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For 10 years now, Junior High has been the place queer creatives are relying on in Southern California to find community camaraderie, a new favorite artist, and a sense of belonging. Through the devastating election in 2016, the life-altering pandemic lockdown in 2020, the destructive wildfires in 2025, and continued threats to the sanctity of queer life, Junior High has remained a beacon of hope.
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Keeping the space alive depends on our community. If Junior High has ever made you feel welcome, seen, or connected, we need your support to ensure it remains open for the rest of the year — and for years to come.
From July 1-August 31, our goal is to raise $5,500 in monthly memberships — our monthly rent — so we can continue to provide a physical solution to the loneliness epidemic that plagues our hyper-online generation.
Rent is our single largest expense every month. When we continually worry about an eviction notice, it makes it harder for us to focus on what matters the most: opportunities to gather around art and artists that come at little to no cost to the organizers or our community at large.
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If you can’t commit to a monthly donation, you can still help sustain Junior High by donating to our Chair-A-Thon.
The last time we bought new chairs was in the Spring of 2021 — when we moved into the home base in Glendale that you know and love. Those 100 shiny red chairs have slowly dwindled into the dented and bruised chairs currently seating our community throughout our daily programs.
You can adopt a chair and help Junior High seat all of our attendees. By adopting a chair, Junior High can advertise your business, immortalize your love for your partner, or reserve a seat just for you at each of our daily events.
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Financial accessibility for low-income, LGBTQ, BIPOC, and artists with intersecting barriers has been at the core of Junior High’s mission since day one. Today, we still prioritize hosting free and low-cost gatherings that you can join daily.
Following cuts to arts and humanities grants, we have become increasingly reliant on donated labor. This means we’re holding the same events but paying staff, organizers, and facilitators a fraction of the cost for their expertise, if at all. For this reason we are often operating at a loss and at this point it has become unsustainable to operate like this.
The only way Junior High can continue to exist is if we continue to monetarily support our staff of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists that rely on us — and ultimately expand our team to accommodate the growing needs of this radical, liberation-minded, artist-centered community.
Help Junior High Double Our Membership
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Help Junior High Double Our Membership !
Lunch Bestie $10/mo
Don’t cry, bestie! It’s not lunch bestie tears it’s the lunch bestie TIER! Gone are the days of eating lunch by yourself, you have a bestie to meet up with between classes and swap sandwiches with since you’re bored of bologna anyway.
Get access to our Close Friends story on Instagram, access to our Patreon Forum chat, Junior High-Gest in your inbox 1 day before the rest of our subscribers, and Exhibition opens early - Meet each of Junior High’s exhibiting artists and view the gallery 1 hour before the party starts! You’ll get to see each exhibition in its full glory before everyone else.
Camp Penpal $50/mo
On the last day of camp we exchanged phone numbers and promised we’d call each other every day, write letters every week, meet up in each other’s towns before Summer starts again…………. and we did!
On top of everything in the first tier, you will also receive a monthly gift designed by a member of our community mailed directly to your door.
*Restrictions apply. Mailed perks can only be delivered to residents of the continental US.
First Crush $100/mo
I remember the first time I saw you walk into homeroom. Your hair was windswept, your eyes sparkling, and your shoes were… untied. I doodled our names inside all my notebooks and wrote your name in every game of MASH I played.
On top of everything in the above tiers, we’ll give you a Special Thanks - Junior High’s staff will say your name (or your business) before every event (that can be up to twice a day!) as a crucial, sustaining member of Junior High’s programming.
*Restrictions apply. Mailed perks can only be delivered to residents of the continental US.
With your support we will give you
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With your support we will give you . . .
*Physical Perks are limited to residents of the continental United States.
Your Choice of
T Shirt OR Shorts in Black or White!
First Crush - $100/mo
Only Available
July 1 - Aug 31
Lunch Besties - $10/mo
Camp Penpal - $50/mo
Help us purchase a new fleet of chairs to use during our daily operations! When you adopt a chair we will honor your contribution by immortalizing your name — or your child’s name, or your partner’s name, or your business’ name — on the chair’s back rest. Get free advertising or a seat reserved at every event, whether you’re in attendance that day or not!
$75 - Buys 1 chair and 1 dedication (30 characters max spaces included)
$145 - Buys 2 chairs + 2 dedications
+ 1 commemorative tote bag
CHRISTMAS IN JULY | $3,000/mo is a little more than half of our monthly rent and double our current membership base! Because you believe in Junior High we’re sweetening the pot by giving all new and upgrading members something extra with their mailed perks…
DISCOUNTS DAT-COUNT | $4,000/mo is just shy of our monthly rent! Because you believe in Junior High we’re sweetening the pot by giving all new and upgrading members a monthly discount code. You can get 25% off tickets to any event in our calendar and Junior High branded merchandise in 2026…
PARTY ON | $5,500/mo is our monthly rent! Since you made this fundraiser so successful, you are cordially invited to the party of the year. There will be live music, great food, local vendors, and more…
GET ON TOP | $6,969/mo is our monthly rent AND a little extra! As anti-capitalists in a capitalist world, we want to give back to our extremely hardworking staff. Currently our part-time staff makes $18.50 — $20.50/hr, when we reach this goal each staffer will get a $2/hr raise. Help us help our staff!
BRANDED ON BRAND | $10,000/mo is our monthly rent AND even more! With rent covered, we will give our extremely hardworking part-time staff ANOTHER raise — lets turn that that 2 into $3/hr. PLUS our leadership team — Executive Director Eden Hain, Lead Curator Chelsie Rivera, Staff Manager Zee Zaldana, and Board President Sam Miller — will get a permanent tattoo designed by a former Junior High contributing artist tattooed somewhere everyone can see voted by YOU. Will they have to get one of Junior High’s iconic red chairs? Will they permanently declare “No, we’re not a school” since it’s something we say basically daily. We don’t know yet! But with your support we’re happy to devote ourselves to this queer little art space.
Help us stay open for 10 more years
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Help us stay open for 10 more years !
Become a sustaining member and you can get 1 raffle ticket toward any of our incredible prizes. Chair-a-Thon donors get 1 raffle ticket per chair. Upgrade your existing membership to get 2 raffle tickets. Convince a friend to become a sustaining member and get 1 extra raffle ticket toward the prize of your choice. Want to become a sustaining member AND adopt a chair? New members can get a maximum of 3 raffle tickets — not including extra tickets when you convince a friend to sign up with you. Upgrading members who adopt a chair can get a maximum of 4 raffle tickets — not including extra tickets when you convince a friend to sign up with you.
(Winners will be announced September 2026)
Literary Bundle #1 Includes:
Witch Anthology edited by Michelle Tea
Clowns Anthology edited by Michelle Tea
Self Romancing by L Scully
Days Running by Shawn Stewart Ruff
Hell in a Handbag by Jibz Cameron
New Mistakes by Clement Goldberg
Ballroom by Eileen Myles
Soulmate as a Verb by Kelsey L Smoot
How to Fuck Like a Girl by Vera Blossom
Bargain Witch by Brooke Palmieri
Self Care Bundle Includes:
1 Candle, 1 Room + Body Spray, 1 Incense Pack from Mayumi Goods
1 Press-on Nail Pack
1 Soap + 1 Scrub from Golden Terra Co
Moisturizing Shaving Bar from Refill Bodega
Underarm Detox Bar
Mini Dip Shampoo Bar in Coconut Almond
Poppy and Pout Lip balm in Birthday Cake
Zefiro Dry Brush
Sisal Back Scrubbing Strap
Clay Date Class Pass Includes:
Free Sculpting Session
Free Glazing Session
All firings free
For you and a friend
Music Collector Bundle Includes:
Vinyl record Make Room and Sorry, Mom by Destroy Boys
Vinyl record Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album By Sleater Kinney
AP Press Summer 2024 Issue SIGNED by the Linda Lindas
The Linda Lindas No Obligation 11”x17” posted SIGNED (Unframed)
Set of 3 circle buttons from the Linda Lindas
Vinyl record Reality Star by Surbort SIGNED by lead singer Dani Miller
T Shirt from Surfbort
Pop Bundle Includes:
Charli XCX BRAT branded disposable camera
Tate McRae Miss Possessive branded disposable camera
Tate McRae Miss Possessive 11”× 17” tour poster (Unframed)
Lady Gaga Mayhem Ball branded deck of cards
Lady Gaga Chromatica Ball bandana
Lady Gaga set of Chromatica Ball enamel pins
Punk Historian Bundle Details:
Rock n Roll Witch T Shirt from Pleasant Gehman
All Bagged Up vinyl record SIGNED by Alice Bag
Blueprint by Alice Bag
SIGNED paperback copy of Violence Girl and Ancient Artifacts zine written by Alice Bag
Photobook All Roads Lead to Punk by Genny Schorr SIGNED
Cassette tape Reality Star by Surbort SIGNED by lead singer Dani Miller
Current 24 Hour Prize!
24 Hour Sign Up Prize Details: First 24 Hour Prize Announced on July 7, 2026
Raffle Restrictions:
Must be 18+ to enter,
Must live within the continental US,
To be considered for additional raffle ticket entry, donor must be a currently paying monthly or annual Patreon member making regular payments when upgrading membership tier.
Clay Date Restrictions:
Must redeem before December 20th, 2026,
Does not include specialty Clay Dates with guest instructors,
Includes what can be hand-built and glazed in 2 Clay Date sessions
Limited to 2 lbs per person.
24 Hour Raffle Prize Restrictions:
Winners of "24 Hour Raffle" prizes will be notified within 5-14 days of the end of the raffle period.
