📣 Events: Week of JUL 13, 2026
volume iv • issue 28 ~ here's your rundown of queer, sapphic-friendly events happening in Los Angeles this week.
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‼️Official Sapphic LA Events‼️
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Queer Clubhouse • Saturday July 25 • DTLA
Your favorite public living room and day party. Featuring tooth gem, tarot and glitter makeup vendors this month. Free entry for paid subscribers.
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Queer Creatives Happy Hour • Thursday July 30 • DTLA
Get connected with other queer freelancers, entrepreneurs and go-getters. Sunset rooftop vibes included.
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Sapphic Pottery Social • Saturday August 1 • South LA
This workshop you’ll learn how to make all kinds of kitchen essentials, such as spoons, plates, chopsticks, or whatever else you can imagine!
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July 13
↻ƒ Sunset Boxing
Long Beach • Boxing & Self Defense Sessions
↻ Queer Open Gym Hours / Small Group Workouts
1411 Lincoln Boulevard • Trainer led group workouts / open gym hours
↻ƒ BIPOC LGBT Grief Group
1400 E. Olympic Boulevard • Mondays from 6pm-7pm. To register, email mentalhealth@reachla.com
↻ƒ Herstories: LGBTQ+ Women’s Group
Virtual • HERstories is a gathering place for all LGBTQ+ feminine-identified folx who seek strong community connection and great conversation. It’s a weekly, facilitated social group with open discussion. This group meets every Monday from 8pm-10:00pm on Zoom.
↻ƒ luv x basketball
6150 Piedmont Avenue • queer pick up 🏀💞
↻ Stud Country
3040 Sunset Boulevard • Line dance lessons at 8:30pm and 10:00pm.
↻ƒ Queer Run Club
800 South La Brea Avenue • Pride month might be over but we’re still running! As always, all paces welcome!
↻ƒ Queer Dodgeball
4520 E 23rd Street • Come play every Mon from 6pm-8pm at Stearns Champions Park! We use smaller foam dodgeballs and it’s free to play. $5 suggested donation.
Sapphic Tennis Club | Summer Cup
Los Feliz & West Hollywood • The lesbian agenda continues this summer 🎾🌈 Join 60+ queer women for Sapphic Tennis Club’s 8-week Summer Cup (July–September) in West Hollywood and Los Feliz. Registration is nearly full, so grab one of the remaining spots before they’re gone.
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July 14
↻ƒ Beginners Vogue
1400 E. Olympic Boulevard • Every Tuesday at 6:30pm. Instructed by PackRat
↻ Queerchata: Beginner Class
2701 North Broadway • Our classes are designed with queer people, respect, consent, and inclusivity at the heart of everything we do. It’s how we create a supportive environment full of wholesome people, who are here to dance, have fun, and build community.
↻ Queer Latin Dance LA
TBA • Beginner/open level class! Salsa at 7:00 pm. Bachata at 7:45 pm. No experience or partner necessary, just the willingness to have fun and learn. DM for location!
↻ƒ Pasadena Women’s Rugby Practice
800 South Almansor Street • Whether you’re a seasoned rugby player or a beginner who has never played rugby before, we welcome all women and nonbinary people (18+) to join us at our weekly rugby practices. We provide a queer inclusive and close knit community that supports each other as we work to develop our rugby skills, general fitness, and self-confidence.
↻ƒ Queercicles
335 Nieto Avenue • Queer WTFNB and allies who love to cycle and drink coffee ☕️ Join us Tuesdays, and sometimes on other days for rides…
↻ƒ Sapphic Skate LA
TBA • Come skate and learn how to skate with other sapphics. (Skateboarding and rollerskating)
ƒ T-Boy Tuesdays
3575 University Avenue • Join us every second Tuesday of the month for a welcoming, affirming space created for trans men, mascs & adjacent community members to connect, build community, and just be.
Figure Drawing Summer Edition
500 South Victory Boulevard • Come sketch Erzulie, African goddess of love. Bring your own supplies!
EMBRACE RECEIVING: A Cancer New Moon Community Manifestation Ritual
3053 Rosslyn Street • New Moons are bursting with energetic potential we can harness through ritual. This Cancer new moon is an opportunity to re-align, set intentions, and embrace receiving!
ƒ Masc Mixer
3575 University Avenue • Calling all transmasculine, masculine-identifying, and gender-diverse community members! Join us for a fun evening of Lotería de las Plantas, community building, and connection.
Plush Pony Show
1615 North Vermont Avenue • LA’s top queer & BIPOC musical improv stars unite for a two-act spectacle of song, comedy, and unapologetic joy.
OutPro Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Networking
627 North La Peer Drive • Make professional connections that can advance your career. You never know who you will meet at our welcoming networking mixer.
Allison O’Conor: Aspiring Icon
2106 Hyperion Avenue • Brooklyn queer comedy mainstay Allison O’Conor brings her new hour of standup, ASPIRING ICON, to The Lyric Hyperion.
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July 15
↻ƒ Butch Basketball
Long Beach • Join us for butch basketball in Long Beach! pick-up games every Wednesday 5:30pm-7:30pm. RSVP required!
↻ƒ QT Open Mic
5176 Santa Monica Boulevard • Come laugh with the queer comedians of LA, and if ur up to it, you can perform too. Great place to make friends, take a date, or find one.
↻ƒ Queer Catch LA
6150 Piedmont Avenue • No experience needed. No expectations. No fees. No screens. Just you, outside, in the company of fellow queers✨
↻ƒ Free Queer Candlelit Yoga
1773 Griffith Park Boulevard • Join us for a serene and grounding hour of Queer Candlelit Vinyasa Yoga, held in a cozy, sober, affirming space
↻ƒ Pasadena Women & Non-Binary Soccer
1000 East Mountain Street • For women, GNC & trans who want to play friendly and casual soccer
↻ƒ COMMUNITY CARE WEDNESDAYS
5466 Huntington Drive South • 🍊Free fruit, veg, eggs, milk & more 🛍️ Bring at least 3 of your own bags to carry what you gather.
↻ƒ Girlypop Mic
3428 E Pacific Coast Highway • A supportive comedy open mic in Long Beach :)
↻ Gay Movie Night
1411 Lincoln Boulevard • Different movies each week. Free parking behind the building in the lot with the blue wall. Entrance is in the drive through of El Pollo loco. We will be upstairs and will try to start the show by 7:15pm 🌈
Check Please Comedy Show
5023 West Pico Boulevard • ronald reagan brought crack into the black community
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July 16
↻ƒ Dyke Soccer
Culver City • 👾 DM for our discord for schedule & locations! healing ur inner child one pickup game at a time. for gender-expansive dykes of all stripes
↻ƒ Sapphic Skate LA
TBA • Come skate and learn how to skate with other sapphics. (Skateboarding and rollerskating)
↻ƒ luv x basketball
6150 Piedmont Avenue • queer pick up 🏀💞
↻ Stud Country
2708 East Cesar E Chavez Avenue • Line dance lessons at 8:30pm and 10:00pm. Come get your ya-ya’s out!
↻ƒ Pasadena Women’s Rugby Practice
800 South Almansor Street • Whether you’re a seasoned rugby player or a beginner who has never played rugby before, we welcome all women and nonbinary people (18+) to join us at our weekly rugby practices. We provide a queer inclusive and close-knit community that support each other as we work to develop our rugby skills, general fitness, and self-confidence.
↻ OUTCLOSE: Sapphic Dinner Connections
RSVP for address • Dinner with 4 LGBTQ+ strangers. Every Week. A place to belong shouldn’t be left to chance. Your table is intentionally matched for real connection.
Queer Stitch & Bitch - a Fiber Arts Hang
3421 Glendale Boulevard • Join us in July for a special LGBTQ+ fiber arts community hang-out.
ƒ Favorite Cousin and The H.I.T. Presents: A BIPOC and Queer Improv Jam
1078 Lillian Way • Come jam with Favorite Cousin! You’ll warm up, do a mix-up of scenes with your new play cousins, and end with a big family showdown.
Queer Racquet Society
7336 Fountain Avenue • 🌈 A queer racquet club in Los Angeles for players of all levels 🌈
Friend or Flame Lesbian Singles Mixer
2939 West Sunset Boulevard • Meetcute* A Lesbian Singles Mixer
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