May 24th: The San Francisco Queer Open Mic featuring JENNIFER DRONSKY!

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It is May. We have been experiencing a little heat wave here and there. They suck. Last month went way too fast. That sucked. But at least we have THE SAN FRANCISCO QUEER OPEN MIC!!!

And this month, we have an incredible feature!! She is a local queer comedian and we cannot wait to have her at our show!!

Same Queer time 7:30pm!! Please join your hosts, BLYTHE BALDWIN and me, BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ!!

Same Queer list! List goes up at 7pm, please arrive on time, the bookstore needs us to end on time, so if we have an if we have time list, it will be very short.

Same Queer rules: You get 5 minutes to do one piece and one piece only. WE WILL STOP YOU if you go over time. No apologies, those are the rules.

FREE with suggested donation!

Same Queer Space! Modern Times Bookstore 2919 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110, come buy a book, support local queer artists and give Blythe and Me a hug!
More on our feature!
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JENNIFER DRONSKY
Recently awarded a Certificate of Excellence (it came with the frame), Jennifer Dronsky has been collecting prestigious comedy awards such as “Winner of the first Alameda Comedy Competition”, and “Winner of the third Alameda Comedy Competition” . Originally from Southern California, Jennifer fled to San Francisco at the sweet age of seventeen to pursue her passion for fashion.  After creating two lines; Fashion for the Living Skeletons (a line for fashion models) and Baby, I mean Business (business clothes for babies), Jennifer sought a more receptive target market for her creative mind. Currently residing in San Francisco’s odiferous Tenderloin district with her fiance, two cats and ever mounting tiny porcelain cat figurines. Jennifer draws upon the odd happenings and uncomfortable conversations that seem to be omnipresent in her life. Performing a continuous response to life in a self deprecating “what I wanted to say was this”, sort of way. With her charismatic style and uproarious foul mouth, Jennifer Dronsky is sure to make even your curmudgeon of a stepfather laugh.
BE THERE, OR YOU SUCK!
Queer Open Mic Featuring JENNIFER DRONSKY
Friday, May 24th
7pm sign-ups, show at 7:30
Modern Times Bookstore
2919 24th Street in San Francisco

Watch your host and the increble guest host both be funny and sexy! with BARUCH and MOLLENA

hi Queer Open Mic folks, wanted to share these two videos with you all. Last month we had an incredible show at The San Francisco Queer Open Mic, and one of the best parts was that the amazing, talented, and former co-host Mollena Williams was able to come and co-host with me since Blythe was sick. Here is a little video of how fucking sexy we are together on stage. OH and of course, WE’RE TALKIN ABOUT SEX!

< Mo and Baruch!

Back when she hosted the show, every show Mo would take a moment to have a Mo rant, it was one of my favorite parts of the show, and I looked forward to it every month. Since she was a guest host, I just had to beg her to do a Mo Rant, she did and it was amazing.

Spitting in Porn!

Don’t miss the next Queer Open Mic May 24th with our feature, comedian Jennifer Dronsky!!!

OUR AMAZING APRIL SHOW!! with NIC ALEA and TINA AND HER PONY

 

I’m still glowing from the spectacular show we just had tonight. WHAT AN AMAZING SHOW!!

This is Mollena Williams, she ran and co-hosted the show with founder Cyndi Emch for about 4 years, before stepping down to be a famous professional pervert, then passing the hat down to Sarah Dopp and me. It was a huge honor to have her back as a guest co-host, we were a great pair, and she was hilarious.

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The Modern Times Bookstore, our home and venue was paaacked, so many people came!! So awesome!!

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This lovely lady Christine Keating did an awesome job at starting us off with a really funny song about the be quiet game.

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Ash brought some awesome poeticness.

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Justin Bagnal has been coming to the QueerOpenMic for years now, his stuff gets better and better, and tonight he was a big help. The show could not have happened without him.

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this piece was awesome.

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The GREAT Dana Morrigan brings some NEW SHIT!

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Greg Pond doing his thing.

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Always a pleasure to have the great Sam Sax at the show!! He was great, as always.

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all the way from Thailand, Dhami Boo

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one of the last writers of the evening. What a great night.

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And then Nic Alea came on stage and was truly fantastic. What a great set, they took the audience for a lovely, powerful, ride.

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Then Tina & Her Poni did their musical set, and it felt like a scene from a movie for me. They were both so amazing, and cute, and funny, and their music, was truly incredible. It was one of the best musical performances I’ve ever seen at Modern Times.

 

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what a great show. Don’t miss next month’s QUEER OPEN MIC

Check out our sexy poster!

Please share with the world, post it on your blogs, e-mail this link to people you want to know about us. WOOOO! this show is going to be awesome.

April 26th: The San Francisco Queer Open Mic featuring Nic Alea! Musical Guest Tina and Her Pony

YO! S’up QOMers! (That’s short for Queer Open Micers, get with it)

APRIL is going to be pretty damn amazing cause we got a super local poet, who is also an organizer and is also a great person. AAAAND an out of town musical guest, oooooooooh I cannot wait for this musical duo,

are you tired of hearing how great SFQOM is?

Are you tired of seeing all the cool pictures of people having fun at the SFQOM?

then stop being a whiner AND COME!!! WOOOO!

Same Queer time 7:30pm Please join your hosts, BLYTHE BALDWIN and me, BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ

Same Queer list! List goes up at 7pm, please arrive on time, the bookstore needs us to end on time, so if we have an if we have time list, it will be very short.

Same Queer rules: You get 5 minutes to do one piece and one piece only. WE WILL STOP YOU if you go over time. No apologies, those are the rules.

FREE with suggested donation!
Modern Times Bookstore 2919 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110, come buy a book, support local queer artists and give Blythe and Me a hug!
More on our features!

Featured Poet

NIC ALEA
is a bay area based poet. they co-host an open mic called new poetry mission: the new shit show which focuses on the production of new work. they also help facilitate a creative writing workshop at solano juvenile detention center with the beat within. Nic has been published in word riot, >kill author, the evergreen review, and some other cute places. Nic is a 2012 lambda literary fellow, will be performing in the National Queer Arts Festival in June and recently published their third chapbook, no trees, all pianos. Nic can be found at nicalea.tumblr.com

Musical Guest


With warm smiles and honest simplicity, Tina & Her Pony bring a unique sound to the American folk tradition, featuring original songs that echo the sound of Appalachia, while creating new waves with radical, queer lyrics, uncommon instrumentation and vocals tighter than your mamas’ brazier. Tina & Her Pony formed in Asheville, N.C. in 2009 following the chance meeting of Tina Collins (tenor banjo, tenor ukulele, guitar, vocals) and Quetzal Jordan (cello, guitar, vocals). Collins and Jordan spent two years holed up in the high desert mountain town of Taos, New Mexico, making music and friends, and becoming one of the iconic artist colony’s most beloved performing acts. Tina & Her Pony are now more than half way through an eighteen month tour that will take the band through the entire United States.

New Amazing Poster!!

Hey everyone, check out this seeeeeeeexy new official poster for the March San Francisco Queer Open Mic!!

Don’t miss the show this Friday, I better see all of you there!

The San Francisco Queer Open Mic March 22nd at The Modern Times Bookstore 7pm sign ups 7:30pm SHOW!

March 22nd: The San Francisco Queer Open Mic featuring Danielle Evennou!

The March SFQOM is going to be AMAZING!!

Not just cause we have a formidable, intelligent, beautiful poet coming to visit us all the way from D.C. but because it will be my 4 year anniversary of running this show!!

BUT enough about me, I want all of us to make Danielle Evennou  feel super welcome, lets come and show her some love and show her what we got then clap super hard for her!

Same Queer time 7:30pm Please join your hosts, BLYTHE BALDWIN and me, BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ

Same Queer list! List goes up at 7pm, please arrive on time, the bookstore needs us to end on time, so if we have an if we have time list, it will be very short.

Same Queer rules: You get 5 minutes to do one piece and one piece only. WE WILL STOP YOU if you go over time. No apologies, those are the rules.

FREE with suggested donation!

Modern Times Bookstore 2919 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110, come buy a book, support local queer artists and give Blythe and Me a hug!
More on our feature!
DANIELLE EVENNOU
Danielle Evennou is a Washington, DC poet and open mic mistress. With her partner in poetic dalliance, Regie Cabico, Evennou hosts Sparkle: a queer driven open mic series. Evennou’s work has appeared in literary journals, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Blue Collar Review, Xenith and Objet d’Art, as well as the Washington Post and DCist. Winner of the Larry Neal Award, Evennou has performed her work in tattoo parlors, on the Gowanus Canal, distinguished universities, and even in laundromats.
So get your poems, your songs, your interpretive dances ready for The San Francisco Queer Open Mic!
see you there!
Baruch,
SFQOM Head Organizer.

February 22nd: The San Francisco Queer Open Mic featuring Dazie Rustin Grego and Derek Schmidt!

Hi everyone, please join us this Friday the 22nd. We are celebrating the awesome Dazie Rustin Grego who  is going to join us as our poetry feature, and we have a fabulous musical guest Derek Schmidt. I can’t wait.

I hope you all have a great February 14th, self love, group love, true love, all kinds of love. Be safe and join us on the 22nd, please join me, your host Baruch Porras-Hernandez and my incredible co-host Blythe Baldwin, for the February Queer Open Mic!

Same Queer time 7:30pm

Same Queer list! List goes up at 7pm, please arrive on time, the bookstore needs us to end on time, so if we have an if we have time list, it will be very short.

Same Queer rules: You get 5 minutes to do one piece and one piece only. WE WILL STOP you if you go over time. No apologies, those are the rules.

FREE with suggested donation!

Modern Times, 2919 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110, come buy a book, support local queer artists and give Blythe and Me a hug!
More on our handsome features!
DAZIE RUSTIN GREGO
Dazié Rustin Grego is a Bay Area performance artist and activist. His earliest artistic focus was poetry in its written form. This eventually culminated in the creation of two separate collections of poetry “Picking My Toes On A Monday Night” and “Light”. In 2000 he joined and recorded music with The Deep Dicollective one of the countries first black gay hip hop groups. Not long after Dazié went on to the Experimental Performance Institute at New College San Francisco where he received his Bachelors of Arts in Queer Activist Performance in 2006. Since attending New College Dazié has created several one man shows which included “Where is Adam?” “Three” “The Changer” and “The Changed”and most recently “I AM A MAN” an exploration of gay masculinity. All of Dazié’s work relies heavily on spoken word, dance and music creating beautifully layered multidisciplinary performances.
DEREK SCHMIDT
Derek Schmidt is a singer/songwriter/composer out of San Francisco.  He writes, arranges, and performs with several bands, from folk (All My Pretty Ones, https://soundcloud.com/allmyprettyones) to electronic (Adonisaurus, http://adonisaurus.bandcamp.com).  He’s recorded several albums, toured a good part of the western U.S., and plays frequently in the Bay Area.  He’s set to release a new EP with All My Pretty Ones, as well as a new EP of solo work.  In addition, he studies composition, orchestration, and music production with the composer Jerry Gerber.
See you all there, please invite your friends.

January 25th: Tim Xonnelly and Daniel Redman!

Happy New Year Everybody!

We are temporarily back at THE MODERN TIMES BOOKSTORE!  We are super happy to be housed by the lovely lovely folks at MoTimes who were our home for so long, they got our backs!

January 25th please join me, your host Baruch Porras-Hernandez and my incredible co-host Blythe Baldwin, for the first Queer Open Mic of the year! Lets kick it off with a hot queer bang!

Same Queer time 7:30pm

Same Queer list! List goes up at 7pm, please arrive on time, the bookstore needs us to end on time, so if we have an if we have time list, it will be very short.

Same Queer rules: You get 5 minutes to do one piece and one piece only. WE WILL STOP you if you go over time. No apologies, those are the rules.

FREE with suggested donation!

Modern Times, 2919 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110, come buy a book, support local queer artists and give Blythe and Me a hug!
Now for the features! I’m really happy that we are finally featuring two local artist that both do very interesting and passionate work.
DANIEL REDMAN
Daniel Redman is a queer San Francisco-based composer and performer. For the last seven years, he has been setting poems from Walt Whitman’s queer epic Leaves of Grass to music. His project has been profiled in Lambda Literary, the SF Bay Times, and Tablet. He has performed at SOMArts, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, the San Francisco Public Library, Smack Dab, and in many homes throughout the Bay Area and East Coast. In addition to performing, Redman is a journalist and elder law attorney. His writing has appeared in The Advocate, The Nation, Slate, and elsewhere. He is also chair of the legal working group for the San Francisco LGBT Aging Policy Task Force.
TIM XONNELLY
Tim Xonnelly has been writing & performing poetry since the early 1980′s. His chapbooks are Velcro Heart (1989) A Season In Bed (1998) and I skip the long ones too (2004). He has work forthcoming in Fustercluck Zine.

So get your poems, your songs, your interpretive dances ready for the first San Francisco Queer Open Mic of the year!
see you there!
Baruch,
SFQOM Head Organizer.

December 21:The SFQOM Featuring Nick Leonard! at The Modern Times Bookstore!!

THE WORLD DIDN’T END!! YAY!! now come celebrate with us at The San Francisco Queer Open Mic!

We are temporarily back at THE MODERN TIMES BOOKSTORE! yay! We are super happy to be housed by the lovely lovely folks at MoTimes who were our home for so long, we are super grateful for them, cause they got our backs!

December 21rst please join me, your host Baruch Porras-Hernandez and my incredible co-host Blythe Baldwin, for a good ol jolly queerO time!

Same Queer time 7:30pm

Same Queer list! List goes up at 7pm, please arrive on time this time folks, the bookstore needs us to end on time, so the if we have time list will be very short.

Same Queer rules: You get 5 minutes to do one piece and one piece only. WE WILL STOP you if you go over time. No apologies, those are the rules.

FREE with suggested donation! Not the same queer space, but we love it!!! AT THE MODERN TIMES BOOKSTORE!!

2919 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110
More about our feature.


Nick Leonard is a San Francisco writer, cartoonist and comedian. He started doing queer comics and zines in Minneapolis in 1980 contributing to many zines, anthologies and books. After moving to San Francisco he starting doing stand up comedy at Josie’s Juice Joint. He performs locally and internationally at such venues as Cobb’s, the Punchline, The Marsh Theater, The Herbst Theater, NYU, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Vancouver International Comedy Festival. He produces Qcomedy, San Francisco’s long running LGBTQ comedy showcase, celebrating it’s 12th year. He has been a performer, host, and co-producer of the very successful Bi-licious Shows in the Queer Arts Festival.

The San Francisco Queer Open Mic featuring Nick Leonard.

7:30 at The Modern Times Bookstore Collective

2919 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110.

FREE with suggested Donation. BRING ALL YOUR FRIENDS!