Devour Me, Again, Again: Words of Wisdom from Bambi Lake

Thursday July 30, 2026 | 6pm

At the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

Free to attend | Register via LGBTQ History Project Partiful

It is the greatest comeback since Lazarus! Bambi Lake has risen from the dead in the form of a new book. Wow. Did you hear? This book, aptly titled, Devour Me, Again, features poetry and an interview series—words of wisdom and revolution, a time long gone; glitter, glam, queens colliding, and, of course, some gossip…

Celebrate the publication of Devour Me, Again, a new book that resurfaces the long-out-of-print collected poems by Bambi Lake, the “transgender chanteuse” and TL/Central City denizen whose unfettered artistic output and provocative life as a fixture of SF’s fringe earned her iconic status in the city’s counterculture.  

Out July 21 via Nightboat Books, this volume was edited by August Bernadicou of the LGBTQ History Project, a non-profit digital archive that preserves primary sources of the LGBTQ+ liberation movement and makes accessible thousands of hours of oral histories with queer activists, performers, and “cutting edge catalysts.” Bay Area writer, rocker, and multi-valent performance artist Brontez Purnell contributed a beautifully witness reflection on Lake as a forward; Purnell will read at the July 30 TLM event alongside Donna Personna, Britney Smears, Stanley Frank, Fauxnique, Tahara, August Bernadicou, Birdie Bob Watt, and Nicole Henares and MORE!

Dead Kennedy Jello Biafra proclaimed: “Bambi is a one of a kind story of talent, free spirit, and determined survival. And imagination! Half the stuff in her Jello poem is sure news to me. But stretching things never hurt Hunter Thompson…” That is that! Bambi's eras: Cockettes, Angels of Light, Hooking, Sex Work, Drugs, Bipolar, throwing glasses through windows, and singing sad songs in front of audiences, small and large, for over 50 years.