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Much Ado About Keanu: A Drag Reading

  • 3036 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 USA (map)

Join two San Francisco drag legends Lysol Tony-Romeo and Kafka X as they put on a happening of monumental proportions in a unique drag reading of Oakland author Sezin Devi Koehler's Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory. Come for the nerdy book talk, stay for the glamour and lip synching. Wear your best Keanu-themed outfit for a chance to win special prizes! 

Reverent Father Lysol Tony-Romeo is the main creative force behind the First Church of the Sacred Silversexual, a Bowie worship band that puts on yearly birthday church services every January at Great American Music Hall.  Winner of an SFBG Best Of The Bay Editor's Pick in 2013, the First Church has spread the Love Of Bowie to audiences in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and New Orleans.

Kafka X is a genderfluid performer & drag king who has been celebrating transmasculine identity through drag for over six years. In addition to being the first ever "Mx. Mosswood Meltdown" crowned by John Waters himself, they are a lead producer of Media Meltdown, a queer event production collective based in San Francisco. Check out their "Movie Madhouse" at the 4-Star Theater in the Richmond district of San Francisco every 3rd Sunday of the month, and follow them on IG for shenanigans: @kafka.drag @mediameltdownsf

Sezin Devi Koehler is a multiracial Sri Lankan/Lithuanian American and the author of Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory (Chicago Review Press), a sociocultural deep dive into the wonder that is the one and only Keanu Reeves. As a pop-culture journalist her bylines include Entertainment Weekly, Scalawag Magazine, Tasteful Rude, Black Girl Nerds, Certified Forgotten, Teen Vogue, and many more. Sezin lives and writes in an Oakland historic landmark that looks uncannily like the house from Practical Magic, where she can see the San Francisco Bay from her bedroom window.


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