See the Calendarfor full details and monthly events.
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Closed Mondays
Tuesday 3β11pm
π΅ @7 BYOV β spin your own vinyl in the bar
πΎ @7 Board Games β nerdy classics to quirky deep cuts over in the lounge, weβve got tons See the House Games Here or bring some to play
Wednesday 3β11pm
π 2nd Wednesday @6:30 β Queer Horizons Book Club in the lounge
π 4th Wednesday @6:30 β Bear Book Club in the lounge (see below)
π² 1st Wednesday @6β9 β TTRPG Night
π§ 3rd Wednesday @6β9 β Deception!! Hidden Role Games β Blood on the Clocktower, Secret Hitler, and games like them: deduction, deception, and a room full of liars having a great timeβ¦or so they claim.
π πΎ Every Wednesday @9:30 β Hot Girl Drag Show with Amber St. Lexington
Thursday 3β11pm
πΏ @7:30 β Queer Fan Cinema β weekly LGBTQ+ films from camp to tragic with free popcorn, check the posts for this weekβs film (see below)
π₯€ 1st Thursday @7 β N/A Lounge β no alcohol in the lounge; hang, play board or video games, shoot pool, or just chill dry
π 2nd & 4th Thursday β Queer Carnage Poetry Collective β indulge your creative side and help build the next Zine
β¨ 3rd Thursday β Richmond Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence β see Sister P&P for details
Friday 3β1am
π€ @7 β Karaoke with Jason Powers β good singing, bad singing, joyful singing, all of it welcome. The lounge is open if you need a breather.
Saturday 3β1am
Check our monthly posts, but @9:
πΆ 1st Saturday β Pup & Furry Night β mats out for mosh 7β9, DJ and dancing after
π³οΈββ§οΈ 2nd Saturday β Trans Joy β with quarterly Trans Jam outdoor markets in March, June, September, and December
𧀠3rd Saturday β Leather Night β RVA Leather Social, monthly themes, DJ BearBonez
π» 4th Saturday β Bear Night β Richmond Bear Network, DJ Amy Alderman, and Kink Dungeon Demo @10:30 in the lounge
π² D&D One Shot β free drop-in play on 2nd Saturdays and special events. Currently running ShadowDark β 5e basic with old-school flavor, quick to learn and quick to die.
Sunday 3β7pm
Monthly special events, with Singlet Sunday on the 2nd Sunday @5
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π³οΈβπ π Book Clubs at Thirstyβs π π³οΈβπ
We host three book clubs, all meeting in the lounge at 6:30 PM.
π Queer Horizons β Light, enjoyable reads: YA fiction, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, and popular queer lit. 2nd Wednesday of each month.
π» Bear Book Club β Hosted by the Richmond Bear Network (check their Facebook group for membership info). Cozy gay novels and a great crowd. 4th Wednesday of each month.
βοΈ Kink Book Club β 5th Wednesday only, 6:30 PM β only meets when thereβs a fifth Wednesday in the month.
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π² βοΈ Special Game Nights π§ π²
1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 6β9 PM.
π² 1st Wednesdays β TTRPG Night β D&D One Shots, Pathfinder, Mouse Guard, and whatever else the table wants to play. All experience levels welcome.
π§ 3rd Wednesdays β Deception!! Hidden Role Games β Blood on the Clocktower, Secret Hitler, and games like them: deduction, deception, and a room full of liars having a great timeβ¦or so they claim.
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πΏ Queer Fan Cinema 2026 πΏ
Every Thursday at 7:30 PM with free popcorn.
Late in Life Series β April & May
Apr 2 β Beginners (2010) β A man discovers his 75-year-old father has just come out as gay, and both of them are learning to love for the first time.
Apr 9 β Love Is Strange (2014) β After 39 years together, a newly married couple is forced to live apart when they can no longer afford their New York apartment.
Apr 16 β Cloudburst (2011) β A feisty elderly lesbian breaks her partner out of a nursing home and drives them both to Canada to finally get married.
Apr 23 β Gen Silent (2011) β Elderly LGBTQ+ people reveal the heartbreaking choice they face between getting the care they need and going back into the closet.
Apr 30 β Swan Song (2021) β A dying small-town hairdresser makes one last journey to give a former client the fabulous send-off she deserves.
May 7 β Supernova (2020) β Two men in a long and loving relationship take one final road trip together as one of them begins to lose himself to dementia.
May 14 β Port Authority (2019) β A young man adrift in New York falls for a trans woman in the ballroom scene and must choose between love and the found family pressuring him away from her.
May 21 β Longtime Companion (1989) β The first major film about AIDS follows a circle of gay friends in New York across a decade as the epidemic slowly takes everyone they love.
May 28 β Tangerine (2015) β Shot entirely on an iPhone, a trans sex worker tears through Los Angeles on Christmas Eve hunting down the man who cheated on her.
Pride & Historical β June
Jun 4 β Prayers for Bobby (2009) β A devoutly religious mother watches her gay son spiral toward tragedy and must reckon with what her faith cost her family.
Jun 11 β The Celluloid Closet (1995) β A landmark documentary traces a century of Hollywood hiding, coding, and punishing queer characters on screen.
Jun 18 β Disclosure (2020) β Laverne Cox leads a searing examination of how transgender people have been represented β and misrepresented β in film and television.
Jun 25 β Wings (1927) β The first film to win Best Picture features two WWI fighter pilots whose intense bond quietly became one of cinemaβs earliest queer love stories.
Latin & Global South Series β July & August
Jul 2 β The Way He Looks (2014, Brazil) β A blind teenage boy navigating first love and independence finds his world transformed by a new classmate.
Jul 9 β Y Tu MamΓ‘ TambiΓ©n (2001, Mexico) β Two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip that grows increasingly charged, revealing desires none of them fully understand.
Jul 16 β Contracorriente / Undertow (2009, Peru) β A fisherman in a remote Peruvian village is secretly in love with a man, and when his lover dies, only he can see his ghost.
Jul 23 β Absent (2011, Argentina) β A teenage student becomes obsessed with his swim coach in a taut, quietly unsettling film about desire and power.
Jul 30 β Facing Mirrors (2011, Iran) β A trans man trying to flee Iran and a conservative woman who becomes his unlikely driver form a bond that challenges everything she believes.
Aug 6 β Will-O-the-Wisp (2022, Portugal) β A wayward prince returns home to a crumbling estate and falls into a forbidden affair in this lush, dreamlike fable.
Aug 13 β DoΓ±a Herlinda and Her Son (1985, Mexico) β A crafty Mexican matriarch engineers a living arrangement that keeps everyone β her son, his boyfriend, and his wife β under one roof.
Aug 20 β Tropical Malady (2004, Thailand) β A romance between a soldier and a village boy transforms midway into something stranger and more mythological β a film that has to be felt more than explained.
Aug 27 β Four Moons (2014, Mexico) β Four interconnected stories explore queer love across different generations of Mexican men, from teenage discovery to old age.
Pride & History β September
Sep 3 β Stonewall (2015) β The days and nights leading up to the 1969 Stonewall uprising, when the queer community fought back and changed history.
Sep 10 β How to Survive a Plague (2012) β The extraordinary true story of ACT UP: the group of ordinary people who took on the government and the medical establishment and saved millions of lives.
Sep 17 β The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) β The Oscar-winning documentary portrait of Americaβs first openly gay elected official and the community that loved him.
Sep 24 β Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) β A wrongly-gendered East German rock singer tells her explosive life story through some of the greatest songs ever written for the screen.
Campy Horror β October
Oct 1 β Interview with the Vampire (1994) β Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise star in the deliciously homoerotic gothic epic where two vampires spend 200 years being dramatically in love with each other.
Oct 8 β Clue (1985) β Six colorful suspects, one dead body, and three different endings β the campiest whodunit ever committed to film.
Oct 15 β The Hunger (1983) β David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve star as ancient vampires who seduce Susan Sarandon in the most stylish, sensual horror film of the decade.
Oct 22 β Sleepaway Camp (1983) β A deeply weird slasher that stumbles into queer territory in ways its makers may not have intended β and delivers one of horrorβs most unforgettable endings.
Oct 29 β Jenniferβs Body (2009) β A cheerleader becomes a demon who devours boys while her best friend watches in horror and something that looks a lot like longing.
Coming Home & Holiday β November & December
Nov 5 β Big Eden (2000) β A New York artist returns to his small Montana hometown and discovers, to his surprise, that the whole town has quietly decided to take care of him.
Nov 12 β Beautiful Thing (1996) β Two teenage boys on a London council estate fall tenderly in love over a summer, with Mama Cass playing on the breeze.
Nov 19 β Brokeback Mountain (2005) β Two cowboys fall in love on a mountain in Wyoming in 1963 and spend the next twenty years trying to live without each other.
Nov 26 β Latter Days (2003) π¦ β A shallow West Hollywood party boy falls unexpectedly in love with the young Mormon missionary next door.
Dec 3 β The Family Stone (2005) β A buttoned-up woman meets her boyfriendβs wonderfully chaotic family over Christmas and everything goes beautifully wrong.
Dec 10 β Happiest Season (2020) β A woman brings her girlfriend home for Christmas without mentioning that she hasnβt actually come out to her family yet.
Dec 17 β Carol (2015) β In 1950s New York, a department store clerk and an older woman in a failing marriage fall into a love that neither of them can walk away from.
Dec 24 β The Birdcage (1996) π β A gay Miami nightclub owner and his partner attempt to pose as straight for one excruciating dinner with their sonβs conservative future in-laws.
Dec 31 β Die Hard (1988) π₯ β A New York cop visits his estranged wife in Los Angeles and ends up taking on a building full of thieves. Itβs a Christmas movie and our holiday tradition.