Bag Lady Bus Tour Launch Party
2018-09-29 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Tini 717 Mass Avenue Indianapolis IN
Come out and find out the theme for the 38th Annual Bag Lady Bus Tour and sign up to ride the bus! You will have a blast!
Drink Specials at Launch party!

Bag Lady Showcase
2018-10-21 20:00 - 2018-10-22 22:00 UTC | Gregs 231 East 16th Street Indianapolis IN
Join the Bag Ladies as they deliver the best entertainment east of the White River and west of Alabama Street. This Showcase will introduce you to the individual talents of the Former Bag Lady Queens and allow you to meet and get to know the current Bag Lady Queen contestants. The event will also show off the talents of the “ladies” who wish to be crowned the 2018 Bag Lady Queen. The new Queen will be crowned at the end of the Bag Lady Bus Tour on October 27. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Show starts at 8:00 p.m. Suggested donation: $5.00 to the Direct Emergency Assistance (DEFA) Fund.

2018 Bag Lady Bus Tour - Hollywood Royalty
2019-02-15 10:00 - 2019-03-01 18:30 UTC | Liberty Country Club, 1391 US-27, Liberty, IN, 47353, United States
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Survivor's Brunch 2018
2019-03-25 13:00 - 22:30 UTC | Liberty Country Club, 1391 US-27, Liberty, IN, 47353, United States

Loud & Proud
2019-06-06 20:00 - 23:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202
Start celebrating Pride Weekend with The Bag Ladies “Loud & Proud” – a fundraising event for the Gregory Powers Direct Emergency Financial Assistance (DEFA) Fund.

$5 suggested donation at the door; all donations, including performer tips will be donated to DEFA.

Step Up to Greg's for a BINGO Resurrection
2019-08-20 20:30 - 22:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202
Bring BINGO back from the dead with our special Sister Reverend Sequoia Pentecost, Bag Lady Queen 2006. Drink, laugh, and win fabulous prizes with Step Up, The Bag Ladies, and Greg’s staff. $1 per card, $5 for seven! All proceeds will benefit Step Up, Inc.

The Bag Ladies' Turnabout Show
2019-08-25 20:00 - 22:30 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202
A charity drag show where the partners of local queens do the performing. All tips will go to the Direct Emergency Financial Assistance (DEFA) fund.

Another Night On the Bayou
2019-10-05 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | Zonie’s Closet 1446 E Washington St Indianapolis IN 46201
After a brief hiatus, Another Night on the Bayou is returning to Zonie’s Closet!
Please join us for this fundraiser to benefit the Damien Center’s Coby Palmer Food Pantry. For just $10 you’ll get to belly-up to the all-you-care-to-eat buffet featuring fried fish and chicken, sausage jambalaya, red beans & rice, cole slaw, hush puppies, bread pudding and sweet tea & lemonade. Zonie’s will also feature a Hurricane drink special in addition to providing full bar service.

Bag Ladies Queens Halle Pino (2009), Holly Luyah (2010), Latrina Bidet (2011), Pollyanna Parker (2017) and June Taylor (2018) will be joined by extra special guest Lola Palooza and Bag Ladies Queen Candidates Robyn D’Banques and Barbra Pleaze to provide a blues and bayou-themed drag show under the stars on the deck at Zonie’s Closet. C’mon down for the buffet, booze and blues to rock your way through the weekend. 100% of all ticket sales and performer tips collected will go to the Coby Palmer Food Pantry.
Zonie’s is a cash only bar…ATM available.
Tickets available at HTTPS://M.BPT.ME/EVENT/4353941 or at the door on the day of the event.

2019 Bag Ladies Queen Candidate Showcase
2019-10-20 19:00 - 21:30 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202
Join many of your favorite Bag Ladies Queens as we honor Bag Ladies Queen 2018 June Taylor and see the talents of the 3 Bag Ladies Queen Candidates (Robyn D’Banques, Anita Morehead and Barbra Pleaze) showcased before we crown 2019 Bag Ladies Queen.
$5 suggested donation. Greg’s/Our Place is a cash-only bar…ATM available on site.

2019 Bag Lady Bus Tour ~ "Old Showgirls Never Die!"
2019-10-26 16:00 - 2019-10-27 01:00 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202
39th Annual Bag Lady Bus Tour
Join the Bag Ladies as we continue the bus tour tradition. This year’s event is Saturday, October 26. Registration is at Greg’s from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Buses leave at 6:00 p.m.
Bus Tour Schedule coming soon!
Get Tickets at:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4351458

Sequins Required - The Bag Ladies Film is Here!
2019-11-09 13:30 - 15:30 UTC | Newfields, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN, 46208, United States
You’ve heard the stories…you’ve ridden the bus…now see it all on film!

One night in 1981, a ballsy group of men with big hearts and even bigger bouffants dressed in drag and boarded a bus. Performing at stops throughout Indianapolis, they raised money for people dying from the disease “God gave to the homosexuals.” If that were the case, then a more loving divine being blessed the gay community with the Indianapolis Bag Ladies. Courageous and compassionate, these men organized to help, hug, and house droves of dying gay men who no one else would. Their humanity and hilarity proved far more powerful than public policies and a government that initially turned its back on the national AIDS crisis in the early ’80s.

One of the founders Coby Palmer (aka Blossom, Queen Mother of the Bag Ladies) takes us back to what was “a deadly new disease singling out gay men.” He and his fellow Bag Ladies share their story for continued awareness and a tribute to all the friends they buried during those darkest days.

After nearly four decades of Bag Lady Bus Tours and charitable events, they and many more ladies (and some women) have brought in more than $3 million to help those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. They hope, of course, for a cure. But even then, they still want all of the effort, all of the pain, and especially all of the love that has occurred over the past 35 to 40 years to be remembered.

DIRECTOR: MELODY L. DUNN, USA, 90 MINUTES

Buy Tickets @
https://discovernewfields.org/Checkout?eid=39406

2019 Bag Ladies Bus Tour Photo Viewing Party
2019-11-10 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | Zonie’s Closet 1446 E Washington St Indianapolis IN 46201

Bag Ladies Bingo
2019-12-07 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | English Ivy’s 944 N. Alabama Street

The Stockings Were Hung - Bag Ladies Holiday Show
2019-12-15 19:00 - 21:30 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202

Bag Lady Bingo - The Faces Behind the Glamour
2020-02-08 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | English Ivy’s 944 N. Alabama Street
Join the fun as the Bag Ladies hold their first installment of bingo in 2020. As usual we will have cash prizes and drawings. $2 cards or 3 for $5. Come out and help us make our 40th year the biggest yet for fundraising! Ivy’s brunch starts at 11:00 and the antics start at noon!

For the Love of Queens - A Royal Revue
2020-02-09 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202
Come out for this Royal fundraising revue! Many of your favorite Bag Ladies Queens will give you the royal treatment in this show. All donations go to the DEFA Fund. Doors at 7:00 and the show starts at 8:00! Suggested door donation $5. Finish your Sunday Funday with us!

Bag Ladies Bingo - March 2020
2020-03-07 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | English Ivy’s 944 N. Alabama Street
Join the Indy Bag Ladies at English Ivy’s and try your luck at winning pots of gold! Brunch starts at 11:00, games begin at 12:00.

1 Game – $2 / 3 Games – $5 / 6 Games – $10

100% of all proceeds go the the Coby Palmer Food Pantry.

Indy Bag Ladies - Shimmering Shamrocks 2020
2020-03-15 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Zonie’s Closet 1446 E Washington St Indianapolis IN 46201
Join the Indy Bag Ladies at Zonie’s Closet on Sunday March 15th for Shimmering Shamrocks, a benefit for the DEFA Fund.

Some of your favorite Bag Ladies and local entertainers will be getting you ready for St. Patrick’s Day. Doors at 7:00, Show at 8:00. Suggested $5 donation at the door and all entertainer’s tips will go directly to the community through the DEFA Fund.

Zonie’s Closet is cash only, ATM on site.

Christmas In July
2020-07-26 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202

Boys Will be Gurls - A Bag Ladies Fundaiser
2020-08-28 19:00 - 23:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Brick on Park, 2440 North Park Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, 46205, United States
Featuring performances by Hostess and Emcee Holly Luyah (BLQ ’10), Cherry Forever (BLQ ’93), Halle Pino (BLQ ’09), Patricia Yolanda Weave (BLQ ’12) and Barbra Pleaze (BLQ ’19) with appearances by Tonya Campisi (BLQ 1846) and Sparkle Nightly (BLQ ’14).

After the performances, stick around for a special screening of a movie that has been hailed as “riveting,” “a movie,” and “drag at its most mediocre.”
Tickets available through Eventbrite, link below.

About the DEFA Fund:
Through a partnership with the late local entrepreneur, Phil Denton, The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis created the Gregory R. Powers Direct Emergency Financial Assistance (DEFA) program in the late 1990s to provide needed assistance to Hoosiers living with HIV/AIDS in emergency situations. DEFA funds are distributed by The Health Foundation to grantees that provide hands-on care management and assistance including The Damien Center, Eskenazi Hospital (formerly Wishard Hospital) and the LifeCare program at IU Health Methodist.
These agencies then administer DEFA funds to meet the individual emergency needs of HIV/AIDS infected persons. In 2018, DEFA funds provided assistance to 4,853 patients. The top five emergency needs (representing 74.27%) were:

Rent or Mortgage assistance (17.95 percent)
Medication assistance (17.10 percent)
Transportation assistance (15.32 percent)
Nutrition assistance (13.05 percent)
Utility assistance (10.85 percent)

Red Party
2020-09-19 21:00 - 23:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202

The Queens' Challenge
2020-09-30 08:00 - 2020-10-25 20:00 UTC
Queen Barbra Pleaze and former Queens will be grouped on three teams we will call “Buses.” They will be recruiting you to join their bus and help with fundraising. Each bus team will be working towards a goal of $5000 to go towards the DEFA Fund. You are encouraged to personally fundraise and make social media posts and videos spurring on others to give. Payment of donations can be via credit card online or by scanning the QR code below or via Apple Pay, checks and cash. All funds for consideration will need to be turned in one hour before the announcement of the winner. The bus team with the most money raised will be announced by Mother Blossom on Sunday October 25th from a central location and announced live on social media!

Bag Ladies Telethon at Footlite Musicals
2020-10-31 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Footlite Musicals, Indianapolis, IN, United States
On Halloween Night, the Bag Ladies will host an online Tel-a-thon at Footlite Musicals! This will only be for 1 hour from 5-6pm. Throughout the hour join the Bag Ladies as they present remotely from local bars, restaurants and businesses to help promote them and fundraise. A few former Bag Ladies Queens and or friends will be at each remote locations. The Queens will be performing and collecting tips to fundraise. The goal for the evening will be $15000!

Shimmering Shamrocks
2021-03-14 18:00 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202

Spotlight 2021 (Virtual)
2021-04-24

Showcase
2022-10-23 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202

Bus Tour
2022-10-29 19:00 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202

Bidet/Nightly Disco Throwdown
2022-11-20 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202

Stockings Were Hung
2022-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Greg’s Our Place 231 E 16th St Indianapolis Indiana 46202

Bingo at Ivy's - SOLD OUT
2023-11-18 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | English Ivy’s 944 N. Alabama Street
