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Daily Email - Thursday - 7/10/2025

July 10, 2025

Ravenswood On Tap returns for a weekend packed with bold brews, craft cocktails, and summer-fueled fun in Chicago’s boozy backyard. Plus, axe-throwing! Enter to win a pair of Hop Head Bundle tickets and sip your way through the weekend, 7/19-20. Cheers!*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Rock icon Melissa Etheridge is joined by the Indigo Girls at Pritzker Pavilion next month! We've teamed up with JAM to bring you a staycation, including a night at the Kimpton Gray Hotel and tickets to the show. Just enter to win!*

  • Dim Sum & Drag is back at Furama, serving its first-ever Bollywood brunch, featuring kings, queens, and comedy! Win a pair of all-inclusive tickets.

  • DAYHAÜS returns to D.S. Tequila for another fierce day-to-night party with beats by club legend Ron Carroll and more! Use code Pride25 for 25% off tix.

  • Calling all hot b*tches: Hot B!t@# Party is back at Smartbar next month with Only Fire, Miss Twink USA and Miss B. Haven on the decks.

  • Queer electronic pop artist Baths brings his experimental, atmospheric sound to Sleeping Village on 9/17. Get ready for a beautiful, intimate concert!

CHICAGO FESTIVAL TICKET GIVEAWAYS!

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It’s festival season, babes! Let’s do a visualization exercise: you’re sipping a cuuute drink, wearing a sl*tty little outfit, and dancing in the sun with your besties. Do you see it? Now all you gotta do is enter to win some festival tickets and you’re basically already there:

THIS WEEKEND

🎭 An Evening with Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara

Sunday at Ravinia Festival (4PM)

Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara light up Ravinia with the CSO and Marin Alsop in a one night only event where Broadway brilliance meets symphonic power. Big voices and big feels all a perfect summer evening. Enter to win a pair of lawn tickets!*

💅 Strapped

Tomorrow at Empty Bottle (10PM)

Let’s go lesbians (and lesbian-adjacents)! Monthly sapphic soirée Strapped is back tomorrow with another night of hot drag, babes, and beats. Don’t miss out.

🪩 BUMP. w/ Sugar & Spice

Saturday at Never Have I Ever (11PM)

Good evening, angels! This weekend at BUMP., RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15 stars Sugar and Spice bring heaven and hell at the ultimate look party. Let’s dance!

🍗 Y’all’s Brunch

Sunday, 7/20 at Carol’s Pub (12PM)

At Y’all’s Brunch, one things for sure: y’all means all! This monthly country-western-inspired drag brunch serves denim, rhinestones and country sass a-plenty. Yee-haw!

🎤 Duckwrth

Tuesday, 9/16 at The Promontory (8PM)

Let’s start a riot! Genre-defying artist Duckwrth blends alt-rock and hip hop on his new All American Freak Show Tour, coming to The Promontory to close out the summer.

LOCALS ONLY

  • CPL’s annual Queer Radical Fair brings gender- and ability-inclusive fashions to Ping Tom Memorial Park on 7/31! Get down to live music with photo-ops, food, library resources, and more.

  • Join Chicago Dyke March Collective for a party at Promontory Point on 7/26. On the agenda: arm-wrestling, grilled food, and community!

  • The first-ever Trans Pride Festival is happening tonight at Humboldt Park! Celebrate trans pride at Transilience, with drag, music, circus, comedy, and so much more.

She didn’t come to play, she came to hack the cis-tem. Hey, Slug! 💚