SEPTEMBER IS SELLING FAST. OCTOBER IS NOW ON SALE. 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 September performances of The Compton's Cafeteria Riot are already SOLD OUT, and the remaining September dates have limited tickets. But there’s good news: we just added 8 October performances!

Join us this Saturday, 8/29 @ 2 PM for “Valley of the Queens,” our monthly LGBTQIA+ history walking tour with Unspeakable Vice! Explore the TL & Polk St through stories of queer resistance, community, and nightlife.📍 Meet @ Geary & Powell St, SW corner 🎟️ TICKETS: events.humanitix.com/unspeakable-...

Join us TONIGHT for The Black Rose Remembered. Historian @susanstryker.bsky.social & former regulars share stories of one of the TL’s most legendary dives & vibrant transgender community. 6:30 PM | 835 Larkin St. | FREE | tenderloinmuseum.org/public-programs-2026-2/2026/8/25/black-rose-remembered

Don’t forget to join us this Saturday @ 4PM for “Playing the Riot: Activism, Performance, and Compton’s at 60,” commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria riot, feat. cast & crew from The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot & historian @susanstryker.bsky.social. (Thanks, @sfist.bsky.social!)

Tenderloin Museum to Celebrate 60th Anniversary of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Saturday

Performances and a roundtable discussion will take place at Turk and Taylor Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, with a screening and panel of the Emmy-winning d...

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We miss you! 💛 While the Museum is closed, come see us somewhere very fancy. Join us Sept. 23 for our 11th Annual Gala at The Green Room. Food, drinks, live entertainment, community—and an excuse to wear the good stuff. ✨ 👉 www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-progr...

Step into the Black Rose. 🌹 On Aug. 25, the Tenderloin Museum brings one of the neighborhood’s most legendary dive bars back to life. Hear memories from former regulars & historian Susan Stryker.📍835 Larkin St. | 6:30 PM | FREE 👉 www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-progr...

60 years later, Compton’s still speaks. Join us Sat., 8/22 @ 4 PM for a roundtable with @susanstryker.bsky.social and the cast/creators of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, exploring activism, theater & queer history. 🎟️ FREE: tenderloinmuseum.org/public-programs-2026-2/2026/8/22/comptons-play-onthe60th

WHAT? You haven’t seen The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot yet? This intense, immersive and supremely experiental production is one of the best retellings of LGBTQ history we have ever seen! @tenderloinmuseum.bsky.social

Tenderloin Museum’s ‘Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’ immerses audiences in oft-overlooked queer history

Immersing audience members into each scene, “Compton’s Cafeteria Riot” ensures that the anxiety and ensuing hatred felt by the characters is a simultaneous experience for every person in the room.

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The museum is closed. Its mission isn’t. Severe water damage has forced Tenderloin Museum to close; we’re aiming to reopen this fall. Help us rebuild: givebutter.com/rebuild-tenderloin-museum. 🏛️ #museums #fundraiser #museumsky

Help Rebuild the Tenderloin Museum

Severe water damage has forced us to close. Help us cover uninsured recovery costs, operational losses, and long-term water-mitigation improvements so we can reopen and keep sharing this community’s h...

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The wonderful @tenderloinmuseum.bsky.social needs our help. givebutter.com/rebuild-tend... #SFBA #Tenderloin #SanFrancisco #GLAM #Museums

Help Rebuild the Tenderloin Museum

Severe water damage has forced us to close. Help us cover uninsured recovery costs, operational losses, and long-term water-mitigation improvements so we can reopen and keep sharing this community’s h...

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Free drag and dance at Dodge Alley on Thursday, August 13! Catch Per Sia and Miss Jaylyn live, with music by DJ Brown Angel, from 5 to 8 pm at Dodge Alley (Turk & Larkin).

AUGUST IS SOLD OUT. SEPTEMBER IS HERE. 🏳️‍⚧️ Every single August performance of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot sold out, including our night with the incomparable Peaches Christ. It’s fitting timing: August marks Transgender History Month and the 60th anniversary of the riot that inspired this play.

Explore the Tenderloin, one legendary block at a time. 🚶‍♀ Join us this Saturday, August 1 (2:00-3:30 PM) for Tenderloin Legends, a walking tour through the streets that shaped San Francisco’s history.

TOMORROW! Bambi Lake rises again! Join us Thursday, July 30 at 6 PM for ‘Devour Me, Again,’ Again: Words of Wisdom from Bambi Lake, celebrating the publication of the long-out-of-print collected poems by Bambi Lake, the “transgender chanteuse” and Tenderloin/Central City icon.

JOIN US TONIGHT! 🪧 Tenderloin Museum continues our partnership with SF LaborFest for a panel on non-profit and NGO unionization, the fastest-growing wing of today’s labor movement.

📖✨ “DEVOUR ME, AGAIN,” AGAIN: Words of Wisdom from Bambi Lake ✨📖 Bambi Lake has risen from the dead — in book form! The long-out-of-print collected poems of the “transgender chanteuse” and TL/Central City legend are back, and we’re celebrating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqjV...

✊ Next Tuesday: LaborFest Comes to the Tenderloin Non-Profits, Union Organizing & Independent Unions 📅 Tuesday, July 28 | 4:30–6:30 PM 📍 The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot venue, 835 Larkin St., SF, CA 94109 🎟️ FREE! No registration required 👉 MORE INFO: www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-progr...

🚶 This Saturday: Walk the Tenderloin’s living history! Join us for Tenderloin Legends: A Historic Walking Tour, a 90-minute journey through one of San Francisco’s most storied neighborhoods, led by our knowledgeable resident guides.

SAVE THE DATE! Join the Tenderloin Museum on Wednesday, September 23, for “A Decade Plus One,” our 11th Annual Gala, an evening that is equal parts celebration and commitment. 🥳💗 👉 www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-progr...

“Indigenous Forever,” a new gallery show featuring paintings by Adrian Arias that honor the strength, wisdom & continuity of Indigenous cultures, has been postponed, with a new opening date to be announced. We look forward to hosting this powerful exhibition as soon as we’re able. Stay tuned...

TONIGHT! Celebrate Tenderloin Museum’s 11th anniversary with a special screening of “West Is West” (1987). 🎞️🥳 Thursday, July 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. NEW LOCATION: UC Law SF Auditorium (Lower Level), 198 McAllister St., San Francisco

🎬 “West Is West” (1987) + Tenderloin Museum’s 11th Anniversary 📅 Thursday, July 16 | 6:30–8:30 PM 📍 NEW LOCATION: UC Law SF Auditorium, 198 McAllister St. (Lower Level) 🎟️ TICKETS: events.humanitix.com/west-is-west... ($10)

🎬 NEW LOCATION ALERT! Join us Thursday, July 16 (6:30–8:30 PM) for a very special night: a screening of “West Is West” (1987) plus Tenderloin Museum’s 11th Anniversary celebration! 📍 We’ve moved to UC Law SF Auditorium (Lower Level), 198 McAllister St., SF — same great program, new digs.

When Tenderloin Museum closed late last month due to unforeseen facility issues, we expected a short closure. Since then, the situation has proven more serious than initially anticipated, and the museum will remain closed through the end of July.

Between the Compton's Cafeteria experience by @tenderloinmuseum.bsky.social and the Stonewall Uprising reenactment by Stonewall National Museum, we don't know which historical recreation wows us more. Maybe we should host a 65th Anniversary Black Nite Brawl.... what do you think? #BeSeen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Your presence is requested at the San Francisco Commission on Sex — in the year 2126. FUTURE OF SEX gathers a speculative town hall set 100 years from now to conjure a portrait of sex imbued with the radical and utopian visions of today.

🎨 JUST ANNOUNCED | Adrian Arias: “Indigenous Forever” A new gallery show of paintings honoring the strength, wisdom, and continuity of Indigenous cultures opens at the Tenderloin Museum next week, and you're invited to celebrate early.

Tenderloin Museum is thrilled to return as a community partner for the @sfopera.bsky.social 2026 Pride Concert this Friday! Last year's inaugural event was an absolute blast, and we can't wait to do it all over again.

This Pride Weekend, look up. TRANSMARSH, a free outdoor vertical dance performance by trans people, for trans people, and all who love them, takes over the Tenderloin for two nights, co-presented by Tenderloin Museum and BODYSTORM.

The summer schedule for The Compton's Cafeteria Riot is here, and it is already making history.