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QUEER ART CLUB
EVERY THURS. 5:30 to 7:30 PM.
ALL AGES Welcome! Join Queer Art Club for weekly art activities for the whole queer family! We've got paint, cyanotypes, linocuts, & more. Or bring your own project. Let's create art & camaraderie together!
QAC MUTUAL Aid
THIRD THURS. 5:30 to 7:30 PM.
On the THIRD THURS we offer Mutual Aid outside465 Collective on 465 SVN. We have FREE pizza, clothing, masks, tests, harm reduction supplies, shoes, & more. It takes us all to create MUTUAL aid & care. PLEASE JOIN US. And help us GROW our efforts!
QAC MEDIA CLUB
FIRST THURS. 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
We’re screening short Trans, Queer, & Enby media, examining meaning and message, & supporting one another in our own creative media pursuits. It’s part queer / trans theory, part media literacy, part learning lab co-hosted by Tray Smith / Realest Exposure & Jason Wyman / Queerly Complex.
QAC READING CLUB
SECOND THURS. 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
We’re selecting a few crowd-sourced texts to read aloud & make meaning of together. We read for collective understanding rather than speed. So dust off that queer / trans / gender / race / class / disability theory you haven’t been able to get through & let’s tackle it together. Co-hosted by Crystal Mason & Jason Wyman.
QAC SOLIDARITY CLUB
THIRD THURS. 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
We’re gathering people running mutual aid networks, facilitating safety committees, managing security for fairs, marches, & festivals, and those interested in queering / troubling “how we keep us safe.” It’s a space to make connections between our efforts, share tactics & strategies for collective care, & strengthen the mutual aid We All need. Co-hosted with Fivestar & Jason Wyman.
QAC ARCHIVE CLUB
FOURTH THURS. 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
We are the keepers of our own histories & caretakers of our collective dreams. To ensure our descendants can find us in the future, we’re hosting monthly space for Trans & Queer artists, organizers, culture tenders / keepers, families, ethnographers, storytellers, & media makers to chat about best practices in archiving, facilitate the digitization of physical records, & make connections with archives & archivists.
ABOUT
Thursdays Are for Queers & Comrades @ 465 Collective
EVERY THURS. 5:30 to 9:00 PM. 465 SVN, SF / YELAMU.
Queerly Complex (@queerlycomplex) and Queer Art Club (@queer_art_club) are pairing up to gather trans-queer-nonbinary Bay Area comrades in a weekly offering spanning generations, identities, expressions, and communities. Every Thursday starting 15 January 2026, 465 Collective’s Gallery and Lounge will be a site of art making, conversating, and organizing rooted in trans-queer-nonbinary mutual care. Queer Art Club takes over the Gallery from 5:30 to 7:30 and will facilitate a different art project each week while also providing additional art supplies so everyone can make what strikes their fancy. Queerly Complex is partnering with Realest Exposure (@realestexposure) / Tray Smith (@trayareal1), Filthy Studios (@filithystudios_)/ Fivestar (@iamfivestar), and Crystal Mason / Tree of Change to offer weekly themed clubs (see below for more details) in the Lounge from 7 to 9pm rooted in their Tree of Change Praxis of cultivating Power-With. Outside will be a Mutual Aid table distributing food, water, clothes, and other basic necessities to anyone who needs them.
Conveniently located near 16th Street BART in San Francisco, aka Yelamu, 465 Collective is a gallery, rehearsal studio, community gathering spot, and a space rooted in a legacy of presenting Trans, Queer, Nonbinary, Black, Brown, Immigrant, Sex Worker, Poor, and Disabled artists, media makers, and performers. It currently consists of BlackMaria MicroCinema, Queerly Complex, Madison Young, Devon Divine, Lydia Daniller, Lady Monster, and Beth Stephens.
ABOUT
How We Share Collective Contributions
Thursdays Are For Queers & Comrades at 465 Collective is a collective effort, and thus we share all financial contributions collectively. We receive contributions via this website, our Eventbrite registration, and through cash tips collected during events. We split financial contributions according to the frequency of participation by our collective members. This breaks down as:
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25% to Queer Art Club (every week)
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25% to Mutual Aid (We are committed to growing our Mutual Aid Fund)
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25% to Queerly Complex (every week)
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6.25% to Tray Smith / Realest Exposure (once / month)
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6.25% to Crystal Mason / Tree of Change (once / month)
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6.25% to Fivestar / Filthy Studios (once / month)
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6.25% to 465 Collective (for toiletries and other supplies)
Our FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS GOAL for Spring 2026 is $10,000. This will ensure we are able to pay for supplies, refreshments, food, and other material support that makes mutual aid and community care possible.
ABOUT
The Co-CreAtors of THURSDAYS
Queer Art Club started organically from Messy Beck’s garage in the South Bay as a third space for trans youth and their families, created in direct response to the loss of gender affirming healthcare access under our fascist federal government.
As systems abandoned us, we needed a safe place, so we built one.
We have since moved to San Francisco and grown into a broader third space for queer people of all ages who want connection, a creative outlet, or simply to be around other queer people without explanation. All ages welcome, no experience necessary.
Art here is a practice, not a performance. It’s a way to process what’s happening, push back against erasure, and stay grounded in each other. We are a proud collective of queer and trans artists and volunteers and we cant wait to meet you!
TRAY SMITH / REALEAST EXPOSURE
Tray Smith is a San Francisco native who has an intense passion for fashion, dancing, art ventures, photography & building community. He is a strong believer in using his talents to give back to the community and believes that everyone deserves to have their stories told and their voices heard- an advocate for black and queer visibility. He uses his business Realest Exposure to platform the voices of those who are often marginalized. Tray is dedicated to curating, creating and contributing to safe spaces where BIPOC and queer people can be their authentic selves, and he works tirelessly to make sure that everyone has a seat at the table.
CRYSTAL MASON / TREE OF CHANGE
Crystal Mason is an artist, culture tender, consultant, and facilitator who designs and leads transformative processes that build belonging and accountability across differences. Crystal has over three decades of service, and their praxis is grounded in Black, queer liberatory design and pedagogies of the oppressed.
Fivestar, the owner of Filthy Studios, is an experienced and respected adult film director and producer, bondage rigger, and free speech advocate located in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is passionate about increasing the diversity of representation within the adult industry both in front of and behind the camera. She produces films that affirm and celebrate a wide variety of kinky desires, which requires care and attention at all stages of production.
Fivestar thrives on bringing enthusiastic and talented people together to create films and events that facilitate free expression. She fosters a positive environment in Filthy Studios productions through open and clear dialogue with all involved regarding consent, expectations, limits, performer well-being, and fair compensation. She values feedback at all stages. Fivestar’s supportive and communicative approach generates trust and respect among industry veterans and newbies alike.
As an industry veteran herself, Fivestar knows all sides of the production process. She geeks out on the technology of filmmaking with the goal of reinforcing the power of erotic imagery to open minds and help people realize they are far from alone in their kinky desires. Fivestar also enjoys creating tutorials, speaking on production panels, and consulting with creators on how to improve their craft as a means to help passionate performers build their technical skills. Fivestar has shared her story at industry events and mainstream tech events, and has even lobbied in Sacramento and Washington, DC with the Free Speech Coalition and is a board member of the industry's health and safety organization, PASS.
Fivestar has an extensive filmography and has directed and produced countless lesbian, queer, trans, bondage, and BDSM content in traditional and virtual reality formats.
Jason Michael Wyman (they/them) is Queerly Complex, and they were born upon the Land of 10,000 Lakes, also called mní sóta home of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ. Wyman now lives, creates, and loves upon Yelamu, lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone people, renamed by colonizers Yerba Buena, then San Francisco. Jason’s name means, “Healer,” or so they’ve been told. What it means to Jason is, “Someone eternally and perpetually finding their way.”
Wyman is an artist rooted in queer traditions of familial bonding with those not of one’s blood, of moving to cultivate belonging, of remixing identity and gender and sexuality to become and continue becoming. Some results of their art making have taken the forms of a 30+ feet by 3 feet double-sided participatory sticker mural across from San Francisco City Hall with artists Celi Tamayo-Lee and MC Amable; a creative praxis that cultivates and grows Power-With co-created with Crystal Mason; a durational performance transforming confessions of violence into seeds of change; a collective of Queer Artists co-creating space for radical films, performances, art, words, music, dances, and archives to be crafted and experienced; and site-specific poetry made through conversation with passersby on street corners and in museums and on stages and at street fairs. A throughline weaving all of their expressions and works together is Wyman’s deep, evolving, co-creative relationships with beloveds (those in intimate proximities,) neighbors (those in physical, social, or virtual proximities,) comrades (those in political or spiritual proximities,) and more-than-human kin (those in cosmic, botanical, zoological, ancestral, archetypal proximities.)
Wyman’s practice includes an annual reflection upon and reexamination of their place in the cosmos (aka cosmology or worldview,) which results in a refined understanding of purpose, dreams, and values. This cosmology becomes a map offering guideposts, possible destinations and obstacles, and inspiration for artistic journeys. The timing also corresponds to the journey Jason took from 10,000 Lakes to 48 Hills on December 31, 1997.
Over all of 2026, Jason Wyman / Queerly Complex will continue deepening and expanding their commitment to co-creating spaces, offerings, and happenings that gather, support, connect, and cultivate Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary artists, activists, organizers, comrades, and neighbors through Creative Coaching, Tree of Change Services with Crystal Mason, 465 Collective, Chaos Poetry, Culture Tending Commons, and Nothing New.