Weekend Roundup
Guerrilla Kitchen's Derby Brunch, Brian Sims speaks at religious freedom conference, take a ride on the Rainbow Train and more gay things to do in Philly this weekend.
FRIDAY
Aiden James performs at World Café Live on Friday.
Beloved out Philly singer-songwriter Aiden James performs at World Café Live, where he’ll regale us with his latest single, “Last Reminder,” and more new songs.
- Guerrilla Queer Bar is taking place in Old City at upscale pool and billiards hall Buffalo Billiards, where The Welcoming Committee will take over both floors of the two-story edifice on Chestnut Street.
- Bearlesque celebrates two years flaunting its hairy nipples. Happy bearthday!
- Cutn Paste welcomes Gun$ Garcia x Magglezz to The Bike Stop.
SATURDAY
Arts activist Nia King hosts a reading in celebration of her new anthology at Big Blue Marble Bookstore on Saturday.
Get outside! The weekend is heavy on the street festivals, including the South Street Spring Festival, the Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival and Mt. Airy Day in, you guessed it, Mt. Airy.
- Brian Sims will serve as keynote speaker at the “Reclaiming Religious Freedom From the Radical Right” conference at the Marriott.
- William Way hosts the 3rd annual WayGay Women’s Field Day, an afternoon full of barbecue and activities for the ladies.
- The adorably named Tempest in a Teapot Company is presenting Paul Rudnick’s Valhalla. (Playing Saturday and Sunday)
- Gay founded Artsong Repertory Theater Company hosts “Insomnia / Whitman Portrait” at First Unitarian Church. The evening promises “two fantastic new works by composers Tom Cipullo and Jeremy Gill.
- To celebrate the release of her new anthology, “Queer and Trans Artists of Color,” Philly-based author Nia King has invited some of her favorite writers for an LGBT-focused group reading in Mt. Airy.
- Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus hosts a cabaret, with the help of theater troupe The Bearded Ladies and host Stella D’Oro, to raise funds to supply musical instruments to Philadelphia schools.
- The WaitStaff comedy troupe plays The Match Game at L’Etage.
- Vixens and Vagabonds Queer and Kinky Cabaret celebrates the ’90s and Philly Dyke March.
- Guerrilla Kitchen hosts The Smoke Easy Derby Brunch, with proceeds benefitting local out man Nicholas Casey’s philanthropic campaign to be Leukemia and Lymphoma Society‘s Man of the Year.
SUNDAY
Singer-songwriter Chana Rothman hosts a release party for her new album, Rainbow Train, on Sunday.
Philly drag princess Ariel Versace hosts this week’s Drag Brunch at Tabu.
- Local singer-songwriter Chana Rothman celebrates the release of her new album, Rainbow Train, a musical exploration of gender expression.
- Actress Maria Bello captured the nation’s attention in 2013, when she penned “Coming Out as a Modern Family,” in The New York Times. This week, she is releasing a new memoir, Whatever … Love is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves, which expands on what she wrote in the essay about telling her 12-year-old son that she was in a lesbian relationship.
