Announcing the opening of Stonewall Chico's Coming Out For Art (COFA) 2026 art show and artistic vendor booth submissions.

Humans are storytellers. It's how we record the past, learn lessons, make meaning, form identities, and understand our place in the world. Censorship and narrative control of Queer and Trans histories, realities, and futures attempt to bury our existence but when we choose and hold the stories that define us, teach us and sustain us, we choose and hold power for ourselves. For COFA 2026, we invite you to bring art that tells your stories, your ancestors' stories, and your communities' stories as we co-create a Queer anthology of things we must not forget.

Submissions close September 18th. The gallery will be open October 1st until October 31st and art may be purchased at any time during open MONCA hours: Thurs-Sun, 11am-5pm. The Grand Reception on the evening of October 16th will feature our vendor fair and any music/performance art pieces.

Butte County Public Health returns to Stonewall Chico to provide free STI testing (HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis C) to the community! This clinic is open and free to everyone, and participation is confidential.
Public Health will also be offering free help navigating the process of getting on PrEP (a pill that can prevent HIV) including finding out if it's right for you and applying to get your costs covered.

They are offering a $25 gift card to Valero gas or Food Maxx for everyone who gets tested, so do the right thing for you and your community -- come know your status and learn about PrEP.

The clinic will be Thursday, September 24th from 3:00 -6:00 pm. Last time people were turned away because they arrived too close to closing time and the line was too long to be seen - so we recommend coming as early as you can!
We'll be at the Stonewall Alliance of Chico center, 358 e. 6th street in Chico, CA.
The center will be closed for other purposes during that time.

Filmmaker Travis Fine and Stonewall Chico invite you to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with an exclusive screening of TWO EYES, featuring Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, trans icons Kate Bornstein and Ryan Cassata, queer South African musician and actor Nakhane, Two-Spirit artist Samuel Jaxin Enemy-Hunter, and Kiowa Gordon (AMC’s Dark Winds) — along with Q&A conversations featuring filmmaker Travis Fine and legendary performer and longtime LGBTQ+ activist Alan Cumming.

The in-person screening will be Monday, October 12th at 6pm at the Pageant Theater, 351 e. 6th st. followed by a live Q&A with the director afterward.
You can also access a watch-at-home ticket to unlimited streaming access of Two Eyes for a 5-day streaming window of Oct. 13 -18.

Both ticket types include streaming access to two Q&A conversations with Travis Fine, star of Travis' previous film Alan Cumming, and cast members Lily Gladstone and Samuel Jaxin Enemy-Hunter from this film.
For all ticket types sold, 50% of sales are donated directly to Stonewall Chico