Queer Third Spaces: Resurgence and Resilience

210 mins

PLEASE NOTE: ONLINE TICKET REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS PROGRAM ARE SOLD OUT. If you already have an online ticket registration, we strongly advise you to arrive when doors open at 5:00 pm. If you are not inside the venue before 5:50 pm when the rush line opens, we may not be able to admit you until other guests exit the building due to venue capacity limits.

RUSH TICKETS may be available at the door, pending capacity. We will begin admitting people in the RUSH ticket line starting 5:50 pm, about ten minutes before the program starts at 6:00 pm.

So please arrive as early as you can!

The strength and solidarity of queer community deepens in the midst of local and global anxieties related to political and social destabilization, rapid technological reformulations, and post-pandemic economy. This is evident in the preponderance of third spaces surviving – and even new ones being established – for and by LGBTQ+ people. These spaces range from cafes and community centers, art galleries and performance venues, bars and clubs, parks and plazas. These places are the venues for community organizing, mutual aid, performing queer culture, socializing and building political capital. In conversation with a 2017 SFUFF Program on the demise of queer bars in the Mission District, this program will celebrate how LGBTQ+ communities work tirelessly in spite of structural forces to keep them and their allies oppressed.

5:00pm Doors Open, Bar Open

Digital exhibition “Renegades” of Photography by Chloe Sherman

6:00pm – 8:00pm Program

Live Drag Performance by Per Sia
Film Screenings
Panel Discussion

8:00pm – 9:00pm Closing celebration with the STUD, SFUFF Artists and Filmmakers

Curator: Robin Abad

Presenting Artists:

Per Sia, Drag Performer and Educator

Chloe Sherman, Photographer

Panelists:

Robin Abad (Moderator), SFUFF Program Curator, Urban Planner

Meg Shutzer, Filmmaker “Mother”

Honey Mahogany, Co-Founder of the Transgender District, Co-Operative Owner of the Stud Collective, Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza Honorary Committee member

Malia Spanyol, Founder and Owner, Mother Bar

In this program

¡Viva 16!

Directed by Augie Robles, Tina Valentin Aguirre

The onset of the AIDS epidemic in the LGBTQ Latinx community in San Francisco, a testimony to the resilience, love, and hope that emanated from 16th Street.