2023 Pride Events
Pride month in Chicago hits different. ESPECIALLY in Chicago’s proudest neighborhood, Northalsted. Your favorite bars and restaurants are celebrating Pride Month daily, and we don’t want you to miss a second of it. Get your rainbow boa and face glitter out, Pride is bigger than ever before this month!
On Thursday June 8th, Sidetrack is celebrating their 41st birthday! To celebrate, their selling $3 cocktails, beers, and frozen drinks!
Come hungry because they’ll provide light bites during the evening! Don’t miss your chance to win fun prizes in the annual drawings at 8:30 pm & 11:00 pm. Dance & sing the night away to a mix of All Things Sidetrack celebrating 41 years of serving the Chicago LGBTQIA+ Community.
Sidetrack is continuing the tradition of supporting Groceryland, so please bring a new personal grooming, cleaning product or paper product and/or feel free to make a cash donation at the door. No Cover…it’s Sidetrack.
Pride Bar Crawl – June 10th
The North End is hosting their Annual Pride Bar Crawl on June 10th! 20% of all event proceeds will be going to Center on Halsted. Last year, the crawl was able to donate $22,653 to the Trevor Project! Tickets are on sale now, and include
1-2 Complimentary Drinks Or Shots!
Crawl With US Stadium Party Cup! (First 100 Check Ins)
Free Cover To Our Drag Show! ($15 Without Ticket)
Exclusive Drink Specials!
Food Specials At Partner Venues!
Waived Cover At All Venues ($5-$15 at Some Venues Without Ticket)
Professional Photographers!
Awesome After Party!
Access To Our Crawl Map!
Custom Pride Badge With Vouchers
Some Tops Required Queer Prom: A Starry Night
Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted
Some Tops Required is one of Chicago’s top-tier intermural LGBTQIA+ Kickball Teams and we are proud to announce and formally invite you to their inaugural Queer Prom! This event is 21+ and will be a night of great music, dancing, live performances, cash bar, 50/50 Prom Royalty Raffle and Silent Auction with all proceeds going to support Center on Halsted’s Youth & Family Services!
Put on your best and most creative prom attire and join us Saturday, June 10, 2023, at 7pm at The Center on Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre for an amazing evening you won’t soon forget!
Chicago’s own and highly acclaimed, DJ Ca$h Era will be holding down the music so you can dance the night away.
We will also have Chicago’s own Girl Next Door… that does drag, Khloe Coulee will be headlining the event with additional performances by Ziggy Banks, Dynasty Banks, Kitty Banks, Raequan Scott, and Luna Lux!
Think you are worthy of being crowned Prom Royalty? If so, then enter the 50/50 Raffle, each ticket you purchase increases your change of being crowned and walk away that evening with 50% of the raffle proceeds with the other 50% going to Center on Halstead!
Royalty not really your thing? That’s ok, we have plenty of AMAZING items up for grabs in our Silent Auction with 100% of the proceeds going directly to Center on Halstead! The official After Prom Party will take place at The North End immediately after prom ends so we can keep the party going!
Chicago Cubs Pride Night
Join us for the Cubs’ annual Pride Celebration at Wrigley Field Tuesday, June 13, in support of the LGBTQ+ community. The Pride Celebration will include:
LGBTQIA+ Mixer at Bonus Round Café
June 15th, 6:30 pm
Who doesn’t love a good old-fashioned game night?! Bonus Round Café hosts a monthly LGBTQIA+ mixer, and this month it falls on June 15th! Bring some friends, or come alone and mix and mingle!
Kit Kat Lounge, Daily Drag Shows
The Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club is a premier destination venue for every type of occasion and every demographic. With an innovative martini and cocktail list of more than 200 offerings, upscale contemporary cuisine, entertainment by the world famous Kit Kat Divas and sleek “South Beach meets Hollywood” inspired décor, Kit Kat is truly a world-class entertainment hotspot.
Schedule
Dinner Tuesday-Sunday from 5pm to 10:30pm, bar & lounge service until 2am / 3am Saturday.
Dinner & Drag shows every night by the world famous Kit Kat Divas!
Divalicious Brunch on Saturdays & Sundays seating times are 10:30AM, 1PM, and 3:15PM with a 2 hour seating limit.
June 16, 10 pm
D.S. Tequila Company, 3352 N. Halsted
“Who’s ready for some more sugar?” Celebrate Chicago Pride “with a sugar rush like never before.” Groove to disco house beats by L.A.-based DJ Charlie B and is joined by Utica Queen, Justin Newman, Kinley Preston, and Eli Manza. Sweet and Sexy Boy J and Paulie will be there to satisfy your sweetest desires! The cover starts at 10 pm!
Get In the Kitchen is THE party school of cooking classes! LGBTQ+ owned, they host multiple cooking parties a week. This is the June lineup:
June 16: Pride Cooking & Drag Queen Karaoke, Twisted Tapas Night!
June 17: Pride Cooking & Drag Queen Karaoke, Pizza & Buffalo Chicken Rangoon Night!
June 23: Pride Cooking & Drag Queen Karaoke, Caribbean Night!
June 24: Pride Cooking & Queens! Pasta Party
June 25: Pride Parade Drag Queen Make Your Own Bagel Brunch
Sunday, June 25th at The Annoyance Theater
WRISTBAND INCLUDES ENTRY TO ALL HOG HEAVEN PERFORMANCES!
Derry Queen presents Hog Heaven: The Annoyance Pride Party. Tickets include access to all 4 shows including Gag! featuring Rupauls Drag Race Season 14 winner Willow Pill, Strapped hosted by Irregular Girl and Siichele, The Winner Circle hosted by Miss Toto and Alexandrea Diamond, and the 2nd annual 21 and under performer pageant “The 2023 Chicago All Hogs Go To Heaven Intercontinental Drag Pageant At Large”. Doors open at 2:30 with shows every hour. Come get your slop!
