1. LGBT milWALKee App Tour
AVAILABLE NOW | MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Take a walk through Milwaukee’s LGBT history with this new app. LGBT milWALKee has created a mobile app that tells the history of local LGBTQ+ people, organizations and events through physical sites mapped into virtual walking tours.
2. Turn Up the Pride Event
JUNE 17 FROM 6-8 P.M. | PUSH FITNESS MKE
Dance for a cause with a class with Turn Up MKE Dance Fitness. The classes are made for everyone and incorporate HIIT, strength, and dance. All proceeds will be donated to Courage MKE, a movement to provide housing, resources and services needed for displaced and homeless LGBTQ+ youth in Milwaukee to thrive. If dancing for fitness is not your thing, donations are accepted.
Tell us who you’d pick to be a Betty this year!
3. Moonlight Showing
JUNE 18 AT 7 P.M. | ORIENTAL THEATER
This 2017 Academy award-winning film is the story of a young man’s struggle to find himself. A coming-of-age story told in three chapters, he grapples with his own sexuality and the difficulties that come with growing up.
4. Kenosha Pride Fundraiser
JUNE 18 AT 7 P.M. | INMOXICATED
Have fun while you raise funds to support Kenosha Pride 2022 taking place on July 10. The evening will include a raffle, a drag show, and drink specials.
5. Nationwide Pride Bar Crawl
JUNE 18 FROM 4 P.M.-MIDNIGHT | MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Participate with the LGBTQ+ community in a nationwide Pride Bar Crawl. The hosts, Crawl with US, plan bar crawls in major cities across the country on the same night to celebrate Pride Month. Join the crawl from 4 -10.p.m., and stick around for the afterparty. Tickets waive all cover fees include two drinks, swag, and more. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Trevor Project.
6. Butterfly Collective MKE Presents: La Gayla
JUNE 26 AT 7 P.M. | SUGAR MAPLE
Butterfly Collective MKE is hosting its first-ever “Gayla.” There will be special performances, local vendors, each ticket come with a free drink and a raffle ticket. All ticket proceeds will go directly toward fundraising for Black and Brown trans and gender-nonconforming individuals in the city of Milwaukee.
7. A Staycation With the Rainbow Reign Package
THROUGH JUNE 30 | SAINT KATE – THE ARTS HOTEL
Saint Kate’s is offering a Rainbows Reign package to celebrate Pride Month. The package includes plush overnight accommodations, complimentary self-parking, and a rainbow tote filled with a coffee table book on the history of drag and edible art cookies showcasing work by one of the featured artists.
8. Queer Mythologies: Transabstractions Exhibit
THROUGH JULY 17 | THE GALLERY AT SAINT KATE – THE ARTS HOTEL
This exhibit by Nykoli Koslow, a Milwaukee-based artist, pulls from ancient history, mythology, religion, and mysticism to anchor the feelings of being in a Trans* body into a Queer mythic cosmology. Koslow visualizes Queerness through his own lived experience as well as research-based reinterpretations of his own cultural and religious history.
