Closed Mondays
Tuesday 3-11pm | @7 BYOV spin your own vinyl in the bar —AND— Game Night nerdy board games over in the lounge, we have tons from classics to quirky
Wednesday 3-11pm | @6:30 book clubs (see below) in the lounge —AND— @9:30 Hot Girl Drag Show with Amber St. Lexington
Thursday 3-11pm | @7:30 Queer Fan Cinema, weekly LGBTQ movies from camp to tragic with free popcorn, check the posts for this weeks film —AND
— 1st Thursday of the month @7 N/A Lounge, no alcoholic beverages in the lounge, but hang, play board or video games, or pool or just chill dry
— 2nd and 4th join us for Queer Carnage Poetry Collective to indulge your creative side and help create the next Zine
— 3rd we host our Richmond Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence chapter, See Sister P&P for details (Jeff)
Friday 3-12:30 | @7 Karaoke with Jason Powers, a busy fun raucous night with plenty of good, bad, and joyful singing, or the lounge is open if you want to relax
Saturday 3-12:30 | Check our monthly events and posts but @9
— 1st Saturday of the month is Pup (human) and Furry night with the mats out for mosh DJ Belle La Bella
— 2nd is Trans Joy with quarterly markets with Trans Jam
— 3rd is Leather Night with RVA Leather Social, monthly themes, and DJ BearBonez
— 4th is Bear Night with the Richmond Bear Network and DJ Amy Alderman and Kink Dungeon Demos @ 10:30 in the lounge
**D&D one shot free play is second Saturdays and on special events (we are currently moving to ShadowDark, 5e basic with old school flavor, quick to learn and quick to die)
Sunday 3-7pm | Monthly special events, with Singlet Sunday on the second Sunday of the month @5
🏳️🌈📖 Book Clubs at Thirsty’s 📖🏳️🌈
We host four book clubs at Thirsty’s, meeting every Wednesday at 6:30 PM in the lounge.
🌈 Queer Horizons — Focuses on light, enjoyable reads: young adult fiction, romance, fantasy, and popular queer literature. Meets the first Wednesday of each month.
🏺 Queer Canon — Explores classic and foundational LGBTQ+ works, including fiction with subtle queer coding, non-fiction, memoirs, and other seminal (and sometimes heavy) reads. Meets the second Wednesday of each month.
🚹The Resistance Reader — Dives into socialist, sociological, political, and historical books—everything from theory and comparative history to biographies and analyses of current events. Meets the third Wednesday of each month.
🐻 The Bear Book Club — Hosted by the Richmond Bear Network (check their Facebook group for membership info). They focus on cozy gay novels and meet the last Wednesday of each month.
🏳️🌈🍿Queer Fan Cinema + Book Club📚🏳️🌈 in January and February
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This months Books for Wednesday Night Book Club, open to all weekly at 6:30
This month’s selection focuses on the end of democracy
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, political awakening, and protest culture. As a gay teen is swept into a youth-led resistance movement, the book asks how hope, solidarity, and love survive when democracy feels fragile—and why showing up still matters.
Queer Canon – January 14 at 6:30
📚Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
Part memoir, part historical reckoning, this candid account of queer life in Weimar-era Berlin traces desire, exile, and survival under the rise of fascism. Isherwood revisits his youth with clarity and honesty, offering one of the most important firsthand portraits of pre-war queer culture ever written.
Resistance Reader – January 21 at 6:30
📚The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
A gripping history of how democracy collapsed in Germany, this book dismantles the myth that authoritarianism arrives overnight. Hett shows how legal norms, political complacency, and elite compromise paved the way for Nazism—making it an urgent, unsettling read for anyone concerned about democracy today.
February’s books will be
Queer Horizons 2/4
Captive Prince
C. S. Pacat (2013)
A dark political fantasy where captivity, power, and desire collide. Forced into an enemy court built on cruelty and spectacle, a displaced prince must survive manipulation, abuse, and intrigue—while an unexpected, dangerous intimacy reshapes both captor and captive. A slow-burn exploration of consent, power, and love under coercion.
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Queer Canon 2/11
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault (1972)
A historical epic retelling the life of Alexander the Great through the eyes of his enslaved lover, Bagoas. Blending romance, conquest, and court politics, the novel examines love across vast power imbalances and asks how tenderness, loyalty, and agency survive within systems built on domination.
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Resistance Reader 2/18
The Lavender Scare
David K. Johnson (2004)
A chilling history of Cold War America’s purge of LGBTQ+ people from government, framed as a national security threat. Johnson reveals how fear, surveillance, and moral panic were weaponized to enforce conformity—and how queer lives were systematically policed, erased, and resisted under authoritarian pressure.
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This months Queer Cinema Films weekly on Thursdays at 7:30 with free popcorn
We will start a 90’s movies coming of age series
Thu, Jan 8
🎬 Wild Reeds
French teens navigate sexuality, friendship, and politics during the Algerian War—desire emerging before certainty.
Thu, Jan 15
🎬 My Own Private Idaho
A lyrical, heartbreaking portrait of queer youth adrift—longing, class, and love without safety nets.
Thu, Jan 22
🎬 The Living End
Two HIV-positive men go on the run in a furious, punk rejection of respectability and fear.
Thu, Jan 29
🎬 Edward II
A radical queer retelling of history where love, protest, and AIDS-era politics collide.
Thu, Feb 5
🎬 Boys Don’t Cry
A devastating true story of trans masculinity, love, and the deadly cost of visibility in hostile America.
Thu, Feb 12
🎬 Happy Together
Two men implode in exile—queer adulthood as aftermath, memory, and unfinished love.
Thu, Feb 19
🎬 Weekend
A fleeting hookup becomes something deeper—intimacy, honesty, and the ache of impermanence.