Chicagoan Ramona Slick has curated a monthly meeting place for Chicago’s film nerds and queer community. In December, the erotic performer and queer burlesque dancer debuted a new event series, Rated Q, at the Music Box Theatre. Each event features a brief drag show and screening of a queer film classic. Audience members wear their […]
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Out there, around here
Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days
Posted inMusic
Original Rainbow Burger on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created for an outdoor food, drag, and music carnival by Paul Octavious and Aaron Lowell Denton.
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Chicago’s drag performers serve amid COVID-19 restrictions
From digital performances to blinged out face masks, these queens are making it work.
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The Pride party continues at the River’s Brunch of Bitches
Unlimited eggs, mimosas, and drag performances for the whole family
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The rise of the viral drag queens
A generation that grew up queer on the Internet finds a home on Chicago’s drag stages.
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Forget IHOP, “Chicago’s Best Worst Drag Show” at Jackhammer is the place to be at 2 AM on a Monday
From new queens to Drag Race alums, there’s room for everybody.
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The Artistic Home’s drag version of The Maids . . . drags
The show runs out of provocations too soon.
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Photographer Pat Nabong climbed to new heights for our cover story—literally
“Climbing got me through a lot of hard times and taught me lot about life.”
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Drag queens find unlikely spot to perform—on a 50-foot climbing wall
Brooklyn Boulders, which recently hosted Out to Climb, plans to hold a monthly climbing meet-up for the LGBTQ community.
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Chicago’s black drag queens are upholding a radical gender-bending tradition
Forget RuPaul and bachelorette parties: These queens bring protest politics to the stage.
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Pride Weekend’s wild array of affairs
A roundup of Pride Weekend’s more colorful events.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
“Stop cock-in-frock-blocking your friend”
Dan on men who like men in drag.