Friday
The Hot Boxxx Girls @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge
133 Turk Street
10 PM til late
your dollar bills ready and get there early (they’ve been turning folks away lately) as the girls pull out all the stops-and at
least five costume changes apiece-at this old-school dragztravaganza.
Tips are a definite must and Gina LaDivina is sure to blow you away. $5 …read more
The Rod @ Deco Lounge
510 Larkin Street
10PM
DJ
Bus Station John spins his vintage underground best for the hip kids.
The wet jockstrap contest at midnight isn’t aging terribly gracefully,
but it’s still a decent diversion after one’s eighth vodka tonic…more
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Charlie Horse @ The Cinch
1723 Polk Street (bet. Clay & Washington)
10 PM, show at midnight
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 is sort of country-western themed but also has a ceiling
covered in colored in those multicolored Mexican paper flags. Tonight: “Diva of Disaster,” Marcy Playground’s birthday. (She will be beyond sloppy, just you wait)
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Saturday
Some Are Camp Weekend @ The Triple R
Mill Street & 4th
Guerneville, CA
A rock-and-electro-centric triumvirate of hip gay parties–Trans Am, Beast and Tiara Sensation–are co-hosting a weekend long getaway on the Russian River that starts with rock & roll by the pool on Saturday afternoon with Trans Am’s DJ Dirty Knees, continues that night with animalistic freakfest that is Beast, and wraps up with some drag parading at Tiara Sensation on Sunday.
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Hot Mess @ The Stud
9th & Harrison
10PM – 4AM
colonizing the Stud for this Saturday night party (not to be confused with the party of the same name in NYC), featuring drink
specials for exhibitionists, live whip cream wrestling and Frat House
DJ Kidd Sysko. …read more
The Monster Show: Donna Summer Night @ Octavia Lounge
1772 Market St at Gough
10:30PM, show at 11:30
We don’t know how the rough and tumble, mildly insane drag stylings
of Cookie Dough, Ginger Snap, Primadonna Reed and Pollo DelMar are going to go
over with the staid cabaret crowd that usually hangs out at the
Octavia, but it’s bound to be a funny show, scandalized elderlies aside. We also would love to see Bebe Sweetbriar do “On the Radio.”
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Midnight Mass – Jawbreaker @ Bridge Theater3010 Geary Street
Midnight til the show ends (think 3 AM)
It’s a high school bitch fest startting Rebecca Gayheart, Rose McGowen and special guest of the evening Julie Benz. Also present for the pre-show interview with Peaches Christ will be writer/director Darren Stein. Tix.
9PM
Let’s
just say that there are a lot of polo shirts and
while we’re totally cool with that and lots of pretty boys were wearing
them, it can be a little unnerving. Their tagline, oddly, is “Upscale,
Downlow,” even though there’s nothing really down-low about it… $3 at the door.
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Sunday
1900 Folsom @ 15th
9PM
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
Beer Bust @ The Eagle398 12th Street
Every Sunday, 3PM to 7PM
Hey,
it’s actually warm out! So chill out with some beers out-of-doors at
this weekly $10 all-you-can-slug bear
fest. And uh,
whatever you do, for god’s sake, don’t go in there wearing any
cologne….read more
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1900 Folsom @ 15th
9PM
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
Friday
Panty Revolution Pool Party @ The Ice Palace
Cherry Grove, Fire Island
11PM
It’s Daniel Nardicio’s birthday and it’s sure to be a good party. In the grand tradition of famous fag hags past, Lady Gaga is taking the ferry out to perform and dance it up with the boys. $10, $5 if you wear underwear or a swimsuit. …read more
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Star Fridays @ Star Lounge
Chelsea Hotel Basement
222 W 23rd Street
10PM – 4AM
back to Chelsea for some Factory-era style and red velvet-and-chandelier glamour.
Nick Van Bremen and Matt Tratner host. …read more
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Gary 49 @ Mr. Black
27 West 24th Street
Saturday
Schmooze Saturdays @ HK523 9th Ave
10PM – 4AM
Marc
Berkley’s come uptown with everyone else and hosts this weekly party
featuring Ginelle Gordon singing her ass off and a bunch of hotties
boozing it up and schmooze-talking their way into Sunday. Anyway, we
always like a bar with a nice bathroom and multiple levels. We don’t
like standing still …read more
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Family @ 40C40 Avenue C (3rd St)
10PM
are livening up the East Village tonight with an actual party that
promises to be actual fun. Hosts include Justin Bond, Michael Formika
Jones, Cazwell, Amanda Lepore, Michael T, Miss Guy and Philippe Blonde,
with DJ Adam and guests Tekshur, Van Scott and Kingdom. $5-$10.
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Ticklyn @ Sugarland221 N. 9th Street (Williamsburg)
10PM – 4AM
Brooklyn: it’s where half the under-thirty gays live now anyway. DJ
Emjay spins deep house, etcetera for the Manhatts party monsters and
Billyburg homos alike. …read more
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Cruising @ Santos Party House100 Lafayette St (at Canal)
10PM – 4AM
Think sweaty. Think sex party. DJ Bill Coleman
spins eclectic tunes while the boys make out and grope each other (and
what’s more!) in the dark. $10 before midnight. $15 after. More info.
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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
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Rendezvous @ The Ritz349 W 46th Street
4PM
It
may not be as scene-y as the Garden of Ono fete downtown, but DJ Lina
(and sometimes Adam Joseph) and the boys of Hells Kitchen rock out at this summer Sunday mixer with
two outdoor patio decks and happy hour prices until 7PM. ... more.
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It’s getting a little mobbed after midnight at this glam weekly fete, but given that Sundays are for drinking …read more
Garden of Ono @ Hotel Gansevoort18 9th Avenue
6 PM – Midnight
Josh Wood, DJ Steve Travolta and hosts Nick Van Bremen and Erik
Bottcher are bringing back this series of summer garden parties, on the
roof in the Meat Packing District. Last year Michael Musto gushed it
was “a big oh-yes,” and though everyone in New York tires of things
really quickly, Cuckoo Club still hasn’t died so maybe this more mellow
alternative won’t either. Reserve a cabana ahead if you want to be
fancy like that.
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