MUSIC: Tony-nominated Sharon McNight, whose voice is "as brassy and beautiful as ever," kicks off gay pride month in a career retrospective, “The First 30 Years ... From Moose Hall to Carnegie Hall,” featuring many classic memories, stories and songs from her illustrious career. (8 p.m., The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street)

PERFORMANCE: As part of the National Queer Arts Festival going on this month, The Walls Project, which explores the idea of physical and metaphorical walls, brings together Bay Area poets, filmmakers, storytellers, dancers and spoken word artists to liberate the stories that lie inside walls, "calling them up and out from the crevices, and transforming walls into communal gathering places from which new stories might take root and grow." (8 to 10 p.m., African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street)

FILM: Cult Cinema Night at Cafe Royale presents Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman as the player-coach of a small town minor professional league hockey team who must deal with "hostile crowds and on-ice thuggery in this warm-hearted and only slightly farcical look at minor league ice hockey." (9 p.m., Cafe Royale, 800 Post Street)