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Resolved: 2011 will be queerer than 2010. And what could be queerer than Magic: The Gathering and Alejandro Jodorowsky? Here’s everything you need to help you stick to those resolutions to fill out your scrawny Blue Deck and get serious about pyschoshamanism…

Folks, there just isn’t that much queer stuff going on this weekend. Whaddya want? It’s Christmas. Go see a movie, or a musical, or do something touristy you can only justify because it’s the holidays–ice skate in Millennium Park, learn something about your city, go to a museum…

Are you sick of holiday spirit yet? The Christmas earworms, the Salvation Army bell-ringing, the treacle jewelry ads? Too bad for you, because there’s a week and a half to come, and it’s only going to get worse. But look, only four of this weekend’s Preview events are holiday-themed…

So there isn’t much queer stuff going on this weekend–and I’m not about to pad the list with Bearracuda and drag Christmas shows. It’s called tough love; you’ll thank me later. Instead, queer your weekend by listening to Robyn while you do everything…

With the beginning of December, the funeral of fall. Our first real snow came like clockwork on the 1st; now it’s time to take the long underwear out of the mothballs and dance ourselves warm. You’ll have ample opportunity…

Can someone remind me why I’m in Maryland for Thanksgiving? Is it family? Old friends? The bewitching scent of roasted Brussels sprouts, which I started smelling last week through a warp in the space-time continuum? This weekend’s lineup is almost enough to make a gal forgo Thanksgiving sentimentality in favor of queer booty-shaking.

As the second oldest LGBT film festival in the world (San Francisco’s Frameline is the oldest), Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival has been celebrating films by and for an LGBT audience for 29 years. I had the pleasure of being an intern with the film festival two years ago, and was a supporter long before that time.

I hope you like Halloween, because there is nothing that is not Halloween-themed this weekend.  Queer Halloween seems to entail, demand, require, and necessitate drag, which means there are 231 Halloween drag events this weekend.  I have taken the liberty of culling the flock to a choice few.  More drag, if you really entail, demand, require, and necessitate it, is readily found on the internet.

Rachel invites you to share your weekend with Yoko Homo, drag queens, and John Waters in this edition of the Preview.