Queer Open Mic 2nd & 4th Fridays, 8 pm (7:30 signup) May 9 - Kirya Traber May 23 - Meliza Banales June 13 - Katrina Recto June 27 - Daphne Gottlieb Queer Open Mic happens on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month at Three Dollar Bill Cafe on the first floor of the San Francisco's LGBT Community Center at 1800 Market @ Octavia in SF and is hosted by Cindy Emch and Mollena Williams.   Join the Queer Open Mic Livejournal Community! Or be our pal on MySpace and get our updates and bulletins. Cindy & Mollena are your hosts and welcome all queers of all stripes to perform one piece of awesome that is five minutes or less. Sign up is at 7:30, performances begin at 8pm. We happen at Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe 1800 Market Street in SF May 9 - Kirya Traber Queer Open Mic is proud to present Featured Performer Kirya Traber. About the Performer: KIRYA TRABER is not a political poet, but an activist sustained by poetry. Herwork is raw, bold, honest, and unafraid to challenge, commanding attention from all sides. In 2004 she became a National Teen Poetry Slam Champion and has since featured at Robert Redford's Sundance Summit, the Bay Hip Hop Theatre Festival, the Living Word Festival, Michelle Tea's RADAR Reading series, Peace Out: The International Homo Hop Festival, and in Tiny Little Maps to Each Other, a collection of five young women poets published by First Word Press. In the fall of 2007 she took the traditional stage in the lead role of Bullrusher, the pulitzer prize nominated play written by Eisa Davis. She is currently working as a Poet Mentor with youth speaks where she develops and facilitates spoken word workshops for bay area teens and is a member of the Brave New Voices College Tour. Look for her upcoming solo poetry collection in the fall of 2008. Queer Open Mic 8pm $1 - $5 donation 1800 Market Street, SF CA **About Queer Open Mic** Queer Open Mic is a twice monthly gathering of poets, performers, writers and artists of all types to come together and share art. Proto-feminist and genderqueer in scope, QOM aims to combine raunchy enthusiasm, warmth and community, unapologetic queer, radical politics and sweet rhythms to create a space for spoken word, poetry and performance that is multi cultural, multi gendered, completely inclusive and dynamic. QOM is hosted by Cindy Emch and Mollena Williams. Queer Open Mic is in part supported by a generous grant from the New Venture Seed Fund, a program of And Castro For All.