Highlight Events
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Reeling 2009: Boy Crazy
Reelings' Boy Crazy program features eight of the very best shorts that include boys, boys, and more boys!
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Reeling 2009: Boy
Reeling presents Boy, a story about love blossoming in improbable circumstances.
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Reeling 2009: Stuck! After Party
Reeling 2009 and Circuit Girl invite you to Lesbian Lockdown after the screening of Stuck! (7 p.m., Landmark).
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Reeling 2009: What's Your Fantasy
Reeling presents the What's Your Fantasy program.
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Reeling 2009: The Baby Formula
The outlandish Canadian mockumentary, The Baby Formula, follows lab worker Athena and wife Lilith as they dare to boldly go where no couple has gone before—creating a baby with two biological mothers.
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Reeling 2009: Baby Love
In Vincent Garenq’s Baby Love, Emmanuel, a gay pediatrician in his forties, longs for a child of his own.
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Reeling 2009: Stuck!
Reeling presents Stuck!, director Steve Balderson’s homage to film noir women-in-prison films.
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DJ Phil DaBeatz at Hydrate
Hydrate features the nation’s popular DJ sensation, ChicagoPride.com's own DJ Phil DaBeatz spinning this Friday.
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Shower Contest (Boys' Night)
Get wet and wild with the boys at Spin's boy shower contest, every 1st Friday of the month. $150 first place prize; $50 for second. Sign up by 11:30 p.m., contest at midnight. Hosted by Truly Fabulous. $5 Absolut cocktails, $4 Magic Hat #9 drafts.
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Equality Illinois First Friday at Sidetrack
Equality Illinois First Friday Networking Event, Sponsored by ChicagoPride.com
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FETISH (Weekly Girl Party)
iQ2+1208 Presents ::FETISH:: For WOMEN that enjoy the company of other WOMEN at Dragonfly Mandarin, 832 W Randolph
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Mr. International Rubber 2010 Contest, Part 1
Mr. International Rubber, the preeminent annual men's rubber fetish event, held each November in Chicago, is at 6 p.m. at Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted.
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Luzma Umpierre at Richardson Library
Poet, scholar and human rights activist Luzma Umpierre will attend a reception to honor her for donating her artwork, poetry, photographs and documents that chronicle workplace legal struggles, lesbianism and the migrant experience to DePaul University’s John T. Richardson Library, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago. Free and open to the public.
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Author Margaret Atwood dramatic reading
Author Margaret Atwood 70-minute dramatic reading from her new novel, “The Year of the Flood,” backed by a troupe of actors and a choir. 5:30 p.m. $20 DePaul Merle Reskin Theatre, 60 E. Balbo Dr. Tix 312-922-1999
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“Body” language: The Artists of Eastbank
“Body” language: The Artists of Eastbank will present the “Within the Body” art show. The event will benefit the social-justice group GenderJUST.
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16th SOFA CHICAGO 2009
Celebrating its 16th year, SOFA CHICAGO 2009, the critically acclaimed Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, returns to Navy Pier's Festival Hall to present masterworks from top international galleries and dealers.
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Don't Break The Bank
$6 Pizzas, $3 Draft Beers. Daily 5pm-7pm
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Within the Body Art show & Reception
Within the Body is an exhibition and auction that showcases the work of several emerging artists and will include performance art, installation, music, and 2-D work.
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The Laramie Project
Mark the 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death and the events that followed the tragic event in Laramie Wyoming
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The Audacity of Nope
In their newest comedy, GayCo dives into the gap: The gap between generations, between activists and pessimists, between what we expect and what we get.
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Karakoe & $6 Grey Goose Cocktails
Karakoe with Creagh & $6 Grey Goose Cocktails all night
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The Flesh Hungry Dog Show
The Flesh Hungry Dog Show brings live music to Chicago's gay community and fun, alternative venues for bands with GLBT content and members, and GLBT supportive bands.
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Circuit Girl
Circuit Girl has arrived at Circuit Night Club. Starting in November, every Friday is the Circuit Girl party. Doors open at 9 p.m.
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Lipstick & Lyrics: BRING IT ON!
Members of The Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus will BRING IT ON and haul out their highest drag to take to the stage at Hydrate Chicago to perform in CGMC’s 6th Annual LIPSTICK & LYRICS: BRING IT ON! Live Singing Drag Revue. The performance will be hosted by Chicago drag star Madame X.
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Daily Events - Everyday in Gay Chicago
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What's popular on Fridays?
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Hot male dancers at 10 p.m.; DJ Eric Hall; $5 martini special
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POP goes the Gio at 9 p.m.
DJ Scotty Styles & Friends
$5 Cocktails
$1 Original grilled cheese sandwiche's (After Midnight)
Baton Show Lounge
Shows 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 12:30 a.m.
Cosmix: DJ Greg Haus, electro, progressive, and alternative, $5 after 11:00 p.m.
DJ and dancing 10 p.m., no cover, 1/3 lb cheeseburger $5, $3 basket of appetizers (zucchini, mushroom, onion rings, poppers)
Karaoke w/ Creagh 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
Broadway Youth Center
6PM-9PM: Friday Drop In, A safe space for youth, includes education and support groups, anonymous HIV testing and medical care.
Bucks Saloon
$10 Miller pitchers, $2 Schnapps
Cell Block
Open 4 p.m. w/ Giani, DJ Hale
Line dance lessons at 7 p.m., country with DJ Michael B ‘til 1:30 a.m., Afterhours dance with DJ LuLu
Chicago Eagle
8PM-4AM: $2 house shots; cage dancers; club room opens at 11PM with Brian.
Circuit Night Club
1st week-Versage Productions’ female drag show, 2nd week-Lipstick and Lace women’s hip-hop night, 3rd week-Chix Mix women’s dance parties, Last week-Urbano hip hop party
Club Krave
$12 oversized Long Island, Blue Island, Vodka Lemonade/Cranberry Pitchers, DJ Rockin’ RC
Go-go boys, DJ Freddie Bain, hosted by Chicago’s very own Cher (1st and last weeks), $12 Long Island pitchers, $5 Jägerbombs
Crew Bar & Grill
P.B.R. Cans $2.00, Goose Island Honkers pints $3.50, Fish Tacos w/choice of side $9.50, 4th Friday-Frat Boy Friday, w/ Hot Jock Contest at 11:30 p.m.
Encompass
Karaoke, $4 24 oz. Big Boy Lites
Geja's Cafe
Geja’s Café’s South African Wine Festival. Guests of Geja’s Café, 340 W. Armitage, will enjoy many flavorful wines from South Africa during the fondue restaurant’s South African Wine Festival from September 1-November 30, 2009.
Halsted's Bar and Grill
$5 Stoli mixed & bombs, $12 Bud Light/Miller Lite pitchers
Hideaway
Karaoke by Creaoke, Chicago Beef Dancers
Hunters
Video Dance Party, $2 Miller, $4 cover, DJ Dan
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Hydrate
TPAN’s Positively Aware party 8-11 p.m. on 2nd Friday of the month, Weekly DJs til 4 a.m., no cover til midnight
InnExile
Here’s the Beef male dancers 11 p.m.
Jackhammer
Chicago Beef dancers 1-3 a.m., 4th Fri.-The Flesh Hungry Dog Show, $2 import bottles
Jeffrey Pub
Guys All Night Out dance party, $3 cover
Little Jim's
NOON-4AM: $6 pitchers of MGD and Miller Lite.
Lucky Horseshoe
Male dancers 4pm-2am.
Manhandler
$2 cactus juice/kool-ade/schnapps; "Jeopardy" 3:30pm; "Wheel of Fortune" 6:30pm.
Man's Country
Live male strippers
Mary's Attic
Bailiwick’s “Bombs Away” cabaret at 7 p.m., $15; Feel Good Fridays with Rogue DJ at 9 p.m., $3 Bama-Slamma shots & 5-for-4 buckets of domestic bottles, no cover
Minibar Ultra Lounge and Cafe
9PM - 2AM Featuring: DJ Shawn Edwards and HOT Bartenders
5:30PM-11PM: Cornelia's now features live music 7 nights a week; Ginger Tam performs
Roscoe's Tavern
$14 Absolut pink lemonade pitchers, $6 Bacardi bombs, $3 off Martinis/Manhattans
Showtunes 5-9 p.m., Best of Sidetrack 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Spin Nightclub
Shower contest, 1st week: Boy night; 2nd week: Girl night; 3rd week: Bear night, $150 first prize, sign up by 11:30 p.m., contest at midnight, $5 Absolut cocktails, $4 Magic Hat #9 drafts, DJ Luis M, go-go boys, $5 Absolut cocktails, $7 Martinis, $4 draft beer
Star Gaze
ALTERNATING WEEKS: ‘80s/’90s Urban Night with DJ XL and DJ Marshall Jones; Salsa Night with DJ Castro and free salsa lessons
Temptations Nightclub
Frisky Fridays Dance Party with DJ MissBHaven Beth, Chicago's Largest & Hottest Women's Dance Party, No Cover from 6-8:30pm
The Call
Retro video (‘50s-‘70s) at 5:30 p.m., dance video mix at 8:30 p.m.
1st week - MAFIA; 2nd week - Full Moon party and contest; 3rd week - ONYX Club night, Club Room open at 10 p.m.
Velvet Rope
Karaoke with Creagh, $6 Grey Goose, $3 domestic
Wang's
Think Pink Friday's with DJ Stinky Pinky
Wild Pug
$3 Fuller’s London Pride pints, VJ Bobby Marley at 7 p.m.
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