THEYFRIEND 2024: Gender Upheaval Party
Sunday, November 17, 2024
OASIS
298 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
$20 early bird | $25 general admission | $40 VIP admission
Limited Pay What You Can tickets
Hosted by Vin Seaman / LOL McFiercen
Featuring DJ phishr_price and performances from Libra Longlegs, Mama Celeste, phishr_price, PLEEAY, Queer Dance Freakout & Cynthia in Public
About the Event
🎉 Say Goodbye to Gender Reveals — It’s Time for a Gender Upheaval! 🎉
Hosted by the outrageous Vin Seaman / LOL McFiercen and featuring beats from DJ phishr_price, this isn’t your typical party—it’s a full-blown GENDER REVOLT! 🌀
No more balloons, smoke cannons, or pastel confetti mishaps. We’ve burned the blue and pink rulebook and replaced it with fierce performances, radical joy, and unapologetic gender expression!
With show-stopping acts from:
✨ Libra Longlegs
✨ Mama Celeste
✨ phishr_price
✨ Cynthia in Public
✨ Queer Dance Freakout (Chicago)
✨ PLEEAY
✨ Bonus: Strut your stuff on our participatory RAINBOW RUNWAY, where you can make your grand nonbinary “coming out” debut—because the only reveal we care about is the one that’s true to you!
It’s time to ditch the binaries and party like gender is an infinite playground. Come for the art, stay for the revolution. Let’s blow the lid off gender expectations—one glitter bomb at a time! 🌈💣
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Oasis’ main space is wheelchair accessible with three stairs to access the bar. The space has single-stall all-gender restrooms with two ADA accessible restrooms. All videos will have open captions and ASL interpretation will be provided for this event if requested by ticket buyers at least 72 hours prior to the performance. Host will announce content/trigger warnings before videos and performances.
To access a map of existing blue accessible parking zones in San Francisco, please visit: https://www.sfmta.com/maps/existing-blue-accessible-parking-zones
If you have questions or would like to contact someone to ensure we can meet your accessibility needs, please email sarah@diamond-wave.org.
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Masking STRONGLY encouraged! Participating artists and staff are COVID tested before the event. KN95 masks provided at the door.
About the Artists
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Are they a man? Are they a woman? Who knows! They're hot and that makes you gay. An outerworldly THEYlien, Libra longlegs is a multipassionate and multi talented burlesque dancing drag thereminist.
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Mama Celeste is the co-founder and Executive Director of Oaklash, a queer arts nonprofit that hosts large scale events, facilitates mutual aid, and provides mentorship for emerging queer and trans leaders in nightlife. www.oaklash.com • IG: @oaklash2024
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Elle Lim-Chan is a transfemme, nonbinary, Asian-American, Hakka artist under the handle @phishr_price. Her practice features comics, DJing, and installation art that highlights the processes of their making by valuing rough crops, edits, and sketchy lines. She lives in the Bay Area with their queer community and amazing dog.
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CYNTHIAINPUBLIC (she/he/they)—is a Bay Area based Comic, producer, activist, dancer and Overlord of Bangou Productions, which focuses on supporting diverse artists and their stories. They have appeared on the Flappers Yoo Hoo room, Variety, Laugh Riot Grrrl Festival and opened for Amy Miller. In their free time, CYNTHIAINPUBLIC is an emotional support hooman to their cat.
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Dawn Heilung (they/them) is the founder and Artistic Director of Gender Fucked Productions, a trans, enby, and queer arts and event production nonprofit based in Chicago. Over the Past 2+ years Gender Fucked has grown to include a new works series for trans artists, Trans Voices Cabaret, We Are Dance Collective, Gender Fucked Meetups, Puppetqueers and Queer Dance Freakout. As of this year Gender Fucked is now grant funded and has produced all over the Chicago area. Gender Fucked Productions envisions a future where trans and nonbinary artists can create art that pushes beyond any binary we could imagine.
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PLEEAY is a trio of gutter pop/alt musicians (2 queers and 1 unrelenting ally) who double-dare people to resist conformity, choose consciousness over convenience, and live loudly with compassion. They are often joined by powerhouse dancers in music videos and live performance. PLEEAY has recently opened for Pussy Riot and Special Interest, stormed the music stage at Folsom St. Fair, and lit up the mainstage of SF Pride - using this platform to advocate for immediate divestment from war and weaponry. They will soon release their new EP "Wealth and Hellness Vol.1". PLEEAY's album "Every Body" is available now!
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Vin Seaman is an interdisciplinary artist, drag queen (LOL McFiercen) and the director of Diamond Wave. Drawing inspiration from sketch and stand up comedy, queer nightlife, internet aesthetics and their own nonbinary identity, Seaman’s work blends mediums and forms to create dynamic and interactive performances with the potential to shift minds and change hearts. Their work exploring queer identity and drag culture has been presented at The Stud, Brava, Oasis, El Rio, CounterPulse, the de Young, the Salesforce Tower, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATELLITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts.
To Attend
$20 early bird | $25 general admission | $40 VIP admission
Limited Pay What You Can tickets
About the Festival
Now in its fourth year, THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity!
This event is supported by the Borealis Philanthropy, the California Arts Council, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and is presented in partnership with Oasis and the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District. Diamond Wave is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts that is supported by Grants for the Arts, the Horizons Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation.