2025 THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival
The world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity!
November 14–15, 2025
CounterPulse
8PM Performances
4–8PM Vendor Market (11/15 only)
80 Turk Street, San Francisco
TWO PERFORMANCES!
Join us November 14–15, 2025 for two nights of nonbinary music, drag, dance, comedy, and more from a lineup of beloved THEYFRIEND alumni!
✨ Participating artists will be announced soon! ✨
VENDOR FAIR!
Want even more THEYFRIEND? Come early (4–8 PM) on Saturday, November 15 for our Nonbinary Vendor Fair. Applications to participate are due by October 25
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ASL Interpretation will be available for the Friday, November 14 performance.
All audience members and staff will be expected to wear a N95 or KN95 mask (which will be provided for free)
All THEYFRIEND Performers will be COVID rapid tested before the performance as they may be unmasked while performing.
We are estimating a house of 100 audience members
During public events CounterPulse will run a fully equipped building-wide outside air ventilation HVAC system that continuously displaces interior air with filtered air from outside. CounterPulse uses CDC-recommended MERV 13 filters throughout our HVAC systems.
If you have any access needs or requests, please email vin@diamond-wave.org and we will do our best to accommodate you!
The 2025 THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival is presented by Diamond Wave, a fiscally sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media, and is supported by San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and presented in partnership with the CounterPulse and the Transgender District.