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Daily Email - Thursday- 6/5/2025

June 05, 2025

Calling all daddies! Win one of 10 epic Midsommarfest Daddy Gift Packs loaded with swag like a monogrammed "daddy" hat, 10-day Cheetah Gym pass, drink tix, a shot at a trip to Sweden, and more, to make this Father’s Day weekend unforgettable. Enter now!*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Celebrate Pride Month with Queerbait: It's a Pride Month Sketch Show every Thursday night at the Annoyance Theatre. Win tickets to see this high-energy, laugh-out-loud sketch comedy show on 6/26.*

  • Start your summer with queer joy at the American Writers Museum! Explore the Level Up: Writers & Gamers exhibit, and catch the Writing Queer Tour on select days in June, all included with admission and serving big literary pride energy.*

  • Discover the unsung histories of some loud and out Blues women of the 1920's and 30's through stories, music, and ritual in OM Mission, a spellbinding journey showing at The Den Theatre 6/20-28. Enter to win a pair of tickets for 6/28!*

  • Enter to win a pair of 2-day VIP passes to All Of Us Festival, igniting Chicago this month with acts like Disclosure, Arca, Cobrah, Channel Tres, and tons more. Get ready for two days of joy, rhythm, and radiant connection in Grant Park!*

  • Experience You Will Get Sick, a darkly funny, surreal new play about illness, dreams, and unlikely connections, making its Chicago debut at ​Steppenwolf Theatre, now through July. Enter to win a pair of tickets.*

WIN THE ULTIMATE CHICAGO PRIDE STAYCATION

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Happy Pride month! Enter to win a fabulous bundle of prizes with the Gay Do312 Pride Staycation and make this Pride unforgettable. Starting with a two-night stay at Freehand Chicago Hotel from 6/28-6/30, you’ll get a dinner show and VIP meet & greet with BenDeLaCreme at Teatro ZinZanni, plus tickets to Derry Queen’s wild annual party at The Annoyance. Enjoy sweet treats with gift cards to Sfera Sicilian Street Food, Jennivee’s Bakery and SWAY Cannabis Dispensary.

THIS WEEKEND

🫶🏾 The Belonging Bash

Tomorrow at Outset (6PM)

Join Collaboraction Theatre for The Belonging Bash, a benefit for youth education, with DJs including Dabura and Ron Carroll, plus live music, food, drink, and silent auctions!

🍜 Extra MSG

Saturday on Argyle street, (7PM)

Enhance your flavor at Extra MSG, an AANHPI Pride Party and night market, with performances, art installations, music and delicious food (duh!). Enter to win tickets!

🏺 Dive Into Pride Pool Party: Gods & Goddesses

Saturday at InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile (9PM)

The InterContinental hosts its third annual Dive Into Pride: Gods & Goddesses pool party, featuring Naysha Lopez! Book a VIP cabana and lounge with the crew. Win tickets!

🎨 Neutral Gena’s Perfect Pride Party

Sunday at Color Club (4PM-12AM))

The perfect Pride party doesn’t exis— unless you mean Neutral Gena’s Perfect Pride Party, a colorful evening of fun with drag, music, burlesque, and ice cream!

🎤 Bookclub X Miss Toto Present: Unmuted

Sunday, 6/29 at Bookclub (12PM)

Keep the party going after the Parade at Unmuted! Celebrate with Miss Toto, plus live music from Max Mackie, Dear Jamie, Loona Dae and Raequan Scott. Win tickets now.

FKA TWIGS

Experience FKA twigs' highly anticipated Eusexua Tour with Koreless at The Salt Shed on 6/24 & 25. The avant-pop icon will deliver a mesmerizing performance, blending ethereal vocals with innovative choreography.*

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We’re off to see the Wizard! 🧹