LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District

The much-loved “Lone Star Saloon” – SOMA’s Friendly Neighborhood Bear Bar – is holding a Homecoming Telethon to help them get ready to reopen. 

It’s Saturday, May 8th, from 4 to 7 pm, so get up and show your support by tuning in.  

Details are here.  If you can’t make it on the day, you can donate here.

We will let you know just as soon as they announce their definite reopening date, and we will see you there!

For a nice summary of the progress the Cultural District is making, we invite you to check out this Bay Area Reporter article:

Leather projects in San Francisco South of Market district advance (also available  here).

New News! 
There will be a special Zoom event this Saturday
to provide more info and an answer questions about the
Guaranteed Income Pilot For SF Based Artists.  

Saturday April 10, 2021   10:30 AM

Join Zoom Meeting here
Or call 16699006833 and use Meeting ID: 820 2830 9679 and Passcode: 979481

A pilot program has been created to provide monthly income to selected San Francisco artists, and applications are now open.

• Funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission
• Administered by the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts
• 130 artists, randomly selected
• whose artistic practice is rooted in a historically marginalized community,
• live in Zip codes 94102, 94110, 94112, 94124, 94134, 94103, 94107, 94109, 94115, 94117, 94130, 94158, or 94108, 
• meet income eligibility, and
• face loss of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
• will receive six regular monthly payments of $1000 between May 21 and October 1, 2021.
• These are disaster relief payments, and will not be taxed.  May affect benefits.   

For full information and to apply
click here!
Applications close April 15, 2021.

	“The arts are truly critical to our local economy and are an essential part of our long-term recovery. If we help the arts recover, the arts will help San Francisco recover. This new program is an innovative effort to help our creative sector get through this challenging time, and come back even stronger and more resilient than before.”
	– The Honorable Mayor London Breed

Diamond Wave, a San Francisco-based Bay queer arts organization, has announced a spring/summer creative workshop series called MASCellaneous 2021.  Artistic director Kevin Seaman and their team have selected six Bay Area queer artists to lead 60- to 90-minute workshops centering their creative practices and how they intersect with queer masculinities.

Wednesday, April 7
MASCellaneous: Angels and Demons: Becoming Your Own Legend
with theatre artist Rotimi Agbabiaka

Thursday, April 22
MASCellaneous: HOW TO GENDER
with writer Stuart Getty

Tuesday, April 27
MASCellaneous: Day Look Makeup
with drag & cosplay artist KaiKai Bee Michaels / Kai Gault

Wednesday, May 12
MASCellaneous: Studly Stories: Storytelling for Masc-of-Center Queers
with drag & media artist Kyle Casey Chu

Monday, May 24
MASCellaneous: We All Wear Mascs
with drag artist Jota Mercury

Thursday, June 10
MASCellaneous: Remembering Gender Dualisms | Decolonizing Binaries
with performer Javier Stell-Fresquez

All workshops are free with registration and begin at 6:00 pm PT via Zoom. For more info, or to register, visit www.diamond-wave.org.  More info also at their Facebook page.