Highlight Events
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Chix: Adrenaline
Curve Magazine and Chix Mix Productions presents Adrenaline, Curve Magazine's closing dance party.
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Gay Games VII - Closing Ceremonies
Gay Games' Closing Ceremonies offer up a mixture of emotions. Marking the end of 8 days of competition, camaraderie and culture, for many the Closing Ceremony is a chance to say goodbye to new friends, offer promises of continued communication, and to celebrate participation and personal bests.
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PLAY Saturday with DJ Paulo
You'll experience a night on the dance floor like no other as DJ PAULO transports you with his unique sets of tribal-injected deep house mixed with soaring diva vocals. It's an experience you won't want to miss at Circuit Nightclub's Gay Games Closing Party.
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NuptEquality, Fashion and Vendor Showcase
NuptEquality is celebrating fashion and services for same-sex ceremonies, featuring the original designs by Elda de la Rosa and Dame Couture. Miss Foozie hosts (in a wedding dress designed by Dame Couture).
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The DaVinci GayCode-10th Anniversary Edition
America's funniest Gay and Lesbian Sketch Comedy Troupe celebrates ten years of queer comedy by performing their favorite scenes and songs from the past ten years.
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The DaVinci GayCode-10th Anniversary Edition
America's funniest Gay and Lesbian Sketch Comedy Troupe celebrates ten years of queer comedy by performing their favorite scenes and songs from the past ten years.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale
Four lovers in search of sexual freedom discover orgiastic dances, queens and love-inducing pills in this new take on Shakespeare's romance.
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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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Hip Hop & Reggae Party ...Ear Rotic @Spin
HIP HOP & REGGAE PARTY EAR ROTIC @SPIN 800 W. BELMONT
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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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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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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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Out of the Closet
Out of the Closet, Lisa Nordstrom and guest artists, from bowling balls, luggage, altered clothing and board games to life-altering proclamations and secrets big and small, this mixed media group show features all manner of things formerly closeted.
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Chicago SummerDance
Chicago SummerDance is an eleven-week festival featuring one-hour dance lessons by professional dance instructors, followed by two hours of live music and dancing.
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BareNaked Lads in the Great Outdoors
From the opening number that introduces six naked singers with their (clothed) female cohort, to a beautifully sung finale that celebrates the human body in all its imperfections, BARENAKED LADS is an upbeat and engertic evening full of colorful characters.
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Grant Park Music Festival
Join the GRAMMY-nominated Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus as they celebrate their 72nd annual season in their new permanent home – the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. Presented by the Chicago Park District, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and Grant Park Orchestral Association, the Grant Park Music Festival is the nation’s only remaining free municipally-supported outdoor classical music series.
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The Home Project
For seven years, About Face has created its most powerful, innovative, and celebrated work in collaboration with Chicago's extraordinary community of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trangender) young people. Our audience jumps to its feet in joyful recognition each season at the curtain call of the Youth Theatre production.
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PINS
Jim Provenzano's electrifying novel about two high school wrestlers coming of age is brought to exciting life on-stage as Bailiwick celebrates Chicago's Gay Games!
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MOVE! 2006 Chicago Int'l House Music Festival
CDM Chicago, NFP presents MOVE! - the 2006 Chicago International House Music Festival being held on July 22 and 23. The new lakefront outdoor venue, Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island, will house the event from 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM. The venture between CDM and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Tourism (IBOT) will showcase the genre of House music which was cultivated in the city of Chicago. “The Chicago International House Music Festival is sure to provide a fun-filled weekend for music lovers,” said Jan Kostner, IBOT Deputy Director.
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DJ Eddie Baez at Hydrate
Doors open at 8PM and then the evening gets going after 10:30PM when DJ EDDIE BAEZ takes over Hydrate's DJ Booth from 10:30PM until 5AM.
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Triumph: The Closing Party
The games may have finished, but the triumphs and pride live on long past the finish line. Athletes, spectators, and performers become one as they move seamlessly between dance floor and stage. Everyone’s journey becomes a finale in the biggest party Chicago has ever experienced.
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Kristine W at Hunters
See Kristine W at the Gay Games Closing Ceremonies and then see her up close and personal at Hunters. It's a great way to end the Gay Games!
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Daily Events - Everyday in Gay Chicago
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What's popular on Saturdays?
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@mosphere
Hot male dancers at 10:30 p.m.; DJ Timmy Loop; $5 martini special
3160
Join Luther & Will for Sexy Senior Saturdays, 8 p.m. - 2 a.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.
Berlin
Twisted w/ DJs Chester & Larissa, $5 after 11:00 p.m. / $7 after 1 a.m.
Euchre Club 6 p.m., DJ and dancing 10 p.m., no cover
Bobby Love's
Featured artist nite, trivia shots & giveaways w/ DJ Tim
Broadway Youth Center
1PM-2:30PM: SHOUT!, A support group for newly out LGBT and questioning youth.
Bucks Saloon
$10 Miller pitchers, $2 Schnapps
Open 2 p.m. w/ Scott, DJ Earl Pleasure
CGY: Youth Pride Center
1PM-5PM Youth P.R.I.D.E. Join one of the many youth clubs, get help finding a job, social and educational activities. Lunch provide.
Country with DJ Michael B 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Afterhours dance with DJ LuLu
Chicago Eagle
8PM-5AM: $2 house shots; cage dancers; club room opens at Midnight with Tim.
$6 flavored Martinis, DJ Pervy
Cocktail Chicago
DIVA DJs—rotating DJs include Dhanna, Miss Michaela, Tracy Tobey & Carla Starla, Go-go boys at 10:30 p.m.
Crew Bar & Grill
Shiner Bock pints $3.50, Bud Select bottles $2.75, Paulie’s Pot Roast sandwich w/choice of side $10.25, Open for brunch 11:00 a.m. til 1 p.m., VJ Ven spinning from 6 - 10 p.m., VJ Bobby Marley 10 p.m.
Encompass
Resident DJ Tiff 11 p.m.
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
$6 champagne cocktails, $4 22 oz. Bud Lights, 12 Stoli Bloodies during brunch
Hideaway
Karaoke by Creaoke downstairs, Dance party with Chicago Beef Dancers upstairs
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Jackhammer
Chicago Beef dancers 1-3 a.m.
Jeffrey Pub
Girls All Night Out dance party, $3 cover, show with host Indigo Blue
Little Jim's
$3 draft; $3.25 domestic beer/well.
Male dancers 2pm-3am.
DJ Sit-n-Spin, dancing, Jello shots
Manhandler
$2 schnapps/cactus juice/kool-ade; movie shown 3pm w/Joe; "Lights Out" party 3-5am.
Man's Country
Live male strippers
Mary's Attic
Bailiwick’s “Bombs Away” cabaret at 7 p.m., $15; Attic-tion Saturdays with DJ Plez & John Murges at 9 p.m., $2 Jello shots, $5 Slushies, no cover
Minibar Ultra Lounge and Cafe
9PM - 3AM Featuring: Superstar DJ Phil DaBeatz and HOT Shirtless Bartenders
5:30-11PM: Cornelia's now features live music 7 nights a week; Jeff Roscoe performs
No cover before 10 p.m., $5 cover after, $14 Absolut Pink Lemonade pitchers, $6 Bacardi bombs, $5 mimosas, double Bloody Marys on special
Sidetrack
Sidetrack Classics 3 - 9 p.m., Best of Sidetrack 9 p.m. - 3 a.m.
Star Gaze
DJ plays all mixes starting at 10 p.m.
Saucy Saturdays Dance Party with DJ Ruthless Richard, Chicago's Largest & Hottest Women's Dance Party, No Cover from 6-8:30pm
The Call
Showtune video hits at 5 p.m., video dance party at 8:30 p.m.
Touche
Open 3 p.m., 1st week-Great Lakes Bears, Weekly fetish parties @ 10 p.m. Club Room open
Velvet Rope
$3 domestic, $5 bombs
Wild Pug
Night of Dorian Gray, hot go-go boys, $4 Jäger and Cherry Bombs, DJ Oskar at 10 p.m.
Wilde Bar and Restaurant
Brunch from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
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