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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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'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.

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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.

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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.

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SF Queens On How 'Rupaul's Drag Race' Has Hurt (and Helped) The Larger World of Drag

After being entirely overlooked on a recent New York Magazine ranking, along with every other established drag queen in the country who hasn't been on the show, SF's local queens reflect on the current state of drag in a 'Drag Race'-dominated world.

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Drag Queen Story Hour, Begun In SF, Stirs Controversy As It Spreads Across Country

Having drag queens read books to kids at local libraries is a very San Francisco idea, but it has since caught on all over the country, first in New York and Los Angeles, and now in smaller towns and cities like Cookeville, Tennessee and Juneau, Alaska.

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VH1 and Levi's Host First 'Rupaul's Drag Race' Finale Crowning In SF

Thursday night, a select few fans of Rupaul's Drag Race who also happened to be employees of Levi's got to attend a very special viewing party of the Season 11 finale where all four finalists were in attendance along with several other contestants.

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Drag Queen 'Murder She Wrote' Parody Comes to PianoFight

A drag queen parody version of the classic 80's/90's whodunnit series starring Angela Lansbury has arrived in San Francisco. And it appears there are multiple "Jessicas," as well as musical numbers, in the show.

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Go Be In This Thing: Taylor Mac Needs Extras For SF Video Shoot Saturday

The groundbreaking, 24-hour-long, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist musical A 24-Decade History of Popular Music is returning to San Francisco this September, and to that end the production is shooting a promo

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Lyft's Pride Float Queen Claims Lyft Refused Her Rides

Rideshare service Lyft has managed to avoid many of the high-profile public relations disasters of its larger competitor Uber, generally eluding terrible headlines while Uber has experienced a nonstop parade of recent scandals

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Good Things Come In 'Three's Company Live!', Now Back At Oasis

You know exactly what you’re going to get at Three’s Company Live!, which opened last night at Oasis and runs through April 29. Just as with Heklina and D’Arcy Drollinger’

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How <i>The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes</i> Stays Young As It 'Drags' Into Its 11th Year

Tonight's opening of The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes at the Victoria Theatre marks the 11th consecutive year of big-name San Francisco drag queens reenacting episodes of the 1980s retiree sitcom. So after

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Go Do This Thing: 'Puttin' On The Titz' at The Strand

Drag fans and regulars at Oasis may have caught the House of MORE!'s terrific command performance of their eclectic, 1930's-inspired cabaret experience last fall, when Juanita MORE! and her gang took over

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Let The Holidays Begin: Union Square And Embarcadero Ice Rinks Open Today

I know Halloween is barely over and your bathroom sink probably still has evidence of grease paint in it, but the ice rinks at Union Square and Justin Herman Plaza both opened for

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