Hi Everybody!

This Monday, Chances will celebrate its 4th birthday! We can’t tell you how crazy/good that feels. When we started this event back in ‘05, we didn’t know what to expect: would people come? would they like it? would anyone even care? Four years and a multitude of other queer parties later, Chances remains a staple of our Chicago communities. As many of you know, we have tried to expand the role that Chances can play as “an attempt to bring together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago.” We have done this in small ways, like giving out mix CD’s at Off Chances, and larger ways as well, such as our critical participation in the ‘07 Chicago Gay Pride  Parade and our introduction of The Critical Fierceness Grant, a micro-grant for local queer artists, in 2008.

As always, Chances has been run in a non-profit style, though without an fancy 501(c)3 status. For anyone who’s ever worked in the non-profit sector, you also know that this means a fair amount of exhaustion, exasperation, etc comes with the territory. Our ability to maintain this event is largely due to both your support, and the fact that Chances is always evolving. It, at any point, can be whatever Chicago needs it to be.

This Monday, it would mean a lot to me if you all could come and celebrate with us. Mostly because Chances is not something that we organizers have made, but rather it is a complex negotiation between us and our community.  Chances would not be anything without your support, your attendance, your advice, your work for your community, your desire to live in a better and safer world, your encouragement, your performativity, your belief in yourself and others, your love of our awesome city and, of course, your beautiful sexy dancing self!

SOOOOO………..

LETS PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Chances functions as an attempt to bring together the factionalized LGBTIQ communities, cliques, or otherwise grouped-apart queers of Chicago. It happens on the third Monday of every month at Subterranean**

LETS MAKE THIS THE BEST ONE YET!!!

Peace and Love,

Team Chances (Aay, Ethan, Latham, Mel, and Rita