Join ReAlive for this monthly gathering of tea, tarot reading, and conversation! Open to all levels of experience; please bring your own favorite tea and tarot or divination deck.
Uniting Pride is hosting Queer Prom, free and open to all central Illinois middle and high schoolers! Doors will open at 6 pm, and music with the one and only DJ Silkee begins at 6:30. Masks are required, and RSVP in advance is greatly appreciated.
Local LGBTQIA+ teens, you're invited! Dress up, dance, play games, enjoy snacks, and join the "Rainbow Royalty Runway Competition!" Proceeds benefit Youth Outlook.
Mary's Quite Contrary House of Burlesque is back with "That '80s Burlesque Show!," here to kick start your heart and take back to the 80's! The evening features a Big Hair contest, and guest performers Nikki Wiseman, Pole Dancer; Shayne Neubert, Comedian; and drag kings Logan Flynn-El and Chasen El-Lewis. Order tickets for $15 to $50 at link below!
Join Mason City Pride for its monthly social time, "business" meeting, and after-gathering!
Kick off the Quad City Rollers' seven-week training. No skating experience is required, and anyone age 18 or older is welcome to attend. "Our newbie coaches will help you learn everything you need to know in a no-pressure fun environment." Click on the link below for required gear, information on dues, practice schedules and more. Email [email protected] for more information.
t of This two-part event, will help you find the tools to "support and surround LGBTQ+ people in every sector of this community, from health care facilities to small businesses, churches to school classrooms" writes The Project. Lunch included! Register here:Â https://givebutter.com/WycCgW
Mary Quite Contrary, Sinaman, Danger Delish, Logan Flynn-El, Rory Monroe and Eli El-Snaps join together for this night of scary fun.
Learn how you can help with CR Pride this year! This year's event happens in two waves: one June 4 with the first-ever Pride parade, and the other with the big festival July 9. Learn about all the volunteer opportunities.
Rainbow Cafe and the Carbondale Park District are hosting their second family-friendly Picnic in the Park at Attucks Park, complete with local vendors, food trucks, face painting, a bounce house, and community partners like the Southern Illinois Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Bring your entire family for a queer day at the park!
Enjoy this monthly discussion of a timely book relevant to LGBTQ people! Upcoming books to be discussed: "Real Life" by Brandon LG Taylor;Â "Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name" by Audre Lorde; and "The House In The Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune.
Kick off the Quad City Rollers' seven-week training. No skating experience is required, and anyone age 18 or older is welcome to attend. "Our newbie coaches will help you learn everything you need to know in a no-pressure fun environment." Click on the link below for required gear, information on dues, practice schedules and more. Email [email protected] for more information.
"Step by step, the letters and number of LGBTQIA2 will be broken down into simple descriptions." Give yourself the gift of learning about these letters, plus resources that will help you understand even further. Presenter K (they/them and she/her) is a hospice chaplain, wedding officiant, and textile artist. "They have facilitated workshops for church groups that want to be more LGBTQIA2 inclusive but didn't know where to start, and they were on the diversity committee for the Embroiderers Guild of America. " K also interned at the Milwaukee Gay Arts…
Here's the latest in this collaboration of FilmScene and Iowa City Pride, a film that shows "the coming out of an evangelical father" and that experience's impact on his family and community, and the "profoundly repressive society" at the root of his faith.
This festival that draws up to 10,000 central Illinoisans returns in person for the first time in two years, with contests, vendors, performances, dancing, and more -- all organized by the Phoenix Center!
Enjoy tarot readers, palmistry, mediums, reiki, artists and craftsmen, food trucks, a bar, vendors, and workshops at this two-day event.
Come out to Levings Park in Rockford to support small Black business owners and do some shopping!
Rainbow Cafe is hosting their 1st annual community Pride Prom at Carbondale's Garden Grove. Get your gayest formalwear ready and be ready for a night you won't soon forget - complete with drag performances, drinks, music, and more!
This family-friendly drag brunch raises money for Iowa City Pridefest, happening June 18.
Enjoy tarot readers, palmistry, mediums, reiki, artists and craftsmen, food trucks, a bar, vendors, and workshops at this two-day event.
Learn from instructor Zanetta Hoehle about three ways to make a clasp that matches your wire work!. No experience needed. Register in person, via phone at 319 338-1566, or on-line. Fee includes instructions and supplies. Beading stations are distanced and masks are required. Demos projected onto a large screen.
Kick off the Quad City Rollers' seven-week training. No skating experience is required, and anyone age 18 or older is welcome to attend. "Our newbie coaches will help you learn everything you need to know in a no-pressure fun environment." Click on the link below for required gear, information on dues, practice schedules and more. Email [email protected] for more information.
You might have heard the term "non-binary" within the past few years, or perhaps "genderqueer" or the use of unfamiliar pronouns. This presentation shall explain these terms, what it means when someone claims them, and etiquette around non-binary people. K (they/them and she/her) is a hospice chaplain, wedding officiant, and textile artist. They have facilitated workshops for church groups that want to be more LGBTQIA2 inclusive but didn't know where to start, and they were on the diversity committee for the Embroiderers Guild of America. In undergrad they interned at…
Sign up to compete, or join the audience! If performing, sign up by 9:30: cash prizes of $50 and $100.
It's another night of adult entertainment at Varieties Nightclub in Davenport, with the theme of "grown and sexy." Expect the explicit!.
Learn to use tools and gravity to shape beads, from Karen Kubby! You'll make a bicone and vase shape. "Lots of practice will lead to consistent results." Basic lampworking skills are required. Registration includes all materials, instruction, use of studio and tools, and annealing. Register in person, via phone at 319 338-1566, or on-line.
t of This two-part event, will help you find the tools to "support and surround LGBTQ+ people in every sector of this community, from health care facilities to small businesses, churches to school classrooms" writes The Project. Lunch included! Register here:Â https://givebutter.com/WycCgW
Use your peyote skills to make embellished leaves that are wonderful as a pendant, earrings, or a branch full of them cascading down a lariat. Instructor Karen Kubby will also offer modifications to make them thinner, wider, and longer. Basic peyote stitch skills are required; call for a private tutorial if needed! Registration includes all materials and instruction. Register in person, via phone at 319 338-1566, or on-line. Beading stations are distanced and masks are required. Demos projected onto a large screen.
Join the fun and fundraising at one of the Midwest's oldest LGBTQ+ bars.
Enjoy the beauty and poise of the Miss Iowa City pageant for 2022. Prizes include booking on the Iowa City Pride Main Stage on Saturday June 18th 2022 and others.
Capital City Pride kicks off "30 Days of Pride" for the second year in a row, with this special bingo event hosted by Ima Moista Toweletta Beaverhausen. Join the fun and compete for prizes, for as little as $10 a card.
Kick off the Quad City Rollers' seven-week training. No skating experience is required, and anyone age 18 or older is welcome to attend. "Our newbie coaches will help you learn everything you need to know in a no-pressure fun environment." Click on the link below for required gear, information on dues, practice schedules and more. Email [email protected] for more information.
This "fun with rainbows" game involves seeking rainbows, taking pictures of rainbows, reading clues about rainbows, and more. Everyone gets swag bags for this event that stretches "from the western gateway to the east village, nothing south of MLK, nothing north of Grand."
Join ReAlive for this monthly gathering of tea, tarot reading, and conversation! Open to all levels of experience; please bring your own favorite tea and tarot or divination deck.
For the third day of "30 Days of Pride:," explore this intense look at the story of Amin Nawabi, who shares "his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan."
Sioux City joins together for its annual Pride event, featuring vendors, entertainment from an all-star show, a film festival, diversity march, and artwork. This is part of a two-day celebration.
Two-day celebration in beautiful riverfront Schwiebert Park, Rock Island!
Karen Kubby leads this class to use peyote stitch and herringbone skills to create lovely, lightweight earrings. Instructions created by Laurel Kubby! Basic peyote skills required; call for a private tutorial. Registration includes all materials and instruction. Register in person, via phone at 319 338-1566, or on-line. Beading stations are distanced and masks are required. Demos projected onto a large screen.
CR Pride holds its first-ever Pride Parade to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a Pride celebration in Cedar Rapids! Parade applications and additional informatione Para at www.crprideia.com.
Sioux City joins together for its annual Pride event, featuring vendors, entertainment from an all-star show, a film festival, diversity march, and artwork. This is part of a two-day celebration.
Two-day celebration in beautiful riverfront Schwiebert Park, Rock Island!
Get ready for Rockford's Pride Month Kick Off Party. Live bands, DJs, drag, and a car parade are just a small taste of what Rockford is planning to offer this season!
This annual awards ceremony by Iowa's leading civil rights activist group for LGBTQ features advocates, a silent auction, and interactive vendors.