ChicagoPride.com: LGBT Chicago events for Thursday, May 24, 2012

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The Big Picture

MAY

Skin Trade - Grabby Weekend Kickoff

MAY

Go Girl Live!

MAY

Cirque Shanghai: Year of the Dragon

MAY

Chicago's 44th Annual Gay Pride Parade

JUN

Northalsted Market Days

AUG

events around Chicago Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Arnie Lanza

Berlin Nightclub *

STARDUST Thursdays, with live performances and special DJs. 2nd Thu. is co-conspired by Pyramids of Pluto/ Jean Shorts, Sisterman, & Smooth & Delicious. Last Thu. is co-conspired by ratcatchers.com and CULT. $1 select shots, $3 Bacardi Bombs, $5 “Tropical Sex” pints, $2 Old Style Light, $5.50 Ultimat Vodka, $6.50 Patron Silver, $5+ cover

Hunters *

Hunters Hunks male dancers at 10:30 pm, with DJ Laura B

Scarlet Bar *

Frat House Party, $5 Miller Light 40oz, $5 Long Island Mini-Pitchers

Maneuvers Bar *

$7.00 Bottomless Miller Lite Draft

Sidetrack *

Cocktail Hour videos 3 - 8 p.m., Laugh Track comedy night hosted by Adam Guerino and Bradley Thomas 8-9 p.m.

Parlour on Clark *

Lipstick The Lesbian Dance Party featuring $4 cocktails

Atmosphere Bar *

Pants Off Dance Off: Male Dancers with TOMAS the Magician. $3 well, $13 Cosmo pitchers

Wilde Bar and Restaurant *

WILDE Thursday's with DJ Tisha and hot drink specials!

North End *

$9.75 Miller Lite Pitchers

DS Tequila Company *

$9.99 All-You-Can-Eat Tacos, Bar Olympics

Pie Hole Pizza Joint

Karaoke with Creagh

Jackhammer

$2 MGD/Miller Lite/Bud/Bud Light, $3 premium domestics and imports, DJ Man Scott

Mary's Attic

Big Red’s Cabaret with Meghan Murphy (2nd & 4th Thurs.), Bent: Brit Pop, Indie and Disco (3rd Thurs.)

The Call (Chicago)

After-work karaoke 7-11 p.m., $5 Absolut cocktails, specials on Long Island pithcers and buckets of beers

The Art Institute of Chicago

Free Admission 5:00–8:00 PM

Bonsai Bar & Lounge

Bonsai serves their signature martini's for $6 and $4 well drinks until 2am. Must be 21/with ID

Center on Halsted

3PM-8PM: Night for ages 13-24 to focus on different discussion topics, self-expression, role-playing, games and projects.

Spin Nightclub

$5 Absolut Cocktails, $4 Miller Lite & Coors Light Drafts

Club Krave

StarFinder Craig’s Karaoke with bartender Andrew, $5 you-call-it top shelf

Halsted's Bar and Grill

$5.95 Buffalo chicken wraps, all drafts $3.50

Manhandler

$2 cactus juice/kool-ade/schnapps; "Jeopardy" 3:30pm; "Wheel of Fortune" 6:30pm.

Big Chicks

$10 Pitchers of Blue Moon, $2.75 Rolling Rock, $4 Cosmos, Chicken specials night—$5 wing basket, $6 Chicken breast sandwich $5 chickenburger

Downtown Bar and Lounge

Moose and Voxbox every Thursday, upstairs. 6-10pm

Crew Bar & Grill

All draft beer pints $3, Bottomless Chips n’ Salsa $2.50

Rehab Lounge

5pm-4am: $3 Coronas, $6 Hornitos Tequila-tinis

Hamburger Mary's

$3.50 home brew pints

Bobby Love's

$1 off domestic & draft, $1 Pucker

Jeffrey Pub

No cover, free entry pass to first 35 guests to be used Friday or Saturday

Broadway Youth Center

6PM-8PM: Positive, a support group for HIV+ youth, ages 16-24.

Touche

Handballer Night, red/white hanky specials, club room open

Scot's

$4 all drafts

CGY: Youth Pride Center

6PM-8PM Art Studio/Movie Night. LGBT youth 23 and under can express themselves through art. New movie releases.

Encompass Nightclub

Drink & Drown Thursdays, $1 house wells, $1 dom. drafts, $1 wine, sponsored by Miller Lite and Coors Light

The Noble Fool Theater

9PM (thru July 31) Singer Armstrong and accompanist Freddie Allen present an evening of music & comedy.

Little Jim's

$2.25 Busch Light/Old Style

Baton Show Lounge

Shows 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 12:30 a.m.

Charlie's

$3 top shelf drinks and beer, ‘80s flashback night

Roscoe's

$12 Smirnoff Tidal Wave Pitchers, $2.50 Miller Lite Drafts, $10 Miller Lite Pitchers, $5 Jameson Shots

1:00pm

Go Girl Live!

Go Girl is moving off the web! Go Girl Live! is an after-work networking event for adventurous, independent, global women to gather and meet one another in a fun and relaxed atmosphere while supporting a local non-profit. Join Go Girl and the Chicago Women’s Health Center for a presentation of “The Anatomy of Pleasure.”

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LGBTQ Artist recruitment

June is PRIDE Month! Which means it is time for Chicago Urban Art Retreat’s Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Queer Art Show.

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2:00pm

Cirque Shanghai: Year of the Dragon

Running May 24-September 3, rain or shine, at the Pepsi Skyline Stage, the 1,500-seat, canopied, open-air theater on Navy Pier.

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6:00pm

The Big Picture

The Board of Chicago Lost and Found invite you to join them for the Big Picture; raising needed support for education in the community through the visual arts. Enjoy cocktails, and tasty treats provided by celebrity Chef, Dale Levitski of Chicago's newest dining sensation, Frog N Snail.

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Chicago Dyke March Collective to Hold Safety Marshall Training

For questions or to reserve your seat, please e-mail dykemarchchicago@gmail.com or call 773-330-6878. Training is free and open to everyone.

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7:00pm

AfterWork KaraokeThursday

AfterWork Karaoke every Thursday in Andersonville at The Call on Bryn Mawr. Singing starts at 7pm. Always a secret song for $25 bar tab! Hosted By Karaoke by Creagh. Beer bucket specials all day - but order by 10p and get a basket of fries from our friends at Burger Philosophy. Weekly themes. So who are you gonna sing?

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Asians and Friends Chicago Dining Club

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Lambda Literary Awards finalist reading for Chicago and Midwestern authors

The authors, book titles, and nomination category are: Lesley Gowen, The Collectors, Lesbian Erotica; Karleen Pendleton Jimenez, How to Get a Girl Pregnant, Lesbian Memoir/Biography; Martha Miller, Retirement Plan, Lesbian Mystery; Katherine Scott Nelson, Have You Seen Me, Gay Debut Fiction; L.A. Witt; Static, transgender fiction and LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror; and David Trinidad, nominated in the Gay Poetry category as the author of Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems and in the same category as editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos. Our special guest at the event will be Judith Markowitz, national co-president of the Lambda Literary Foundation

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8:00pm

Laugh Track presents Brad Loekle

Hosts Bradley Thomas and Adam Guerino present this special stand-up comedy showcase for Bear Pride/IML weekend. No cover. Full one-hour set from Brad.

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9:00pm

Bear Pride Early Bird Party

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Steampunk Thursdays

Elate is taking its eco-friendly philosophy to new heights, on Thursdays, by re-inventing itself as the Steampunk center of Chicago.

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10:00pm

Skin Trade - Grabby Weekend Kickoff

Hydrate is hosting the Official Grabby Weekend Kickoff Party! Come meet and mingle with the superstars of the adult industry and DJ Chi Chi LaRue

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Nikki Lynette LIVE

w/ DJ Narz Marcus Shaddon.

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Crew Karaoke

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MAY

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