Events
The story of Pride is all tangled up! Solve the clues to unravel 150 years of Queer in this family-friendly escape game.
How to Attend This event takes place in person. Masks are strongly encouraged in all CPL locations.
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Join us for a screening of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as part of Lozano Branch's Pride Month Celebrations.
Three New York drag queens travel cross-country on their way to Hollywood, but a broken-down car strands…
Join us for a viewing of I Am Not Your Negro.
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using…
Join us for a screening of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Three transgender performers well known for their lavish costumes and lip-synching in Sydney travel across the Australian Outback in their ramshackle bus,…
Registration required (33 spots remaining)Register for eventJoin us for a movie showing of Swan Song.
A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair.© Magnolia Pictures—105 minutes—R
Community Cinema is at a branch near you! Check out hundreds of…
Join us for a screening of Kinky Boots.
To save the family shoe business from bankruptcy, young Charlie turns to an unlikely new creative consultant: a sassy cross-dressing cabaret singer whose outrageous style and wild designs are a breath…
LGBTQ author and historian Owen Keehnen will discuss the importance and evolution of the Belmont Rocks, a gathering place for LGBTQ+ Chicagoans from the early 1960s until their demolition in 2003. In 2022, the area once known as the Belmont…
Registration fullJoin waitlistJoin a special Pride Month story time featuring a local drag artist, facilitated by our children's librarians!
For kids 0 to 5 and their caregivers.
How to Attend This event takes place in person. Masks are strongly encouraged in all…
Registration fullJoin waitlistJoin a special Pride Month story time featuring a local drag artist, facilitated by our children's librarians!
For kids 0 to 5 and their caregivers.
How to Attend This event takes place in person. Masks are strongly encouraged in all…
Join a special Pride Month story time featuring a local drag artist, facilitated by our children's librarians!
For kids 0 to 5 and their caregivers.
How to Attend This event takes place in person. Masks are strongly encouraged in all…
Registration fullIn honor of Pride Month, join members of the Marimacha Monarca Press, a queer and trans-POC art collective, as they celebrate migrant and queer experiences in Chicago through storytelling and zine-making.
This bilingual program for a…
Registration closes June 12 at 12:00am (29 spots remaining)Register for eventJoin us for a screening of Saturday Church as part of South Shore Branch's Pride Month Celebration.
A fourteen-year-old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city…
- Online event
Join us online for a discussion of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler.
On June 24, 1973, a fire at New Orleans' Up Stairs Lounge, a popular haunt for members…
Registration required (20 spots remaining)Register for event Join a special Pride Month story time featuring a local drag artist, facilitated by our children's librarians!
For kids 0 to 5 and their caregivers.
How to Attend This event takes place in person. Masks are strongly encouraged in all…
Celebrate the life and activism of Marsha P. Johnson by creating your own flower crown just in time for the Chicago Pride Parade.
For Ages 13+.Celebra la vida y el activismo de Marsha P. Johnson y crea tu propia corona de flores…
Registration required (4 spots remaining)Register for eventThe story of Pride is all tangled up! Solve the clues to unravel 150 years of Queer in this family-friendly escape game.
How to Attend This event takes place in person. Masks are strongly encouraged in all CPL locations.
Questions…
Drop in to West Loop library to make some perler bead crafts! Show off your pride by making keychains, pins, or jewelry!
For teens 13 to 18.
How to AttendThis event takes place in person. Masks are strongly encouraged in all CPL…
Let’s celebrate Pride month by coming together and making Shrinky Dink charms and Perler art! Make charms with your pronouns, flags or your own art showcasing all aspects of your identity (for all you multi-flag folks.)Make Pride Perler…
Join the Oriole Park Branch for a discussion of Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin.
An American in post-war Paris finds himself caught between the conventional life he has planned with his fiancée and his attraction to an…