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Celebrate the beautiful tapestry of the LGBTQ+ community with this inclusive bingo template. Embrace diversity, equality, and acceptance while having a fabulous time! Let's play and show our support for all identities. Make your own "LGBTQ+ Bingo" cards - printable and virtual. Customize the words/numbers, choose a beautiful theme, then create your bingo cards for free. Celebrate diversity and love with our pride bingo.

This custom card generator tool lets you create a fun, engaging game perfect for Pride Month events or LGBTQ+ themed parties. As the city’s original Gay Bingo, this vibrant event raises funds for people living with HIV and other chronic illnesses.

This year’s theme: Disco! Enjoy cocktails, a photo booth, and (of course) bingo—then hit the dance floor for a disco party to remember.

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Download 2 free pages of LGBTQ Bingo including instructions and a randomized call sheet. This bingo card was created randomly from a total of 24 events. As Audra Ang reports , Werle targeted Bingo halls, surveying to see what interested people about Bingo and why they played. Overall, she found the experience rather lackluster, though she identified Bingo as a function that drew in people. Thinking about her cause, she considered how such an event might look with a gay flare.

Bo Ruberg argues that uncovering the intimacies between queerness and games is a rallying cry for queer subjects to reclaim the entirety of the games medium , Gay Bingo exemplifies this in several ways. The game also provided a social space for HIV fundraising. Gay Bingo brought to bear queerness and games to support those most vulnerable in a political and social climate that marked both LGBTQ people and people living with HIV for death.

Ang, Audra. DeAnda, Michael Anthony. Ruberg, Bonnie. New York University Press, Given the COVID crisis, with its fraught resonance with other pandemics, this intersection of games, spaces, play, community, queerness, survival, disease, and mutual aid particularly for analog games is on a lot of people's minds--from playing Pandemic to zoom tabletop RPG games to the desire, hope, and need to save and return to shared spaces be they someone's living room or the queer bar or the bingo hall.

Thanks for the intriguing piece! I think there are interesting connections here that resonate with solidarity, but also speak to, as Trevor Hoppe studies , punishing disease. Another intersection of these two crises is that people crafting panels for the AIDS memorial quilt used extra fabric to make face masks.

There are several interesting connections through which we can explore Gay Bingo which we might also think of as Drag Bingo and COVID, such as you have pointed out, how queer bars are really being affected by these ordinances and what this means for queer communities' sites of location and potential spaces to leverage for LGBTQ activism. One of my favorite bars has actually started hosting zoom parties and events.

Charity Hambingo pattern reference sheet used at Hamburger Mary's Chicago. Photo by author. Thank you for your comment, Edmond. Log in or register to add a comment.