Highlight Events
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Grace Place Women: Free Weekly Yoga Classes
Grace Place Women offers free, twice weekly yoga classes for lesbian, bisexual, queer and questioning women in the interest of creating community, friendship and support. The classes are one hour long, and are suitable for all levels, including beginners. After class, tea is served, giving the participants the opportunity to share their experiences in an informal discussion.
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Oasis: An installation by Guerra de la Paz
Oasis is a site-specific sculptural installation fashioned out of discarded clothing to create a fantasy landscape.
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Robert Rainey: Family Self Portrait Series
South Carolina-based photographer Robert Rainey explores the notion of the American family unit today by interjecting himself into family portraits, and substituting himself for different family members.
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Tutankhamun & the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
On November 26, 1922, the tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered, unlocking the most precious treasures the world had ever known. Throughout the late 70’s, millions of Americans marveled at the treasures of King Tut in an unprecedented museum exhibition. After nearly 30 years, King Tut’s treasures return to America one last time in Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.
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VISION 11: Inside Chicago Galleries
The Art Dealers Association of Chicago marks the 11th anniversary of VISION, Chicago's premier celebration of visual arts. Free opening night festivities in both River North and the West Loop will be followed with two weeks of free programming, including gallery talks, happenings, music, meet-the-artist tours, weekend gallery walks and all new exhibitions.
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Marwen Alumni Exhibition
In an effort to expand the opportunities available to its alumni artists, Marwen and Around the Coyote have partnered to present a month-long exhibition highlighting painters, photographers, installation artists and graffiti artists from Marwen's recent alumni.
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Athletes: Skrebneski Portraits
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Commission on Human Relations has commissioned world-renowned photographer www.cityofchicago.org/CulturalAffairs. to photograph Chicago residents participating in the 2006 Gay Games Sports and Cultural Festival.
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Sticks + Stones Cultural Exhibit
A three-part exhibit featuring a traveling exhibition, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, an extensive collection of red ribbon AIDS awareness pins, and past Gay Games memorabilia.
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Catherine Opie: American Cities
Catherine Opie returns to the MCA for an exhibition of her photographs of Chicago, part of her ongoing "American Cities" project. Los Angeles-based gay artist Opie has been working for the past seven years on her American Cities series.
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Approximately 300 works are presented at the first major retrospective of the gay German photographer in an American museum, co-organized with the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
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Art of the Sensual
The art of Luis Fernando Uribe, through vivid colors, entwining forms, and overt subject, has the disarming quality of being deeply erotic without necessarily being directly sexual. His work has been sold to many prominent private collections, as well as, to the the Latin American Art Museum (Long Beach, CA), Museum of Bellas Artes (Medellin, Colombia), the Bellas Artes Museum (Caracas, Venezuela), and the DeYoung Museum (San Fransisco, CA).
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101 Talismans for a Happy Death
The late Chicago Artist Joseph Conlon's series 101 Talismans for a Happy Death will be on display at Aron Packer Gallery. Conlon, who was HIV positive for over 20 years, created the work in the last five years of his life and passed away in 2005.
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ELEGANT Photography Exhibition
ELEGANT is a traveling USA exhibition of Duane Cramer’s photographic works. It includes black and white images of male and female nudes, architectural elements from around the globe and some recognizable international personalities.
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Alexandra Billings and Diverse Harmony
In 1987, transgendered singer and actress Alexandra Billings starred in Charles Busch's "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" at the Royal George Theatre and received an After Dark Award for Best Actress in a comedy. Since then she has appeared in shows too numerous to mention and won another After Dark Award as well as a Jefferson Award nomination.
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Get in the Game: GLBT politics
Lawmakers across America are finally starting to wake up to the importance of issues that affect GLBT lives. Unfortunately, though, many are still lagging behind on issues of fairness.
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The 4th Annual Art of and About Baseball
The 4th Annual Art of and About Baseball, at Harrison Works, featuring Elizabeth Gaylord, Kevin Kintner.
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Chicago Razors & TriWomen Triathlete Reunion
The men and women of Chicago's triathlon community invite all Gay Games Triathletes to a celebration of sport and friendship.
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Stepping Out, Band Concert
From July 15 through July 22, Chicago will host the Gay Games VII Sports and Cultural Festival. Enjoy free concerts and events in Millennium Park as part of this weeklong celebration!
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Basketball Social
Come join all basketball participants and their families, friends and loved ones for a night of fun!
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Book Signing/Talk with Doug Mendenhall
Doug will speak about his new book, Spark! 10 Secrets to Living a Life You Love. Doug interviewed 120 people across the world to identify what has them live a life they love. He found 10 secrets and shares those so that everyone can increase their Spark! It is fascinating to see how easy living a life you love can be.
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Katie Todd Band
Chicago's Katie Todd Band performs original, upbeat acoustic pop.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
In the hilariously hip musical comedy, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser.
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2006 Pride Pool Party
Come and splash in the park as we listen to the soulful sound of Chicago's female D.J.s
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Grey
Grey explores the poignant relationship between two priests forced to choose between their love for each other and their calling to the Catholic priesthoood.
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Outdoor Film Festival
Rebel Without A Cause
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Daily Events - Everyday in Gay Chicago
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@mosphere
$1 Well drinks and $1 Bud Lite drafts, $5 martini special
Angelina Ristorante
$27 prix fixe three course menu
Berlin
Cheap Trix, hosted by Jay Jay, with DJ Chester, $1 well and PBR
Big Chicks
$5.50 Golden Margaritas, $4 Margaritas, $5 Chicken burger night, $3 Meatball Sandwiches (dine-in only)
Bobby Love's
$2 domestic, draft and well drinks.
Broadway Youth Center
7PM-9PM: X-Pressions, an arts-based drop in program.
Bucks Saloon
$10 Miller pitchers, $2 Schnapps
Center on Halsted
3PM-8PM: Night for ages 13-24 to focus on different discussion topics, self-expression, role-playing, games and projects.
Charlie's
$10 Absolut pitchers, $2 Bud/Bud Light, $4 Jäger & bombs, karaoke 9 p.m-1 a.m., after hours with DJ LuLu
8PM-4AM: Dollar Drink Night - all top shelf cocktails and draft beer $1; club room opens at 11pm with Tim.
$1 drafts, $4 draft pitchers, $1 well
Go-go boys at 10 p.m., DJ Timmy Loop, $9 vodka cran/vodka lemonade pitchers Foozie Gras last Tuesday of the month, hostess Miss Foozie, special shows at 11 p.m., midnight and 1 a.m., special Miss Foozie pineapple drinks
Crew Bar & Grill
Bud pints $2.75, Bud Light Lime bottles $3, Taco Tuesdays with $1 tacos
Encompass
Karaoke, $4 24 oz. Big Boy Lites
NEW DEAL TUESDAYS: Any choice App, Entrée, & Dessert for $22
Outdanced: every Tuesday; $2 PBR and $1 Organic Mango Vodka Shots
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
$5.95 entrée salads, $4 22 oz. Bud Lights, $5.50 glasses of pinot grigio or merlot
Hideaway
Stud Puppy Tuesdays with male dancers, hosted by Cee Cee
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Holiday Club
Chi-Town Throw Down with host Amy Armstrong
Hunters
Retro Re-wind—$2 Miller bottles, $2 Mike’s Hard Lemonade, DJ Brad
Hydrate
The Chicago Cabaret Project presents Tuesday at the Cabaret featuring Honey West sponsored by ChicagoPride.com at 9 p.m.; dJR late
Jackhammer
Karaoke with Creagh 10 p.m., $3 Bacardi and Finlindia (all flavors)
Jack's On Halsted
Half Priced Bottle of Wine
Little Jim's
NOON-4AM: $2 MGD and Miller Lite draft.
Lucky Horseshoe
Auditions every Tuesday at 5pm, Male dancers at 8pm.
Manhandler
$2 cactus juice/kool-ade/schnapps; pizza at 10pm.
Mary's Attic
‘Tini-Tuesday with $3 off all Mary’s specialty martinis
Minibar Ultra Lounge and Cafe
Minibar Café features tasting Tuesday $9 Build your own flight
Queens Tavern & Bistro
5:30PM-11PM: $6 Infused Vodka Martinis; Justin Hayford performs
“Drag Race 2009” with Frida Lay, $12 Absolut Mandrin Cosmopolitan pitchers, $6 Jägerbombs, $2.50 bottles of Miller Lite/MGD /MGD 64
Scot's
$2 off all Martinis
Sidetrack
U-Video, all request night
Spin Nightclub
Bingo with Mercedes, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.
Stud Puppy Tuesdays! A night for the boys as Sarabin hosts Chicago's hottest male dancers. $4 Long Islands.
The Call
Two-Steppin’ Tuesday: dance lessons at 8 p.m. followed by country video hits, $4.50 Shiner beers
Touche
Hard Core Tuesdays, club room open at 10 p.m.
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