Free Queer Comedy + Art Show: Pride is a Laugh Riot 2026 (SF Eagle)
San Francisco Eagle Bar | 398 12th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Event Details
Pride is a LAUGH RIOT
A night of queer comedy, art, rebellion, catharsis, community, and empowerment at the historic SF Eagle.
Presented by Safe Words, San Francisco’s longest-running queer comedy showcase, the event brings together a stacked lineup of queer comics and a live art show featuring local artists. The art show runs indoors from 6:00pm–10:00pm, and the comedy show runs outside on the patio from 7:30pm–9:00pm. VIP and Pay What You Can tickets available. NOTAFLOF.
Why this show
At a time when queer and trans people are still being targeted, legislated against, erased, and blamed for everything from moral decline to bad branding, we are doing what queer people have always done: showing up for each other, telling the truth out loud, and making something powerful together.
In this case, that power looks like jokes, joy, rage, glitter, and a room full of people who refuse to be small. LAUGH RIOT is a show for people who know comedy can do more than entertain. It can crack something open. It can tell the truth faster than a speech. It can remind us who we are when the world works overtime to make us forget.
Comedy lineup
Amoura Teese
Bay Area drag artist Amoura Teese brings high-energy performance, live vocals, and striking visual style to the stage. Rooted in Mexican-American heritage and a glamorous, pop-forward sensibility, Amoura delivers bold queer artistry with humor, spectacle, and attitude.
Gio
Gio is a Bay Area comic whose blunt social commentary and nonbinary perspective bring a sharp, personal edge to the stage. Performing throughout San Francisco and the East Bay, Gio mixes honesty, irreverence, and crowd-pleasing chaos.
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Jeff Klein
Jeff Klein is a witty, sarcastic, and self-deprecating comic whose sharp punchlines linger long after the show ends. A performer in the San Francisco Comedy Competition, DC Comedy Festival, and Queen City Comedy Experience, Jeff tours nationally and is featured in his Amazon special Fatty Gay.
Marcus Williams
Marcus Williams is a stand-up comic who has appeared at Red Clay Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, the SF Punch Line, and Comedy Central’s Bay Area Clusterfest Showcase. He brings polished stage presence and a point of view shaped by sharp observational comedy and lived experience.
Olivia Naidu
Olivia Naidu is a Bay Area comedian who has performed at Comedy Oakland and Faight Collective, and has also produced shows in Hayes Valley. Her work brings a grounded, playful perspective that fits naturally in rooms built on queer community and live-wire connection.
Annual Art Show
Every Pride, the comedy show shares the room with our Annual Pride Art Show: a pop-up marketplace of work by queer artists and makers happening inside the SF Eagle alongside the show.
Just like we do with the comedy, this art show is about uplifting queer voices, queer vision, and queer expression. Come browse prints, paintings, stickers, clothes, gear, zines, gifts, and one-of-a-kind finds by local queer artists.
Come buy something beautiful. Come put money directly into queer artists’ hands. This is still the same grassroots, artist-centered setup: no commission, no middleman, no fee cut. Every dollar goes straight to the artists.
Downtown Armor
Downtown Armor identifies as a pervert/throat, creates textile and wearable art rooted in kink, vintage porn, and queer visual culture. Expect shirts, backpacks, patches, and other bold pieces that remix smut, style, and subcultural nostalgia.
Mediums:
Textile / wearable
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Gabriel Moore-Topazio
Gabriel Moore-Topazio is an artist, writer, and comic creator whose work has appeared in multiple comic anthologies. He has independently published 14 issues of Asylum and has been a Cartoonist in Residence at both the Cartoon Art Museum and the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
Mediums:
Painting / drawing
Print / illustration
Zines / books / small goods
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Oscar Graves
Oscar Graves is a collage artist and vintage gay magazine collector making work that lives between art, porn, and queer print culture. His table will feature collage art, tarot cards, postcards, greeting cards, and other small-format pieces.
Mediums:
Zines / books / small goods
Print / illustration
Collage / mixed media
About Safe Words
Safe Words is San Francisco’s longest-running queer comedy showcase, held monthly at the SF Eagle. We curate lineups that center queer and trans comics across styles, generations, and lived experience, creating a room where performers can take the stage without compromise and audiences can feel seen, celebrated, and welcome.
Some people come for the comedy. Some come for the politics. Some come because they need to be in a room full of queer people laughing together. All good reasons.
Pride is a protest. Pride is a party. Pride is a LAUGH RIOT.
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
