It’s all happening. There are millions of promotional items being shipped to offices across the country and probably the globe. Somewhere, someone is putting on a rainbow boa. This month, the queers will run wild. IT’S PRIDE, DAMMIT! And since it wouldn’t be a good time without, um, all of us, I highly recommend that each and every one of you spends the month hanging out with one another at #AutoPride meet-ups.
We put out a call early this week for hosts, and even though some of you are probably still in the process of getting your shit together, I wanted to spread the good word about the stuff happening this month as soon as possible. So, if you’re still planning and not ready to commit yet or you don’t see your city listed here and wish you did or you didn’t realize you could submit events to our brand-new, amazing, events listing situation, have no fear! I’ll be updating this post all month and it’s never too late to submit a f*cking meet-up already.
Okay! Here we go! But before we leave, just a reminder to use the hashtag #AutoPride all over your social media accounts when you’re meeting all the beautiful people at these events. Y’know, for posterity.
Australia
Sydney
#AutoPride Meet-Up
Venue: Berkelouw Books
Event Date: 2015-06-27
Start Time: 11:00 am
Europe
Berlin, Germany
#AutoPride Meet-Up
Venue: Nollendorfplatz
Event Date: 2015-06-27
Start Time: 12:00 am
Brighton, United Kingdom
Pre-Pride Gathering
Venue: TBD
Event Date: 2015-07-31
Start Time: 07:00 pm
Dublin, Ireland
Meet-Up at Dublin Pride!
Venue: TBC
Event Date: 2015-06-26
Start Time: 02:00 pm
London, England
Post-Pride Brunch
Venue: Fields Cafe, Clapham Common
Event Date: 2015-06-28
Start Time: 11:00 am
Paris, France
Pre-Pride Picnic
Venue: Parc de la Villette
Event Date: 2015-06-20
Start Time: 01:00 pm
United States
Baltimore
Baltimore Pride Coffee Meetup
Venue: Milk & Honey Market
Event Date: 2015-07-25
Start Time: 02:30 pm
Chicago
Meet-Up at Neo-Futurists Pride Benefit!
Venue: The Neo-Futurarium
Event Date: 2015-06-26
Start Time: 10:45 pm
Dyke March Meet-Up
Venue: Western & Division, Approx. 1150 N. Western Ave.
Event Date: 2015-06-27
Start Time: 01:30 pm
#AutoPride Meet-Up at the Parade!
Venue: Outside of Hydrate Nightclub
Event Date: 2015-06-28
Start Time: 11:00 am
Cincinnati
Cincy Straddlers March in the Pride Parade!
Venue: Cincinnati Pride Parade
Event Date: 2015-06-27
Start Time: 10:30 am
Columbus
Straddler Beach Party
Venue: Deer Creek State Park
Event Date: 2015-06-13
Start Time: 10:00 am
2nd Annual Pre-Pride Parade Potluck Brunch
Venue: Ashley and Allison’s Place
Event Date: 2015-06-20
Start Time: 09:00 am
Greensboro
Piedmont Triad Straddlers PRUNCH Meetup
Venue: Center City Park
Event Date: 2015-06-27
Start Time: 01:30 pm
Houston
Brunch Meet-Up
Venue: Baby Barnaby’s
Event Date: 2015-06-21
Start Time: 11:00 am
Indianapolis
Post-Pride Brunch!
Venue: Yolk
Event Date: 2015-06-14
Start Time: 11:00 am
Minneapolis
#AutoPride Yacht Party Meetup!
Venue: St. Croix Boat and Packet
Event Date: 2015-06-19
Start Time: 07:00 pm
Autostraddlers Go To Prom!
Venue: Hell’s Kitchen
Event Date: 2015-06-21
Start Time: 07:30 pm
Pride Open House
Venue: Adrienne’s Apartment
Event Date: 2015-06-28
Start Time: 01:00 pm
New York City
Let’s Do Dyke March Together!
Venue: Bryant Park
Event Date: 2015-06-27
Start Time: 04:30 pm
Rio Grande Valley
Aquí Estamos Poetry Slam Night
Venue: Brownsville Artists&Musicians (BAM)
Event Date: 2015-06-30
Start Time: 07:30 pm
San Diego
#AutoPride Brunch
Venue: Gossip Grill
Event Date: 2015-07-12
Start Time: 11:00 am
San Francisco
#AutoPride Dyke March Meet-Up!
Venue: Mission Playground
Event Date: 2015-06-27
Start Time: 11:00 am
Seattle
#AutoPride Brunch Potluck
Venue: Volunteer Park
Event Date: 2015-06-28
Start Time: 11:30 am
Washington, DC
Booty Rex Pride Party
Venue: The Black Cat
Event Date: 2015-06-12
Start Time: 09:00 pm
‘Straddlers Bustin’ Out for #AutoPride!
Venue: Carmen’s Haus / #SummerVibeHaus
Event Date: 2015-06-19
Start Time: 08:00 pm
Hey, Columbus has this event tomorrow!
http://www.autostraddle.com/columbus-straddler-beach-party/
We’ll also be meeting up for Karaoke every Thursday throughout the summer.
http://www.autostraddle.com/thirsty-thursgays/
And, we don’t have it up on AS yet, but we’ll be having a pre-pride brunch as well
https://www.facebook.com/events/777208799064375/
So excited for #AutoPride!
oh yay! i didn’t realize the beach party was a pride event. i’ll add it! submit that last one and i’ll add it, too!
It’s been added. Thanks for pulling all this info together!
Liiiinaaaa where are you?
I want to do something in Berlin!
maybe you should make a meet-up centered around finding her, like a scavenger hunt around berlin
This is a great idea, because a) I know the general area of where to search for her and there are a lot of (queer-ish) bars there and b) she is out of town that weekend so the scavenger hunt will go on forever!
I feel like you should absolutely make a Berlin Thing happen.
oh we are! get on it! also, there is this group on fb:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/531248760270407/
or you can message me here for private e-mail/fb info.
If I ever finish unpacking/sleeping at weird hours of the day a Singapore meet-up might happen, JUST MAYBE
DO IT
At one point I found a magical calendar that had all kinds of nifty Autostraddle events on it, but now I have lost it. Anyone know where in the website it is hiding?
we are in the process of moving that website around and placing it on the main site, so it unfortunately does not exist right now. BUT! you can see all meet-up locations, dates, and deets at-a-glance right here: http://www.autostraddle.com/category/community/meet-ups-and-events/
You should try to have one in Rio !
Yes!
Organiza um ai!
LA Pride is this weekend already…
there’s no reason the party must end so soon
Dyke Day @ Elysian Park? It’s a free event. I’m considering attending….
More info: http://socalqueerevents.com/2015/04/11/dyke-day-la-2015/
Hey you guys! My girlfriend and I’re going, along with a couple other straddlers. So far we haven’t been quite organized enough to pull anything official together, but I’ll try to post something on the FB pages if we do.
Sorry for the extreme southern california-ness of this planning, btw. #notsuperuseful
It’s authentic!
True. And following this theme, we’re totally ditching pride and going to dyke day instead! Hahaha
oh hey! I’m going to be at dyke day…
ohh, I’m sorry I didn’t see this before! I hope you had an awesome time!!
ah! it was such a fun day – so sorry we didn’t meet up tho – the more the merrier! next year maybe…
Dallas, let’s brunch?!?!?
Oh man, I’m moving to Seattle at the end of the month, so if anyone around there wants to do a #betterlatethannever meet up I would be super into it.
I’m also new to Seattle and would love to meet some folks!
I wish I could organize something but I’m not able to unfortunately. So I too would like a AS meetup in Seattle.
I’ll be at pride too.
I’m also going to be new to Seattle at the end of June! If you hear of any meetups, let me know!
just wanted to give a comments reminder that i set up a seattle meetup!
http://www.autostraddle.com/seattle-2015-06-28-seattle-pride-brunch-potluck/
there’s a facebook page for rsvp :)
My retail work schedule usually precludes my hanging out with people, but if Houston ‘straddlers want to meet up at my cool indie bookstore…
Oooh, when? I’ll be in town next weekend to find an apartment. (And what’s the name of your bookstore? I’ll need a distraction from attempting to kill my realtor….) :)
Brazos Bookstore! General bookstore, lit and art and narrative nonfiction and kids books mostly–I’m trying to build our gender and sexuality section so having Autostraddle readers browsing would be the best. Godspeed with the real estate, friend, it’s a little bit of a wild market here right now.
Oh, I know. I’ll definitely be in over the weekend. :)
Awesome! I’d say come by Sunday, it’ll be a much chiller day at the store.
If there are any of you from Portland, OR who want to do this, I’ll be there.
If anyone else out there happens to be in Shanghai, I’d love to meet up! (In town for the next two weeks.)
Any ladies in South Australia should join the Adelstraddle group on Facebook where we shall definitely be planning something (hey perhaps I shall be the instigator, we shall see!). Also another AS reader Devi who has been cycling solo across continents collecting stories about climate change will be visiting us soon because really Autostraddlers everywhere are awesome and why shouldn’t we meet up!
ps you guys should do a story on her, she seems super rad.
@elster Devi sounds amazing
Also on a slightly irrelevant note, I will miss the Sydney event by a very small timeframe but will actually be in and around Sydney from tomorrow (Monday), a bit of Tuesday and back on Thursday for a while and am always keen to meet new people (and it’s more fun finding/trying fun food things in a new city with new friends) so if anyone wants to hang and make friends with a random Adelady let me know :)
Message me on Facebook (if you’ve got one) here and I’ll add you to the Sydney group!
Pride came and went in tel aviv, but we are hosting an OITNB binge party with nachos, if anyone wants to come…Tomorrow (monday) at 19:00! hope my GF is ok with me inviting people to her house :-)
Let’s DO THISSSSSS
Pride in Manchester isn’t till the August bank holiday weekend, but I’d be well up for meeting with Northern UK straddlers then! Manchester Pride is pretty gross TBH, but we could do our own thing :D
Anyone going to be in St. Louis for pride this year? I’d love to meet some of you lovelies =)
Where are my Seattle queers? Too shy to make my own meetup event, but this new-ish Seattle transplant would love to make some queer friends
Anyone in Vancouver going to East Side Pride next week? Every year I swear I’ll go to an event outside of the parade, and every year I fail miserably, but I am 100% going to try to be there.
Ok seattle folks, would anyone be interested in meeting up in volunteer park for a brunch picnic on june 28th? I could put together an invite if people would want this to happen!
Sure, let’s do it! Do you want to make an official event for this list, so other people can see it and we can invite people?
going to put invite together and submit now! :)
Seattle brunch thing is set up here!
https://www.facebook.com/events/381472468730544/
The San Francisco Dyke March link doesn’t work :( can anyone link a page with more info for me?
http://www.thedykemarch.org/