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Daily Email - Thursday- 5/8/2025

May 08, 2025

K-Pop fans! Stray Kids’ dominATE World Tour is coming to Wrigley Field in June! Now’s your chance to win a pair of tickets. Enter now, and brush up on your choreo; this will be on the test.

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  • Dance for a cause! On 5/22 at Never Have I Ever, join Shaun J. Wright, Ariel Zetina and more for TRANSCEND, raising funds for Trans Lifeline, supporting trans people across the country. Enter to win a pair of tickets plus a $50 bar tab.*

  • Let’s get steamy… Win a pair of tickets to Steamworks: The Musical at the Annoyance Theatre. This satirical musical follows a young man's journey through the iconic bathhouse, encountering a colorful cast of characters along the way.*

  • The lineup for All Of Us Festival is here, hitting Grant Park 6/27-28. Join Disclosure, Channel Tres, Cobrah, and more for a celebration of electronic music.

  • Potential Breakup Song? Every album needs one! Rock with Aly & AJ on the Silver Deliverer tour at the Salt Shed in October. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

  • The party’s not over until I say it’s over. Homegrown Chicago dark wave trio Pixel Grip just dropped their Percepticide Tour, headlining Metro on 11/14.

WIN TICKETS TO GAY SH*T IN CHICAGO!

You’re a winner, baby! You know we’ve always got you covered with free tickets to great gay happenings in Chicago, and today is no exception. Get your clicker finger ready cuz you’re gonna want to get in on these hot summer tickets…

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🐒 Saturday Night at the Zoo

Saturday at Lincoln Park Zoo (6:30PM)

Adults only for this after-hours soirée at Lincoln Park Zoo with live music, DJs, karaoke and tons more fun. Use promo code Do312 for an exclusive ticket discount at checkout.

💋 PUMP. w/ Amanda Lepore

Saturday at Never Have I Ever (11PM)

Get pretty in pink with superstar club kid Amanda Lepore at PUMP. Dress in your favorite rosy shade and celebrate all things glamor! Enter to win tickets today.

🏖️ SoFFTT / Pageant Queens / Vesolo

Saturday, 5/17 at Smoke and Mirrors (10PM)

Vamos a portanos mal, bb! Miami duo SoFTT brings their hyperactive Latin club tracks back to Chicago for an intimate set alongside Pageant Queens and Vesolo.

👑 Chicago Entertainer of the Year 2025

Monday, 5/19 at Roscoe’s Tavern (7PM)

It’s drag pageant season! Roscoe’s hosts the Chicago EOY competition, featuring 2024 winner Vanda LaRose! Find out who will go on to compete at the national pageant.

🎥 Rated Q: D.E.B.S.

Thursday, 5/22 at the Music Box Theatre (9:45PM)

Plaid skirts and espionage: cult classic lesbian action comedy D.E.B.S. gets the Rated Q treatment, with a pre-screening drag show starring Siichele and Dear Jamie.

LOCALS ONLY

  • Drag diner Hamburger Mary’s is returning to Chicago later this year at a new Edgewater location, after closing its doors in Andersonville in 2020. The restaurant’s first location was opened in San Francisco in 1972!

  • Chicago drag legend Tenderoni will appear as a permanent judge alongside an incredibly stacked celebrity cast on Revry’s newly-announced King of Drag, a reality competition show centering drag kings.

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