Fruit Salad PRIDE: Gay Spelling Bee & Dance Party!

Fruit Salad is Dorothy's monthly queer open mic night! For PRIDE we are hosting a special edition of Fruit Salad on June 21st including DJ sets by Blesstonio and a GAY SPELLING BEE for up to 25 attendees to participate in!

Our spelling bee will be hosted by Fruit Salad Producer Whitney LaMora, featuring three panelists including Fruit Salad Producer & Open Mic Host, Rainn and two mystery panelists - to be revealed closer to the event!

All attendees will have the option to enter the spelling bee lottery night-of and we will choose 25 guests at random to participate. The winner receives 4 drink tickets to Dorothy, a trophy and bragging rights as Fruit Salad's first spelling bee champion.

Before and after our spelling bee for the night, we'll enjoy the DJ stylings of Blesstonio.

Antonio Robles Levine (@Blesstonio) is a Chicago-based DJ, classically trained musician, event/music producer, and dancer. Antonio is fascinated with club culture and has spent years studying and curating events in Chicago and Santa Barbara. His multicultural Puerto Rican, Black, and Jewish backgrounds lend him an attuned, eclectic ear ready to sonically compel audiences and create electric and magnetic dance floor experiences. As a club dancer committed to fostering an inclusive, dance-focused environment, Antonio believes in the legacies of clubs and dance floors as brave spaces for “queerness, blackness, transgression, community, inclusivity, freedom, liberation, inspiration, and radical joy” (Honey Dijon), where dancers and DJs are equal, active participants in protecting these sacred spaces of movement. Antonio is the co-founder and resident DJ of Fortune, a party series that centers dance as liberation and holds a safe space for the TQLGB+, Femme, Non Binary, BIPOC, and disabled communities. Antonio was nominated in the Chicago Reader’s 2022 “Best of List” for Best House Music DJ. Fortune won 2nd place in The Chicago Reader’s Best Dance Party category. Antonio currently holds DJ residencies at Lincoln Hall, Podlasie Club, Blind Barber, and The Charleston. He has played shows at smartbar, Metro, The California Clipper, EXPO CHICAGO, House Calls, Easy Does It, Berlin Nightclub, and The Promontory. He was an honorary guest DJ at the Frankie Knuckles Tribute (Sept 2022) in partnership with The Chicago House Music Festival, DCASE, Rebuild Foundation, and The Frankie Knuckles Foundation. He recently sat on The MCA panel in discussion with house music pioneer and The Warehouse founder, Robert Williams.

Entry is $15 [tickets limited to 2 per purchase] and proceeds are shared with the performers, the production team, our home base Dorothy and our giveback partner for this month chosen by Antonio: The Honeycomb Network.

The Honeycomb Network is a multi-functional community space offering holistic co-working and co-creating + boutique apothecary gift shop. Located on Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park, we provide a hive for BIPOC to be centered as leaders, teachers, artists, healers, & learners, in order to build, grow and sustain.

Doors for the evening open at 6:45pm and our spelling bee starts at 7:45pm.

Dorothy is 21+ and requires a physical ID for entry. Dorothy is also ADA accessible. Upon arrival, our security team and staff can help with any elevator access needed.

NOTE: Refund requests for Fruit Salad are given until 12pm the day of the show. Tickets sold outside of Eventbrite are not accepted for entry. No tickets, no waitlist at the door.