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Tuesday (10/20)

  • Tarot Reading @ Amy's
    • Location: Amy's Place, 120 n First Street, Champaign
    • Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    • Hosted by: Amy's Place is a lesbian-owned, locally-owned queer bar in Champaign, and is currently the only LGBTQ+ bar in CU.
    • Details: Every Tuesday of October, tarot reader Mellie Lia will be available for affordable tarot readings for those seeking "a safe space for when you need clarity, healing, or just someone to listen."
  • Film Fanatic Movie Nights: The Hunger (1983) Screening
    • Location: Amy's Place, 120 n First Street, Champaign
    • Time: 6:00 pm
    • Hosted by: Film Fanatic Club is a community of movie buffs who believe cinema is one of the great art forms—and that it’s best experienced together. Based in and around Champaign–Urbana, Illinois, we bring passionate film lovers together to discover, discuss, and celebrate movies that exist beyond the mainstream. Amy's Place is a lesbian-owned, locally-owned queer bar in Champaign, and is currently the only LGBTQ+ bar in CU.
    • Details: Join the Film Fanatics Club for a special screening of one of the most visually intoxicating, erotically charged, and genuinely distinctive vampire films ever made. A landmark of stylish 1980s horror, this sensual, decadent vampire film transformed the genre into something closer to an art object. At its center is a centuries-old lesbian couple whose glamorous existence begins to unravel when mortality intrudes, giving the film an erotic and emotionally charged dimension that was strikingly unconventional for mainstream cinema of its era. $12 tickets at door.
  • Nightshade - Goth & Industrial Night
    • Location: Amy's Place, 120 n First Street, Champaign
    • Time: 9:00 pm - 1:00 am
    • Hosted by: Amy's Place is a lesbian-owned, locally-owned queer bar in Champaign, and is currently the only LGBTQ+ bar in CU.
    • Details: Join DJ Baub Danger for weekly goth & industrial night at Amy's place!

Wednesday (10/21)

  • Karaoke Night @ Amy's Place
    • Location: Amy's Place, 120 n First Street, Champaign
    • Time: 8:00 pm - 1:00 am
    • Hosted by: Amy's Place is a lesbian-owned, locally-owned queer bar in Champaign, and is currently the only LGBTQ+ bar in CU.
    • Details: Mondays and Wednesday are karaoke nights at Amy’s Place! 19+, no cover

Thursday (10/22)

  • Queer Line Dancing
    • Location: Gallery Art Bar, 119 w Main St, Urbana
    • Time: 8:00 pm
    • Hosted by: Marlee Doniff is a CU-based dancere and queer line dance instructor. makesmewanna is a community-based artist collective and RSO at UIUC. Gallery Art Bar is an Urbana bar and performance venue.
    • Details: Learn some spooky line dances at this Halloween-themed queer line dancing! Costumes encouraged, no cover.
  • Thirsty Thursgays
    • Location: Amy's Place, 120 n First Street, Champaign
    • Time: 9:00 pm - 1:00 am, DJ starts at 10:00 pm
    • Hosted by: Amy's Place is a lesbian-owned, locally-owned queer bar in Champaign, and is currently the only LGBTQ+ bar in CU. GayBar is a CU-based traveling queer party space. 
    • Details: Gaybar’s weekly queer dance party at Amy’s Place! Theme TBA. $5 cover 19/20, 21+ Free.

Friday (10/23)

Saturday (10/24)

  • Pride Flash Tattoo Fundraiser for Uniting Pride
    • Location: Vintage Karma, 110 w Sale St, Tuscola
    • Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    • Hosted by: Vintage Karma is a Tuscola-based tattoo parlor. Uniting Pride, which is an organization that serves and advocates for the equality, wellness, and visibility of the LGBTQIA2S+ communities of Champaign County and East Central Illinois.
    • Details: Dozens of Pride designs of all kinds, $60 - $200, cash only! Must be 18+ with valid ID. Designs cannot be modified unless specified on flash sheet, and each design has a set size (most designs are 1"x 1" - 4"x 4"). A portion of event proceeds will be donated to Uniting Pride. Flash designs and prices here.
  • Spirit of C-Street Presents: Whores & Horror
    • Location: Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 w Oregon St, Urbana
    • Time: Doors at 6:00 pm, Show 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
    • Hosted by: Spirit of C-Street is a DIY Drag Venue hosted by drag artist Pix E Styx.
    • Details: Ooga booga bitches! Spirit of C-Street is back for their freaky fantastic final show of 2026! Costume contest, raffle, vendors, and more! 18+, $10 tickets, buy tickets here.
  • Noche De Perreo: Dark Edition
    • Location: Amy's Place, 120 n First Street, Champaign
    • Time: 9:00 pm - 2:00 am
    • Hosted by: Amy's Place is a lesbian-owned, locally-owned queer bar in Champaign, and is currently the only LGBTQ+ bar in CU.
    • Details: It's time to hit the dance floor for another Noche de Perreo! Music by DJ Milox, Halloween looks welcome, 19+

Sunday (10/25)

  • Aging UP
    • Time: 3:00 pm
    • Frequency: Every Sunday
    • Hosted by: Uniting Pride, which is an organization that serves and advocates for the equality, wellness, and visibility of the LGBTQIA2S+ communities of Champaign County and East Central Illinois.
    • Details: A virtual group for LGBTQ+ older adults to gather and discuss the fears, joys, and complications of aging in a safe and affirming space. Open to call genders. Contact organizers at agingup@unitingpride.org for more details.

Monday (10/26)

  • Karaoke Night @ Amy's Place
    • Location: Amy's Place, 120 n First Street, Champaign
    • Time: 8:00 pm - 1:00 am
    • Hosted by: Amy's Place is a lesbian-owned, locally-owned queer bar in Champaign, and is currently the only LGBTQ+ bar in CU.
    • Details: 19+, no cover

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CU Queer Events Calendar - Week of 10/20/26