Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, there will be a gay roller disco in an old church at Fillmore and Fell Streets. Are you going? Somehow I had not heard about the Church of 8 Wheels (I'm not subscribed to enough rollerskating message boards, clearly, or reading Haighteration enough), but they first got permission in November to use the empty Sacred Heart Parish as a roller disco venue, and the fun continues this week with an LGBT night tonight, March 18, a party called Rolligion on Wednesdays, and more skating fun on Thursdays and Fridays.
It's the project of David Miles Jr., a.k.a. The Godfather of Skate, who lives his life on 8 wheels and has been a frequent fixture of the skate scene in Golden Gate Park, and it was actually the idea of a parishioner of the church who was sad seeing it languishing for years there, empty, most of its contents and pews now sold off.
You can see a little drone video of one of the November events below. And it seems like Miles has already turned this into a weekly thing, with guest DJ nights on Thursdays. Admission is $10, and skate rentals are $5, and the parties go from 7 to 10 p.m.
All I can say is this is an awesome nightlife development, and there should be club nights in all of our city's unused churches, STAT.
Join the conversation
Comments
Comments load automatically as this section approaches.