From here on out, please find our weekly roundup of selected (and generally awesome) events and parties in SF, NY and LA here. 

On Friday, a gang of trannies from San Francisco’s Tiara Sensation invaded the already punk rock drag show at Charlie Horse, and the results, were, well, inspiringly messy.

We don’t mean to sound condescending to the gay scenes of other cities — we didn’t grow up in a gay mecca and hey, we all gotta drink! — but gay party roundups the world over always bring a certain cringe factor.

Puerto Vallarta is the gayest place in Mexico, but with so many bars, clubs, tequilas and prescription drogas to choose from, The Sword brings you this handy guide, just in case you have any plans to head down that way.

Occasionally we at Sword HQ in San Francisco feel pangs of jealousy toward our fag brethren in New York and we wish we had never left there–even though it’s dirty and crowded and East Coast winter makes us want to die.

Police have cut off the major ecstasy supply to Sydney Mardi Gras. This means thousands of gays will be forced to listen to circuit party music without help from drugs.  Things could get very ugly.

DNA Lounge, a dance club/music venue in San Francisco’s SOMA district, has been battling the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, who’s threatening to revoke the club’s license because of a few lewd Latino go-go boys.

A 31-year-old man was found dead on Sunday inside his rented private room at Club Pittsburgh, the city’s local gay bathhouse.

Downtown New York’s Glammy Awards–which are just about as renowned and prestigious as our very own Cybersocket Awards,

You may have heard that today marks the 75th anniversary of the day we all regained the right to get shitfaced and make out with strangers–it’s Repeal Day, or the day in 1933 when the 21st Amendment was finally ratified, bringing to an end the nation’s long nightmare of Prohibition.