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This year's featured artists include: Girl In A Coma, Mirah, Glass Candy, SGT. Sass, Hunx and His Punx, Team Gina, Peaches Christ, Purple Rhinstone Eagle, Tender Forever, Katastrophe, The Casual Lust, Krylon Superstar, Ben McCoy, Chelsea Starr, Raquel Gutierrez, Vivvyanne ForeverMore

So many more!

42 musical acts

27 visual artists

12 writers/performance artists

burlesque, drag, DJs between bands

10 workshops

12 film screenings with over 60 films

Fashion show featuring 12 designers (10 looks each)

Indie Craft Fair featuring up to 30 crafty types per day

The diverse roster of past Homo a Go Go festivals has included everyone from major label luminaries to indie favorites and underground gems. Past festivals have featured appearances by The Indigo Girls (Epic Records), filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell, a reunion of indie/queercore legends Team Dresch (Chainsaw Records), the internationally renowned band The Gossip (Kill Rock Stars/Music with a Twist), Mirah (K Records), Juba Kalamka (the director of PeaceOUT World HomoHop Festival), Bob Mold's Blowoff, writer Michelle Tea, transgender activist/writer/performer Kate Bornstein, transgender performance artist/activist Imani Henry, photographer Mariette Pathy-Allen and filmmaker Bruce La Bruce.

Homo a Go Go prides itself on programming diverse cultural events that are open to all ages for a affordable ticket price. While music is the focal point of the festival, with over 40 musical acts, the schedule also includes film screenings of 60+ films, a fashion show featuring the work of 20 independent designers, a 3-day craft fair featuring 90 DIY/independent businesses and community organizations, 15 multi-media/theatrical/spoken word performers, visual art shows featuring 27 artists and 10 workshops focusing on education and activism.

Day passes are $10 for youth under the age of 21 and $20 for ages 21 and up. Full festival passes include admission to all festival events and are $35 for youth under age 21 and $70 for 21+. Passes and tickets can be purchased online at the Homo A Go Go website http://www.homoagogo.com.

Traditionally, Homo A Go Go's community building goals have included partnering with at-need LGBT organizations and donating festival proceeds to their work. Between 2002 and 2006, Homo A Go Go donated over $11,000 of festival proceeds to the Olympia organization, the Gender Variant Healthcare Project (GVHP). Festival organizers are working to identify this year's beneficiaries.

Homo a Go Go founder and executive director, Ed Varga, is a longtime community activist. He has been active and influential as a musician and producer in the music movement known as Queercore, for over 15 years. Mr. Varga, who is also a female-to-male transsexual, has been an outspoken activist and writer in the trans community. After being at the helm of three successful installments of the Homo a Go Go festival in Olympia, Varga and fellow organizers decided that moving to San Francisco was best for the organization's growth and longevity.