Gay Best Weekend Bets

Hey, Ponies! This is a big weekend with the royal wedding and Trans Pride! Culminating a weekend of Pride activities is an outdoor screening of Oscar- winner, A Fantastic Woman. In honor of that movie here is a Fantastic Woman stuffed best weekend bets!

All sorts of great stuff:

• Choose to have Your Best May. The only thing you need to read this month (but also please keep reading the rest of our site).

• We did our annual OUTDOOR FREE MOVIE GUIDE – this is very useful.

• We met the red pandas at the Smithsonian National Zoo. They poop glitter.

• We revisited our Veggie Burger Guide. We ate not meat.

• We went inside ARTECHOUSE for their new exhibit: Naked Eyes.

• RADIORADIORADIO: Listen to BYT radio! Hosted by Brandon Wetherbee, it streams every Thursday at noon. Listen live. Subscribe in iTunes. Sometimes we do toasts. 

•MAY 19 (THIS SATURDAY)! we are excited to partner with the DC Bike Ride yet again. 20 miles of car free streets, plus a cool after-the-ride-festival with Trouble Funk headlinng = a perfect way to celebrate National Bike Month. Register here. Use the code BYTSPRING18 for $15 OFF registration

• MAY 25: our co-founder Svetlana Legetic will be doing the Creative Mornings May Talk, at Sixth and I. Theme is #COMMITMENT and more details and free tickets can be found here.

•JUNE 6: Dine-N-Dash 2018 is coming June 6 and we’re a sponsor! Buy tickets now to the funnest food event of the year!

•JUNE 8: our annual Capital Pride weekend kick off: Earth, Wind, GLITTER & Fire – with DJ Kitty Glitter, Alex Lo, Naomi Smalls and MORE. Get tickets here.

• MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON…Stay in the loop and follow us on Facebook & Twitter & Instagram. Use #BYThings too. Get excited!

• Orchid – Capitol Hill’s Newest Gay Bar – Soft Opening
  
• Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami opens at E Street Cinema.
• Petworth Social Club’s new HH featuring Jacq Jill is at Homestead Food & Bev (Pre-Fam Night)
• Watch RuPaul and then stick around for FAM NITE w/ Diyanna Monet is at TRADE.
• Trans + Queer Celebration in Resistance is at Pansaari
• The Sea and Cake play Rock and Roll Hotel.
• Nonotak x Artechouse.

• Head to Bear Happy Hour at Rock and Roll Hotel.
• SEQUENCE.313_DJ Stingray, A Halal (Official Movement Preparty) is at a TBD location.
• BloominGays Spring Kickoff Happy Hour
• BreakfastClub is at Duplex Diner.
• Rough House is at Green Lantern.
• House of XX Burlesque is at the Black Cat.
• Fleet Foxes play The Anthem.
• Margaret Cho is sold out at the DC Improv.
• Iceage play Union Stage.

• It is Capital Trans Pride!
• Geeks OUT DC Pokémon Go Queermunity Day
• Pretty Boi Drag Presents #PrettyBoiBlackPride is at Tropicalia.
• The NeedlExchange: 5 Years Wrong w/ Clark Price (Honcho) is at Zeba.
• Bare: Pursuit of Happiness is at Cobalt.
• Roam XVII is at a TBD location.
• G ∆ Y / B ∆ S H is at TRADE
• Peach Pit is at DC9.
• Town and Country is at Town.
• Ex-Ru-Paul’s Drag Race contestant Blair St. Clair is at Town.
• Wet play Black Cat.
• Right Round is also at Black Cat.

• Watch A Fantastic Woman at Stead Field.
• OverEasy Tea Dance – May! is at Dodge City.
• Homosuperior play DC9.
• QGMN DC: L Word Trivia!! (Season 1) is at Slash Run.
• Andrew W.K. brings the party to 9:30 Club.
• Okkervil River play 9:30 Club.

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