Upcoming events
Our Block Party is Back
In 2026, QTAPI Week in the Bay Area is bigger than ever! Join us for events throughout the months of May and June for all kinds of experiences, from the inspiring to the booty-shaking.
Many of our legacy events return this year, and we’ve partnered with organizations from across San Francisco to bring even more exciting opportunities to build community and celebrate the endless talents and stories of local QTAPI movers and shakers. And on June 7, we’ll bring QTAPI Week 2026 to a spectacular close - with performances, activities, music, health services, and more at our block party! In partnership with Artyhood and the OEWD. Learn more below!
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QTAPI Week Closeout Block Party
The block party of the year returns in celebration of QTAPI Week and Pride Month. Featuring performances, activities, art and culture, health services, and community - this celebration brings AANHPI flair to the Castro!
Mabuhay Bitches Brunch
Celebrate Filipino excellence, queerness, and fierce artistry at Mabuhay Bitches—San Francisco’s hottest drag brunch and variety show! 🌟 Happening every first Sunday at Midnight Sun, this dazzling showcase serves up jaw-dropping performances, glamorous looks, and all the Sunday Funday energy you can handle.
RIZE
Launched in 2021, RIZE events center on queer and Asian nightlife for the 18+ community.
Sugar, spice, and queer nightlife. Come get your filling of QTAPI pride.
DJ Sets by Novalyze (Dance Pop & EDM) & Deep N Dark (Tech House & Techno)
Guest Performances by Jung Haye & HR VIOLATIONS.
QTAPI Nite & Talkback with La Cage aux Folles
Filled with glamour, laughter, heart, and unforgettable music, this beloved musical invites audiences into the dazzling world of Georges and Albin, a story of love, family, identity, and the courage to live authentically.
QTAPI Week: A Post Show Discussion with the cast and director will take place after the 3 pm matinee performance on Saturday, June 6.
Join us for a joyful celebration of chosen family, unapologetic self-expression, and theatrical spectacle.
Dollhouse
DOLLHOUSE is popping off again with a night made for the dolls by the dolls! Big energy, hot performances, and a dance floor full of queer and trans API brilliance.
QT Nightlife Presents: RIZE SF | Tapestry
QTAPI Week celebrates this year theme as Tapestry. This beautifully highlights the rich interconnectedness and resilience of our queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander communities, emphasizing how our diverse stories, identities, and experiences weave together to form a vibrant and unified fabric. In celebrating the many events during QTAPI Week, it provides for visibility, advocacy, and cultural affirmation. It acknowledges the unique challenges faced by QTAPI individuals while also honoring the strength, diversity, and solidarity that define our community. By framing this week around the "Tapestry" metaphor, we recognize that each thread—each individual story—contributes to the larger narrative of inclusivity, resilience, and hope that is essential to San Francisco’s vibrant identity.
QTAPI Week Karaoke
AAPI Caucus of Harvey Milk LGBTQ Club & Rose Pak Asian American Club will be co-hosting, so this will be a space to connect, talk politics, vent about the news (perhaps through song), and feel a little less alone.
QTAPI Strong
The first-ever QTAPI Strong: A March for Resilience, Justice & Belonging on Tuesday, May 27 is co-organized by Kiki Lopez, alongside Rowland Mendoza (SFCHC), Lana Patel (Transgender March), and Cherry Javier (Office of Transgender Initiatives). This landmark event uplifts our Queer and Trans API communities and brings us together in collective celebration and action.
QTAPI Week Kickoff Drag Show
Celebrate the 5th anniversary of Queer and Trans API (QTAPI) Week with us at the QTAPI Week mixer and preview night! Come mix and mingle with members of the Bay Area’s Queer and Trans API organizations at the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS), located in the heart of San Francisco’s Japantown. There will be refreshments, Pei Pei Ma’bilz and Kristi Yummykochi of the Rice Rockettes, COOL PEOPLE, and a preview of all the great events happening around the Bay Area for this year’s 5th QTAPI Week.
Queer Asian World Cinema (Online & In Person!)
For the first-time ever in the history of our International Queer Women of Color Film Festival, QWOCMAP has curated a special Satellite Screening to celebrate API Heritage Month!
ABOUT THE FILMS
From the burgeoning seeds of love and solidarity to the verdant roots of family, four intimate, tender, and moving films illuminate how queer communities in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and the Philippines persist and flourish with radiant hope.
It’s a time capsule of queerness situated within urban modern Vietnam, as queer women encounter each other in passing. It’s the specific queer experience of what happens to a young Catholic schoolgirl with a crush on a nun in the rural Philippines where there is no GSA network. It’s the conflict between a middle-class Bangladeshi father and his outspoken, independent daughter, as it flushes out patriarchy, class, and gendered expectations. It’s the coming of age for a queer Vietnamese teenage girl coming out to her mother amidst tears and eventual calm.
All films are subtitled for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and audio described for Blind and Low Vision communities.
Online Screening
Friday, May 23 – Sunday, June 1, catch the full lineup of Queer Asian World Cinema online.
In-Person Screening
Saturday, May 31, join QWOCMAP and CCC for the screening and a thoughtful post-screening conversation about the ways that we celebrate our queer identities and navigate within an Asian cultural context.
