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SUMMARY:IOWA VET: DOGS\, CATS\, CORN\, & MURDER
DESCRIPTION:Murders. Mormons. A modern family. And one extraordinary Midwestern life. IOWA VET: DOGS\, CATS\, CORN\, & MURDER follows Dr. Alan Younkin\, who grew up on an Iowa farm that has been in his family since 1863 and went on to become a veterinarian\, husband\, father\, and eventually the unexpected center of a story filled with remarkable twists. After graduating as valedictorian from the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine\, Alan built a successful animal hospital with his wife\, Dr. Sybil Younkin\, and raised four children. But after Sybil’s death\, his life took an entirely new direction. Alan moved to New York\, met filmmaker Michael Schelp\, and the two fell in love and married. And that’s only part of the story. Along the way\, IOWA VET ventures into murder cases\, questions of faith\, the dramatic transformation of veterinary medicine\, and even the claim by some believers that Zarahemla — the ancient city described in the Book of Mormon — was located on Alan’s family farm. Funny\, surprising\, affectionate\, and deeply personal\, IOWA VET is ultimately about how much one life can change — and how much life can still surprise us. The film had its world premiere at Cinema Village in New York City in June 2026.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/iowa-vet-dogs-cats-corn-murder/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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SUMMARY:The Revolution is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce
DESCRIPTION:OPTICAL NOISE presents THE REVOLUTION IS MY BOYFRIEND: THE FILMS OF BRUCE LABRUCE\, the most comprehensive American retrospective of internationally acclaimed filmmaker\, writer\, photographer\, and Queercore pioneer Bruce LaBruce in more than a decade.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/the-revolution-is-my-boyfriend-the-films-of-bruce-labruce/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260928T210000
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SUMMARY:BOOKENDS
DESCRIPTION:After a painful breakup\, aspiring novelist Nate leaves New York City and moves into a retirement community with his grandparents. What begins as a temporary refuge quickly becomes a complicated journey through family\, aging\, responsibility\, and unexpected love. As his Holocaust-surviving grandfather begins showing signs of dementia and his grandmother struggles to face the truth\, Nate finds himself caught between the life he left behind and the family that needs him now. An unexpected romance with the community’s handsome doctor further complicates his plans. \nStarring F. Murray Abraham\, Caroline Aaron\, Noam Ash\, and Charlie Barnett\, BOOKENDS is a warm\, funny\, and deeply moving intergenerational story about love\, memory\, family\, and second chances. The film premiered at the 2026 Santa Barbara International Film Festival\, where it received the ADL Stand Up Award. \nCritics have praised the film for balancing humor and emotion with honesty and grace. Reviewer Mark McPherson called it “a heartfelt story of family and romance that is more honest than schmaltzy\,” while festival audiences have celebrated its rich performances and moving portrayal of family caregiving. \nWritten by and starring Noam Ash and directed by Mike Doyle\, BOOKENDS offers a refreshing queer love story that is equally concerned with family bonds\, aging\, and the unexpected connections that help us move forward. \nFunny\, tender\, and life-affirming\, BOOKENDS reminds us that every ending can also be a new beginning.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/bookends/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:theater-performance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260924T182754Z
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SUMMARY:Aladerri Film Fest 2026 - BLOCK # 10
DESCRIPTION:Aladerri Film Fest\, Dedicated to the celebration of Short Films\, a multi-day event in Chicago\, IL September 25- 27\, 2026. \nFuture Tense – Comedy Short Film – Australia\nPraying Mantis – Animated Short Film – Taiwan\nHomebound – Student Short Film – Hungary\nDaphne y Pol – LGBTQ+ Short Film – Spain
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/aladerri-film-fest-2026-block-10/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:festival,film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260831T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260831T210000
DTSTAMP:20260827T184731Z
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SUMMARY:UNCLE ROY
DESCRIPTION:Chicago \nA moving and deeply personal documentary\, UNCLE ROY follows the extraordinary life of Roy Blakey—world-traveling ice skater\, renowned photographer\, collector\, and pioneer of gay male photography—as seen through the eyes of his niece\, filmmaker Keri Pickett. As Roy faces the challenges of dementia in his nineties\, Pickett embarks on a race against time to preserve both his remarkable archives and the legacy of a man whose life intersected with queer history\, art\, and performance. \nFrom touring the world with Holiday on Ice to creating groundbreaking male nude photography and documenting generations of performers\, Roy’s story is one of creativity\, resilience\, and self-discovery. The film is both an intimate family portrait and a celebration of a queer artist whose work helped shape LGBTQ+ visual culture. \nBuilt from nine decades of photographs\, films\, letters\, and memorabilia\, UNCLE ROY is a heartfelt exploration of memory\, legacy\, chosen family\, and the importance of preserving queer history before it disappears. \n“A powerful look at one man’s work capturing the gay liberation movement of the 1970s and 1980s.”
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/uncle-roy/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:education-history,film
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SUMMARY:SUMMER'S CAMERA
DESCRIPTION:Open Space Arts presents the Chicago premiere of SUMMER’S CAMERA\, a tender South Korean coming-of-age romance about first love\, grief\, photography\, and the secrets we inherit from the people we love. \nAfter the death of her father\, high school student Summer discovers one of his old cameras and begins using it to document her first year of school. Her lens soon turns toward Yeon-woo\, the star of the school’s soccer team\, and Summer’s shy crush opens the door to a new understanding of herself. But when she develops the unfinished roll left behind in her father’s camera\, Summer uncovers a hidden piece of his life—one that reshapes her own journey into queer identity\, memory\, and love. \nWritten and directed by Divine Sung\, SUMMER’S CAMERA premiered at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival and has been praised as a dreamy\, beautifully shot queer coming-of-age drama. \nCountry: South Korea\nYear: 2025\nRuntime: 82 minutes\nLanguage: Korean with English subtitles \nDirector/Writer: Divine Sung\nProducer: Joy Yu\nCast: Kim Si-a\, Kwak Min-kyu\, Yu Ga-eun\, Lee Eun-sol
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/summers-camera/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260629T190000
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DTSTAMP:20260515T005434Z
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SUMMARY:BALLATA FEMMENELLA
DESCRIPTION:BALLATA FEMMENELLA is a moving and deeply textured journey into the largest and oldest transgender community in Europe: the femmenelle of Naples. Rooted in centuries of history and culture\, the femmenelle are an integral part of the city’s identity—at once spiritual\, social\, and political. \nThrough the voices and lived experiences of its protagonists—including activists\, artists\, sex workers\, and community leaders—the film traces both ancestral traditions and urgent contemporary struggles. It draws us into the intimate streets and hidden corners of Naples\, where history\, identity\, and daily life are inseparable. \nTheir stories illuminate lives shaped by resilience\, devotion\, exclusion\, and fierce pride\, offering a portrait that is at once intimate and expansive. \nFar from any folkloric simplification\, BALLATA FEMMENELLA stands as both a political and poetic work—a manifesto of denied identities and a declaration of love for a community without which Naples\, and perhaps Europe itself\, would be immeasurably poorer.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/ballata-femmenella/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:theater-performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260601T213000
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SUMMARY:MASPALOMAS
DESCRIPTION:MASPALOMAS is a luminous\, sensual drama set in the sun-drenched freedom of Gran Canaria\, where desire\, reinvention\, and queer community flourish in open defiance of age and expectation. The next Chicago premiere from the QUEER EXPRESSION FILM FESTIVAL\, the film offers a rare and deeply moving portrait of queer life later in life. \nAt its center is a 76-year-old man who has built a world defined by pleasure\, independence\, and self-expression—embracing the rhythms of Maspalomas with unapologetic vitality. But when that fragile sense of freedom is disrupted\, the past he once escaped begins to close in. Family ties\, buried truths\, and unresolved histories resurface\, forcing him to confront not only where he came from\, but who he still has the courage to be. \nCritics have praised the film’s emotional honesty and sensuality\, highlighting its tender\, unflinching look at desire and aging\, and its refusal to look away from the complexities of queer identity later in life. The performances—especially by José Ramón Soroiz—have been noted for their depth and vulnerability\, grounding the film in a lived-in authenticity that resonates long after the final scene. \nWhat unfolds is both intimate and expansive: a story of longing\, resilience\, and the radical act of choosing oneself—again and again. At once sensual and deeply human\, MASPALOMAS explores the complexities of identity across generations\, asking what it truly means to live authentically when time\, memory\, and desire collide.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/maspalomas/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:culture,film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260427T213000
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SUMMARY:ON THE SEA
DESCRIPTION:ON THE SEA is a smoldering\, deeply intimate drama from Helen Walsh\, set along the wild\, unforgiving coast of North Wales—where the pull of the tide mirrors the pull of desire. The next Chicago premiere from the QUEER EXPRESSION FILM FESTIVAL\, the film has been praised as “atmospheric and emotionally resonant” by the BFI London Film Festival. \nJack has built his life on routine\, labor\, and silence\, working the mussel beds with a quiet resilience shaped by tradition and expectation. But when Daniel\, a younger drifter with nothing to lose\, arrives and meets Jack’s guarded world with disarming honesty\, an undeniable tension begins to surface—charged\, dangerous\, and impossible to ignore. Critics have called the film “visually striking… a powerful sense of isolation and connection” (Eye for Film)\, capturing both the stark beauty of the landscape and the emotional distance between the men. \nIn a community where masculinity is rigid and watchful eyes are everywhere\, their connection unfolds in glances\, in proximity\, in moments that feel both fleeting and inevitable. What begins as curiosity deepens into something far more consuming\, forcing Jack to confront the life he’s lived—and the one he’s denied himself. With its “quiet\, poetic filmmaking and vivid sense of place” (Film Carnage)\, the film builds a world where silence speaks as loudly as words. \nUltimately\, ON THE SEA is a story of longing\, risk\, and the quiet urgency of a love that refuses to stay buried—what Variety describes as “a windswept\, deeply felt story of love and longing.”
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/on-the-sea/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260223T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260223T210000
DTSTAMP:20260205T202330Z
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SUMMARY:ESTRANY RIU (Strange River)
DESCRIPTION:Open Space Arts invites you to join us for our next Queer Expression Film Fest screening at FACETS Film Forum\, part of our ongoing Gay Movie of the Month series. \nWhile cycling along the Danube with his family\, 16-year-old Didac encounters a mysterious boy in the river. This unexpected meeting alters the course of their journey\, stirring hidden tensions and shifting the family dynamic in subtle but profound ways. Beautifully shot and quietly mesmerizing\, ESTRANY RIU unfolds as a tender\, poetic coming-of-age story—an atmospheric exploration of adolescence\, desire\, and the fragile bonds that hold a family together.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/estrany-riu-strange-river/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260127T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260127T060000
DTSTAMP:20260121T021622Z
CREATED:20260112T054920Z
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SUMMARY:Other People's Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Queer Expression Film Festival presents the Chicago premiere of a provocative new film by Alan Brown\, Other People’s Bodies. \nA sultry\, queer reimagining of the French classic La Piscine\, Other People’s Bodies unfolds over one sweltering summer weekend\, where desire\, jealousy\, and unfinished business refuse to stay buried. \nOlivia\, a modern dancer\, is vacationing with her husband Seb at a secluded country house when their fragile calm is shattered by the sudden arrival of Mateo—Olivia’s former best friend and\, briefly\, Seb’s lover. The three haven’t seen each other in eight years\, since Mateo abruptly severed ties after a devastating betrayal. \nTensions rise when Mateo brings along his young\, magnetic lover Zaki\, reopening old wounds and igniting new temptations. Matters escalate further with the arrival of two more figures from the past: Gabriella\, a former dance colleague\, and her husband Fabian—Olivia’s lover before Seb. \nAs bodies gather and boundaries dissolve\, long-simmering passions\, regrets\, and desires collide\, leading to an emotionally charged reckoning in which nothing—and no one—emerges unchanged.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/other-peoples-bodies-2/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:theater-performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260127T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260127T060000
DTSTAMP:20260115T173832Z
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SUMMARY:Other People's Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Queer Expression Film Festival presents the Chicago premiere of a provocative new film by Alan Brown\, Other People’s Bodies. \nA sultry\, queer reimagining of the French classic La Piscine\, Other People’s Bodies unfolds over one sweltering summer weekend\, where desire\, jealousy\, and unfinished business refuse to stay buried. \nOlivia\, a modern dancer\, is vacationing with her husband Seb at a secluded country house when their fragile calm is shattered by the sudden arrival of Mateo—Olivia’s former best friend and\, briefly\, Seb’s lover. The three haven’t seen each other in eight years\, since Mateo abruptly severed ties after a devastating betrayal. \nTensions rise when Mateo brings along his young\, magnetic lover Zaki\, reopening old wounds and igniting new temptations. Matters escalate further with the arrival of two more figures from the past: Gabriella\, a former dance colleague\, and her husband Fabian—Olivia’s lover before Seb. \nAs bodies gather and boundaries dissolve\, long-simmering passions\, regrets\, and desires collide\, leading to an emotionally charged reckoning in which nothing—and no one—emerges unchanged.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/other-peoples-bodies/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:theater-performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251124T210000
DTSTAMP:20251113T194130Z
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SUMMARY:3670\, screening at Facets
DESCRIPTION:IN-PERSON FILM EVENT. In 3670\, a North Korean defector in Seoul quietly navigates two worlds: one shaped by exile and another by his awakening queer identity. Joonho Park’s feature debut is a moving\, understated portrait of belonging and self-discovery\, illuminating a rarely seen intersection of Korean life with grace\, empathy\, and cinematic restraint. Cheol-jun\, a young North Korean defector\, has built a fragile new life in Seoul. To his fellow defectors\, he’s a quiet\, hardworking man—yet he conceals another truth: he’s gay. Living between fear and desire\, he begins exploring Seoul’s underground queer community\, where coded messages like “3670” (“Meet at Exit 6\, Jongno 3-ga\, 7 p.m.”) mark places of connection and refuge. As Cheol-jun’s double life deepens\, he struggles to reconcile the two versions of himself—the dutiful newcomer seeking acceptance and the man craving freedom and intimacy. Park’s patient\, observational style transforms the ordinary—bus rides\, casual chats\, late-night walks—into moments of aching humanity.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/3670-screening-at-facets/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251027T210000
DTSTAMP:20251022T030236Z
CREATED:20250828T145717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T030236Z
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SUMMARY:Open Space Arts: Sauna
DESCRIPTION:IN PERSON FILM EVENT! Johan is a completely ordinary young man who keeps all doors open when it comes to both love and sex. He has landed a job as a receptionist at Adonis\, Copenhagen’s only gay sauna\, where he not only works but also gathers his very personal experiences and encounters with the sauna’s other guests. \nFor Johan\, the city is like a boundless paradise of opportunities with bars\, parties\, and one-night stands\, but it is only when he meets the transgender William that he experiences love up close. The love between the two is put to a tough test\, as is often the case when living in a society governed by rigid ideas about gender\, love\, and identity.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/open-space-arts-sauna/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250929T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250929T210000
DTSTAMP:20250828T144643Z
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SUMMARY:Open Space Arts: Unspoken
DESCRIPTION:UNSPOKEN\, A“brilliantly understated and deceptively simple film”\n\nIN PERSON FILM EVENT! \nDon’t  miss the Chicago premiere of UNSPOKEN\, a powerful new film presented by  the Queer Expression Film Fest sponsored by Open Space Arts. After the  screening\, stay for a lively discussion and social gathering in the  Facets lounge. \nUNSPOKEN  follows Noam\, a closeted teenager in a deeply religious community who  stumbles upon a hidden love letter written to his grandfather—by another  man\, before the Holocaust. Driven by curiosity and longing\, Noam sets  out to uncover the truth about his grandfather’s past and\, ultimately\,  his own identity. \nIn  an era marked by rising antisemitism and Holocaust denial\, Unspoken  resonates deeply. This moving coming-of-age story features strong. performances\, thoughtful writing\, and emotional twists that make it both timely and timeless. \nFacets\, 1517 W. Fullerton (just west of DePaul)\nAccessible by the Fullerton Red/Brown/Purple Line stop\, or the Ashland and Fullerton buses. Street parking is usually available.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/open-space-arts-unspoken/
LOCATION:Facets\, 1517 W. Fullerton\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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