See the Calendarfor full details and monthly events.
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Closed Mondays
Tuesday 3–11pm
🎵 @7 BYOV — spin your own vinyl in the bar
👾 @7 Board Games — nerdy classics to quirky deep cuts over in the lounge, we’ve got tons See the House Games Here or bring some to play
Wednesday 3–11pm
📖 2nd Wednesday @6:30 — Queer Horizons Book Club in the lounge
📖 4th Wednesday @6:30 — Bear Book Club in the lounge (see below)
🎲 1st Wednesday @6–9 — TTRPG Night
🧛 3rd Wednesday @6–9 — Deception!! Hidden Role Games — Blood on the Clocktower, Secret Hitler, and games like them: deduction, deception, and a room full of liars having a great time…or so they claim.
💅🏾 Every Wednesday @9:30 — Hot Girl Drag Show with Amber St. Lexington
Thursday 3–11pm
🍿 @7:30 — Queer Fan Cinema — weekly LGBTQ+ films from camp to tragic with free popcorn, check the posts for this week’s film (see below)
🥤 1st Thursday @7 — N/A Lounge — no alcohol in the lounge; hang, play board or video games, shoot pool, or just chill dry
🌈 2nd & 4th Thursday — Queer Carnage Poetry Collective — indulge your creative side and help build the next Zine
✨ 3rd Thursday — Richmond Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — see Sister P&P for details
Friday 3–1am
🎤 @7 — Karaoke with Jason Powers — good singing, bad singing, joyful singing, all of it welcome. The lounge is open if you need a breather.
Saturday 3–1am
Check our monthly posts, but @9:
🐶 1st Saturday — Pup & Furry Night — mats out for mosh 7–9, DJ and dancing after
🏳️⚧️ 2nd Saturday — Trans Joy — with quarterly Trans Jam outdoor markets in March, June, September, and December
👨✈️3rd Saturday — Leather Night — RVA Leather Social, monthly themes, DJ BearBonez
🐻 4th Saturday — Bear Night — Richmond Bear Network, DJ Amy Alderman, and Kink Dungeon Demo @10:30 in the lounge
🎲 D&D One Shot — 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 — 5e basic with old-school flavor, quick to learn and quick to die. (To return in 2027)
Sunday 3–7pm
Monthly special events, with Singlet Sunday on the 2nd Sunday @5
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🏳️🌈 📖 Book Clubs at Thirsty’s 📖 🏳️🌈
We host three book clubs, all meeting in the lounge at 6:30 PM.
🌈 Queer Horizons — Light, enjoyable reads: YA fiction, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, and popular queer lit. 2nd Wednesday of each month.
🐻 Bear Book Club — 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.
🌹 — 5th Wednesday only, 6:30 PM — only meets when there’s a fifth Wednesday in the month.
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🎲 ⚔️ Special Game Nights 🧛 🎲
1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 6–9 PM.
🎲 1st Wednesdays — TTRPG Night — D&D One Shots, Pathfinder, Mouse Guard, and whatever else the table wants to play. All experience levels welcome.
🧛 3rd Wednesdays — Deception!! Hidden Role Games — Blood on the Clocktower, Secret Hitler, and games like them: deduction, deception, and a room full of liars having a great time…or so they claim.
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🍿 Queer Fan Cinema 2026 🍿
Every Thursday at 7:30 PM with free popcorn.
Late in Life Series — April & May
Apr 2 — Beginners (2010) — 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 — Love Is Strange (2014) — 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 — Cloudburst (2011) — A feisty elderly lesbian breaks her partner out of a nursing home and drives them both to Canada to finally get married.
Apr 23 — Gen Silent (2011) — Elderly LGBTQ+ people reveal the heartbreaking choice they face between getting the care they need and going back into the closet.
Apr 30 — Swan Song (2021) — A dying small-town hairdresser makes one last journey to give a former client the fabulous send-off she deserves.
May 7 — Supernova (2020) — 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 — Port Authority (2019) — 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 — Longtime Companion (1989) — 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 — Tangerine (2015) — 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 — June
Jun 4 — Prayers for Bobby (2009) — A devoutly religious mother watches her gay son spiral toward tragedy and must reckon with what her faith cost her family.
Jun 11 — The Celluloid Closet (1995) — A landmark documentary traces a century of Hollywood hiding, coding, and punishing queer characters on screen.
Jun 18 — Disclosure (2020) — Laverne Cox leads a searing examination of how transgender people have been represented — and misrepresented — in film and television.
Jun 25 — Wings (1927) — The first film to win Best Picture features two WWI fighter pilots whose intense bond quietly became one of cinema’s earliest queer love stories.
Latin & Global South Series — July & August
Jul 2 — The Way He Looks (2014, Brazil) — A blind teenage boy navigating first love and independence finds his world transformed by a new classmate.
Jul 9 — Y Tu Mamá También (2001, Mexico) — 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 — Contracorriente / Undertow (2009, Peru) — 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 — Absent (2011, Argentina) — A teenage student becomes obsessed with his swim coach in a taut, quietly unsettling film about desire and power.
Jul 30 — Facing Mirrors (2011, Iran) — 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 — Will-O-the-Wisp (2022, Portugal) — A wayward prince returns home to a crumbling estate and falls into a forbidden affair in this lush, dreamlike fable.
Aug 13 — Doña Herlinda and Her Son (1985, Mexico) — A crafty Mexican matriarch engineers a living arrangement that keeps everyone — her son, his boyfriend, and his wife — under one roof.
Aug 20 — Tropical Malady (2004, Thailand) — A romance between a soldier and a village boy transforms midway into something stranger and more mythological — a film that has to be felt more than explained.
Aug 27 — Four Moons (2014, Mexico) — Four interconnected stories explore queer love across different generations of Mexican men, from teenage discovery to old age.
Pride & History — September
Sep 3 — Stonewall (2015) — The days and nights leading up to the 1969 Stonewall uprising, when the queer community fought back and changed history.
Sep 10 — How to Survive a Plague (2012) — 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 — The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) — The Oscar-winning documentary portrait of America’s first openly gay elected official and the community that loved him.
Sep 24 — Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) — 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 — October
Oct 1 — Interview with the Vampire (1994) — 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 — Clue (1985) — Six colorful suspects, one dead body, and three different endings — the campiest whodunit ever committed to film.
Oct 15 — The Hunger (1983) — 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 — Sleepaway Camp (1983) — A deeply weird slasher that stumbles into queer territory in ways its makers may not have intended — and delivers one of horror’s most unforgettable endings.
Oct 29 — Jennifer’s Body (2009) — 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 — November & December
Nov 5 — Big Eden (2000) — 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 — Beautiful Thing (1996) — Two teenage boys on a London council estate fall tenderly in love over a summer, with Mama Cass playing on the breeze.
Nov 19 — Brokeback Mountain (2005) — 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 — Latter Days (2003) 🦃 — A shallow West Hollywood party boy falls unexpectedly in love with the young Mormon missionary next door.
Dec 3 — The Family Stone (2005) — A buttoned-up woman meets her boyfriend’s wonderfully chaotic family over Christmas and everything goes beautifully wrong.
Dec 10 — Happiest Season (2020) — A woman brings her girlfriend home for Christmas without mentioning that she hasn’t actually come out to her family yet.
Dec 17 — Carol (2015) — 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 — The Birdcage (1996) 🎄 — A gay Miami nightclub owner and his partner attempt to pose as straight for one excruciating dinner with their son’s conservative future in-laws.
Dec 31 — Die Hard (1988) 🥂 — A New York cop visits his estranged wife in Los Angeles and ends up taking on a building full of thieves. It’s a Christmas movie and our holiday tradition.