Homolatte
Curator and host Scott Free bills it as the “longest-running queer performance series in the country,” and given that it’s been a feature of the first and third Tuesday of each month for eighteen years, you might as well take his word for it. Its list of past spoken-word and music performers is one of those will-I-be-scrolling-down-forever affairs, but Free himself remains the principal attraction, brash, fearless, tireless and often savagely funny.
Best of Chicago 2017