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Hey folks! Given the impending weather, we will be closed this Sunday 1/25/26. Be safe and stay warm!
🏳️‍🌈🍿Queer Fan Cinema🍿🏳️‍🌈 Thursday 1/22 THE LIVING END (1992) A drifter and a film critic hit the road as fugitives and as gay lovers who are positive and outrunning death and the police in a surreal Greg Akaki (Mysterious Skin) film
🏳️‍🌈🏺2-Gay in History 🏰🏳️‍🌈 Ludwig II became king of Bavaria at just 18 years old. He was young, romantic, and immediately scrutinized for his sexuality. Bavaria was one of the largest states as Germany was unifying out of the old Hol
This Saturday at the Gramophone Winery, right down the street from Thirsty’s at Westoverhills Boulevard (4827 Forest Hill Avenue) 6-9pm Our friend and team member Chris Miller will have an art opening come out. Reminder Thirsty’s will
🏳️‍🌈👨‍✈️Leather Night👨‍✈️🏳️‍🌈 Leather Night this week is Underwear themed. 9-12 WE WILL BE CLOSED THIS SUNDAY FOR MAL Wednesday book club book is ‘Christopher and His Kind’. 6:30 Thursday’s Queer Fan Cinema
🏳️‍🌈🏺 2-Gay in History 🏺🏳️‍🌈 2025 Year in Review — Post 2 As numerous laws and administration actions limit our rights, the court is defined by inaction. • Supreme Court declines multiple LGBTQ emergency appeals → Lowe
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Trans Joy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ No market or D&D this week but great vibes from Queer DJ Collective NBPhobic We will have D&D one shorts returning next month and a spring market in March.
🏳️‍🌈🍿Queer Fan Cinema🍿🏳️‍🌈 Wild Reeds, the classic 90s Bi French film that is beautifully atmospheric and moving coming of age romance. Thursday 1/8 at 7:30
🏳️‍🌈🏺 2-Gay in History 🏺🏳️‍🌈 2025 Year in Review — Post 1 Executive Power • Donald Trump’s “biological sex” language pushed across federal agencies →Rights tied to sex based discrimination become legal
🏳️‍🌈🐶It’s Puppy Poker Night!🐶🏳️‍🌈 Games start at 8, prize wheel at 10:30 ♠️♥️♣️♦️ We will be playing Texas hold-em and blackjack tonight starting at 8. You get a 25 chip when you start your tab, no purc
🏳️‍🌈🍿Queer Fan Cinema + Book Club📚🏳️‍🌈 This months Books Queer Horizons – January 7 at 6:30 📚Wide Awake by David Levithan A queer coming-of-age novel set against a surreal near-future election, Wide Awake blends first love, po
🏳️‍🌈🥂Happy New Year🥂🏳️‍🌈 This week at Thirsty’s: we will have our usual events with a bit of bubbly Wednesday we will have DJ Amy Alderman playing from 9 through midnight as we have the countdown on the TVs, and Amber’s us
🏳️‍🌈🏺2-GAY IN HISTORY🏺🏳️‍🌈 If someone quotes Leviticus 18:22 (or 20:13) at you, start with reading the whole chapter. Leviticus 18–20 isn’t a universal sexual ethic; it’s a temple-centered holiness system—taboo v
We will be closed the 25th of December for National Pumpkin Pie Day. It’s very special to us But we are open Christmas Eve until 11 with a drag show.
🏳️‍🌈🏺2-Gay in History🏺🏳️‍🌈 Once a year around this time, masters served slaves, men abandoned dignity, gender blurred into costume, masculinity was mocked, sexual desire slipped its leash—not in secret, but by law. This was Satu
🏳️‍🌈🐻Bear and Bondage Night⛓️🏳️‍🌈 Saturday 12/27 Bear Night Starts at 7 and Dungeon Demo begins at 10:30 DJ Amy Alderman will be playing from 9-12:30 This month demo will be sexy consent, how to ask and maintain positive consent throu
🏳️‍🌈👨🏼‍✈️Leather Night👨🏼‍✈️🏳️‍🌈 This Saturday is Leather Night, Long Johns, thermals, and Union Suits. Though LEATHER and harnesses are always in vogue.
🏳️‍🌈🍿Queer Fan Cinema🍿🏳️‍🌈 The Holiday Exchange (2024) A sappy GAY Christmas Romance Movie in the hallmark tradition. Showtime is 7:30 and the popcorn and happy endings are free.
🏳️‍🌈🏺2-Gay in History: Bible 2🏺🏳️‍🌈 Genesis 19 is one of the most misused passages in Scripture. It has been weaponized against queer people—but the Bible itself never calls Sodom’s sin “homosexuality.” Every a
Our dear friend Joel Sykes has passed away. A Richmond native who always loved local history, Joel was a career Airforce veteran, who loved food and travel. He’s been a frequent presence at Thirsty’s for 6 years, where he always brought