June 20 Taja’s Coalition LGBT Community Center This event was postponed.      

About National Queer Arts Festival 2000 This series of cultural events, exhibitions, performances, and interpretive programs has been organized by the Queer Cultural Center (Qcc) – the Center for Lesbian, […]

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Krista Smith aka Kentucky Fried Woman is a native Kentuckian living in Oakland since 2005. She has been involved in the arts since 1978 and has worked as a solo artist and with various performance troupes in Santa Barbara, Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Vee Jenkins is a performance artist, stand up comedian, designer, seamstress, milliner, costumer, writer, burlesque sensation, filmmaker, maker and organizer of note, basically, the only thing She doesn’t do is BS.

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Marco Garcia Daddy’s Secret Garden fabric, stuffing, faux flowers, pins 28x29x44″(Questions) This is the image for this corner installation that the curators picked. But dimensions given seem smaller than the […]

Indira Allegra       32 Harnesses Controlled by a Switch 
2014 Calfskin leather, hand dyed silk, thread.
92“ x 5.5” Woven on a 32 harness compudobby loom, this titleholder’s sash […]

Kurt Barrie, a significant queer Democratic Party activist, died December 15, 2014 of AIDS-related causes at 48. Barrie was born in Auburn California in 1966, and escaped an abusive childhood […]

Peter Berlin Talks! October 18, 2014 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Press Release from Magnet: http://www.magnetsf.org/community/events/peter-berlin-talks.html PETER BERLIN, is a photographer, artist, filmmaker, clothing designer/sewer, model and gay sex symbol. In the […]

October 15, 2014 For Sizakele: A Performative Excerpt Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene AAACC, 7:30pm Funded by Qcc’s Creating Queer Community Program. $12 – $20 For tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/870907 For Sizakele is […]

Friday Nights at the de Young: A Tribute to the Cockettes September 19, 2014 – 6:00pm Tonight, we celebrate Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay with a tribute to the Cockettes, the […]