Expect performances by Garza of the House of Garza, Lady Phoenix, Victory Le, and more, and things kick off with a "Youth and Elder Brunch" from noon to 3 p.m. This is basically The Year of Trans, so you can expect this year's Trans March and the rally beforehand to be especially jubilant, well attended, and fun. Dirty Habit, 12 Fourth Street, 5th Floor.
Tickets are now $60, with the pre-sale already done. Expect some circus-y type performances, new carnival-themed food and cocktails, DJs from Go Bang!, and maybe a quick set from Ms. We told you about this one before, but Margaret Cho is hosting this smaller Pride kickoff affair, which is a benefit for The Trevor Project, downtown at Dirty Habit. And, for everybody in a mood to be out late, this party will go after-hours well into Friday. Megaphone (A Castro Street Fair Fundraiser)Īnother big kickoff to the weekend, in the basement of Temple, is this fundraiser for Castro Street Fair hosted by Juan Garcia, with DJ sets by Chelsea Starr, Digital Wildlife, and Lady Kraft. There'll also be plenty of time to get drunk and try to make sense of the exhibits. The Pride edition of this annual affair at the science museum, complete with DJs down in the aquarium, happens once more, with Heklina hosting a drag show outside, Hard French DJing in the center atrium, and new guests the Topsy Turvy Queer Circus. Virgil's Sea Room, 3152 Mission Street, 9 p.m. The Lex's regulars and staff will all be in the house, and there'll be tunes by WORKALOOK JENNA RIOT, and LADY RYAN. Oasis, 298 111th Street, 6:30 p.m.Īs promised, after the shuttering of the Mission's only lesbian bar this spring, the Lexington is hosting one of its first off-site events as a Pride weekend kick-off at Virgil's. It plays each night this weekend and next, Thursday to Saturday but for Pride weekend all that's left for seating are $200 Cosmopolitan Tables. It's one of your last chances, at least in this half of the year, to see this live-action, drag reenactment of episodes of Sex & the City, as performed by D'Arcy Drollinger, Lady Bear, Sue Casa, and Daft-nee Gesundheit.
This would be one of the official "kickoffs" for the weekend, assuming you can handle kicking it off this early (and this party has a habit of getting going late, like around midnight). Miss Juanita MORE! may be most closely associated with her big annual Pride bash which closes out the weekend on Sunday, but she presides over this seven-year-old weekly fete at Q bar with its ever rotating cast of DJs and go-go dancers, every Wednesday night. $20 - $50ĭrag queen Holotta Tymes, who performed at the world famous drag club Finocchio's in North Beach before it closed, hosts this new night of classic, old-school, un-ironic female impersonation which launches tonight. This year the event, which benefits the Sisters' general fund, is happening at Mezzanine, and will include cocktails and plenty of fun of prizes. Join the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for this annual tradition, bringing their regular bingo event to a bigger, Pride Week audience. (And I'm actually going to take it personally if they hold it until Monday, given there are Pride celebrations in several major cities this weekend, but this is not likely a big concern for the justices.)Īnyway, suffice it to say, if you are lesbian, gay, trans, bi, queer, questioning, genderqueer, or anything else, you are going to have a chock-full social calendar all week long. This year's celebration might come with the added bonus of a decision from the Supreme Court on the question of a federal right to gay marriage it looks like it could come down Thursday or Friday, much the way they announced the DOMA and Prop 8 decisions during Pride Week in 2013. That small march grew into a larger parade and celebration down Polk Street, then the city's primary gay ghetto, in the early 70s, and would finally be given its current name, the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration, in 1995, two decades after it had taken over Market Street and downtown. San Francisco's version was, of course, more hippie, with a rag-tag group of 20 to 30 "hair faeries" and their friends marching around the Haight followed by a "gay-in" in Golden Gate Park. As SFist has discussed in the past, Gay Freedom Day/Gay Pride was born basically simultaneously in New York City and San Francisco on the last weekend of June in 1970 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York. Of course you must know by now, at least via all the rainbow flags on Market Street or via your one gay friend, that it's LGBT Pride Week.