LGBT Atlanta’s Best Bets for June 5-June 11

FRIDAY, JUNE 5 – SATURDAY, JUNE 6

Atlanta Women’s Chorus present Good Girls Gone Bad Friday night at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. and
8 p.m. at Druid Hills Presbyterian Church, 1026 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30306

FRIDAY, JUNE 5

Edie Cheezburger presents “The Other Show,” the most unique drag show in Atlanta. Admission is $5, Jungle,
10 p.m., www.jungleatl.com

Oink Oink, y’all. Your favorite little pig
gies are back to bring you another hot
and sweaty night of dancing and drag as Legendary Children hosts Hog Tied ft. Nark (Bottom Forty/Seattle). Dust off those dog masks and get ready to celebrate ATL nightlife in style. Featuring Nark, Vicki Powell, King Atlas, , Brigitte Bidet, Cayenne Rouge, Ella/ saurus/REX, Hydrangea Heath, Kryean Kally, Lavonia Elberton, Modest Volgare and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 7 winner Violet Chachki. Bondage, leather and latex are strongly encouraged. $5 early bird and $10 after 10 p.m., 9 p.m. – 3 a.m., Heretic, www.hereticatlanta.com

SATURDAY, JUNE 6
Christopher Durang’s Tony Award- winning “Masha and Sonia and Masha and Spike” has a lead gay character, running tonight at 8:30 p.m., through June 28, Horizon Theatre, www.horizontheatre.com

Join Atlanta Pride for the Sylvia Rivera Day of Service. Rivera was an American bisexual transgender activist and trans woman who was a founding member of both the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance and helped found Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group dedicated to helping homeless young street drag queens and trans women, with her friend Marsha P. Johnson. Atlanta Pride will host a day of service for Lost-N-Found Youth Atlanta thrift store in Sylvia’s honor. 1 – 4 p.m. To participate, please email laura@atlantapride. org for location details.

It’s two parties in one. DJ Rob Reum spins inside while DJ Daryl Cox turns up the music outside at TEN Atlanta, tenatlanta.com

Dig out those disco pants – My Sister’s Room presents the Represent Your Decade Costume Party, as Jen-Chase Daniels turns 40, www.mysistersroom.com

Divas Monica Van Pelt and Shawnna Brooks present Synergy, 11 p.m. at Burkhart’s, www.burkharts.com

DJ Caprice works the crowd at Bulldogs, 893 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30308

SUNDAY, JUNE 7
Wake up and make joyful noise with the Sisters of Sequin at Gospel Brunch with performers Bubba D. Licious and Justice Counce, 12:30 p.m. followed by a 1:30 p.m. show, Lips Atlanta, www.lipsatl.com

The 25th anniversary celebration of Pets Are Loving Support (P.A.L.S.)
is today from 2 – 5 p.m., Park Tavern, www.parktavern.com

Regina Simms emcees the New Faces event with singers, dancers, musicians, drag kings and queens and more, 9 p.m., Friends on Ponce, www.friendsonponce-atl.com

MONDAY, JUNE 8
Since Mondays tend to drag on anyway, why not make the most of it? MAX’s Wine Dive, the Midtown restaurant and wine
bar known for pairing casual fare with fine wines, has teamed up with Atlanta’s best drag queens for “Monday’s a Drag” — a viewing party from 6 – 10 p.m. each Monday featuring a classic drag movie or TV show. MAX’s is offering campy drinks and food specials. Who doesn’t enjoy a $5 glass of wine or an $8 Mixed Berry Sangria? Ten percent of all food and drink sales from each week’s event will be donated to Lost-n-Found Youth. www.maxswinedive. com/atlanta-12th-street/.

Trans and Friends: a Project of the Feminist Outlawz is a youth focused group for trans people, people questioning their own gender, and aspiring allies. This event is co-sponsored by Charis Circle’s

TUESDAY, JUNE 9
As part of Stonewall Month activities, Out On Film and Atlanta Pride host a free screening of the acclaimed, Golden Globe nominated “Pride,” 7:30 p.m., Midtown Art Cinema, www.outonfilm.org

Angelica D’Paige is the emcee for Drageoke at Burkhart’s at 10:30 p.m., www.burkharts.com

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10
Join Atlanta Pride at Turner Field tonight for the fifth annual LGBT night at the ballpark. Meet up with friends at the pregame patio from 6 – 7 p.m. to redeem your free drink ticket before heading to your seats to watch the Atlanta Braves take on the San Diego Padres at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 and up. Five dollars of every LGBT night ticket sold will go to Lost-n-Found Youth, whose mission is to take homeless LGBT youth off the street. Stay after the game for a free postgame concert with Charli XCX, http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/ atl/ticketing/ticket_specials.jsp?loc=lgbt

The Icarus Project Atlanta, a local support network and media project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness, holds its monthly meeting tonight. This group seeks to advance social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. This event is spon- sored by Charis Circle’s Urban Sustain- ability and Wellness Program. The suggested donation is $5, 7 – 8:30 p.m., www.charisbooksandmore.com

Ruby Redd’s Birdcage Bingo starts at 8:30 p.m., with $3 well drinks all night, The Hideaway, www.atlantahideaway.com

Voyeur Wednesdays with Blake’s hot go-go guys starts at 10 p.m., www.blakesontheparkatlanta.com

THURSDAY, JUNE 11
SAGE Atlanta hosts a social hour with games at 10 a.m. and a general meeting/ potluck luncheon at 11 a.m., Phillip Rush Center Annex, www.rushcenteratl.com

Phoenix spearheads Dance Floor Divas starting at 11:30 p.m. at Burkharts, www.burkharts.com

SATURDAY, JUNE 13
The East Point Possums Shows is the Southeast’s largest drag extravaganza, with free admissions, 20+ acts, food, drinks and fun, 7 – 11 p.m., the Commons in Downtown East Point, 2727 East Point Street East Point, GA 30344, www.eastpointpossums.com

SATURDAY, JUNE 20
The Atlanta Radical Faeries will be holding their fifth annual Midsummer’s Night event today. This year’s theme is “A Midsummer’s Wet Dream.” The event will be held at the Arts Exchange in Grant Park; the festivities will go on from noon to morning.

Celebrating Georgia Equality’s 20th year, Evening for Equality is expected to draw some 300 of Georgia’s most important community leaders tonight for Georgia Equality’s Equality Awards. Guests will gather for a dinner reception to celebrate the successes of the past year and contributions of several leaders in the movement to advance fairness, safety and opportunity for Georgia’s LGBT and allied communities. The VIP Reception begins
at 6 p.m. and the event begins at
 7:30 p.m., Intercontinental Buckhead, www.intercontinentalatlanta.com

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen join forces for an unscripted, uncensored and unforgettable night of conversation.
8 p.m., Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, www.cobbenergycentre.com

Bianca Del Rio’s Rolodex of Hate Comedy Special is tonight at 8 p.m., with meet and greet tickets available, Center Stage Theater, www.centerstage-atlanta.com

SATURDAY, JUNE 27
Much beloved LGBT singer-songwriters Deidre McCalla, Dianne Davidson, and Jamie Anderson bring women’s music back to Atlanta with an in-the- round evening of songs, stories and sarcasm. Called “We Aren’t Dead Yet!,”showtime is 8 p.m. at the First Existentialist Congregation, 470 Candler Park Drive NE, Atlanta. Tickets ($25 adv/ $30 door) are available on- line at wady.brownpapertickets.com