Friday
M4M Fridays @ SF Underground
424 Haight Street
10PM
Get off the internet and back to the bars… Joshua J and Frankie Sharp just started this new party at the site of the now (mercifully) dead Drunk n Horny, featuring rotating DJs including Juanita More! and Kidd Sysko. There’ll be go-go boys, $4 Svedka drinks, and that smokey patio out back with the tiny alley the boys piss in when the bathroom lines get too long. $5.
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Charlie Horse @ The Cinch
1723 Polk Street (bet. Clay & Washington)
10 PM, show at 12
It’s a hike if you don’t live in the Russian Hill/Nob Hill/’Loin vicinity, but it beat out Trannyshack last year for best drag show, and it’s at a bar that has a ceiling covered in colored in those multicolored Mexican paper flags.
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Barbies on Fire @ The Stud399 9th St
10PM
Join The Bearded Lady, Javier Nature Boy and a variety of drunk, dancing dolls. $5
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Saturday
Chrome @ The Gangway
(841 Larkin)
10PM, $5
3rd Saturday. The kids who bring you Trans Am bring you this sister party, on third Saturdays, for the homo bicycle mafia and their Converse-clad admirers up in Polk Gulch.
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Pornstar @ Cat Club1190 Folsom
10PM
Bad boy pornstars Ethan Wolfe, Wolf Hudson and Mike Dresden go-go dance while all the drunk scenesters watch and weep from the dance floor.
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The Hot Boxxx Girls @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge
133 Turk Street
10 PM
They call it “Sophisticated Saturdays” and they encourage ties and such, but let’s just say there are a lot of polo shirts and t-shirts and while it’s definitely a cute crowd, it’s also turning into a very Cafe-ish, twentysomething crowd indistinguishable from Boy Bar or Frat House. That said, it’s way more tolerable than most of the shitshow that is the Castro on a Saturday. $4.
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Lady Gaga @ Adonis
550 Barneveld Ave
12AM
Coming off the glittery heels of her recent album release, Lady Gag performs for a drunken late-night crowd. Adonis usually attracts the sort of over-tanned circuit daddies that we generally shy away from, but Gaga’s fit electro sound is sure to round out the dark corners of this popular mega-club.
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Sunday
Paradise Disco @ 1015 Folsom
6PM
This new monthly tea dance from our good buddy Gus brings you the “best gay dance music from the past, present and future.” While we’re not sure how you play music from the future, we are sure that this party sounds like a good alternative to that other regular tea dance in town, Fresh. Get there early. And look! Poppers!
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Beer Bust @ The Eagle398 12th Street
Every Sunday, 3PM on
It’s all the beer you can drink for $10 and always benefits a good, gay cause. Whatever you do, for god’s sake, don’t go in there wearing flip-flops….read more
Society @ Etiquette1108 Market Street
9PM, $5
With a logo that looks suspiciously like the inspiration for Gus Presents’ Saturday shindig, Social Club, this LA-based party is moving in on SF for (at least) one night. The douchey dudes in the Myspace vid aside, we’re hoping to meet someone cute and sort of fashionista, like that guy Brad on The Rachel Zoe Project, in a cardigan-bowtie combo.
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Cocktailgate @ Truck1900 Folsom @ 15th
9PM
Suppositori Spelling hosts this weekly venue for turning your Sunday hangover into a Monday hangover. She works the room, performs and generally spazzes out for your drinking pleasure…read more
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Twisted @ Suite One8One181 Eddy St
6PM – late
Damn, what’s with all the tea dances this week? This one’s got a main room, a lounge, and “yo’ momma’s basement.” Dance to thuddy music in a sea of synthetic fog and amyl nitrate. $25
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Friday
Frisky Fridays @ Sugarland
221 N. 9th Street (Williamsburg)
10PM – 4AM
Acid Betty, fresh from her appearance on Project Rungay, hosts this weekly hoe-down for Billyburg queers, also starring DJs Corey Tut and Aaron Elvis.
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Bloc Party @ Easternbloc
505 East 6th Street
This is one of our favorite gay bars in New York: DJ Gabe gives good pop, the boys are hip, the bartenders are cute and it’s the kind of come-as-you-are, non-BnT booze fest Manhattan needs more of. …read more
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Star Fridays @ Star Lounge
Chelsea Hotel Basement
222 W 23rd Street
10PM – 4AM
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1984 @ Pyramid
101 Ave A.
10PM – 4AM
In this very dark space, it is sometimes tempting to shine the light in your cell phone in your neighbor’s face to see whether he’s cute or not. It’s a search party for everyone. The boys are drunk, the men are horny, and the music — delights of the 80s like Boy George and Erasure — is loud.
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Saturday
Wild Bear Night @ The Dugout
185 Christopher St.
8PM
Join the hefty and the hairy for a night of cheap drinks and outdoor BBQing. $5.
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Cock Fight @ The Cock29 2nd Avenue
10PM – 4AM
We love The Cock, except when they spray that glow in the dark shit on everyone. The East Village was ahead of the curve in bringing the dirtiness back to gay life in the late 90s …read more
Evolve @ Pacha618 W.46th Street
10PM
The West 40s are the new Ibiza, apparently. Dive into the glittery man-sea and do the electronic jitterbug to the thumps of DJ Victor Calderone.
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Family @ 40 Ave Cum…40 Ave C
10PM The cream rises to the top at this socialite-heavy space. Amanda Lepore and DJ Cazwell preside over the shenanigans.
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Sunday
One Step Beyond @ The American Museum of Natural HistoryCentral Park West and 79th St
9pm-1am
This popular mixed party is back with dance music and cosmic visuals. Watch out, though, it’s mixed. So before you go for the scrotum-grab, say hi. Ticket includes one free pass to the museum. $20
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Cuckoo Club @ Hiro Ballroom
363 W 16th Street
10PM – 4AM
It’s getting a little mobbed after midnight at this glam weekly fete, but given that Sundays are for drinking …read more
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Dirty floor. Dirty men.
Electroshock Therapy @ Therapy348 W 52nd
10PM
Make sure to buff your business cards before heading out. This place is cruisier than its oh-so-chic decor lets on, and you never know when a come-hither handshake might lead to a one-night stand with a theatre queen. (Mamma Mia’s around the corner.)
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Friday
8811 Santa Monica Blvd
10PM
Fridays are the one night when it’s acceptable to venture into Eleven, an otherwise totally lame club. The pretty boys give in to the “OMG It’s Friday night!” vibe and DJ Morningstar spins all the right tunes.
Shits & Giggles @ Club 740740 S Broadway
10PM
Expect drunken performances, a packed smoker’s patio, and boys with wiry armpit hair scraggling out from under tattered tank tops. Dancing and booze abounds, of course.
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Cockpit Fridays @ Fubar7994 Santa Monica Blvd.
9PM
Yes, this bar is trashy and wild. But it’s still technically located in West Hollywood, and the handful of snobby, watchful, pretty-people scenesters who come here prevent anyone from truly letting go. So the sleaze at Fubar is more of a piece of furniture in the corner than an all-encompassing vibe. Still, now that Hot Dog is woefully defunct, this is the best place to go for a dirty night west of Fairfax. …read more
–Gay Bar Culture
Swallow @ MJ’s2810 Hyperion Ave
10PM
Speaking of Hot Dog… this party comes via the loins of Mario Diaz, creator of Hot Dog and Big Fat Dick, and features DJ Barbeau. From Gay Bar Culture: “While the music is sometimes so gay here we feel like hate-criming ourselves, on many nights the music is just lovely, and the crowd and the DJ hold hands and throb together until closing.” …read more
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Saturday
Trash @ The Eagle9PM – 2AM
Cherry Pop @ UltraSuede661 N. Robertson
9PM – 6AM
It’s the only after-hours in West Hollywood, so expect the usual WeHo cornucopia of trainers who are really models, retail queens who are really aspiring set-dressers and former models who are now graphic designers all dancing to Rihanna and drinking Ketel sodas, splash of cran.
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Free Dance Night @ Akbar4356 W Sunset Blvd
10PM – 2AM
On the weekends the boys elbow the pushy lezbots aside and take to the dance floor at Akbar, which is arguably the most reckless, least judgmental dance floor in L.A. (It’s also about the least cruisy.) …read more
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Leadership Gala 2008 @ The GroveAl Fresco, Maggiano’s, 189 The Grove Dr.
The LA Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce presents their annual gala honoring leaders in the business community. Italian family style dinner, open bar, hot men in suits and a comedy performance by “The Gay Mafia.” $300.
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Sunday
Size @ Here Lounge
696 N Robertson Ave
9PM
The long, narrow patio here at Here makes for some good people-watching here is good, but it rarely turns into people-meeting; snobbiness has never smelled so much like fear. Still, the boys are pretty, the men are rich, and the v-necks are low. It’s a West Hollywood signature, so give it a try before you too decide you hate it here at Here.
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Beer Bust @ Faultline4216 Melrose Ave
2PM – 2AM
We once saw a midget giving head to a war veteran here.
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Motherlode8944 Santa Monica Blvd
We love the crowd here on Sundays because of the overflow from the exhausting sceney spots around the corner. This divey, oft-forgotten bar serves up a great mix of and scene, of ease and sleaze. Tired of the fishbowl but not of the…um…fish? Try this place out.
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