THURSDAY JULY 23
FLAGGING LESSON ~ 4:30PM - 5:45PM
FLAG ALLEY ~ 6:00PM - 10:00PM
Welcome Party and blacklight flagging
Music by Gregg Sueyoshi
21+, $10+$3 advance OR $20+$6 @ door, tickets @ dnalounge.com
SUNDAY JULY 26(-27)
Up Your Alley Street Fair ~ 11:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A leather/kink/fetish event.
Folsom Street Fair's "dirty little brother"
ROMP T-Dance: Mission on Tittikawka Island
6:00 PM - 1:00 AM
A flagger friendly dance party.
THURSDAY, JULY 23th
Flag Alley
Flag Alley
at DNA Lounge, 375 11th Street, San Francisco
A 21+over event. Tickets $10 + $3 in advance or $20 + $6 at the door.
Flagging Lesson — 4:30PM to 5:45 PM
with instructor Chad Eckman
Open to all levels including absolute beginners. George has been instructing people in the art of flagging for several decades and can help anyone take their flagging to the next level. Bring at least one pair of flags (if you have one).
Flag Alley — 6:00 to 10:00 PM
with DJ Gregg Sueyoshi
Listen to Gregg’s music here
Open to all flow artists (including those who started flagging in the flagging lesson just before this event). Bring at least one pair of flags (if you have one). There will be a Facebook event announcement with additional details — search for “Flag Alley San Francisco”
FRIDAY, JULY 24
Community Tie-Dye
Tie-Dye Class and Open Studio
Limited Space -RSVP is required. $90 includes all materials and a set of your own hand-dyed silk flags. Space is limited, reach out for more information and/or to reserve your spot: Email xavier.caylor@flagginginthepark.org for more info or to RSVP.
Intent: Bring together tie dye artists; replenish your flag bags; have fun. Open to any and all levels of tie-dye artists or people that want to just hang out.
New Tie-Dye Artists — 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM ~ Location announced with RSVP
$90 includes all materials and a set of your own hand-dyed silk flags.
Formal demonstration from 10 to 12:00 PM
Instructor monitoring Noon to 2:30 PM.
Open Studio — 2:30 to 4:30 PM ~ Location announced with RSVP
Irons, string, scissors, dye, paper towels, gloves and microwaves available.
Last silk handed out at (roughly) 3:15 PM (unconfirmed).
Wrap up for everyone is (roughly) 4:30PM (unconfirmed).
If the email button above fails, you can also RSVP to xavier.caylor@flagginginthepark.org
SATURDAY, JULY 25th
Flagging in the Park
Flagging in the Park
National AIDS Memorial Grove, Golden Gate Park
12:30 pm to 4:30 pm
with Silent Auction from 1;00 to 4:00pm
Come enjoy the sun, music, flora, and friends in the beautiful National AIDS Memorial Grove. This event is open to all flow artists – fanning, flagging, poi, staff, hoopers and their supporters.
Flags are available for use or just relax, take in the fun dance music and colorful visuals. Bring a beverage, a lunch, something to sit on, and enjoy.
Music by Michele Miruski
More info to come…
Our Beneficiary
National AIDS Memorial Grove is a dedicated space in the national landscape where millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember.
For all the promising prospects on the horizon, AIDS continues to invade our lives, violate our past, and rob us of our comfortable assumptions about the future. The sacred ground of this living memorial honors all who have confronted this tragic pandemic both those who have died and those who have shared their struggle, kept the vigils, and supported each other during the final hours.
SUNDAY, JULY 27th
Up Your Alley Street Fair
ROMP T-Dance
Up Your Alley
11am to 6:00pm
On Dore Alley between Howard and Folsom, continuing on Folsom from 9th to Juniper and the adjoining block of 10th Street.
ROMP 69 ~ A Dirty Discotheque
6pm to 1:00am ~ 1015 Folsom, San Francisco
Be sure to bring your flag bag!
- Flaggers have the stage from 6:00–8:00pm
- Private flaggers’/performers’ lounge all evening
- Flaggers-only blacklight dance space above the main floor
- Featured flagging performance during the party
- Periodic flagging windows on the main stage
- Flaggers often have the stage for most of the end of the party (this is not confirmed yet for 2026).
Snag a ROMP host code from xavier.caylor@flagginginthepark.org (or any of the other hosts) for $10 off the ticket price while they are available – and use them early as the price increases as the tickets sell. A portion of proceeds benefit Folsom Street and Grassroots Gay Rights Foundation.
- There will be some water and gatorade provided. The stage is open to flaggers ONLY for the first two hours, from 6pm – 8pm. After that we have blocks of time on stage interspersed with go gos and acts related to the theme. PLUS throughout the evening, just off our Flagger + Performers lounge, we have a blacklight alley just above the main stage, where up to three flaggers are able to flag at one time, all night long. There will be a flagging performance related to the night’s dirty disco theme.
2026 Partners
Flagging In The Park is a program of Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation (GRGRF). GRGRF will continue offering a $2,000 matching grant for each of our 2026 events. Proving it takes a village, this event would not happen without the support of these partners: National AIDS Memorial Grove, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Flagger Central, The Lookout, Ryan Clouse, and the many donors that fund us so every dollar collected in the Grove goes to our beneficiaries, and the many volunteers that help with set up and strike. Make sure to let them know you appreciate their help with FITP!
2026 Production Team
Amy Lam, Fiona Davidson, Jack Whiteford, Jeff Kennedy, Liam Ocean, Markus Thorndike, Michael Rackley, Tom Steele, William Barros, Xavier Caylor and Zach Warner.
