On Friday, April 3rd, Queer Arts Featured is proud to present No One Way: Transmasc Art as Activism in the Bay Area, a group exhibition bringing together photography and paintings that honor transmen and transmasculine non-binary artists and activists whose lives and work have helped shape one of the world’s most vibrant and resilient 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.
On view from April 3 through May 31, 2026, the exhibition is made possible through partnership with the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District.
No One Way takes its name from a truth that trans people have always known and lived: there is no single story, no prescribed path, no one way to inhabit a body, a community, or a life. Trans people have existed across every culture and every era of human history, and the transmasculine community of the Bay Area is no exception — they have been here building, creating, and sustaining this place for generations.
This exhibition introduces visitors to four artists who celebrate themselves and their community, on their own terms. Together, their works affirm that visibility is not merely survival — it is art, expressed boldly, tenderly, and defiantly in a culture that attacks and seeks to deny their existence.
Featuring work by:
@csopie@e_mcgivern@marcelpardoa@lukamaru.art
EnSeanTé reads their poem "Queer Arts Featured" surrounded by BEACONS, paintings by Nathaniel J. Bice.
Their book of poems, What's Your Sign, is available @queerartsfeatured ! Come by and see Bice's solo exhibition before it closes on March 29.
Good company, a little boot-scootin’, and a great cause. Join us as we raise funds for this shindig!! We can't wait to see you all 🤠 tickets available here /events/bayareaqueerdancesociety3/2212628
Dear @danielluriesf , Supervisor Harvey Milk was known as ‘The Mayor of Castro St.’ for many reasons. One major reason was that he listened to his neighbors and checked in on them.
The people of San Francisco are trying to reach you. @sfaidsfound & @sfpeoplesbudget dropped off plenty of letters for you to review.
Hope will never be silent, and the people of San Francisco will never be silenced. So we collectively demand that you start listening.
🎶:
Bygone Days - Joe Hisaishi
(Proco Roso)
The Dragon Boy - @joehisaishi_composer
(Spirited Away)
#sf #dragking #castrocamera #harveymilk #queer
Back in my element. Hosted an experimental filmmaking art workshop in Harvey Milk’s former camera store today. I screened my art films, got hands on with direct animation, then we made a collaborative film together. Every workshop the film strips get spliced together and keep growing. A living artwork built by the community. This is what I do, artists’ dinners, gallery tours, art shows, and workshops. Thank you to @queerartsfeatured@share_our_skills@drag_on_king Building something here. More to come. #SFArtist #ExperimentalFilm #DirectAnimation #ArtWorkshop #ArtCommunity
📣SAVE THE DATE ✨Join us on Thursday, May 28 at 7PM for a special screening and Q&A of ‘Lou’ by Sean Dorsey Dance at Queer A.F. in the Castro‼️
✨Inspired by the diaries of legendary trans activist and writer Lou Sullivan, ‘Lou’ is a breathtaking dance film and performance work that honors the power of trans storytelling, queer memory, and cultural survival. Created by trailblazing transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey, the work draws from Sullivan’s real-life journals, letters, and archives to illuminate a life of courage, longing, joy, intimacy, and resistance.
Through powerful movement and deeply human storytelling, ‘Lou’ reminds us why documenting queer and trans lives matters — and why our stories must continue to be told, preserved, and shared.
Following the screening, audiences are invited to stay for a special conversation and Q&A with Sean Dorsey.
📍 Queer A.F. — 575 Castro St, SF 🗓 Thursday, May 28 ⏰ 7PM
Accessibility: KN95 masks required/provided, closed captioning, ASL interpreted.
We can’t wait to gather in community with you for this very special evening. ❤️
Image Description: Black promotional graphic featuring four dancers from Sean Dorsey Dance illuminated against a dark stage background. Text reads: “‘Lou’ by Sean Dorsey Dance,” “Inspired by the diaries of Lou Sullivan,” and “Screening and Q&A with Sean Dorsey.” Event details at the bottom read: “Thursday May 28th, 7PM, 575 Castro St.” Accessibility icons for KN95 masks, closed captions, and ASL interpretation appear along the bottom of the graphic.
Friday! 💋 Join us for another edition of Vocal AF at the historic @queerartsfeatured Bring your best comedy, poetry, spoken word, music, whatever! Hosted by @avaroqu@omgzakwtf ✨ see you there ✨
Happy Beltane. 🔥🧚🏻♀️🌈🪻🌸🌻
Beltane was an ancient Gaelic fire festival celebrated on May 1, marking the beginning of summer. A festival of fire, fertility, and liminality, where boundaries blur and the natural world reaches a moment of heightened vitality. The veil between the human world and the world of faeries grows thin. This has since been adopted by the Radical Faeries. 🌈🌞
The first Radical Faerie gathering took place in 1979, when 200 gay men seeking a queer existence not dictated by heteroconformist society came together to explore the spiritual dimensions of gayness. Informed by a feminist, anarchist political perspective and a goddess-oriented, neo-pagan sensibility, the Radical Faeries consciously rejected growing gay assimilationism. They wanted the woods, the ritual, and the radical idea that queer people hold a sacred and distinct place in human culture. 🙏🌳🍀🌿🍄🌾🌈
One of our QAF artists and Radical Faerie, Jack Davis, has been part of the community since 1982 and brings that spirit right into our space with his hand-crafted faerie wrap skirts. Another living thread connecting this corner of the Castro to a tradition of joyful, unapologetic queer magic!!! 🪄
