Chicago Is A Drag Festival

Chicago’s first ever drag festival features a 50+ artist lineup including internationally touring headliners, reality TV superstars and homegrown Chicago talent! Curated by A Queer Pride, the lineup of CIADF represents drag from across generations, neighborhoods, and performance styles, in addition to diversity in race, gender and sexuality. June 2019 marks a number of LGBTQ milestones including 50 years of Chicago Pride, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and 50 years of Chicago's legendary Baton Lounge. Celebrating the past, present and future of Chicago drag, Chicago Is A Drag Festival will feature celebrated contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants Dida Ritz and Monica Beverly Hillz, Chicago drag powerhouses such as T Rex, Lucy Stoole, Kat Sass, Imp Queen, Aunty Chan, and established pageant titleholders like Mimi Marks, Mokha Montrese, Sheri Payne, Sigourney Beaver, along with DJs Dapper (smallWorld Collective), Draco (Teen Witch Fan Club), Lamia (Swoon), Vitigrrl (Peach) and [X]P (Duro). GA and VIP Meet & Greet Tickets available at www.chicagoisadrag.com SPECIAL GUESTS: Raja Candis Cayne Spikey Van Dykey HOSTED BY: Tiffany "New York" Pollard TS Madison EMCEES: Aunty Chan // Dida Ritz // Khloe Park Lucy Stoole // T Rex SHOWS BY: Abhijeet // Alexis Bevels // Ashley Malone Average // Bambi Banks-Couleé // Bev Rage Chamilla Foxx // Cleo Pockalipps // Danika Bone’t Discord Addams // Dusty Bahls // Elektra Del Rio Hinkypunk // Imp Queen // Irregular Girl // JForPay Kat Sass // Kahmora Hall // Kelly Lauren // Kenzie Couleé Keri Traid // Kimothy // Lila Star // Lo•Ti•On Lucky Stiff // Maureen Sandiego // Mimi Marks Mokha Montrese // Monica Beverly Hillz // Nico O'laysia // Pangaea // Raven Samore Ruff N Stuff // Sasha Love //Savannah Westbrooke Serena Fiierce // Sheri Payne // Sigourney Beaver Switch The Boi // Tenderoni // Toni Valentino Travis Fiero //Valentine DJs: Dapper (smallWorld Collective) // Draco (Teen Witch Fan Club) Lamia (Swoon) // Vitigrrl (Peach) // [X]P (Duro) 21+ ONLY // ADA Accessible Chicago Is A Drag Festival is produced by A Queer Pride. About A Queer Pride: A Queer Pride is a collective of seasoned professionals from Chicago's nightlife landscape, working together to celebrate Pride throughout the year. A combined effort between Scott Cramer, Abhijeet, Melissa Bitch, Bambi Banks Couleé and JForPay, A Queer Pride actively seeks to provide a platform to marginalized and underrepresented members of the LGBTQ community in a political climate that needs these voices to be heard even louder. www.aqueerpride.com

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