Litquake 2026

Tighe Flatley is the creative force behind Fagatha Christie, the literary drag queen, who hosts the Bay Area’s popular Fagatha Christie's Book Club drag show and book matchmaking event. He’s an internationally published, award-winning writer whose fiction has appeared in The MacGuffin... Read More →

Vanilla Meringue is the bubbly and bodacious alter-ego of make-up artist, Vanilla King. She is proud to be a trans woman and a drag queen. Vanilla can be spotted performing around the Bay Area in stage shows like Harry Poofter, Dragcula, and Jurassic Park! You can find her @vanillameringue... Read More →

Beloved San Francisco drag queen Elsa Touche is a former winner of the Ms. California Gold Pageant and was voted San Francisco's "favorite drag queen" by the readers of the San Francisco Weekly newspaper in 2020. She is a host of the legendary Monster Show, the Castro District's longest-running... Read More →

Piranha Psychotronica is a San Francisco-based transfeminine genderqueer filmmaker, film programmer, theater artist, writer, and performer. She is best known for creating and producing the stage show series “Select Thine Own Journey” (called a “must-see” by SF Gate) and f... Read More →

San Francisco-based drag star, also known as “Mother Dust” and “The Drag Queen of Jurassic Park” because of her 20 years of drag performance, BeBe Sweetbriar has graced every notable stage in the Bay Area and many stages around the world including Hong Kong, China and Panama City, Panama. BeBe is 2016 Drag Entertainer of the Year & NITEY Awards Most Notable Drag Queen, and 2007 Miss Gay SF & 2013 SF Pride Community Grand Marshal. BeBe i... Read More →

James J. Siegel is a San Francisco-based poet and arts organizer. For the past 11 years, he has been the
host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar, which brings together
Bay Area authors, poets, and songwriters for an evening of words and mart... Read More →