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Reeling: Stray Cats
Will and Grace has met its match in this hilarious and innovative fusion of comedy, romance, and revenge drama. A straight woman, Marta, and her gay best friend and neighbor, Boyet, are unwaveringly committed to their non-committal boyfriends. Marta’s boyfriend Steve has no intentions of marriage and Boyet’s younger, sexy stud only visits when he is low on cash. While pining for a family of her own, Marta envies the home Boyet is building with his adopted, 15-year old, pick pocketing child. Meanwhile, Boyet is fascinated by Marta’s idiosyncratic anxieties about her lover, which serve as inspiration for the romance novels he writes. Drawn together through their parallel lives, they devise a scheme leading to a riveting confrontation. This effort to even the playing field results in an unsettling yet memorable climax. Video, 115 min.
 
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Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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9:15 PM
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Reeling: Into It
Chicago filmmaker Jeffrey Maccubbin’s newest work looks deeply into how two men strive to find peace with their innermost demons. Simon is a hustler caught in the underbelly of queer culture. Late one night Simon slips on the ice that throws him into the arms of Evan, the host of a cable show who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome. After a night of unbridled sex, Simon realizes that Evan’s ticks have subsided. He believes that he is meant to save Evan from his afflictions, leading them to unabashedly dive into a sado-masochistic relationship. Simon basks in a world where sadness and depression have become his new turn on and where his emotional destruction is the only true way to give Evan his soul. Video, 93 min.
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Columbia College Film Row Cinema
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6:30 PM
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ChicagoPride.com is
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Reeling: Combat
An intensely raw and provocative film, Combat pushes love to its outermost limits. Two attractive young men travel to an isolated forest where they inexplicably begin to beat each other savagely. Director Carpentier’s semi-fictional tale is both compelling and harrowing in its uncompromising equation between pain and desire. It is a visceral and sensual allegory with an intelligence that sets it apart from pure exploitation; instead, it explores the same terrain of primal urges and desires as Jean Genet, the Marquis de Sade, and more recently Dennis Cooper.
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Columbia College Film Row Cinema
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8:30 PM
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ChicagoPride.com is
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Reeling: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
Selected as the Philippines’ official entry for the Academy Awards’ foreign-language film category, Blossoming is a thoroughly engaging, joyful, and emotionally complex drama about a flamboyant gay boy growing up in the slums of Manila. Having dropped out of school when his mother died, precocious twelve-year-old Maximo (superbly performed by Nathan Lopez) plays doting mother hen to his family of petty-crook tough guys, including his father and macho brothers. He cooks, cleans, mends their clothes, and fusses over them and they, in return, are touchingly protective of him. When his chores are done, he sashays through the shantytown back alleys to meet up with other gay boys to watch romantic movies and dress up for pretend beauty pageants. Maxi’s life is surprisingly uncomplicated, but all that changes when he is smitten by the handsome, honest, and incorruptible policeman, Victor, who is determined to snare Maxi’s criminal family in his net. Bemused by Maxi’s crush, Victor takes him under his wing and tries to show him the path to an honest life, but Maxi is faced with the impossible choice between protecting his family and loyalty to his new friend. Winner of awards at the Berlin, Rotterdam, and Hong Kong film festivals, Blossoming is a rare gem. 35mm, 100 min.
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Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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7:00 PM
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ChicagoPride.com is
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Reeling: Family Matters
Two men, a woman, and a baby? Dafna, a heterosexual woman, agrees to co-parent a child with Itamar, a lawyer, and his German partner Kai. But none of them anticipate the trouble ahead as jealousy and unresolved issues threaten their idyllic arrangement.
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Boom Boom Room
Music 101, ChicagoPride.com, Crunch Fitness & Effen Vodka present Boom Boom Room, 15 years of keeping the vibe alive!
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Daily Events - Everyday in Gay Chicago
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What's popular on Mondays?
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@mosphere
Closed, Available for your private parties, meetings and benefits.
44th Ward Dinner Party
$3 Miller Light bottles and $5 signature sandwich surprise
Angelina Ristorante
1/2 price wine
Anvil
$1.50 drinks all day
Berlin
Manic Mondays w/ DJ Adam EL, feel-good music from all eras
Big Chicks
$2 off all pitchers, $1 1/4lb burgers, $5 Veggie Burgers (dine-in only)
Broadway Youth Center
7PM-9PM: Q, a social group for young LGBT adults, ages 18 to 24.
Bucks Saloon
$10 Miller pitchers, $2 Schnapps
Center on Halsted
12PM-3PM: Street Safe! offers youth (13-24) a safe alternative. 3PM-8PM: Teen Program offer teens (13-18) a safe & structured environment.
CGY: Youth Pride Center
6PM-8PM: "Let's Talk About Sex" A discussion group where LGBT youth can ask questions about sex, relationships and dating.
Charlie's
$2 well/wine/beer, $3 Bacardi, $10 Stoli pitchers, line dance lessons 7 p.m.
Chicago Eagle
8PM-4AM: $2 house shots; alternative music with Dan.
Cocktail Chicago
Monday Madness with half off all drinks, tenders Kenny & reX 4-9 p.m., Industri-House with DJ Andrew C and bartender Jodi
Crew Bar & Grill
Pub quiz trivia, $50 bar tab for winning team, $6 Ruby Red/Mango Margaritas 1/2 Price wings six $3/twelve $4.50,1/2 priced wings 5 p.m. ‘til close.
Dick's RU Crazee
Free pool
Encompass
Call cocktail party—$2.50 select call drinks
$20 wine with your Dinner Purchase.
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 burgers, $4 22 oz. Bud Lights
Hideaway
Join the Revolution Ladies Night with Jessica, Rock Band competitions for prizes
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Hunters
Karaoke with DJ Glen, $2 Bud, $4 Absolut Martinis
Hydrate
$1 drinks all night, no cover before 10 p.m.
Jackhammer
$2.50 well drinks
Little Jim's
NOON-4AM: $2.25 domestic bottle beer and well drinks.
Lucky Horseshoe
Latin Mondays: Latin Men, Latin Music, $3.75 Coronas, $4.50 Sauza Margaritas, Male dancers 8pm.
Manhandler
$2 cactus juice/kool-ade/schnapps; "Jeopardy" 3:30pm; "Wheel of Fortune" 6:30pm.
Martini Park
Life is a Cabaret 5-9PM
Mary's Attic
Live soap opera “The Ville” at 8 p.m., $10
Minibar Ultra Lounge and Cafe
Minibar Café features one buck bruschetta
Pie Hole Pizza Joint
Half-off all beer, wine and mixed drinks.
Queens Tavern & Bistro
5:30PM-11PM: $6 Infused Vodka Martinis; Paul Marinaro performs
Roscoe's Tavern
You’re the Star karaoke with Honey West, 10 p.m., $12 Stoli Blakberi Lemonade pitchers, $3 off all double cocktails, $6 frozen drinks, $6 Grapebombs, $2.50 bottles of Bud/ Bud Light/Bud Light Lime, 1/2 price bottles of wine
Scot's
$3 all domestic bottles
Cocktail Hour videos 3-8 p.m., Showtunes, 8 p.m.-2 a.m.
$4 Jameson, $10 Finlandia lemonade pitchers, free pool and games
Temptations Nightclub
Closed Mondays
The Call
$4 Sweet teas, video hits (‘60s to today) at 8:30 p.m.
Barstool Jocks - WWF wrestling & sports at 8 p.m., free pizza
Velvet Rope
Chicagoland Gay & Lesbian Singles Meet-up sponsored by OPLAGA
Wild Pug
$2 Miller Lite or Bud Light pints
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