project\u003c/a>, which supports currently and formerly incarcerated trans people. Their work is more crucial than ever as President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two “biological sexes” has relegated trans women to men’s prisons, where they face extreme risk of abuse. DJs Blaize, Based Grace and ASL Princess will get the dance party started at historic queer bar El Rio, known far and wide for its affordable drinks and laid-back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978012\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss International Queen contestant Kataluna Enriquez of the USA is wearing her national costume to compete in the national costume category of the Miss International Queen 2024 transgender beauty contest in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(nusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jolenessf.com/events-tickets\">Trans National and UHaul\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jolene’s and Reverb, San Francisco \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 27, 9 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$20 and $30, or $40 for both parties\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nWhen it comes to sexy dance parties for women who love women, Jolene’s is a San Francisco go-to. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area is lucky — we start our summer with San Francisco Pride and close it with \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandpride.org/\">Oakland Pride\u003c/a>. This Sunday, Sept. 8, the Town hosts its official LGBTQ+ celebration with a parade and downtown block party headlined by Da Brat. With additional performances by Mexican singer Wendy Guevara and East Bay hip-hop originals \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925177/the-conscious-daughters-raps-sucka-free-thelma-and-louise-rewrote-the-rules\">the Conscious Daughters\u003c/a>, this is one not to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s many queer bars and clubs will be lighting up with dance parties and drag shows of their own all throughout the weekend. We’ve rounded up a selection of parties for people of different musical tastes and interests, but if these don’t strike your fancy, check out your favorite venue’s Instagram for their full lineup of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/2RdP66KicNc?si=2sa-saNieWufrcFz\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketweb.com/event/gorgeous-feat-tygapaw-jasmine-the-new-parish-tickets/13869073\">Gorgeous Oakland Pride\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 6, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nThe New Parish\u003cbr>\n$20–$30\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tygapaw is in the mix, hours evaporate because every cell of your body is dancing its hardest. The Brooklyn-based, Jamaica-born techno DJ headlines Gorgeous, a massive party taking over two rooms at the New Parish. They’ll be joined by Jasmine Infiniti, mother of the trans DJ collective New World Dysorder, and a crew of the Bay’s finest underground selectors: Adonai, Black, Brown Angel, KKingboo, De Alma, Tastemaker, Blossom, Discnogirl and Yuca Frita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/013_SanFrancisco_OasisReopening_06262021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Militia Scunt sits on a throne during Princess, a disco dance party and drag show, at Oasis in San Francisco on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-run-this-tickets-976818108257\">We Run This\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>15th & Franklin St.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 5–10 p.m.\u003cbr>\nSliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklash takes chances on experimental artists and puts disability and racial justice at the forefront, which is how it’s grown to be one of the Bay’s most forward-thinking platforms for drag. Along with local businesses, Oaklash is hosting a community block party outside of queer bar Nectar Social Club, with a drag show hosted by Militia Scunt and a live set by TECA, a duo that raps and plays live percussion over global bass, reggaeton and jersey club beats. Lady Ryan, La Femme Papi, Subeaux, FloridaWTR and Oaklash co-founder Mama Celeste will be in the mix as well. [aside postid='arts_13962948']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-pride-events-take-the-town-free-pride-weekend-bar-crawl-tickets-1005961787787\">Take the Town Bar Crawl\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Town Bar and Lounge\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 4:45–9:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\nFree with RSVP\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to meet cuties or get to know Oakland’s queer bar scene, Take the Town Bar Crawl is a good place to start. It kicks off at swanky cocktail lounge Town Bar & Lounge, which has a packed schedule of DJs spinning pop, disco and hip-hop all throughout Pride weekend. The crawl will make its way downtown to Latinx bar Que Rico, big nightclub Fluid510 and Old Oakland destination Summer Bar & Lounge. Patrons are encouraged to stick around for the afterparty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/VXu0Ds6LGvw?si=_NhIT4hquQhY0pmU\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gay-areaa-oakland-pride-tickets-976451852777?aff=erelexpmlt\">Gay Areaaa! Oakland Pride\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Zanzi\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 9 p.m.–2 a.m.\u003cbr>\n$33\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three fire parties — the Sweet Spot, El Afters and Vamp — have teamed up for an Oakland Pride mega celebration at Zanzi. Expect live sets from rappers Alicia Goku and Bobby Sanchez, plus a special performance from vocalist and ballroom star Sir Joq. Go-go dancers of different gender expressions will shake it while DJs Dreams, De Alma, Lady Ryan and Align spin their favorite booty-popping jams.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-pride-after-dark-oakland-pride-after-party-and-street-party-tickets-967560749247?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Que Rico’s Pride After Dark\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>15th & Franklin St.\u003cbr>\nSept. 8, 6–10 p.m.\u003cbr>\n$10+\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Que Rico curated Oakland Pride’s Latin stage, and the bar has a packed weekend of celebrations. Its Pride After Dark party takes over the entire block for a Selena tribute drag show, Sexy Papi go-go dancers and DJs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fluid510/p/C_MLWgjStCj/\">Pride: A Special Day Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Fluid510\u003cbr>\nSept. 8, 3 p.m. on\u003cbr>\nFree\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drag troupe Filipinx takes over Fluid510 for a free day party. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-pride-events-take-the-town-free-pride-weekend-bar-crawl-tickets-1005961787787\">Take the Town Bar Crawl\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Town Bar and Lounge\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 4:45–9:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\nFree with RSVP\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to meet cuties or get to know Oakland’s queer bar scene, Take the Town Bar Crawl is a good place to start. It kicks off at swanky cocktail lounge Town Bar & Lounge, which has a packed schedule of DJs spinning pop, disco and hip-hop all throughout Pride weekend. The crawl will make its way downtown to Latinx bar Que Rico, big nightclub Fluid510 and Old Oakland destination Summer Bar & Lounge. Patrons are encouraged to stick around for the afterparty.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VXu0Ds6LGvw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VXu0Ds6LGvw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gay-areaa-oakland-pride-tickets-976451852777?aff=erelexpmlt\">Gay Areaaa! Oakland Pride\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Zanzi\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 9 p.m.–2 a.m.\u003cbr>\n$33\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three fire parties — the Sweet Spot, El Afters and Vamp — have teamed up for an Oakland Pride mega celebration at Zanzi. Expect live sets from rappers Alicia Goku and Bobby Sanchez, plus a special performance from vocalist and ballroom star Sir Joq. Go-go dancers of different gender expressions will shake it while DJs Dreams, De Alma, Lady Ryan and Align spin their favorite booty-popping jams.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-pride-after-dark-oakland-pride-after-party-and-street-party-tickets-967560749247?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Que Rico’s Pride After Dark\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>15th & Franklin St.\u003cbr>\nSept. 8, 6–10 p.m.\u003cbr>\n$10+\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Que Rico curated Oakland Pride’s Latin stage, and the bar has a packed weekend of celebrations. Its Pride After Dark party takes over the entire block for a Selena tribute drag show, Sexy Papi go-go dancers and DJs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fluid510/p/C_MLWgjStCj/\">Pride: A Special Day Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Fluid510\u003cbr>\nSept. 8, 3 p.m. on\u003cbr>\nFree\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drag troupe Filipinx takes over Fluid510 for a free day party. Hosted by Nia Politan and Phoebe Cakes, it features lip syncs from Sassi Fran, Tsunomi Punoni, Tila Pia and Nutasha, plus go-go dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-scaled.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-800x1000.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-1020x1275.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-768x960.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-1639x2048.jpeg 1639w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/1N8A3245-1920x2400.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Ryan spins at her party, The Sweet Spot, on July 7, 2024 at Art Haus in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Stephen Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soulovely/1327221\">Soulovely\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>7th West\u003cbr>\nSept. 9, 3:30 p.m. on\u003cbr>\n$40\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland to All throws balls where Oakland’s most fierce dancers come to vogue. They’re taking over the Oakland Pride edition of Soulovely, a dance party that puts queer and trans people of color at the center. This month’s theme? Queer Inferno: Afro-Futurism Meets Ballroom, featuring DJ sets from Charles Hawthorne, KKingboo and Lady Ryan.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The gay high holy days are upon us as San Francisco prepares to host one of the biggest Pride celebrations on the globe. The draw for many is the star-studded, weekend-long \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/\">SF Pride\u003c/a> celebration at Civic Center on June 29 and 30, which culminates in the parade on Sunday. For others, the highlight might be Friday’s more grassroots and protest-oriented \u003ca href=\"https://www.transmarch.org/\">Trans March\u003c/a> or Dyke Day at Dolores Park, where women and friends post up to picnic all afternoon. (Saturday’s official Dyke March is, unfortunately, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992072/dyke-march-canceled-for-san-francisco-pride-organizers-say\">canceled this year\u003c/a>.) [aside postid='news_11991990,news_11992072,news_11990430']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surrounding all these festivities are block parties, kickbacks, raves and ragers that literally go from morning to night throughout the weekend. To help you plan, here’s our handy guide of 10 parties you shouldn’t miss, with a mix of events catering to different music tastes, vibes and LGBTQ+ identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that each of the venues mentioned on this list has a stacked schedule all weekend long. If these parties aren’t your thing, check out the venues’ websites or your favorite DJ or drag queen’s Instagram for other events to choose from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And word to the wise: Stay hydrated, \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/check-your-drugs-2\">test your party favors\u003c/a>, practice safer sex, take care of your friends and remember to have fun!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trans March makes its way along Market Street to a rally on Turk and Taylor in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ticketstripe.com/bustinout24\">Bustin’ Out: Official Trans March After Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, June 28, 6 p.m.–Saturday, June 29, 1:30 a.m.\u003cbr>\nEl Rio, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$25\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s annual Trans March feels like an organic gathering, true to Pride’s activist roots. With trans rights under attack nationwide, this pilgrimage from Dolores Park to the Tenderloin’s Transgender District is where gender-nonconforming people and allies take up space. Instead of corporate floats, you’ll find protest signs affirming the diversity of the gender spectrum and calling for equal rights to healthcare and housing. The annual Bustin’ Out afterparty at El Rio after the march is a benefit for Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), an organization that fights prison abuses and supports formerly incarcerated trans people. DJ sets by Dreams, Succubus, Honeybear and Lady Ryan will turn up the energy, and there’ll be a designated chill zone next door at Mothership with music by Piano Rain and Del. San Francisco’s all-Black drag show, Reparations, will host performances. Presales have sold out, so getting there early to snag door tickets is a must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1288px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936004\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1288\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius.jpg 1288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! \u003ccite>(Marcel Pardo Ariza)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forever-queer-pride-dancing-and-drag-tickets-915617696177?\">Forever-Queer Pride Dancing and Drag\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, June 28, 9 p.m.–Saturday, June 29, 2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nThe Stud, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$20\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legendary queer bar The Stud recently reopened its doors in SoMa, and drag performer Vivvyanne ForeverMORE! is kicking off a new party during Pride weekend: Forever. With performances by Clutch the Pearls co-founder Churro Nomi, Princess co-host Lisa Frankenstein, Major Hammy, Hands and Britney Smearz, this event celebrates the experimental and off-kilter style of drag The Stud is known for. DJs Infinite Jess and JUMPR will keep the dance floor going all night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UNiiQU3 performs at Webster Hall Thursdays on March 24, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicky Digital/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/club-ablunt-presents-just-us-pride-2024-w-uniiqu3-tickets-912343874087?\">Club A.B.L.U.N.T. Presents: Pride with UNIIQU3\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, June 28, 10 p.m.–Saturday, June 29, 3 a.m.\u003cbr>\nMonarch, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$20–$30\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNIIQU3 has rocked massive festival stages, but CLUB A.B.L.U.N.T..’s pride party at Monarch offers the rare opportunity to experience her manic Jersey club beats in their optimal setting: while getting your life in a sweaty basement. This party’s stacked lineup features a dozen of the Bay’s top-tier DJs: experimental beatmaker Tomu DJ; Hard French founder Brown Amy; hyperpop connoisseur Freaky Emo; house music experts Charles Hawthorne and Floridawtr; and Black, who started A.B.L.U.N.T. (Asians, Blacks and Latins Uniting with Native Tribes), one of the first Bay Area parties to center queer people of color, back in the early ’90s. [aside postid='arts_13915614']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bearracuda-san-francisco-pride-2024-tickets-793750056787?\">Bearracuda\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, June 28, 9 p.m.–Saturday, June 29, 3 a.m.\u003cbr>\nPublic Works, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$30–$60\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a celebration of beefy and burly men, look no further than Bearracuda on Friday night. This bear-centric event will take over the 1,000-capacity nightclub Public Works — and it promises to be a full house. As far as dress code, underwear is encouraged, and there will be a place to check your clothes (not just your coat). DJs David Harness, Mateo Segade and Philip Grasso — plus go-go dancers — will keep the crowd moving to house beats all night. [aside postid='arts_13960094']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hella-gay-sf-pride-after-party-tickets-927530176727?\">Hella Gay Pride Dance Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Saturday, June 29, 8 p.m.–Sunday, June 30, 2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nFirst Edition, Oakland\u003cbr>\n$10, $20\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hella Gay was an Oakland queer party staple pre-pandemic, and it returns during Pride weekend at Oakland cocktail bar First Edition. East Bay dwellers now have a dance option that won’t have them scrambling to catch last BART or break the bank for an Uber from the City. DJs Homofongo, Kare Bear and Micahtron (who, full disclosure, booked me to DJ at First Edition once last year), will be spinning genre-bending sets of Afrobeats, dembow, house, hip-hop and more to get booties of all genders popping all night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13929153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"a drag performer in high heel red boots laughs as she performs outside for a crowd\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahlae Balenciaga performs at Oaklash 2022. \u003ccite>(Fred Rowe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drag-vs-burlesque-pride-show-tickets-914988313677?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Drag vs. Burlesque\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saturday, June 29, 9 p.m.–Sunday, June 30, 2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nThe White Horse, Oakland\u003cbr>\nFree\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helmed by Queer Fem Parties, Drag vs. Burlesque promises a night of pole dancing and drag with femme performers of color at the center, and a lineup that celebrates all shapes and sizes. Expect gravity-defying moves and lip sync numbers alike from Lici Louboutin Makaveli, Ashanti Altovese, Nani Panther, Mari V, Mahlae Balenciaga and Qozmo the Clown, plus music by DJ Fredie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1636px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13930600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022.png\" alt=\"a large street party with a pink stage and a crowd of people dancing in front of it\" width=\"1636\" height=\"1088\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022.png 1636w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-768x511.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-1536x1021.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1636px) 100vw, 1636px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pink Block party, 2022. \u003ccite>(Saylor Nedelman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/polyglamorous-pink-block-2024-tickets-828178543317?\">Polyglamorous Pink Block Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saturday, June 29, 12 p.m.–Sunday, Jun3 30, 3 a.m.\u003cbr>\nThe Great Northern, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$30–$110\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for rave vibes during Pride weekend, don’t sleep on the massive Polyglamorous block party. The all-day, all-night event boasts an enormous lineup of over 40 DJs and 12 drag performers. Daytime headliners include funky beat selector DJ Holographic, Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic and Olof Dreijer of The Knife; Massimiliano Pagliara — a driving force of Berlin’s disco revival — headlines after-dark festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1702px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960303\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1702\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-scaled.jpg 1702w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-800x1203.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-1020x1534.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-768x1155.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-1021x1536.jpg 1021w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-1362x2048.jpg 1362w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-923462530-1920x2887.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1702px) 100vw, 1702px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTooray plays dhol at Central Park SummerStage during the Basement Bhangra 20th Anniversary celebration, New York, New York, August 6, 2017. \u003ccite>( Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tickettailor.com/events/soulovely/1230049\">Queer as in Uprising! Soulovely Pride Block Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday, June 30, 1–6 p.m.\u003cbr>\nVictory Hall & Parlor, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$35–$45\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Soulovely crosses the bridge during Pride weekend for a daytime outdoor block party that centers queer and trans people of color. The theme? “Queer Liberation Combat Boots the House Down Drag.” That means boots, berets, shirts repping activist causes or dressing in whatever way speaks to your definition of queer resistance. Soulovely is known for a hyped dance floor and eclectic music selection, and headlining this event is DJ and percussionist MTOORAY of No Nazar, the touring party that highlights global beats of the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African diaspora. Charles Hawthorne and La Femme Papi round out the lineup with perreo, dembow, house and a spectrum of uplifting, rump-shaking sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914979\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd with drag queen and furry in dog costume at center\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-1536x1116.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita MORE!’s Pride party in 2021. \u003ccite>(Gooch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/juanita-more-pride-2024-celebrating-20-years-tickets-836331549177?\">Juanita MORE! Pride\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday, June 30, 12–7 p.m.\u003cbr>\n620 Jones, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$60\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local drag legend, DJ and activist Juanita MORE! knows how to throw a party with a purpose, and she’s personally raised more than a million dollars for local queer organizations with her events over the past three decades. This year, her annual Pride blowout benefits LYRIC Center for LGTBQQ+ Youth, which offers young people job and housing resources and social support. Expect a fabulous soiree with drag, drinks and dancing for a righteous cause. Online presales have ended but you can still grab tickets at the door or at these \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6y33BnxDgY/\">select San Francisco locations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Tori Meating performs onstage during MTV RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 Premiere Extravaganza Presented by ViiV Healthcare at Hammerstein Ballroom on January 04, 2024 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Santiago Felipe/Getty Images for MTV)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pride-sunday-w-amanda-tori-meating-hershii-liqcour-jete-tickets-913246223037?\">Pride Sunday with Amanda Tori Meating and Hershii Liqcour Jeté\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday, June 30, 8 p.m.–Monday, July 1, 2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nOasis, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$20\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s premier drag club, Oasis, is doing it big on Pride Sunday. Whether you need an afterparty for the main celebration or a place to dance after sleeping off Saturday’s festivities, Oasis has a stacked lineup of drag performers lip syncing every half hour. The headliners are Amanda Tori Meating and Hershii Liqcour Jeté of \u003ci>RuPaul’s Drag Race\u003c/i> Season 16 fame, who’ll be heading to Oasis after they perform on the main SF Pride stage, plus local drags of all genders: Snaxx, Vera!, Kochina Rude, Lisa Frankenstein, Melanie Sparksss, Loma Prietta and Siri. Go-go dancers will shake it all night as DJ Rubella Spreads keeps the house and disco beats pumping.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surrounding all these festivities are block parties, kickbacks, raves and ragers that literally go from morning to night throughout the weekend. To help you plan, here’s our handy guide of 10 parties you shouldn’t miss, with a mix of events catering to different music tastes, vibes and LGBTQ+ identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that each of the venues mentioned on this list has a stacked schedule all weekend long. If these parties aren’t your thing, check out the venues’ websites or your favorite DJ or drag queen’s Instagram for other events to choose from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And word to the wise: Stay hydrated, \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/check-your-drugs-2\">test your party favors\u003c/a>, practice safer sex, take care of your friends and remember to have fun!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trans March makes its way along Market Street to a rally on Turk and Taylor in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ticketstripe.com/bustinout24\">Bustin’ Out: Official Trans March After Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, June 28, 6 p.m.–Saturday, June 29, 1:30 a.m.\u003cbr>\nEl Rio, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$25\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s annual Trans March feels like an organic gathering, true to Pride’s activist roots. With trans rights under attack nationwide, this pilgrimage from Dolores Park to the Tenderloin’s Transgender District is where gender-nonconforming people and allies take up space. Instead of corporate floats, you’ll find protest signs affirming the diversity of the gender spectrum and calling for equal rights to healthcare and housing. The annual Bustin’ Out afterparty at El Rio after the march is a benefit for Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), an organization that fights prison abuses and supports formerly incarcerated trans people. DJ sets by Dreams, Succubus, Honeybear and Lady Ryan will turn up the energy, and there’ll be a designated chill zone next door at Mothership with music by Piano Rain and Del. San Francisco’s all-Black drag show, Reparations, will host performances. Presales have sold out, so getting there early to snag door tickets is a must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1288px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936004\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1288\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius.jpg 1288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cornelius-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! \u003ccite>(Marcel Pardo Ariza)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forever-queer-pride-dancing-and-drag-tickets-915617696177?\">Forever-Queer Pride Dancing and Drag\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, June 28, 9 p.m.–Saturday, June 29, 2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nThe Stud, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$20\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legendary queer bar The Stud recently reopened its doors in SoMa, and drag performer Vivvyanne ForeverMORE! is kicking off a new party during Pride weekend: Forever. With performances by Clutch the Pearls co-founder Churro Nomi, Princess co-host Lisa Frankenstein, Major Hammy, Hands and Britney Smearz, this event celebrates the experimental and off-kilter style of drag The Stud is known for. DJs Infinite Jess and JUMPR will keep the dance floor going all night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615333066-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UNiiQU3 performs at Webster Hall Thursdays on March 24, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicky Digital/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/club-ablunt-presents-just-us-pride-2024-w-uniiqu3-tickets-912343874087?\">Club A.B.L.U.N.T. Presents: Pride with UNIIQU3\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, June 28, 10 p.m.–Saturday, June 29, 3 a.m.\u003cbr>\nMonarch, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$20–$30\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNIIQU3 has rocked massive festival stages, but CLUB A.B.L.U.N.T..’s pride party at Monarch offers the rare opportunity to experience her manic Jersey club beats in their optimal setting: while getting your life in a sweaty basement. This party’s stacked lineup features a dozen of the Bay’s top-tier DJs: experimental beatmaker Tomu DJ; Hard French founder Brown Amy; hyperpop connoisseur Freaky Emo; house music experts Charles Hawthorne and Floridawtr; and Black, who started A.B.L.U.N.T. (Asians, Blacks and Latins Uniting with Native Tribes), one of the first Bay Area parties to center queer people of color, back in the early ’90s. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hella-gay-sf-pride-after-party-tickets-927530176727?\">Hella Gay Pride Dance Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Saturday, June 29, 8 p.m.–Sunday, June 30, 2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nFirst Edition, Oakland\u003cbr>\n$10, $20\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hella Gay was an Oakland queer party staple pre-pandemic, and it returns during Pride weekend at Oakland cocktail bar First Edition. East Bay dwellers now have a dance option that won’t have them scrambling to catch last BART or break the bank for an Uber from the City. DJs Homofongo, Kare Bear and Micahtron (who, full disclosure, booked me to DJ at First Edition once last year), will be spinning genre-bending sets of Afrobeats, dembow, house, hip-hop and more to get booties of all genders popping all night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13929153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"a drag performer in high heel red boots laughs as she performs outside for a crowd\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mahlae-Balenciaga-by-Fred-Rowe-Oaklash-2022-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahlae Balenciaga performs at Oaklash 2022. \u003ccite>(Fred Rowe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drag-vs-burlesque-pride-show-tickets-914988313677?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Drag vs. Burlesque\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saturday, June 29, 9 p.m.–Sunday, June 30, 2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nThe White Horse, Oakland\u003cbr>\nFree\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helmed by Queer Fem Parties, Drag vs. Burlesque promises a night of pole dancing and drag with femme performers of color at the center, and a lineup that celebrates all shapes and sizes. Expect gravity-defying moves and lip sync numbers alike from Lici Louboutin Makaveli, Ashanti Altovese, Nani Panther, Mari V, Mahlae Balenciaga and Qozmo the Clown, plus music by DJ Fredie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1636px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13930600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022.png\" alt=\"a large street party with a pink stage and a crowd of people dancing in front of it\" width=\"1636\" height=\"1088\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022.png 1636w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-768x511.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Pink-Block-2022-1536x1021.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1636px) 100vw, 1636px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pink Block party, 2022. \u003ccite>(Saylor Nedelman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/polyglamorous-pink-block-2024-tickets-828178543317?\">Polyglamorous Pink Block Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saturday, June 29, 12 p.m.–Sunday, Jun3 30, 3 a.m.\u003cbr>\nThe Great Northern, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$30–$110\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for rave vibes during Pride weekend, don’t sleep on the massive Polyglamorous block party. The all-day, all-night event boasts an enormous lineup of over 40 DJs and 12 drag performers. 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Soulovely Pride Block Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday, June 30, 1–6 p.m.\u003cbr>\nVictory Hall & Parlor, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$35–$45\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Soulovely crosses the bridge during Pride weekend for a daytime outdoor block party that centers queer and trans people of color. The theme? “Queer Liberation Combat Boots the House Down Drag.” That means boots, berets, shirts repping activist causes or dressing in whatever way speaks to your definition of queer resistance. Soulovely is known for a hyped dance floor and eclectic music selection, and headlining this event is DJ and percussionist MTOORAY of No Nazar, the touring party that highlights global beats of the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African diaspora. Charles Hawthorne and La Femme Papi round out the lineup with perreo, dembow, house and a spectrum of uplifting, rump-shaking sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914979\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd with drag queen and furry in dog costume at center\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-1536x1116.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita MORE!’s Pride party in 2021. \u003ccite>(Gooch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/juanita-more-pride-2024-celebrating-20-years-tickets-836331549177?\">Juanita MORE! Pride\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday, June 30, 12–7 p.m.\u003cbr>\n620 Jones, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$60\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local drag legend, DJ and activist Juanita MORE! knows how to throw a party with a purpose, and she’s personally raised more than a million dollars for local queer organizations with her events over the past three decades. This year, her annual Pride blowout benefits LYRIC Center for LGTBQQ+ Youth, which offers young people job and housing resources and social support. Expect a fabulous soiree with drag, drinks and dancing for a righteous cause. Online presales have ended but you can still grab tickets at the door or at these \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6y33BnxDgY/\">select San Francisco locations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1909717219-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Tori Meating performs onstage during MTV RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 Premiere Extravaganza Presented by ViiV Healthcare at Hammerstein Ballroom on January 04, 2024 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Santiago Felipe/Getty Images for MTV)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pride-sunday-w-amanda-tori-meating-hershii-liqcour-jete-tickets-913246223037?\">Pride Sunday with Amanda Tori Meating and Hershii Liqcour Jeté\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday, June 30, 8 p.m.–Monday, July 1, 2 a.m.\u003cbr>\nOasis, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n$20\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For a lot of us in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930587/drag-dance-and-liberation-5-parties-for-your-2023-sf-pride-weekend\">where to party for Pride\u003c/a> is an annual debate. As we sit down this year to figure out where to dance the weekend away, let’s take a moment to remember the San Francisco gay bars of yore — the foundations on which our current venues were built, and the places that went to battle with the city so future generations wouldn’t have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five of the most crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sailor Boy Tavern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"The front of a pier building in San Francisco next to a large, anonymous two-story building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717-768x577.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sailor Boy Tavern was housed in the unassuming building on the left, positioned directly next to Pier 16. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp14.2717)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the first leather bars in San Francisco, this joint at 24 Howard St. stayed open between 1936 and 1953, though its ownership changed hands in 1938. In its earliest days, the tavern garnered a reputation for entertaining naval men who were on leave and looking for a good (and very gay!) time in San Francisco. Later, it was also frequented by residents of the nearby Army Navy YMCA on Steuart St. — a hotbed of gay socializing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13929998']In Justin Spring’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Historian-Steward-Professor-Renegade/dp/0374533024\">Secret Historian, The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>Steward’s diary describes the scene at the time. “Saw a fantastic thing down by the piers,” he wrote. “Two sailors standing watch for passersby while a third went down on a fourth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pier 16 was demolished in the early 1970s and today, there’s no sign of the building that once housed Sailor Boy. Its influence and spirit, however, live on in SoMa, with the plethora of leather bars that followed Sailor Boy’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Silver Rail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the time the Silver Rail opened on June 18, 1941, the area around 974 Market St. was, on a nightly basis, awash with gay men looking to party. The cruising and hustling that had been happening in the streets for at least a decade started moving inside when the first gay bars — the College Inn and the Pirates’ Cave —arrived in 1933 with the end of prohibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite being a relative latecomer to the downtown gay scene (which was nicknamed “the Meat Rack,” incidentally), the Silver Rail was a notorious dive from day one. It was a far cry from how one newspaper ad described the bar right before it first opened, claiming that the Silver Rail would “add new lustre to the town’s old traditions of the finest in foods, drinks and merriment … and a sparkling atmosphere to match.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the Silver Rail actually excelled at was providing a dark, fun place for men to pick each other up. Handily, it was also designed specifically to try and keep them safe from police intervention — the bar had entry doors on both Market and Turk to give customers escape routes in the event of a raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clippings advertising a bar named The Silver Rail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L) A newspaper ad for the Silver Rail’s opening night, promising ‘fine food’ and ‘a sparkling atmosphere.’ (R) A newspaper ad for the Silver Rail from several years later, promising cheap drinks and ‘two entrances.’ \u003ccite>(Newpapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1949, the Silver Rail was officially classed by local authorities as a “disorderly premises.” At that point, one of the bar’s three owners, Louis E. Wolcher, filed for dissolution of partnership because his partners, Sidney Wolfe and Jack Rushin, were allowing “unlawful practices to be indulged in on the premises to such an extent that the military and naval authorities have denounced the manner in which the business was conducted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time legal action was taken against the Silver Rail, “venereal disease” was mentioned as the reason for the clampdown — but the bar had all sorts of other problems. In 1950, the Silver Rail burned down, causing $35,000 worth of damage (almost $400,000 in 2023 money). In 1952, a man named Jimmie Tarantino successfully extorted money from the bar manager in exchange for not reporting the rampant homosexual activity taking place in the joint. In 1953, it was raided at 3:30 a.m. and 14 people were arrested. (Bartender Charles Smith was charged with selling liquor to a minor, 10 customers were taken in on charges relating to drunkenness, and three others were taken in for apparent draft card violation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the same year the Silver Rail finally went out of business. But boy, oh boy, what glorious, hedonistic chaos it brought to the city in its time here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fe-Be’s Bar\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1576px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A white marble statue depicting a shirtless biker, with his hand hooked in one pocket.\" width=\"1576\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-scaled.jpg 1576w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-800x1300.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-1020x1657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-160x260.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-768x1248.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-945x1536.jpg 945w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-1261x2048.jpg 1261w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-1920x3119.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1576px) 100vw, 1576px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Caffee’s Leather David statue was designed specifically to be displayed in Fe-Be’s. It has lived on long after the bar. Today, this one resides in San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Folsom St.’s first-ever leather bar opened on July 26, 1966, courtesy of owners Don Geist and John Kissinger, a couple who had met while serving in the Navy in the 1940s. The city would come to realize that, in many ways, Geist and Kissinger were nightlife visionaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the duo garnered a faithful crowd by frequenting biker gang meetings and handing out free drink tickets. Second, Geist and Kissinger were consistently involved with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfimperialcouncil.org/\"> Imperial Council of San Francisco\u003c/a> — the oldest LGBTQ+ non-profit in the world — thereby making themselves part of the wider community. (The couple is also said to have donated \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> of money to charity.) Third, the couple incorporated A Taste of Leather into Fe-Be’s — an on-site fetish store, run by a man named Nick O’Demus, that was situated upstairs from the bar. There, patrons could fulfill all their leather- and poppers-related needs on the spot. Fourth, Geist and Kissinger started “Mr. Fe-Be’s” — an annual leather daddy contest that brought in crowds of non-regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13859162']Needless to say, it didn’t take long for authorities to start surveilling goings on at Fe-Be’s. Starting in 1967, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) held multiple meetings about the activities of staff and patrons at Fe-Be’s. In 1969, the ABC accused the bar of “behavior contrary to public morals,” including close physical contact amongst men, below the waist. At another hearing, when accused of having sex toys on the premises, Geist (somewhat comedically) claimed that they were merely being used as novelty drink stirrers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, when the bar was closed down for a year, the community that Geist and Kissinger had so lovingly built rallied around Fe-Be’s, with fellow venues holding fundraisers and offering vocal support. In December 1971, the bar roared back to life and stayed put until 1986. In the end, it wasn’t legal scrutiny that put an end to Fe-Be’s; it was the toll of the AIDs epidemic on San Francisco’s gay community. Kissinger died in 1988, Geist in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fe-Be’s lives on today via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerarthistory.com/uncategorized/mike-caffee-fe-bes-leather-david-1966/\">Leather David\u003c/a>. When Geist and Kissinger first opened the bar, they hired artist Mike Caffee to make them a version of Michaelangelo’s famous sculpture, transformed into a gay biker. Caffee’s vision went on to adorn a range of merch. When Fe-Be’s closed down and the Paradise Lounge moved in, Leather David stayed behind. Versions of Caffee’s kitsch masterpiece sit in bars today as far away as Melbourne, Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Black Cat Café\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930327\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A close up image of a black and white illustration featuring two cats wearing suits and walking together in the street light, arm in arm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure from Black Cat Café, a historic bar at 710 Montgomery that existed between 1933 and 1963. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once described by Allen Ginsberg as the “greatest gay bar in America,” the Black Cat Café started life in 1933 as a hangout for bohemians, just doors away from where the Transamerica Pyramid currently stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early ’40s, when the venue was taken over by Sol Stouman, the Black Cat began fearlessly embracing all things gay. Stouman was a straight man who understood the importance of safe spaces. That was something the already subversive crowd in the bar wholeheartedly embraced. Ginsberg once commented: “It was totally open … Everybody went there, heterosexual and homosexual … All the gay screaming queens would come, the heterosexual gray flannel suit types, longshoremen. All the poets went there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one was under any illusions about the ethos of the Black Cat and those that frequented it. Legendary LGBTQ+ rights activist \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Sarria\">José Sarria\u003c/a> regularly performed in drag there in his younger years, having started out as a Black Cat waiter. Sarria was fond of belting out a rendition of “God Save the Queen” with revised lyrics — he sang “God save us nellie queens” instead. He also performed a version of the opera \u003cem>Carmen\u003c/em>, in which he outran pursuing cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Silver Rail, the Black Cat was subject to major legal scrutiny starting in the late 1940s, and was labeled “disorderly.” When Stouman had his liquor license indefinitely revoked in 1949 because “\u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/stoumen-v-reilly\">persons of known homosexual tendencies patronized said premises and used said premises as a meeting place\u003c/a>,” Stouman fought back — all the way to California’s Supreme Court. And in 1951, he won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court concluded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A number of people were arrested [at the Black Cat], some for vagrancy and some because they ‘demonstrated homosexual actions,’ but there was no showing that any of those arrested were convicted. There was no evidence of any illegal or immoral conduct on the premises … The patronage of a public restaurant and bar by homosexuals … without proof of the commission of illegal or immoral acts on the premises … is not sufficient to show a violation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Black Cat Café stayed in operation for another decade, though harassment by local police remained a problem for the venue for the rest of its days.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Gangway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If ever there was a gay bar that should have lived forever, it’s the Gangway, first founded in 1910. What was, until 2018, San Francisco’s oldest continuously surviving gay bar had made it through Prohibition, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and the AIDs crisis — an astonishing run that ended unceremoniously after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/dining/the-gangway-s-f-s-oldest-lgbt-bar-has-closed-after-57-years/article_96057518-3360-548c-96f5-b7769c2e07be.html\">a simple liquor license transfer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13859570']The nautical bar at 841 Larkin St. made it through an entire century by being both a magnificent Tenderloin watering hole, a wedding venue before marriage equality was the law and an LGBTQ+ museum. (The bar was equipped with a history wall, historic gay ephemera and an entryway that paid tribute to 1969’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859570/friday-purple-hand-gay-liberation-1969\">Friday of the Purple Hand\u003c/a> protest.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, the Gangway also acted as a sort of community center. Starting in the 1970s, it consistently raised money for LGBTQ+ charities, whether through auctions, a charitable bar crawl known as Bar Wars, or other means. The Gangway kept itself concerned with giving back to both its own community and those that lived around the venue. (During Thanksgiving 1977, the bar gave cash and turkeys to local seniors in need.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder Harvey Milk was a regular.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For a lot of us in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930587/drag-dance-and-liberation-5-parties-for-your-2023-sf-pride-weekend\">where to party for Pride\u003c/a> is an annual debate. As we sit down this year to figure out where to dance the weekend away, let’s take a moment to remember the San Francisco gay bars of yore — the foundations on which our current venues were built, and the places that went to battle with the city so future generations wouldn’t have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five of the most crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sailor Boy Tavern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"The front of a pier building in San Francisco next to a large, anonymous two-story building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717-768x577.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/opensfhistory_wnp14.2717.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sailor Boy Tavern was housed in the unassuming building on the left, positioned directly next to Pier 16. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp14.2717)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the first leather bars in San Francisco, this joint at 24 Howard St. stayed open between 1936 and 1953, though its ownership changed hands in 1938. In its earliest days, the tavern garnered a reputation for entertaining naval men who were on leave and looking for a good (and very gay!) time in San Francisco. Later, it was also frequented by residents of the nearby Army Navy YMCA on Steuart St. — a hotbed of gay socializing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Justin Spring’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Historian-Steward-Professor-Renegade/dp/0374533024\">Secret Historian, The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>Steward’s diary describes the scene at the time. “Saw a fantastic thing down by the piers,” he wrote. “Two sailors standing watch for passersby while a third went down on a fourth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pier 16 was demolished in the early 1970s and today, there’s no sign of the building that once housed Sailor Boy. Its influence and spirit, however, live on in SoMa, with the plethora of leather bars that followed Sailor Boy’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Silver Rail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the time the Silver Rail opened on June 18, 1941, the area around 974 Market St. was, on a nightly basis, awash with gay men looking to party. The cruising and hustling that had been happening in the streets for at least a decade started moving inside when the first gay bars — the College Inn and the Pirates’ Cave —arrived in 1933 with the end of prohibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite being a relative latecomer to the downtown gay scene (which was nicknamed “the Meat Rack,” incidentally), the Silver Rail was a notorious dive from day one. It was a far cry from how one newspaper ad described the bar right before it first opened, claiming that the Silver Rail would “add new lustre to the town’s old traditions of the finest in foods, drinks and merriment … and a sparkling atmosphere to match.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the Silver Rail actually excelled at was providing a dark, fun place for men to pick each other up. Handily, it was also designed specifically to try and keep them safe from police intervention — the bar had entry doors on both Market and Turk to give customers escape routes in the event of a raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clippings advertising a bar named The Silver Rail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/silver-rail-final-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L) A newspaper ad for the Silver Rail’s opening night, promising ‘fine food’ and ‘a sparkling atmosphere.’ (R) A newspaper ad for the Silver Rail from several years later, promising cheap drinks and ‘two entrances.’ \u003ccite>(Newpapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1949, the Silver Rail was officially classed by local authorities as a “disorderly premises.” At that point, one of the bar’s three owners, Louis E. Wolcher, filed for dissolution of partnership because his partners, Sidney Wolfe and Jack Rushin, were allowing “unlawful practices to be indulged in on the premises to such an extent that the military and naval authorities have denounced the manner in which the business was conducted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time legal action was taken against the Silver Rail, “venereal disease” was mentioned as the reason for the clampdown — but the bar had all sorts of other problems. In 1950, the Silver Rail burned down, causing $35,000 worth of damage (almost $400,000 in 2023 money). In 1952, a man named Jimmie Tarantino successfully extorted money from the bar manager in exchange for not reporting the rampant homosexual activity taking place in the joint. In 1953, it was raided at 3:30 a.m. and 14 people were arrested. (Bartender Charles Smith was charged with selling liquor to a minor, 10 customers were taken in on charges relating to drunkenness, and three others were taken in for apparent draft card violation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the same year the Silver Rail finally went out of business. But boy, oh boy, what glorious, hedonistic chaos it brought to the city in its time here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fe-Be’s Bar\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1576px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A white marble statue depicting a shirtless biker, with his hand hooked in one pocket.\" width=\"1576\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-scaled.jpg 1576w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-800x1300.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-1020x1657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-160x260.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-768x1248.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-945x1536.jpg 945w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-1261x2048.jpg 1261w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Mr-Fe-Be22s-1920x3119.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1576px) 100vw, 1576px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Caffee’s Leather David statue was designed specifically to be displayed in Fe-Be’s. It has lived on long after the bar. Today, this one resides in San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Folsom St.’s first-ever leather bar opened on July 26, 1966, courtesy of owners Don Geist and John Kissinger, a couple who had met while serving in the Navy in the 1940s. The city would come to realize that, in many ways, Geist and Kissinger were nightlife visionaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the duo garnered a faithful crowd by frequenting biker gang meetings and handing out free drink tickets. Second, Geist and Kissinger were consistently involved with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfimperialcouncil.org/\"> Imperial Council of San Francisco\u003c/a> — the oldest LGBTQ+ non-profit in the world — thereby making themselves part of the wider community. (The couple is also said to have donated \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> of money to charity.) Third, the couple incorporated A Taste of Leather into Fe-Be’s — an on-site fetish store, run by a man named Nick O’Demus, that was situated upstairs from the bar. There, patrons could fulfill all their leather- and poppers-related needs on the spot. Fourth, Geist and Kissinger started “Mr. Fe-Be’s” — an annual leather daddy contest that brought in crowds of non-regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Needless to say, it didn’t take long for authorities to start surveilling goings on at Fe-Be’s. Starting in 1967, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) held multiple meetings about the activities of staff and patrons at Fe-Be’s. In 1969, the ABC accused the bar of “behavior contrary to public morals,” including close physical contact amongst men, below the waist. At another hearing, when accused of having sex toys on the premises, Geist (somewhat comedically) claimed that they were merely being used as novelty drink stirrers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, when the bar was closed down for a year, the community that Geist and Kissinger had so lovingly built rallied around Fe-Be’s, with fellow venues holding fundraisers and offering vocal support. In December 1971, the bar roared back to life and stayed put until 1986. In the end, it wasn’t legal scrutiny that put an end to Fe-Be’s; it was the toll of the AIDs epidemic on San Francisco’s gay community. Kissinger died in 1988, Geist in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fe-Be’s lives on today via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerarthistory.com/uncategorized/mike-caffee-fe-bes-leather-david-1966/\">Leather David\u003c/a>. When Geist and Kissinger first opened the bar, they hired artist Mike Caffee to make them a version of Michaelangelo’s famous sculpture, transformed into a gay biker. Caffee’s vision went on to adorn a range of merch. When Fe-Be’s closed down and the Paradise Lounge moved in, Leather David stayed behind. Versions of Caffee’s kitsch masterpiece sit in bars today as far away as Melbourne, Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Black Cat Café\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930327\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A close up image of a black and white illustration featuring two cats wearing suits and walking together in the street light, arm in arm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/GettyImages-1298804949-scaled-e1686869423456.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure from Black Cat Café, a historic bar at 710 Montgomery that existed between 1933 and 1963. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once described by Allen Ginsberg as the “greatest gay bar in America,” the Black Cat Café started life in 1933 as a hangout for bohemians, just doors away from where the Transamerica Pyramid currently stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early ’40s, when the venue was taken over by Sol Stouman, the Black Cat began fearlessly embracing all things gay. Stouman was a straight man who understood the importance of safe spaces. That was something the already subversive crowd in the bar wholeheartedly embraced. Ginsberg once commented: “It was totally open … Everybody went there, heterosexual and homosexual … All the gay screaming queens would come, the heterosexual gray flannel suit types, longshoremen. All the poets went there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one was under any illusions about the ethos of the Black Cat and those that frequented it. Legendary LGBTQ+ rights activist \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Sarria\">José Sarria\u003c/a> regularly performed in drag there in his younger years, having started out as a Black Cat waiter. Sarria was fond of belting out a rendition of “God Save the Queen” with revised lyrics — he sang “God save us nellie queens” instead. He also performed a version of the opera \u003cem>Carmen\u003c/em>, in which he outran pursuing cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Silver Rail, the Black Cat was subject to major legal scrutiny starting in the late 1940s, and was labeled “disorderly.” When Stouman had his liquor license indefinitely revoked in 1949 because “\u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/stoumen-v-reilly\">persons of known homosexual tendencies patronized said premises and used said premises as a meeting place\u003c/a>,” Stouman fought back — all the way to California’s Supreme Court. And in 1951, he won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court concluded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A number of people were arrested [at the Black Cat], some for vagrancy and some because they ‘demonstrated homosexual actions,’ but there was no showing that any of those arrested were convicted. There was no evidence of any illegal or immoral conduct on the premises … The patronage of a public restaurant and bar by homosexuals … without proof of the commission of illegal or immoral acts on the premises … is not sufficient to show a violation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Black Cat Café stayed in operation for another decade, though harassment by local police remained a problem for the venue for the rest of its days.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Gangway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If ever there was a gay bar that should have lived forever, it’s the Gangway, first founded in 1910. What was, until 2018, San Francisco’s oldest continuously surviving gay bar had made it through Prohibition, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and the AIDs crisis — an astonishing run that ended unceremoniously after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/dining/the-gangway-s-f-s-oldest-lgbt-bar-has-closed-after-57-years/article_96057518-3360-548c-96f5-b7769c2e07be.html\">a simple liquor license transfer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The nautical bar at 841 Larkin St. made it through an entire century by being both a magnificent Tenderloin watering hole, a wedding venue before marriage equality was the law and an LGBTQ+ museum. (The bar was equipped with a history wall, historic gay ephemera and an entryway that paid tribute to 1969’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859570/friday-purple-hand-gay-liberation-1969\">Friday of the Purple Hand\u003c/a> protest.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, the Gangway also acted as a sort of community center. Starting in the 1970s, it consistently raised money for LGBTQ+ charities, whether through auctions, a charitable bar crawl known as Bar Wars, or other means. The Gangway kept itself concerned with giving back to both its own community and those that lived around the venue. (During Thanksgiving 1977, the bar gave cash and turkeys to local seniors in need.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the last month, my group chats have been surging with excitement. Friends tease about who they’ll kiss at the next function, goading me on to be bold too. Just a few years ago, I’d never have imagined that this could be my reality — that I could feel comfortable enough in my identity to celebrate amongst fellow queer people. Now, these are the relationships that nourish me most — and bring me closer to understanding what it means to be part of the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At these Pride parties, expect to be swept up in intimate community spaces, where music reverberates and queer euphoria flourishes beneath dim light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan-800x531.png\" alt='a Black woman with a shirt that reads \"end police terrorism\" smiles at the camera' width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan-768x509.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan-1536x1019.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan-1920x1273.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/LadyRyan.png 1966w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LadyRyan, a local DJ and creator of Soulovely — an Oakland day party for QTBIPOC communities — is an organizer and performer for the SF Queer Pride Party. \u003ccite>(Eric Arnold)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://wl.seetickets.us/event/SF-QueerPride/548749?afflky=1015Folsom\">SF Queer Pride Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 23, 10 p.m.\u003cbr>\n1015 Folsom, San Francisco, $60–$100\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fixture in the Bay Area queer party scene returns with an electrifying lineup of DJs, rappers and performers. Organized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/swaggerlikeussf\">Swagger Like Us\u003c/a> — a Bay Area party platform focused on emerging queer talent — and local \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djladyryan/?hl=en\">DJ LadyRyan\u003c/a>, this is a go-to annual event with an eclectic selection of musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notable performers this year include New York City rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daiburger\">Dai Burger\u003c/a>, whose diverse discography features both dreamy, feel-good club music and slower-tempo raps dripping with self-confidence. Berlin-based multidisciplinary rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zebrakatz\">Zebra Katz\u003c/a> will also join, bringing in seductive, high-tempo and experimental tracks that provide the atmosphere of a dark European techno rave. And for those seeking fast-paced ballroom beats, New Orleans-born \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/leonce\">DJ Leonce\u003c/a> will be mixing together funky electronic songs reminiscent of Atlanta’s ballrooms. Other artists include \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aimathedrmr\">Aïma the Dreamer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sirjoq\">Sir JoQ\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/byrellthegreat\">Byrell the Great\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lSGd7z4JgU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ffffff\">p\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/club-ablunt-ft-suzi-analogue-just-us-bright-beautiful-gay-as-fuck-tickets-639113434487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JUST US: Bright & Beautiful, Gay as Fuck\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 23, 10 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>CounterPulse, San Francisco, $20–$30\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For experimental music lovers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clubablunt510\">CLUB A.B.L.U.N.T.\u003c/a> (Asian, Black, Latinx, Uniting with Native Tribes) is hosting an event that offers a more alternative dance party. With an all QTBIPOC lineup, JUST US will be headlined by Miami-based producer and music professor \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/\">Suzi Analogue\u003c/a>, whose sets layer lofi beats, ambient noise and irregular percussion to create a distinct, undefinable sound. Other performers include local \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tecuani.feroz\">DJ De Alma\u003c/a>, whose hardcore sets are especially enticing to energetic Bay Area ravers. The event features two rooms and will be held at \u003ca href=\"https://counterpulse.org/\">CounterPulse\u003c/a>, a San Francisco venue dedicated to uplifting experimental dance, music and art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/big-freedia2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907616\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/big-freedia2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Big Freedia at GastroMagic. (Wendy Goodfriend)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/big-freedia2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/big-freedia2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/big-freedia2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/big-freedia2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/big-freedia2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/big-freedia2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Freedia will headline one of five stages at the Pink Block, hosted by Polyglamorous SF. (Wendy Goodfriend) \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pink-block-big-freedia-horse-meat-disco-doc-martin-kim-ann-foxman-tickets-539583908997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pink Block — Polyglamorous Pride 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 24, 12 p.m.–3 a.m.\u003cbr>\nThe Great Northern, San Francisco, $45–$130\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More like a mini-festival than a single party, the vibrant Pink Block will host performers on five different stages from day to night. Hosted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/polyglamoroussf\">Polyglamorous SF\u003c/a>, the gathering will be headlined by more than 40 musical artists, including New Orleans rapper and cultural icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bigfreedia\">Big Freedia\u003c/a>, queer party favorite \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/horse_meat_disco\">Horse Meat Disco\u003c/a>, wavy techno DJ \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kimannfoxma\">Kim Ann Foxman\u003c/a>, Russian punk rock group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pussyriot\">Pussy Riot\u003c/a>, former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant and rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ajathekween\">Aja LaBeija\u003c/a> and more. There’s something here for music lovers across all different tastes, including more mellow, head-bumping EDM, funky fresh Italo disco remixes and electrifying bounce hip-hop performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd with drag queen and furry in dog costume at center\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER-1536x1116.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/178-JMPride21-PhotobyGooch_COVER.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita MORE!’s Pride party in 2021. The celebrated drag performer and activist will host a daylong Pride march and party June 25. \u003ccite>(Gooch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://juanitamore.com/about-jm-pride-2022\">Juanita MORE! Pride\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 25, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Day Party: 620 Jones, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nNight Party: Halcyon, San Francisco, $35 (cash only)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the intersection of Polk and Washington Streets, crowds will gather early in the morning to join celebrated drag queen and activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/missmore8\">Juanita MORE!\u003c/a> for a march. Black and brown queer and trans community leaders will take the lead, rallying passionate attendees for LGBTQIA+ rights as they walk together in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterwards, all are invited to attend a day party at cocktail bar \u003ca href=\"https://620-jones.com/\">620 Jones\u003c/a> and an evening dance party at nightclub \u003ca href=\"https://halcyon-sf.com/main/\">Halcyon\u003c/a>. The multifaceted, marathon event brings together eager people every year, intertwining social justice with high-energy dance and celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56883_017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915257\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56883_017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"drag queens dressed in colorful costumes on a float in downtown San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56883_017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56883_017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56883_017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56883_017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56883_017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56883_017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Jizz (left), drag queen and host of San Francisco Black drag show Reparations, will be hosting ENVY with fellow drag performer Vivvy on June 25. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/envy-a-pride-party-with-nicki-jizz-and-vivvy-tickets-629572256567?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENVY, a Pride Party with Nicki Jizz and Vivvy\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 25, 3–9 p.m.\u003cbr>\nEl Rio, San Francisco, $30\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the LGBTQIA+ community, drag and ballroom culture have long been touchstones for Black and brown queer/trans expression. Focused on Black queer liberation, ENVY will be bringing “sickening drag performances” by nine performers: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/moniquefauxnique\">Fauxnique\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ms_mahlae\">Mahlae Balenciaga\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/itslisafrankenstein\">Lisa Frankenstein\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kochinarude\">Kochina 𝕽𝖚𝖉𝖊\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/eatmoresnaxx\">snaxx\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tila_pia_\">Tila Pia\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/redbonempls/\">RedBone\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/churro_nomi\">Churro Nomi\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/veritas_22\">Vera Hannush\u003c/a>. Each artist presents their own bold vision: with perfectly styled wigs, flawless makeup and intricately designed wardrobes, they command the stage and connect with the crowd in ways that are irreplicable. People scream for them as they strut and dance, embodying self-assuredness. The space is infectious: it’s freeing, safe and joyous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ENVY will be hosted by Bay Area drag royalty \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/vivvyanne_forevermore\">Vivvy\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nicki_jizz\">Nicki Jizz\u003c/a>; the latter also hosts Reparations — an all-Black San Francisco drag show. 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