Arts & Entertainment This Uncovered Footage Shows SF Drag Queens Living Their Best Lives at a 1968 Costume Ball 60 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for men wearing women's clothing in public to be arrested. Nevertheless: A group of drag queens prancing along Columbus Avenue in San Francisco — circa 1968 — carried on living their most authentic (and fabulously camp) lives.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Nightclub Oasis Is Set to Reopen In Time For Pride Weekend Fresh from a remodel and ready to welcome in crowds again, Oasis is preparing to host its grand reopening party on June 26, the Saturday of Pride weekend, and a Sunday rooftop day party for Pride as well, with more planned in July.
Arts & Entertainment Following Dustup Over Honey Bears, LGBT Center Gets 'Queeroes' Mural A new mural is going up on the Octavia-facing side of the SF LGBT Center highlighting a dozen local and national queer heroes, including Harvey Milk, drag queens Juanita MORE! and Sister Roma, and drag performer turned politico Honey Mahogany.
Arts & Entertainment Phatima Rude, Queer Punk Drag Icon of SF Scene, Dies at 55 Phatima Rude, a drag queen who helped to define the raw and genderqueer aesthetics of San Francisco's drag scene of the 1990s and early 2000s, was found dead in their Portland, Oregon home on Tuesday. They were 55.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Juanita MORE! Wants Your Vote for Empress of San Francisco Legendary San Francisco drag queen, activist, philanthropist, and mother hen Juanita MORE! is ready to try on a new role in the city: Empress.
Arts & Entertainment O Sweet Jesus Crowned 2021's Hunky Jesus Winner; ‘Sister Honey Bear’ Prints Raise Over $24K for Charity For the second year in a row, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hosted their annual Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests online, and crowned winners on Twitch. But the group’s second iteration of its streaming Easter Sunday tradition was arguably much grander than the 2020 event.
Arts & Entertainment With Back Rent Due, SoMa LGBTQ Nightclub Oasis Turns to Crowdfunding, Telethon to Prevent Permanent Closure Among the nightclubs and music venues that have suffered deeply in San Francisco over the last year, one of the relative newest, Oasis, could face permanent closure without some immediate help from patrons, or the federal or local government.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queens Premiere New 'Golden Girls Live' Christmas Episodes on Streaming Video The pandemic threatened to cancel it, but "The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes" is happening on a recreated set at Oasis for a live, multi-cam telecast experience instead, starting Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Rupaul's Drag Race Queens to Bring Halloween Drive-In Show to East Bay Mall As the Rupaul drag empire continues to expand, we have word that live events are back on the schedule, via drive-in concerts. The "Drive-n-Drag Halloween Edition" show comes to the Bay Area on October 16, 17, and 18.
Arts & Entertainment Oasis' Drag Queen Food Delivery Service Makes the 'New York Times,' CNN As the pandemic rages on and California chokes with wildfire smoke, San Francisco drag queens continue to innovate. And the New York Times and CNN have just taken notice.
Arts & Entertainment Distanced Drag Events Work the Circuit as Shelter-In-Place Drags On This weekend’s Oaklash drag festival will be applied online, but The Oasis, Red Victorian, and even the Castro’s sidewalks are hosting in-person drag events — but no cheaters allowed on masks and distancing.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, The 2020 Election Will Have Drag Queens at Polling Places — And You Can Be One of Them For this fiercely contested election, the California secretary of state has officially partnered with Drag Out the Vote to ‘work’ the polls and lay the foundation for a big turnout.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oasis Reopens In SoMa For Dinner, Drinks, Drag Shows The first SoMa nightclub to emerge from pandemic lockdown looks to be Oasis, the LGBTQ club well known for its cabaret and drag shows — but it's only opening its rooftop.
Arts & Entertainment At Virtual Drag Funeral, The Stud Gets a Send-Off By Many 'Widows' On Sunday, after the keys were handed back to the property owners who will likely demolish the building before long, a couple thousand fans and lovers of The Stud gathered online to mourn the loss of a beloved bar and nightclub, and watch some drag.
Arts & Entertainment SOMArts To Host Live-Streamed, 90s-Inspired Fundraiser and Performing Arts Event in June Wrapped in the current panorama of dystopias and injustices, SOMArts' "Please Stand By Virtual Summer Solstice" event is a welcomed ode to the iconic telethons and infomercials of the 90s that'll offer some much-needed levity later next month.
Arts & Entertainment Openhouse, SF Queer Nightlife Fund, and TL Museum Will Host Digital Drag Show To Honor LGBTQ Elders San Francisco's queer seniors are reeling from the pandemic, as many continue struggling to find financial respite — for some, even sustenance — amid shelter-in-place. But a live-streamed drag show in support of them this coming Friday aims to offer both levity and monetary relief.
Arts & Entertainment SOMArts To Host Online Panel Discussing Virtual Frontiers for Performance Art Faced with the mounting uncertainty of what’s still to become of nightlife, the offbeat drag group Toxic Waste Face will host an online symposium in partnership with SOMArts to address queer artistry amid COVID-19 — and help envision a pathway forward.
SF News SF Queer Nightlife Fund Raises $160K, Starts Distributing Grants to Eligible Applicants COVID-19 has surely hindered San Francisco’s queer nightlife community, leaving bartenders sans pay and prompting entertainers to embrace Twitch. In response, the SF Queer Nightlife Fund has been amassing donations to aid those workers and will begin distributing some $160K to accepted applicants.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Drag Queens and Musical Theater Artists Performing From Their Living Rooms One obvious way our current shelter-in-place, pandemic crisis differs from those in other eras is how wildly connected we already were in virtual space before all this began.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews New Rupaul Queen Rock M. Sakura Ahead of Season 12 Debut In real life, Rock lives in a self-described "art commune" in the Haight, and she's excited to show the world beyond SF her drag when the new season premieres on Friday (February 28) on VH1.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina To Host Final Two-Hour 'Mother' Next Saturday At Oasis Following on her announcement last fall that she would be stepping away from her ownership role at the nightclub in order to spend more time relaxing in Palm Springs, Heklina has just announced the date and details of the final Mother show.
Arts & Entertainment First San Francisco Queen In Eight Years Lands On 'Rupaul's Drag Race' Season 12 Meet Rock M. Sakura, a San Francisco drag queen with a love for Japanese anime and K-pop who is now, officially, only the second Bay Area queen ever to be cast on Rupaul's Drag Race. In 12 years. Out of 150-something queens who have been on the show. The second one.
Arts & Entertainment 'Drag Queens On Ice' Celebrates 10 Years At Union Square Rink The now annual Drag Queens on Ice event began way back in 2009 as a lark by Stud hostess VivvyAnne ForeverMore. The event, which will have its 11th go-round Thursday night, has now expanded and gained official sponsorship from Alaska Airlines.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens Hosting Game Night at Union Square's Hotel Zeppelin Local drag star Juanita MORE! and friends Dulce de Leche and Mutha Chucka are kicking off a new series of "Gayme Nights" in the downstairs Peace Lounge at the Hotel Zeppelin Wednesday evening.
Arts & Entertainment Rupaul's Drag Race Queens Bring 'Werq the World' Tour To San Francisco Eleven of the better known drag queens to come through the Rupaul's Drag Race gauntlet are on a world tour, with the North American leg kicking off in September. And the whole gang, along with host Michelle Visage, will descend on SF's Warfield Theater on September 21.
