Thursday August 13, 2026 | 5-8pm

At Dodge Alley (Turk & Larkin St.)

Free to attend | No registration required

$15 vouchers for food/drink at nearby businesses first come first serve

2nd Thursdays at Dodge Alley celebrates Transgender History Month with an evening of drag and dance featuring two longtime Tenderloin Museum and Compton’s Cafeteria Riot collaborators, Per Sia and Miss Jaylyn, with music by DJ Brown Angel.

TLM is honored to host the dynamic duo of PerSia and Miss Jaylyn for our monthly concert series in Dodge Alley. Both are talented and dynamic performers, transgender activists, and longtime friends of the museum and collaborators on the Compton’s play. Expect an energy of fun, whimsy, and high energy, soundtracked by DJ Brown Angel!

Free, outdoor, music-centric happenings at a once notorious Tenderloin alley began in 2022 through a collaboration between TLM, the Tenderloin Community Benefit District, and longtime residents of the alley. These events were some of the first “Sounds of the Tenderloin” programs, a series of events “animating the TL’s under-sung cultural history through live music” that began with a grant from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, continued with more support from the State of CA’s Museum Grant Program, and now exists as a monthly block party at Dodge Place. Since those initial shows, the alley has benefited from substantial community investment, including a Community Challenge Grant project that brought two stunning murals to the alley and an ongoing grant through the TLCBD to bring monthly music to the Alley along with free food/drink vouchers to spend at adjacent businesses. TLM is thrilled to return to programming Dodge Alley and to grow the vibrancy of this amazing community space and truly urban venue.