Out x Out ISSUE 03
▸ THE CHICAGO EDITION
THIS WEEK
IN LGBTQ+
CHICAGO.

Chicago's first LGBTQ+ Affairs Director gets a Center on Halsted welcome, MUNA drops a new album with a release party Friday at Scarlet Bar, and a SpongeBob drag brunch lands at Splash on Saturday. Plus 37 gay events to fill the weekend.

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01
Chicago's first LGBTQ+ Affairs Director gets his Boystown welcome.

A standing-room reception at Center on Halsted feted Antonio King last Thursday, with Mayor Brandon Johnson on hand — Chicago is the largest US city with an executive-level role dedicated to LGBTQ+ equity.
02
The Met Gala was gay as hell.

Heated Rivalry's Connor Storrie hit Monday's carpet in a Saint Laurent polka-dotted halter and co-star Hudson Williams arrived in 1947-matador-inspired Balenciaga with exposed chest — anchoring a queerer-than-usual front row at fashion's biggest night.
03
Trump DOJ investigates 36 Illinois school districts over "gender ideology".

The Civil Rights Division is auditing curricula and trans athletes' participation; Pritzker called it a sham, accusing the administration of "belittling the rights and humanity of LGBTQ+ communities."
04
The Devil Wears Prada 2 outdid the original.

Meryl, Anne, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt reunited for the May 1 sequel — fans flooded socials calling it the rare follow-up that surpasses the first, and it pulled $233M globally in opening weekend.
05
Eurovision lands in Vienna with the first Queer Safe Space in ESC history.

"Queers in the Garden" runs May 13-16 at Volksgarten Pavillon — daytime queer hub, nightly clubbings, public viewings of the semis and Saturday's final.
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