Thursday December 11, 2025
At Dodge Alley (Turk & Larkin St.)
Free to attend | No registration required | $15 vouchers for food/drink at nearby businesses first come first serve
TLM teams up with Movement, a local “musical discovery platform” highlighting immigrant musicians, to present a special musical encounter between master musicians for 2nd Thursdays at Dodge Alley. Fresh off the release of her latest album Volver a la Luz, singer songwriter Diana Gameros will share original songs and Mexican classics with her longtime collaborator multi-intstrumentalist Patrick Wolff. Sudanese vocalist Salma Al Assal shares a set of aghaani banaat mixed with reggae and soul (rescheduled from November). The TL’s La Voz Latina organizes early Posada festivities for the holiday season!
Sunday, December 14, 2025 | 4:00-6:00 PM
835 Larkin St., SF, CA 94109 (The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot venue)
$25 | Register via Humanitix
Join Tenderloin transgender icon Collette LeGrande for the first public reading of her one-woman show, Collette LeGrande, since its 2022 debut. Presented at 835 Larkin Street—the home of the hit immersive play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, which LeGrande co-wrote—this special event brings her extraordinary life story back to the stage.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 | 5:30-8:00 PM
at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102
TLM Members and program partners are welcome to attend for free!
Register to attend via Humanitix (Code Required)
Tenderloin Museum staff hosts a year-end celebration for active museum members and program partners with an after-hours fete. Small bites and drinks will be served.
Tenderloin Museum is thrilled to partner with Unspeakable Vice, “a volunteer history initiative making queer belonging accessible to everyone,” to offer a monthly walking tour focused on the LGBTQIA+ history in the Tenderloin and Polk Street neighborhoods.
Saturday, December 27, 2025 | 2:00-4:00 PM
Meet at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102
Register to attend via Humanitix | Admission to the Tenderloin Museum included with ticket
Created by downtown San Francisco resident and professor at California College of the Arts Shawn Sprockett, Unspeakable Vice began as a close look at the queer origins of San Francisco, traversing the city’s North Beach and Barbary Coast areas to trace the history through from 1770-1960. This new tour extends Sprockett’s richly detailed and craftily delivered approach to the TL and Polk Street to offer a deep dive into the emergence of LGBTQIA+ icons and movements that shaped the area from the 1960s to the 1990s.
