Comfort & Joy Afterglow New Year • 2025 – San Francisco, CA

Comfort & Joy jubilantly invites you to Afterglow New Year – Prism Palace—a queer New Year’s Eve masquerade ball with wall-to-ceiling art, new queer friends and chosen family, and gender-bending performative fun.

Prism Palace is Part 2 of Comfort & Joy’s Once Upon a Queer Fairytale. We will ring in the New Year under a neon crystal wonderland. Tonight, we enter a “mask-queerade” where it’s Mask for Mask, so don your mask and gay rococo apparel and dance until the disco balls drop. Masks are highly encouraged to get into the vibe. We will have some available, or you can bring your own.

In the life of a queer person, we often filter our actions to fit society’s expectations. These filters become prisms of our reality and masks that conceal. On New Year’s Eve, we collectively unmask and stand strong together in our collective vulnerability.

Starting at 10 p.m. on December 31, 2024, and lasting until 6 a.m. on January 1, 2025, we’ll whisk you away to our fairy realm filled with gems and mystery. Doors close at 4 a.m.

>>SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT CONSENT & COMMUNICATION<<

Comfort & Joy is here for you! If you ever need support, see someone who may, or have other concerns at our events, please find one of our ‘vibe-raters’ (purple glow collars) or a house manager and communicate .

We want everyone to always feel respected, adventurous and safe at our events. Consent makes that possible. Please communicate and check in before touching. If you aren’t feeling it, a polite ‘no thank you’ is kind. ‘No’ is also a complete sentence. If you receive ‘no’ in any form, please be gracious and respect it. Ultimately, we request that we ask each other for permission rather than forgiveness, when it comes to consent.

Perks available to all attendees include face + body painting, tea service, miso station, waves of fresh late-night fruit and professional photography either in action or at the photobooth.

Full coat & clothing check are included in.theticket. *Sadly, items in coat check are not under constant supervision, and we cannot assume liability for items lost, stolen or damaged.* Help us foster unbridled immediacy by thinking twice before bringing your new smart accessory, designer jewelry or other high-value items to the club, beautiful!

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Afterglow volunteers get a chance to meet the movers and makers that dream up the Glow as well as a complimentary ticket to the event; in addition setup/strike volunteers are treated to a tasty free lunch and all staff + volunteers get line-skipping priority entry at the door. We depend on over two hundred pairs of helping hands to make Afterglow happen each event …VOLUNTEERING OPENS SOON!

125x Door Tickets will go on sale at 10pm on 12/31/2023 for $120 each. Please note Space 550 is a 21+ with ID venue.

Afterglow is a luxurious, one-of-a-kind San Francisco celebration thrown by Comfort & Joy, a 501(c)(3) volunteer-run not-for-profit corporation. Proceeds enable us to host more fabulous parties, create our legendary village in the queerborhood at Burning Man, provide community art grants within and outside of San Francisco, and offer free or discounted events supporting inclusion of all queer, creative and expressive community members here in the SF Bay Area and from around the world.

Comfort & Joy offers free/discounted Affinity tickets for queer, creative and expressive community members of all racial backgrounds, gender expressions, ethnicities and sexualities if the cost of our presale tickets would prevent them from attending otherwise. The Affinity program is an effort to counteract the systemic racism/discrimination faced by BIPOC, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, Trans and Nonbinary community members as well as many other categories of human we haven’t learned to appreciate just yet — we hope that radical inclusion in our events is a first step toward holding space for all in the queer community. If you can’t afford a presale ticket but want to be in attendance, CHECK BACK SOON TO APPLY FOR AFFINITY PROGRAM.

Note: Affinity Program applications must be submitted by Friday December 27th 2024 for a chance to receive an early-access Affinity ticket.Advance Affinity Tickets will be notified no later than Monday, December 30th, 2024]. Additionally 15 Affinity tickets will be available for our Door Divas to distribute to under-represented and fabulous queer community in the Door Ticket line at their discretion.