The Gangway
841 Larkin Street

San Francisco

Third Saturdays, 10PM

The kids who bring you Trans Am on the 1st Saturday of the month bring you this sister party, on third Saturdays, for the homo bicycle
mafia and their Converse-clad admirers up in Polk Gulch. 

Berlin, Germany

January 25

Javier Peres is one of the hottest international art gallerists with his Peres Projects located in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Athens. After launching DADDY the magazine, Peres has also become known for his full-tilt dance parties that commemorate the release of each issue. Guest edited by a different artist each time, the latest issue “Black Daddy” was curated by Franz West and contains imagery ranging from Jeff Koons’s statue of Michael Jackson and Bubbles, to Lindsay Lohan’s vagina, to Sid Vicious, to the corpses of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Details are TBA, so check back at their website for more information. www.daddythemagazine.com

Washington D.C.

January 18-21

Why settle for AEE when lovers of leather can have their own convention? Washington D.C.’s Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend is sponsored by Folsom Street Fair, and brings that new car smell to the Plaza Hotel. Browse whips, shackles, and bondage gear by day, and take it all off at one of the weekend’s fetish dance parties by night. We find it inspirational that even in starkest winter, leather daddies are content to sport nothing but chest hair, chokers, leather jock straps all in the name of making a statement. www.leatherweekend.com

Bangkok, Thailand

January 13, 20, and 27

Think Pink at Bangkok’s own BED Supper Club is the nightclub destination for all of the city’s most fabulous fags. Featuring burlesque performances, drag emcees, and resident DJs Eddie Frampton and Fred Jungo, Think Pink is a gay oasis that’ll have you feeling at home no matter how far from it you really are. www.bedsupperclub.com

MEN Arena
Manchester, England

January 23, 24, & 26

Isn’t it funny that the torch bearers of worldwide girl power are playing at a venue called MEN Arena? Well, there ought to be enough gays in attendance to live up to the namesake, at least. They may no longer be power girls in a 90s world, but between them they’ve got a bestselling fashion tome, a gorgeous soccer star husband, somewhere around seven children, a baby scandal with Eddie Murphy and over 55 million albums sold. It was just the other day when an aggressive Spice Girls megamix leapt out of our iPod Shuffle reminding us of what exactly made them the Fab 5 in the first place. Catch them if you can, and be sure to bring enough zig-a-zig-ahhhh. www.thespicegirls.com

Arosa Ski Resort
Gemeindeverwaltung Arosa
Rathaus
Postfach 165
7050 Arosa
Arosa, Switzerland

January 5-11

This highly popular gay ski week takes place at Arosa, which rests right at the top of a 6,000-foot Swiss valley. Spend the day enjoying the slopes, ski back to your room with a Swiss mister, or simply go to check out the parties. Always sunny, always snowing, it sounds too good to be true because it probably is: hurry up before you miss it. www.arosa-gayskiweek.com

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

January 27 – February 3

No, Beef Dip isn’t some grotesque relic left over from spending the holidays at my Aunt Barbara’s house, it’s a bunch of bears from around the world coming together in Puerto Vallarta to party and hang out together on the beach. Duh!www.beefdip.com

Triennale Design Museum
Viale Alemagna 6
Invitation Only
January 12

It’s nice to know men come first in fashion in at least one regard: our Fall ready-to-wear collections debut before any of the women’s wear, and whether you’re pining for Prada (pictured left, from the Spring ’08 collection) or fiending for Fendi, Milan is where the menswear rules the runway. It’s even set us on an alliterative rampage. Fashion week runs the 12th through the 15th, starting with a bash at the Triennale Design Museum thrown by Sak’s Fifth Avenue in conjunction with The Wall Street Journal. www.cameramode.it

Bilbao, Spain

January 20-25

Beginning in 2004, Zinegoak Film Festival showed 25 GLBT films in one screening room over the course of four days. This year, the festival takes place at four theaters, showing 95 films over five days in Bilbao before traveling off to assorted Bizkain villages. Spend time watching international queer cinema in Bilbao, home of the infamous Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum, where you can stop in and check out some Richard Serra sculptures between screenings. If all this art and design fails to keep you entertained, thank God for good old fashioned Spanish gentlemen! www.zinegoak.com

Club Krave
Planet Hollywood Casino & Hotel
3663 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV

January 11th

Every year, all of the hottest porn stars on the planet make a pilgrimage to mecca, otherwise known as Las Vegas, for the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. While the plebeian gentry of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales swapped stories along their journey, our more contemporary visitors swap business cards and bodily fluids. But alas, when in Hustlaball, do as the hustlers do! Just be sure to check out the live stage shows before you go back to your dens of rented iniquity. www.HustlaBall.com

Park City, Utah

January 9-13

With gay and lesbian ski weeks traversing the globe, what better place to hunker down and commence snowballing than in Park City? Running through the 13th, Community Visions’ Gay and Lesbian Ski Week has an itinerary bursting with lunches, cocktail parties and assorted meet and greets that’ll have your sun goggles transmitting psychedelic rainbows so brightly that you might fall off of a chairlift (that is, if trying to successfully attempt a handjob doesn’t do the trick first). Stick around for five more days and you might catch a glimpse of the Hollywood winter jamboree of the Sundance Film Festival, spy Emile Hirsch getting a Starbucks, and maybe walk away with a free gift bag or two. www.communityvisions.org

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