The GAPA Show

June 1, Reception & Program: 7 pm 
SomArts Cultural Center
FREE
Info: www.queerculturalcenter.org
 Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) presents The GAPA Show, a multimedia event featuring visual arts, written word, and performance that celebrates gay Asian & Pacific Islander (API) cultural expression. GAPA hopes to promote cultural diversity within the larger Asian Pacific American population and the mainstream LGBT community. The GAPA Show is presented in collaboration with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) and Qcc.

Personal Secrets / Public Space

Curated by Rebeka Rodriguez for QueLACo
June 3 – 28 / Tues – Fri: 2p-7p; Sat: 1p-5p
June 3, 3 - 5 pm: Opening Reception
SomArts Bay Gallery 
Donation: $5
Info: www.quelaco.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
 How interconnected or separate do we keep our private and public lives? And how do our high tech gadgets affect the way we interact with each other?  This exhibition poses these questions while using the queer Latina/o body as the locus for a dialogue on the dynamics of public and private identities.

City of the Future - Video Installation by Rudy Lemcke
June 3 - 28, June 3 at 2pm - Reception
SomArts Main Gallery
Free
Info: www.queerculturalcenter.org
 City of the Future is a dual channel video installation based on Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 Sci-Fi mystery, “Solaris.”  Lemcke presents a Queer reading of this film classic, exploring the tension between technology’s endless quest for utopian dreams versus the frailty and limitations of human love.

Tee Corinne – Self-portraiture in the Lesbian Community & Picturing Cancer in our Lives
June 3 – 28; Tues – Fri: 2p-7p; Sat: 1p-5p / June 3 – 3-5pm Opening Reception
SomArts Main Gallery
FREE
Info: www.queerculturalcenter.org
In June of 2006, Lenore Chinn (former president of the Board of Directors of the Queer Cultural Center) and members of the College Art Association's Queer Caucus were sent CDs of images by their friend Tee A. Corinne. The images on the disk were from of a series of photographs called, "Scars, Stoma, Ostomy Bag, Portacath: Picturing Cancer In Our Lives." Lenore brought the existence of this remarkable body of work to Qcc's attention, and realizing its importance, we quickly sought permission from the artist to reproduce a selection of the photographs as an on-line exhibition.

With Tee’s subsequent passing in August of 2006, we decided to bring these photographs together with her stirring lecture on lesbian self-portraiture – a tracing of the vibrant history and different modes of expression – and in a sense surround her with her peers.

Come celebrate the life and art of one of the most generous, insightful, caring and brilliant artist of the queer community.

Where My Girls At?: A Comedic Look at Black Lesbians in the Bay
June 8-9, 7pm
SomArts Theater
Tix: $8 - $15
Info: www.queerculturalcenter.org or 415/864-4124

Through different personas, Mosely portrays the diversity of Black lesbian experiences, challenging the notion that there is only one way to be Black or Queer in the 21st century.  Fresh, hilarious, and insightful, don’t miss Micia! 

Rally the Troupes 3: A night of savvy political and sexy queer performance!
June 8-9, 9pm
SomArts Theater
Tix: $10 - $15
Info: www.queerculturalcenter.org / BPT
"The hardest working drag troupe in the business" and two-time Best of the Bay drag king troupe, The Transformers, have rounded up an eclectic mix of drag kings, queens, and burlesque artists from the Bay Area and beyond. This year, in celebration of the Queer Arts Festival's 10th anniversary, Rally the Troupes will be turning our queer eyes on themes from the days of yore- celebrating bygone eras, reflecting on defining moments in queer history, and pondering the connections between history and the present.

Featuring original performances by: The Transformers, Kentucky Fried Woman, Sugar in the Raw, the Twilight Vixen Review, Thatway, Landa Lakes, The Dangers, For Play, The Citizen Kings… and many more! Hosted by your fabulous MC, Micia Mosely!

Slumber Party Cabaret
June 16, 8:30pm
SomArts
Tix: $8 -- $15
Info: www.queerculturalcenter.org or 415/864-4124
Presenting a night of femme-tastic performance, celebrating High Feminine art in all its perverse permutations. Featuring East Coast performance artist Ben McCoy, soCal writer, thinker and femme-inist Anna Joy Springer, depth and hilarity from Tara Jepsen, electro pop from Jenna Riot, cello madness from Bonfire Madigan Shive, fashion attack from Chelsea Starr, melodious melodrama from Reginald Lamar, the darkly delightful Chainsaw Chubbettes, and more! Hosted by Michelle Tea.

A Queer Night at the Opera
June 29, 8:00pm
SomArts Theater
Tix: $18 at door, $15 in advance/$12 seniors & youth at door, $10 in advance  / BPT
Info: www.queerculturalcenter.org or 415/864-4124
Are you opera curious?  Do you long to see your drama queen fantasies set to music?  A Queer Night at the Opera will inform and delight you!  Intended for neophytes and devoted opera buffs alike, this concert of arias, duets and scenes with commentary showcases fabulous local queer performers in standard, gender-bending and contemporary queer repertoire. This will be a night to remember!