LGBTQ+ Events in Chicago

12:00 Gay Singles Meet Up (21-35 and 36-50) October- Chicago Andersonville Farmers Market › 13:00 Drinking & Dragons at Fathom Fathom › 14:00 The Thoughtful Gay Man Chicago › 14:00 Trans Umbrella 2Bears Tavern Uptown › 14:00 BARK BARK BITE: a comedy show at Dorothy Dorothy › 14:30 A Strange Loop About Face Theatre $20 › 15:00 German Fare Charlie's Chicago › 15:00 CLUB HEAVEN: A Night of Queer Poetry, Music, and Song The Understudy Coffee and Books › 16:00 All Things Gaga Sidetrack › 18:00 Snatched Wednesdays Progress Bar › – iScream › – Weekday Specials Kit Kat Lounge › – Social Hour › – House of Couture Thursdays ↳ Kit Kat Lounge › – Late Night Sapphics ›

11:00 boyz night STEAMWORKS BATHS › 12:00 Faultlines Art Exhibition FOURTUNEHOUSE Art Center › 13:00 5th Annual Community Reception Barcocina Lakeview › 13:00 Chicago's Gay Ghosts: Old Town North/Wells › 14:00 Spooky Coochie Cabaret Dorothy › 14:00 Connection Hour Dearly Beloved › 14:00 The Traitors: New Blood Watch Parties at Fathom Fathom › 14:00 True Crime Drag Show 10/15 The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret › 15:00 Ladies Night Club Escape › 15:00 Club Flamingo Hydrate › 15:30 IBT's Divalicious • Thursday - 10/15 IBT's Bar + Food › 17:00 FLOW Thursdays Progress Bar › 18:00 Vanda LaRose's DEATH AT THE DRAG SHOW Hydrate › – The Rocky Horror Drag Dinner Kit Kat Club Chicago › – Chaotic Singles SAPPHIC HALLOWEEN Party (Chicago) Dorothy › – Steamworks Chicago - Saturday Night Steamworks Chicago ›

11:00 Queer Crafting Awakenings › 14:00 Diva Royale Show - Drag Queen Show Chicago Primary Night Club › 14:30 Spencer LaJoye at LVPC Lake View Presbyterian Church › 14:30 ONE” and “BLOOD SPILL” Double Bill $25 › 15:00 Cryptids, Queers, and Karaoke: a Halloween Party and Vendor market Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro › 15:00 Queer Open Mic Eli Tea Bar › 15:00 Cum Union Steamworks Baths › 16:00 Shine on Halsted Mondays › 17:00 DJ Feature: DJ JINX'D at Dorothy › 18:00 Hauntin’ — Happy Bday Martin Hydrate › – Jesus Montanez - Hydrate Nightclub › – Wicked Bottomless Drag Brunch Lark Restaurant & Bar › – CircuitMOM & Uncle Present: Haunted Hollywood 4: Walk of Fame › – Stories in Action: A Community Gathering with Migrant Support Collective › – Goblin Market's Queer Horror Book Club Free entry ›

5:00 OUT at CHM | North Side LGBTQIA+ Stories Walking Tour Meetup: Single Lesbians in the City Free entry › 5:00 Chicago's Gay Ghosts: Rogers Park Clark/Devon $25 › 5:30 Slow Burn: Sapphic Speed Dating - Spooky Edition Eli Tea Bar › 8:00 4th Saturday afternoon Steamworks Bear Hump party › 8:30 Illusions The Drag Brunch Chicago- Drag Queen Brunch Show Chicago Illusions the Drag Queen Brunch Chicago › 12:00 HRC Chicago Annual Dinner: Woven in Color Meetup: Single Lesbians in the City Free entry › 12:00 Gay Ghosts: Lincoln Park (After Dark) Diversey CTA Station › 12:00 Gay Men Speed Dating | Chicago | Fancy a Go? | Singles Night Recess › 12:00 S Sapphic Saturday at Sidetrack Meetup: Single Lesbians in the City › 14:00 Single Lesbians in the City › 14:00 LinkUp Lounge Drop-in › 14:30 The Swallow $25 › 15:00 FOR THE GIRLS Level Sporting Club › 16:00 Dorothy Pop! x Strapped! Dorothy › 16:00 Draglicious Hydrate › 17:00 On a Tuesday! › – Queen! › – Backshots - Chicago Eagle › – Spooky & Gay: a queer horror storytelling cabaret! 13 › – B Backshots ›

14:00 NIGHTMARE ON QUEER STREET Chicago Theater Works › 15:00 Sapphic Adventures: Halloween Costume Party › 15:00 Steamworks Chicago - Halloween Party Steamworks Chicago › 15:00 30 Years of Horror: a very 1996 Halloween Weekend at Fathom - SCREAM Fathom › 16:00 Gay for Pay The Lincoln Lodge › 16:00 Freshman 15 Hydrate › 19:30 Don Lemon & DL Hughley: DL + DL 'Anything Goes The Chicago Theatre › – Villains Halloween Ball + Drag Dinner Kit Kat Lounge › – Dolloween: a Lesbian Halloween Party by Ladies Love Us $22.15 › – BRÜT Party - Chicago Halloween $33 › – Isis Muretech - Hydrate Nightclub › – Smartbar Halloween Party › – Haunted Halsted Halloween Parade › – Hocus Pocus Halloween Bottomless Drag Brunch Lark Restaurant & Bar › – Primal Howl › – LIPSTICK LOUNGE: VILLAIN ERA › – Queer Halloween Bash Whiskey Girl Tavern Free entry ›