The bar’s menu features an assortment of martinis including an Ashley-Tini, Pear-adise Martini and Rum Runner Martini.
This spacious Andersonville bar offers the neighborhood’s largest dance floor and the neighborhood’s longest running drag show, which benefits local charities.
“Sometimes you need someone to help you find a job where you feel safe, sometimes that helps you find families that you don’t have and things like that.”Īhead of Sunday’s parade, here are six nightlife spots perfect for Pride Month and beyond, listed alphabetically. That’s where you connect with people, that’s where you find a lot of things,” Sapphire said. So if you don’t have that, it’s hard to make friends and find people. “(For) queer people,their main spaces are these nightlife spaces. Masala Sapphire, one of the organizers of Trikone Chicago, an organization catering to the city’s queer South Asian population, emphasized that connections people make through nightlife scenes can sustain queer people, long after the night is over. This year’s Chicago Pride Parade comes after a grueling two years for the LGBTQ+ community amid anti-trans legislation in several states and a pandemic that has too often kept queer people apart.īut gathering is the one of the best ways to celebrate Chicago’s vibrant queer community and support the drag queens, bartenders and other queer workers in the nightlife scene.
