Mabuhay Bitches is a Drag Brunch & Variety Show

Immerse yourself in a new drag brunch experience (with no audience twerking for breaks, PROMISE!). Witness the prodigious talent of the Mabuhay Bitches through the art of drag! The dolls are ready to serve you unforgettable acts- authentic Filipino style. Gathering the whole community monthly bringing festivity, warmth, and a welcoming vibe, just like home.

With your Filipina Babaylan hosts Mx. Kiki Krunch, Nutasha, and Ehra Amaya, you know this brunch will be an extreme Bardagulan of the century!

Don't miss out! Gora mga Beks!

Reserved seating is exclusively available for groups of 5 or more. For parties of fewer than 5, seating operates on a first-come, first-served basis.

This celebration is strictly for our 21+ friends, so please remember to bring a valid ID for entry.

To keep the vibe just right, we kindly ask that no outside beverages are brought in.

Thank you for understanding, and we can't wait to see you there!

Doors open at 12:30pm, show at 1pm. Join us for the official close of QTAPI Week 2025!

Join us for GAPA Theatre's special presentation celebrating QTAPI Week 2025 and Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month, a public reading of a collection of new works-in-progress by the Spring 2025 writing cohort of GAPA Theatre. Free to attend, donations are welcome. Stay for the reception afterwards! RSVP here.

GAPA Theatre is an intergenerational collective of Queer and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander (QTAPI) storytellers.

On Saturday, May 31st at 2pm, the Japantown Rainbow Coalition invites you to the Fourth Annual raising of the Progress Pride Flag in S.F. Japantown, in Osaka Way at the Torii Gate. RSVP Here!

Join the Japantown Rainbow Coalition in celebrating Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander Week (QTAPI) and Pride Month for words of wisdom from JARF, San Francisco Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (SF JACL), Okaeri NorCal, Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander Week (QTAPI) and more, followed by a procession to Konko Church of San Francisco for the raising of the Progress Pride Flag.

Be sure to stop by the Japantown businesses before or after for lunch or dinner, shopping, or learning about Japantown history.
The Rainbow Coalition has championed the raising of the rainbow flag to proudly proclaim our intersecting identities and show that people of LGBTQ+ identities don't just live in the Tenderloin, SoMA or the Castro, but also places like Japantown. San Francisco has long been known as an epicenter for LGBTQ+ organizing and celebration, especially during the month of June, Pride Month. The City has a rich history of LGBTQ+ activism and we hope to continue that tradition and highlight the hidden history of LGBTQ+ communities and people in Japantown that a model minority myth often conceals. For example, it was in 1954 that the Japantown YMCA hosted the very first convention of the Mattachine Society, one of the earliest gay liberation organizations. In fact, the YMCA holds the designation of being the fourth property on the West Coast listed on the National Register of Historic Places for LGBTQ significance.

The Japantown Rainbow Coalition is a group of Japantown community members organizing to raise the Pride Flag. The group appreciates the support from the community organizations and local businesses and merchants and the project is sponsored by the San Francisco Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League with community support from Konko Church of San Francisco, Omusubi, the Berkeley Chapter of the JACL, the Japantown Cultural District, and the San Francisco Buddhist Church. We also appreciate the financial support from Japantown Community Benefits District (JCBD).

After Dark: Tapestry

Celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month and QTAPI (queer & trans Asian-Pacific Islanders) Week at After Dark! Dive into the rich history of fiber arts, and explore queer and trans AANHPI perspectives both locally and globally. Enjoy a deluxe drag show featuring performers from the Bay Area’s most beloved AANHPI drag houses, immerse yourself in works from local artists, and more.

Drag Deluxe: Bay Area Showcase

8:00–9:30 p.m.

Kanbar Forum

With Rice Rockettes, Fili.Pinx, Masala Mahal, and Mabuhay Bitches

Wit, glamour, and drama! Join us for a grand spectacular show featuring four Bay Area AANHPI drag houses, presented by Imelda Glucose and hosted by Estee Longah.

Rice Rockettes (@ricerockettes)

Formed in 2009, the Rice Rockettes are one of the longest-running all-AANHPI drag houses in America.

Fili.Pinx (@fili.pinx)

FilipinX is the brainchild of drag performer Yves St. Croissant. She envisioned creating a super group of Filipino performers with different backgrounds, talents, and ties to their heritage.

Masala Mahal (@the.masala.mahal)

Known for their cool, colorful, creative and campy presence onstage, this vibrant duo brings South Asian flavor to captivate you.

Mabuhay Bitches (@mabuhay.bitches)

The dolls are ready to serve you unforgettable acts, authentic Filipino style.

Weaving Safety Through Story

6:30–8:00 p.m.

Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon

With Dr. Jude Paul Dizon

In this interactive talk, we will explore what it means to feel safe as an individual and how that might change when we consider the state of our relationships with the people around us. How might relationships and community be the levers for all of us to have our needs met, be known, and looked out for?

Jude Paul Dizon, PhD is an abolitionist scholar and educator. His research examines the intersection of higher education and the carceral state.

Q-Tapestry: Communal Embroidery

6:30–9:00 p.m.

Gallery 2: Tinkering

Explore the expressive and sculptural qualities of fiber and string, and construct embroidered tiles full of color, narrative, and texture. Take your creation with you or contribute it to a communal art project that is one part quilt and one part a growing, living installation. Watch it over the course of the evening to see all of the hues and perspectives of our community take shape!

What is QTAPI Week? In 2021, San Francisco became the first city in America to formally designate an honor to the local queer and trans Asian and Pacific communities. Sitting at the bridge between AANHPI Heritage Month and Pride Month, QTAPI Week brings special events across the city, and is now celebrated in several other major cities like Portland and Washington, DC.

Gender Euphoria

6:30–9:30 p.m.

Bechtel Gallery 3

With the Explainers

Show us what makes you feel comfortable in your skin! Take a picture of your fresh haircut, new shoes, fancy earrings, stunning arms, or whatever else makes you, you. Show the world what you love about yourself, instead of picking at what you don’t. The Explainers will help showcase the best you!

Disco Balling Heads

6:30–9:30 p.m.

Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon

With Jethro Patalinghug

Each headpiece displayed here represents queer subcultures in the Bay Area and beyond that subvert the binary ideology: The Imperial Council of San Francisco, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Leather Community, the Queer Babaylans, the trans community, and LGBTQIA+ youth.

Materials: reconfigured drag jewelry, wigs, metallic pins, styrofoam heads, feathers

Jethro Patalinghug is a Filipino nonbinary artist and filmmaker amplifying BIPOC and LGBTQ+ stories through film, drag, and visual art. An IDFA Producer’s Connection fellow, they create socially engaged work and serve on multiple advocacy boards to champion queer rights, immigrant protection, and inclusive storytelling.

Extending the Useful Life

6:00–10:00 p.m.

Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon

WIth Ruth Tabancay

By hand-stitching used tea bags into a quilt, artist Ruth Tabancay evokes the memory of snuggling with her then-teenage daughter under her comforter and drinking tea together. This is the third piece in the series.

Ruth Tabancay began her professional life as a hospital laboratory technologist, then as a physician in private practice, and finally as an exhibiting artist. Her recent work concerns environmental issues such as bleaching of the coral reefs, organisms’ ability to digest plastic, sustainable alternatives to fast fashion, and ecological systems such as mycorrhizal networks and bee colonies.

AIDS Memorial Quilt

6–10 p.m.

Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon

This is a section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the world's largest ongoing community folk art project. It celebrates the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes.

Created in 1987, the Quilt consists of more than 50,000 3x6-foot panels. In its entirety, the Quilt weighs more than 54 tons and encompasses 1.5 million square feet of fabric.

Within the Quilt are the names and stories of more than 110,000 friends, family members, and loved ones whose lives were lost. The Quilt is a symbol of social justice and an important educational resource to ensure that our nation never forgets the 700,000 lives lost in the United States from AIDS-related causes.

Blending the talents and stories of the Bay Area’s QTAPI community with the Exploratorium’s unique perspectives on science, art, and human perception, this special After Dark will stoke delight and curiosity through drag, speaker sessions, hands-on activities, and more.

Presented by Jake Montano & Exploratorium

Booked & Beautiful is a recurring series of unfiltered, unapologetically Queer and Trans-focused programs in the style of your favorite TV talk shows. Featuring conversation, performance, video and audience participation! RSVP recommended.

Your new favorite host SNJV (pronounced: sun-jeev), mistress of many arts, brings his sparkle and shine to the library for a new talk-show-style program featuring conversations with the boldest change agents of the queer and trans community. Our second episode features Taipei, disabled Bay Area-based drag artist and content creator. Hold on to your wigs!

SNJV is an artist using dance, drag and drama to showcase humanity. Infusing culture into dance and fashion, SNJV creates performances for stage and film. With over 30 years of performance, SNJV has presented work globally, holds the title of Mr. GAPA 2019-2022, the first South-Asian title holder in GAPA’s (GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance) history. In addition, he is the co-founder of Parivar — a social collective to support and celebrate Queer and Trans communities of the South Asian diaspora. He is also an educator who lectures about his research on drag, dance and identity. SNJV recently premiered his newest production, The Definition of Drag — a cinematic and dance journey showcasing the artistry and intention of Drag.

Taipei (she/her) is a disabled, Bay Area-based drag artist and content creator. Her work on social media uses fashion and beauty as a medium to teach history and advocate for important causes like Long Covid justice.

Presented by SNJV and the Hormel LGBTQIA Center of the San Francisco Public Library

Preview of GAPA Men's Chorus' performance set for the Proud Voices Asia 2025 Hand in Hand Festival in Singapore, June 13-15, 2025. Free to attend, donations welcome. Stay for the reception afterwards!

Community Music Center
544 Capp St, San Francisco, 94110

Chinatown Pride 2025: We are Immortal! 華埠驕傲2025: 我們不朽！will be happening on Saturday May 24th, 2025! Free and open to the public! The parade will start at 6pm and will end with a Silent Disco in Chinatown! More details here!

Presented by Chinese Cultural Center and Edge On the Square.