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)
π₯€ 1st Wednesday @6-9 β N/A Lounge β no alcohol in the lounge; hang, play board or video games, shoot pool, or just chill dry
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 2nd & 4th Thursday β Queer Carnage Poetry Collective β indulge your creative side and help build the next Zine
π² 1st Thursdays @6 sharp β TTRPG Night
π§ 3rd Thursdays @6 Sharp 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.
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
π¨ββοΈ3rd 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 a Legends of Greyhawk 5.5 core books drop in campaign.
Previously running ShadowDark β 5e basic with old-school flavor, quick to learn and quick to die. (To return in 2027)
Sunday 3β7pm
Monthly special events, with Singlet Sunday on the 2nd Sunday @5-8 π§·π€Όπ«π ABDL/Singlet/Nothing/π
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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.
πΉ β 5th Wednesday only, 6:30 PM β only meets when thereβs a fifth Wednesday in the month, we read socialist queer books
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π² βοΈ Special Game Nights π§ π²
1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 6β9 PM.
π² 1st Thursdays 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 Thursdays 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 Philadelphia (1996) β Tom Hanks has AIDS but when heβs fired from his law firm over it he gets Denzel Washington to overcome his homophobia and take them to court for wrongful termination.
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 Old Dark House (1933) β Campy gay directorβs orginial suspense horror haunted house
Oct 15 β Rope (1948) βHitchcockβs how to hide a murder, and a gay couple in plain sight. The real victim was the Hayes Code that kept gays out of US films.
Oct 22 β Seed of Chucky (2004) Of course Chucky loves the queers, heβs not a monster
Oct 29 β Leviticus (2025) β thereβs no lengths some small town Australian religious parents wonβt go to just to keep their kids from being gayβeven summoning an eldritch murdering monster. Good parenting priorities.
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.