Haight Street Art Center is excited to announce a film screening and dance party celebrating Lavender Lounge, the groundbreaking public-access series, and Here, Queer, and On TV, the new documentary short about the show, premiering at Frameline50.

Lavender Lounge began as a weekly queer American Bandstand-style dance party and evolved into a history-making TV show that covered events including San Francisco's first Dyke March and early 1990s Pride marches. The series featured iconic local artists, including the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, comedians Marga Gomez, Shann Carr, and Amy Boyd, and the bands Pansy Division and Tribe 8. Except for one short clip on YouTube, the archive has remained boxed up for nearly 30 years.

Join filmmakers Cassandra Herrman and Kelly Whalen, Lavender Lounge founder Mark Kliem, and original cast and crew for a screening, intimate conversation, and celebration of a show and a community that became a space for visibility, resistance, connection — and joy.

Saturday, June 20th, 7–10pm

(Doors open 6:30)

Free bar and music by DJ C'est Jille

Tickets $15 (Ticket sales and donations benefit event costs and the making of the film.)

215 Haight Street

(No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email us info@haightstreetart.org if you have any questions.)

Photo credits: Jack Johnson