Friday
The Rod @ Deco Lounge
510 Larkin Street
10PM
The more dingily denim’d and Converse shoe’d among
us head to the ‘loin for this monthly party started by DJ Bus Station John, who
spins the sort of music you would have heard if you were alive and high
on PCP in a Polk Street dive circa 1979. …read more
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Handbook Party @ The Powerhouse
1347 Folsom Street
9 PM
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Fag Fridays @ Pink
2925 16th Street
10PM
It used to be at The EndUp, where they frisked you at the door and took away all the drugs you didn’t put in your shoe. …read 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: The House of Salad
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Saturday
Hot Mess @ The Stud
9th & Harrison
10PM – 4AM
The sloppiest kids in town are colonizing the Stud for this new Saturday night party, featuring drink specials for exhibitionists, live whip cream wrestling and Frat House DJ Kidd Sysko. …read more
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Sunday
1900 Folsom @ 15th
9PM
It’s drag bad girl Spaz’s first annual 30th birthday fashion show, where you can also order up a burger and fries to help ease out of your Saturday night hangover and into a new one. …read more
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Friday
Bloc Party @ Easternbloc
505 East 6th Street
This is one of our favorite gay bars in New York: the music’s good, 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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Saturday
Cock Fight @ The Cock
29 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
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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
Glitz @ The Ritz
369 W 46th Street
11 PM
Flawless tranny Candis Cayne, who’s currently appearing as Stephen Baldwin’s scandalous squeeze on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money, puts on a little song-and-dance for the Hell’s Kitchen crew at this new-ish Sunday party, along with hubby DJ Marco.
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