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Reeling: Park
Featuring William Baldwin, Ricki Lake and Cheri Oteri, this rambunctiously funny film delivers a collection of wacky characters whose stories collide in a Los Angeles Municipal Park. Park is told over the course of one lunch hour where two male nudists, a cheating husband, suicidal pet groomers, and a budding lesbian’s lives comedically intertwine. Some find love, some lose it, and others realize they were loving the wrong person all along. With plenty of sex, lots of pain, shocking revelations and some very sweet revenge, Park is a no-holds-barred comedy that attacks life in Los Angeles with gusto. Video, 86 min.
 
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Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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3:30 PM
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ChicagoPride.com is
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Reeling: Rock Bottom: Gay Men & Meth
Why do they do it? Why are so many gay men—men in committed relationships, men with good jobs and good friends—falling prey to crystal meth? These men, who seem to have it all, are risking everything for sex: group sex, unsafe sex, crystal sex. Rock Bottom takes the audience through possibly the last closed door into gay men’s sexual lives: the dark world of crystal meth and sexual addiction. This groundbreaking documentary follows the journeys of seven gay men struggling with meth addiction and recovery against the backdrop of an emerging second wave of HIV infection.
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Reeling: The Line of Beauty
This enthralling drama about love, class, sex, and money is set in 1980s London, a ruthless decade marked by the return to power of the conservatives. The Line of Beauty charts the relationship between Nick Guest, a gay middle-class young man, and the Feddens, a rich Tory family from Notting Hill. We follow Nick’s journey as he becomes entranced by the powerful, privileged life led by the social elite - a life untouched by the stark realities of ‘80s: vast unemployment and the rise of AIDS. Amidst sexy love affairs, financial scandals, and political double crossing, Nick comes of age. This three-part BBC series, written by Andrew Davies (who adapted Tipping The Velvet for the screen), features stellar performances and a gripping story. Video, 180 min.
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Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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12:00 PM
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ChicagoPride.com is
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Reeling: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
Set in the summer of 1975, against the stunning landscape of rural New Zealand, 50 Ways is a magical, slightly off-kilter tale about two kids who like to pretend they live in outer space. Billy doesn’t identify with the other 12-year-old boys at school: he doesn’t like rugby, fighting, or farming. Rather, he prefers to spend his time fantasizing about life in space while pretending to be “Lana” — the star of his favorite TV show. When a sexy young farm laborer comes to work on Billy’s farm, his world is changed forever, and so is his lifelong loyalty to his best friend, tomboy Louise, whose world is changing alongside his. With a unique score and delightfully cheesy special effects, the film is an enchanting and original tale of nonconformity and sexual awakening. 35mm, 90min.
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Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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5:30 PM
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ChicagoPride.com is
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Reeling: Hard Drive
These sexy and comedic shorts explore the ins and outs of buying love online (or maybe just a date for the night). Whether it’s hiring your teenage fantasy for a evening of fun or finding out the man you are chatting with online not only shares your proclivities but also your DNA, this is what happens when sex goes cyber.
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Reeling: Vacationland
From the celebrated New York underground filmmaker, Todd Verow (Frisk, Anonymous), comes Vacationland, a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical story of growing up and putting your demons behind you. Working as a nude model to save money for art school, Joe is a sexy, high school senior who wants nothing more than to escape from his hometown of Bangor, Maine. But, something mysterious from his past keeps him there. Meanwhile, his best friend Andrew (a football star and avid shoplifter) is going nowhere fast. Joe and Andrew, stealing moments here and there from time with their girlfriends, begin to fall in love. One night, at a local gay bar, they encounter someone from Joe’s unfortunate past. He is given the opportunity for revenge that may finally leave him free to leave Bangor and his troubled youth behind. Video, 104 min.
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Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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9:45 PM
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ChicagoPride.com is
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Reeling: 3 Needles
With tour de force performances from its star-studded cast (Chloe Sevigny, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Stockard Channing, Olympia Dukakis), this is a remarkably powerful film by the director of The Hanging Garden. Three vignettes set in Africa, China, and Canada create a complex picture of the global AIDS pandemic. In the first tale, a young nun (Chloe Sevigny) who teaches HIV prevention to a tribe in South Africa is forced to negotiate a dark deal to save the lives of the disease-stricken children in her mission. In the second, Lucy Liu is Jin Ping, a government worker who pays poor Chinese farmers for their blood, unaware she is spreading death. In the final story, a Canadian porn actor (Shawn Ashmore of X-Men) hides his illness so he won’t lose his job, while his mother (Stockard Channing) makes her own death pact with the disease in order to care for him. 35mm, 124 min.
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Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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7:15 PM
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ChicagoPride.com is
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Reeling: Lover Other: The Story of Claude...
Celebrated lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer blends interviews, photographs, and performance in her creative new work documenting the little known story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, lesbian step-sisters, lovers, 1920s surrealist artists, and Nazi resistors. Their romantic and artistic partnership challenged gender conventions and employed photography to express their ideas about gender identity. During the German occupation of Jersey Isle, where they lived, the two women bravely put forth a stealth opposition to Nazism, which led to their imprisonment and death sentences. Also screening, Look us in the Eye: The Old Woman’s Project (Jennifer Abod, US, 2006), an inspiring tribute to three women who refuse to be invisible. Video, Total: 82 min.
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Reeling: Cruel & Unusual
Imagine a lifetime of anguish over something as fundamental as your gender. Then imagine struggling with that in prison. This unflinching documentary exposes the horrifying experiences of transgender women (MtF) incarcerated in men’s prisons. The women in this film face humiliation, solitary confinement, and live in constant fear of rape and violence. Denied medical treatment and hormones, they revert to a gender they spent their lifetimes trying to escape. Shot over three years and scored by indie-rockers the Aislers Set, Cruel & Unusual weaves together prison interviews, landscape portraits, and vérité footage into a haunting and brutally honest film about an invisible segment of our society fighting for their dignity to live as women.
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Reeling: Oh! Canada
Featuring work made exclusively by our neighbors to the north. It may be cold in Canada, but these shorts are hot! Tackling everything from gay refugees, to same sex marriage, to first loves, these delightfully fun and timely shorts will surely make you sigh “Oh! Canada.”
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Reeling: About A Girl
Johanna (aka Joe) is a rebel without a cause at odds with everyone around her. She can’t keep a job because of her bad temper and she’s ostracized by the local girls who call her a “dyke.” An mix of vulnerability and defiance, Joe is torn between wanting to fight back and needing to belong. Her passionate friendship with her friend Stella and her love of boxing seem to show her a way out. But it takes courage to be different. Will Joe persist with her dream of becoming a boxer in the face of hostility and rejection from the male boxers around her? Or will she give in and settle down to play housewife to a charming young man intent on taming her? Video, 105 min.
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Desperate Housewives - DJ Jeannette, late
Hydrate presents Desperate Housewives at 8PM and then dance the night away with our exciting new Sunday resident DJ JEANNETTE!
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Daily Events - Everyday in Gay Chicago
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What's popular on Sundays?
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@mosphere
$3 Well drinks, $5 cosmos, $8 Bud Lite pitcher
A Church 4 Me?
Meeting every Sunday at 11AM, A Church 4 Me A Church 4 Me? seeks to "build a community of understanding, open to all people."
Angelina Ristorante
11AM-2PM Sunday Brunch. Known in Boystown as "Gay Church" this Sunday tradition brings cute boys & tasty food! CASH ONLY
Baton Show Lounge
Shows 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 12:30 a.m., 2 for 1 admission with coupon available at www.thebatonshowlounge.com.
Berlin
MODifyd, DJ Chester mixes alternative and pop. $2 Lites $3.25 Heinekens. 1st Sunday: Madonnarama w/ DJ Riley, 2nd Sunday: True Faith ‘80s night w/ DJ Chester
Big Chicks
Free BBQ/inside picnic at 4:30 p.m., $2.50 vodka lemonades
Bobby Love's
Open at noon with Connie
Sunday cookout, $10 Miller pitchers, $2 Schnapps
Cell Block
Open 2 p.m., $1.50 pints Miller Lite all day and night, DJs Freddie Bain and Chris Spinazzola
Charlie's
Euchre 6 p.m., karaoke 9 p.m., Resurrection Sunday @ midnight with club classics by DJ LuLu, $2 well and domestic bottles, $10 Long Islands, $1 PBR bottles
Chicago Eagle
8PM-4AM: $2 house shots; music videos on big screen with Jim.
Circuit Night Club
Noché Latina w/ DJ Fast Freddy & DJ Alex Perez, Veronica Zaid’s show at 9 p.m., 1st week-Noche Vaquera, free entry for cowboy attire
Club Krave
$2 drafts & $5 draft pitchers , House Mama’s Bingo at 7 p.m., followed by karaoke
Cocktail Chicago
$1 well drinks, biscuits & booze with Paté, dogs welcome until 8 p.m., DJ Dealer & Chris Eterno at 8 p.m., DJ Pete Augusta at 11 p.m, go-go boys at 8 p.m.
Crew Bar & Grill
Miller Lite pitchers $9, Beergarita/ Sangria pitchers $12, Miller Chill bottles $3, Paulie’s Pot Roast sandwich w/choice of side $10.25, Open for brunch 11 a.m. ‘til 1pm. VJ Ven from 3 - 9:30p.m., VJ Bobby Marley 9:30 p.m.
Encompass
Night Of Stars drag show 9:45 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
Bitch Bingo with Ginger Lee, karaoke at 9 p.m.
Hunters
Karaoke 7-11 p.m., Boys Night 11 p.m., $1 drafts, $4 Martinis, DJ Lawrence K
Jackhammer
$3 U-Call-It (excluding Martinis and Long Islands)
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Jeffrey Pub
Ol’ Skool dance party, no cover
Little Jim's
$2.75 14-oz. draft Miller Lite, $3 domestic bottle/well.
Lucky Horseshoe
Male dancers 2pm-2am.
Manhandler
$2 cactus juice/kool-ade/schnapps; buffet 6pm.
Mary's Attic
MaryOke! at 9 p.m., $3 well cocktails and domestic bottles
Minibar Café features Sunday Brunch with $4 mimosas & belinis
Pie Hole Pizza Joint
Homemade Bloody Marys for only $7
Queens Tavern & Bistro
5:30PM-11PM: $6 Inflused Vodka Martinis; Kathryn Payne performs
Roscoe's Tavern
Male Call hosted by Miss Foozie and sponsored by ChicagoPride.com at 5 p.m., $14 Long Island Iced Tea Pitchers, $5 Mimosas, $6 Bacardi bombs, double Bloody Marys on special, $22 Smirnoff Bloody Mary pitchers, $24 Mimosa pitchers
Sidetrack
Cocktail Hour videos 3-8 p.m., Showtunes 4-9 p.m., best of the 60s-80s, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
Sound-Bar
9PM-4AM Sound-Bar presents Ahhmen at Y, our more intimate nightclub located next door and on bigger Sundays the party returns to Sound-Bar.
Spin Nightclub
Team trivia, 10 p.m - midnight, $4 Skyy cocktails, $5 Skyy bombs, $10 Miller Lite & High Life pitchers, Foxy’s Basement 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Star Gaze
All sports shown on 6 ft. projection
Temptations Nightclub
Karaoke with prizes, $3 Tempting Bloody Marys, $6 Domestic Pitchers of Beer, No Cover
The Call
$5 Sauza Margaritas, video mix at 2 p.m., videos from ‘60s to today at 8:30 p.m.
The Closet
$5 Bloody Marys, buckets of beer
The Spot
Diva Brunch, Scooty & Jojo’s cabaret variety brunch with first-class menu and entertainment, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., scootyjojo.com
Touche
Open at noon, beer bust, 50¢ Bud & Bud Light drafts, pool tournament at 7 p.m., movie night in club room at 10 p.m.
Velvet Rope
Homopalooza -- drag show and more, $3 domestic, $3 well mixed drinks
Wild Pug
$6 Bloody Marys, $12 Long Island pitchers, VJ Ven at 4 p.m.
Wilde Bar and Restaurant
Brunch from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
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