Closed Mondays
Tuesday 3-11pm | π΅@7 BYOV spin your own vinyl in the bar βANDβ πΎGame Night nerdy board games over in the lounge, we have tons from classics to quirky
Wednesday 3-11pm | π2nd & 4th @6:30 book clubs (see below) in the lounge, 1st is aπ² TTRPG Games and 3rd is π§Social/Liar Games (like Blood on the Clocktower) @6βANDβ @9:30π πΎ Hot Girl Drag Show with Amber St. Lexington
Thursday 3-11pm | @7:30πΏ Queer Fan Cinema, (see below) weekly LGBTQ movies from camp to tragic with free popcorn, check the posts for this weeks film βAND
β 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
β 2nd and 4th join us for Queer Carnage Poetry Collective to indulge your creative side and help create the next Zine
β 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
β 1st Saturday of the month is Pup (human) and Furry night with the mats out for mosh DJ Belle La Bella
β 2nd is Trans Joy with quarterly markets with Trans Jam
β 3rd is Leather Night with RVA Leather Social, monthly themes, and DJ BearBonez
β 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
π³οΈβππ Book Clubs at Thirstyβs ππ³οΈβπ
We host two book clubs at Thirstyβs, meeting every 2nd & 4th Wednesday at 6:30 PM in the lounge.
π Queer Horizons β Focuses on light, enjoyable reads: young adult fiction, romance, sci-fi fantasy, and popular queer literature. Meets the second Wednesday of each month.
π» The Bear Book Club β Hosted by the Richmond Bear Network (check their Facebook group for membership info). They focus on cozy gay novels and meet the 4th Wednesday of each month.
π²βοΈ Special Game Nights π§π²
1st and 3rd Wednesdays we have special game nights 6-9
1st Wednesdays we have TTRPGs anything from D&D One Shots, to Pathfinder, to Mouse Ritter and the newer TTRPGs
3rd Wednesdays we do Social/Liar/Hidden Role games like Blood on the Clocktower
πΏQueer Fan Cinema πΏ 2026
Every Thursday, showtime is 7:30 with Free Popcorn
Late in Life Series β Apr & 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 new 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 Jul & Aug
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 Portuguese 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 film 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 Nov & Dec
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 β itβs a Christmas movie