San Francisco's Queer Open Mic

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!!!

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.

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

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

Ash brought some awesome poeticness.

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.

this piece was awesome.

The GREAT Dana Morrigan brings some NEW SHIT!

Greg Pond doing his thing.

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

all the way from Thailand, Dhami Boo

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!!

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!