Welcome to Pride at the legendary Cell Block Chicago. The legendary Cell Block has been unapologetically queer since May 1995. As much as Pride is a protest and act of revolution, it’s also a family reunion where LGBTQ+ brethren, sistren, and they-themren reconvene in community centers, at parades, in bars, and in backroom bars.
And no backroom bar is gayer 365 days a year than the one here at the legendary Cell Block.
Welcome, friends. Join us for a month of celebrations. And happy Pride from all of us at the legendary Cell Block.
Friday, June 5
Pride is a Riot!
8 p.m.
Front bar opens at 1 p.m.
Backroom bar opens at 8 p.m.
Join us for camaraderie, pool, darts, and Touchtunes in the front bar. DJ Catalyst opens our Pride celebrations with Pride is a Riot, a Friday night dance party to shake off the work week and step into this Pride season to the thump of banging electronic beats.
Feel free and welcome to deck yourself out in undies, fetish gear, or jockstraps and join us. Complimentary clothing check begins at 9 p.m. inside the backroom bar. And no cover charge.
Saturday, June 6
🩵🩷🩵 LOAD™️ Chicago is Saturday to start off Pride month with a bang 😜
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Sunday, June 7
Dicksco Pride Sunday Bunday
3 p.m.
Front bar opens at noon.
Backroom bar opens at 3 p.m.
Pride’s musical soundtrack was curated through money deposited into jukeboxes and sweat flung on the dancefloors of gay bars and backrooms.
DJ Connie Kway-Lewd, Chicago’s favorite disco daddy, is here to take us back to those pulse pounding rhythms, melodies, and beats that have given life to LGBTQ+ people for decades. Sunday Bunday Zack will be assisting the music selection to help you get into your funkiest, gayest disco spirit.
Sunday Bunday is an underwear, jockstrap, and fetish gear social and dance party. Enjoy complimentary clothing check. And no cover charge.
Friday, June 12
Chemistry: Pride Dance Party
8 p.m.
Front bar opens 1 p.m.
Backroom bar opens at 8 p.m.
DJ Austin James sets a vibe that fuses together house loops, electronic beats, and riveting melodies with your dancing feet.
Chemistry lifts you up into a space that’s removed from daily life’s troubles; then sets you down again as you discover you’ve been dancing your ass off inside the Cell Block backroom all along. Enjoy Chicago house and electronic dance music.
Leather, fetish gear, undies, and jockstraps recommended. Complimentary clothing check and no cover charge.
Saturday, June 13
Trough returns to the Legendary Cell Block Chicago. BEEFY DANCERS included.
Brent Milne and Paul Coals. 9PM – 3AM
Tickets at: http://trough-chicago.eventbrite.com
Sunday, June 14
Haus of Sunday Bunday Pride Social and Dance Party
3 p.m.
Front bar opens at noon.
Backroom bar opens at 3 p.m.
Join us for our most fun and…free spirited day and night every week: Sunday Bunday.
Our backroom bar opens at 3 p.m. for a day and night of socializing, connecting, and dancing. Sunday Bunday is an underwear and jockstrap social and dance party. Feel free and encouraged to show up in undies, leather, fetish gear, or jockstraps.
DJs Austin James and Nevin will pump out Chicago house, classic disco, nu-disco, and classic house music all day and night.
No cover charge. Complimentary clothing check opens at 3 p.m.
Friday, June 19
Ruff Trade Pet and Handler Pride Party
8 p.m.
Front bar opens at 1 p.m.
Backroom bar opens at 8 p.m.
Pride demands that we show the world our beautiful, truest selves. And there’s no better place for all LGBTQ+ pups, pets, and critters to show off themselves than Ruff Trade at Cell Block.
Solo pets and packs welcome.
Pet DJ Vanquish is on deck with electronic beats and rhythms. Handler host J.P. Lucas will be here to welcome you with scritches and sniffs.
Complimentary clothing check opens at 9 p.m. No cover charge.
Saturday, June 20
Grizzly takes over the backbar of the Legendary Cell Block Chicago.
Sunday, June 21
Fag Bash
3 p.m.
Front bar opens at noon
Backroom bar opens at 3 p.m.
June, 28, 1969:
The police picked the wrong queer bar on the right night. We thank God for Stonewall’s bravest like Marsha P. Johnson.
June 21, 2026:
Bring your gayness, rebellion, and anti-fascist spirit to the legendary Cell Block where we’ll finish off Pride Fest weekend with free cruising in the back room and a thumping soundtrack of disco and house music brought to you by DJs Austin James and Nevin.
Friday, June 26
Get Trash’d at Pride
9 p.m.
$10 cover
Front bar opens at 1 p.m.
Backroom bar opens at 9 p.m.
Let it out and let your freak flag fly on the dance floor. Trash’d is a bona fide house music dance party with a rotating set of DJs. Trash’d is for getting sweaty on the dance floor to the beats of funky, dirty, nasty house music.
DJs Nevin and Neiman Marcus keep the beats and loops pounding.
Sunday, June 27
Masquerade returns to the legendary Cell Block Chicago for a special PRIDE edition.
Sunday, June 28
Sunday Bunday’s Gayest Party Ever!
3 p.m.
Front bar opens at noon.
Backroom bar opens at 3 p.m.
No place in Chicago is home to more acts of gayness then the backroom bar at the legendary Cell Block.
And Chicago’s gayest day of the year outside (when there isn’t a Madonna concert) is Pride parade Sunday.
Join the Sunday Bunday crew for their GAYEST PARTY EVER!
While the politicians and fascists are attempting to beat us down and force us back in the closet, all we can think about is how to make ourselves even gayer! Let it all hang out and be yourself with us all day and night.
DJs Austin James and Nevin will be cranking out LGBTQ+ anthems and the gayest music ever open to close.
No cover charge. Complimentary clothing check opens at 3 p.m.