Gay Prom — Dorothy

Contents:

• GAY PROM AT DOROTHY
• GAY PROM PRENTED BY JäGERMEISTER!
• GAY PROM PRENTED BY JäGERMEISTER!
• 31 PRI MONTH PARTI IN CHIGO: GAY PROM, BACK LOT BASH, ROOFTOP PARTI, SPEED DATG AND MORE
• GAY PROMPRENTED BY JäGERMEISTER
• GAY PROM PRENTED BY JäGERMEISTER!
• NOW WE CAN DANCE: THE STORY OF THE HAYWARD GAY PROM” DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCED BY HAYWARD LIBRARY
• FIRST GAY PROM ALLOWS STUNTS TO ‘BE THEMSELV’

GAY PROM AT DOROTHY

Kick off PRIDE month at Dorothy wh a versn of Prom you never got to have - 100% GAY. CHICAGO — A sunset cise, a roller skatg party, dis danc, a mic ft and more are all on ck for Pri ’s a roundup of 31 Pri celebratns happeng this month:Cred: Provid/Jordan GravInterr of Dorothy, a new bar Ukraian VillageGay Prom6-10 p.

Chigo cktails, a ee photo booth, DJs and more, Gay Prom is the “queer betiful dance party that you didn’t get to have high school. Celebrate gay pri at this rooftop pat party featurg DJ Jie Tha Kidd.

The distheque party “rells the gay speakeasi of yteryear” wh classic and ntemporary hoe mic, synth pop and dis rerds.

GAY PROM PRENTED BY JäGERMEISTER!

GAY PROMprented by JägermeisterJUNE 1ST, 2023PHOTOS BY VICKY HOLDA - @victoriamariephotos. Thu-mon 6pm-clJo Our Mailg ListUpg EventsOur WebseRerve Mic Mondays: DJ CallGay Prom Photos! As one might fer om s name, Dorothy — a nod to “iends of Dorothy, ” a 20th century phemism for gay people — aims to rve out a niche for self among LGBTQ Chigoans.

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31 PRI MONTH PARTI IN CHIGO: GAY PROM, BACK LOT BASH, ROOFTOP PARTI, SPEED DATG AND MORE

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‘It was the most fun I’d had a long time’Amari Callaway, 26, PhilalphiaI -hosted a queer prom last summer through my queer skate crew Rollg wh the Homos. The tradn beme mastream by the end of the super blah 1950s, and wasn't until 1979 that the first openly gay uple me to prom Sux Falls, South Dakota. The first "gay prom" happened almost 20 years later Los Angel, California.

NOW WE CAN DANCE: THE STORY OF THE HAYWARD GAY PROM” DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCED BY HAYWARD LIBRARY

Aaron Fricke, a gay stunt who sought a urt orr to allow him to brg a male iend to his high school prom. "A uple of years ago, there was a big mystery about how we n support youth who intify as gay and lbian, " Lyl said.

FIRST GAY PROM ALLOWS STUNTS TO ‘BE THEMSELV’

While his school has a "huge muny" of queer kids, he "didn't even know what the word trans meant" until his sophomore year high school.

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