Arts & Entertainment
Against Me! plays Ram’s Head Friday night
Band is touring current album ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’
Inge Johansson, Atom Willard, Laura Jane Grace and James Bowman of Against Me! (Photo by Ryan Russell)
Punk band Against Me! plays Ram’s Head Live (20 Market Place) Friday night in Baltimore. Tony Molina and Big Eyes open. Doors open at 8 for the 9 p.m. show.
The band is fronted by Laura Jane Grace, who documented her transition process (she was formerly known as Tom Gabel) on their sixth studio album “Transgender Dysphoria Blues,” which was released in January.
The band calls its latest album “neither a radical stylistic departure nor a concept album. Rather, it’s just another bold step forward for an artist doing what she’s always done — forging her own path by processing the highs and lows of life through music.”
Grace came out in a May, 2012 Rolling Stone article and wrote an online journal called “My First Year as a Woman” for Cosmopolitan.
Tickets are $20. Visit ramsheadlive.com for information.
Celebrate the start of Pride month at the Queer Magic Dance Party at the Black Cat on Saturday, June 6. Doors open at 9 p.m.
There will be pole performances and demonstrations, a free photo booth with glitter bar, a queer vendor market, tarot readings by Skye Marinda Tarot, a drag performance by Sapphica, and dancing to a blend of smooth R&B, Afrobeats, hip-hop and pop by Slammer & Saba. Tickets are $20 at the door or $15 (plus fees) in advance, purchased here.
Local queer journalists will celebrate Pride this weekend at the annual NLGJA-DC Pride Happy Hour event at Trade (1410 14th St., N.W.) on Saturday, June 6, 3-5 p.m. Admission is free.
Out & About
DC Front Runners Pride Run 5K set for Saturday
Annual event held at historic Congressional Cemetery
The 14th annual DC Front Runners’ Pride 5K run/walk is set for Saturday, June 6 at historic Congressional Cemetery. The race starts and ends at the cemetery (1801 E St., S.E.) and passes through scenic D.C., along the Anacostia River trail and the fields at RFK campus. Registration ends Friday at 11:59 p.m.
Runners can pick up their race packets on Saturday from 7-8:30 a.m. at Congressional Cemetery; the race begins at 9 a.m.
The fee to run the 5K in person is $65 ($35 for those under age 20). Proceeds benefit local LGBTQ nonprofits, including Thrive DC, Wanda Alston Foundation, Blade Foundation, Ainsley’s Angels, SMYAL, and Team DC. Visit DCFrontRunners.org for more information.
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