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, November 29, 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. 

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!