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WE’VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY.For Q***r A.F.’s first open call in over a year, we want to hear what you have to say. If you...
09/04/2026

WE’VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY.

For Q***r A.F.’s first open call in over a year, we want to hear what you have to say. If you are a q***r and/ or trans artist over 18 in the Bay Area, apply to be part of this show:

In conjunction with the Fall Of Freedom campaign, and on the eve of the District 8 supervisorial election, Q***r Arts Featured wishes to uplift art that speaks to what most of us are feeling on a local, national, and global scale. “UnSupervised” is a critical look at our political leadership and its effect on our daily lives, a hopeful exploration of equitable futures, and a celebration of what we create for ourselves, together.

In submitting your work, we’d love to see themes of power, neglect, memory, greed, satire, grief, repair, hope, and possibility. Years of political turmoil and corruption have deeply affected every person in the Bay Area in many ways. How have you been personally impacted? What have you seen in your communities? What could be possible when we choose, and fight for, a different path?

Submissions due by 10PM September 20th, exhibition opening October 2nd.

Link to apply in our bio, or screenshot the qr if that’s your thing. Let’s raise our collective creatives voices.

This Friday 5PM-8PM, celebrate our Heroes, and be your own!Devlin shand will be honoring the Rebels, Criminals, and Pion...
09/03/2026

This Friday 5PM-8PM, celebrate our Heroes, and be your own!

Devlin shand will be honoring the Rebels, Criminals, and Pioneers exhibition with a vintage photobooth, so you too can transgress norms in whatever way you wish.

A suggested donation of $15 will get you a gorgeous portrait and support all the Q***r A.F. work we do 💛

Join us at Q***r A.F. for a special panel conversation around our current exhibit: ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️REBELS, CRIMI...
08/23/2026

Join us at Q***r A.F. for a special panel conversation around our current exhibit:
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REBELS, CRIMINALS, PIONEERS: Masc Heroes of the QPA Q***r photo archive 1906-1976
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🟧 Topics will center the importance of these kinds of materials and historical ephemera (visible evidence of gender nonconforming people in history)!

🟨 Leading the conversation will be Jenni Olson , one of the curators of the show, with experts Elena Gross Elena Gross and Isaac Fellman Isaac Fellman from the GLBT Historical Society .

About the panelists:

🟩 Jenni Olson (she/her/TBD) is a q***r film historian, archivist, writer, and filmmaker. She is the proud proprietor of Butch.org — where you can find links to watch her films and learn more about her work as a longtime champion of LGBTQ cinema.

Jenni Olson

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🟦 Elena Gross (she/they) is Director of Exhibitions & Public Programs at the GLBT Historical Society and an independent writer and curator living in Oakland, CA. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art, photography, and popular media. Her research has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists. Elena is the co-editor, along with Julie R. Enszer, of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (Rutgers University Press), winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthologies.

Elena Gross

🟪 Isaac Fellman (he/him) is Director of Archives and Special Collections at the GLBT Historical Society, as well as the author of several novels on trans and archival themes. Isaac previously worked at the Digital Transgender Archive and the California Historical Society. His next book is Translunar, coming out in autumn 2027.

Isaac Fellman

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About the show:

Like a moodboard of masc ancestors, Rebels, Criminals, Pioneers: Masc Heroes of the QPA Q***r Photo Archive (1906-1976) offers up dozens of images across various categories. From the “passing” men of a century ago, to the brave butches across the decades, to two amazing trans man heroes of the 1950s and 1970s — this stunning collection of nea

🌈🌈🪶🪶Please join us for a special screening of “Two-Spirit People”  to conclude our Huitzulin 2S/Indigiq***r 2026 install...
08/19/2026

🌈🌈🪶🪶Please join us for a special screening of “Two-Spirit People” to conclude our Huitzulin 2S/Indigiq***r 2026 installation, official last day is August 30!🪶🪶🌈🌈

🕰️ SCREENING IN THE GALLERY ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 8PM

1991 * 23 MINS. * Documentary Short Film

🎬Created as a student project in the Native American Studies Department of the University of California at Berkeley, this video is an overview of historical and contemporary Native American concepts of gender, s*x and s*xual orientation. The documentary explores the tradition in which individuals who embody feminine and masculine qualities act as a conduit between the physical and spiritual world, and because of this are placed in positions of power within the community.

👏Directed by
Gretchen Vogel
Lori Levy
Michel Beauchemin

🚩This is a community event. Free with RSVP. Donations warmly accepted.
🪑Seating varies between couches and folding chairs.

😷Masks optional and provided.
♿️Wheelchair accessible.
🚽Restroom is partially wheelchair accessible.
🪶🪶2S/Indigiq***r Exhibition coming soon!!! 👐👐👐

💛🌈 Live Big, Love Hard: Fighting for the Dance Then & Now 🌈🩵Join Q***r Arts Featured with collaborators Dorian Katz & Ca...
07/28/2026

💛🌈 Live Big, Love Hard: Fighting for the Dance Then & Now 🌈🩵
Join Q***r Arts Featured with collaborators Dorian Katz & Carol Queen PhD on Sunday, August 2nd, from 5-7pm to close out this wonderful and special exhibit!
🪩We have compiled and will be playing all the songs you recommended, inspiring us to KEEP FIGHTING FOR THE DANCE! 🪩
This show takes us on a small journey through art from the burgeoning Castro scene of the 70s, the devastation of the 80s, and the resilience and fight of the 90s that continues to this day in our communities.
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Much gratitude to our artists 🙏
Ramon Pablo Vidali / Laurie Toby Edison / Dennis Kennedy / David Dashiell / Frank Melleno / Michael Palmer / Chuck Arnett / REX 🙏

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🌈🎨🌈🎨🌈🎨🌈🎨🌈🎨Ramon Vidali postcard dead stock! Come see the final week of Live Big, Love Hard and pick up a few vintage pos...
07/25/2026

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Ramon Vidali postcard dead stock! Come see the final week of Live Big, Love Hard and pick up a few vintage postcards of Vidali original prints of the neighborhood we know and love. A true snapshot of a different time in a familiar place. Thank you Carol Queen PhD for letting us share these special items!
Card 1: Castro Station, 456 B Castro
Card 2: Nothing Special, 469 Castro
Card 3: Star Pharmacy, Castro & 18th
Card 4: Midnight Sun, 18th & Castro
Card 5: Aloha Records, 4077 A 18th St
Card 6: Free Kittens, 18th & Castro
Card 7: Sunday Morning, 18th & Castro
Card 8: Twin Peaks Tavern, 401 Castro
Card 9: Hibernia Beach, 18th & Castro
Card 10: Waiting for Jane Fonda, 18th & Castro
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Carol Queen, PhD hosts a group of writers whose lives were impacted by HIV in the 1980s and beyond plus a ritual of reme...
07/12/2026

Carol Queen, PhD hosts a group of writers whose lives were impacted by HIV in the 1980s and beyond plus a ritual of remembrance, all intended to deepen our engagement with QAF’s Pride season show, Live Big, Love Hard: Fighting for the Dance, Then & Now.

We’ve invited alums of Stories of Or**sm & Death (convened by the late Matthew Simmons and hosted by 848 Community Space in the 1990s) and The Biggest Quake (a 2010s lookback at the epidemic curated by Kirk Read).

There will be an opportunity to remember our beloved dead and memorialize them. Join us regardless of whether you lived through the ‘80s—learn more about those times that forged our community.

FEATURING
Juba Kalamka
Keith Hennessy
Stefani Echeverría-Fenn
& More

Co-sponsored by Center for S*x and Culture

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San Francisco, CA
94114

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Friday 12pm - 7pm
Saturday 12pm - 7pm
Sunday 12pm - 7pm

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