Care of The Sword's tireless editors, we bring you this roundup (by
no means complete, or even-handed) of stuff going on for those of the
homo persuasion this weekend in the two meccas we currently have
bandwidth to cover, San Francisco and New York. Check back soon to see
us cover more gay urban centers near you (sorry, Cheyenne, we may never
get to you).
Our heavily editorialized listings after the jump...
Friday
Fuck Shit Let's Dance (FSLD) @ Deco Lounge
510 Larkin Street
9PM to 3AM, $5
DJ Donimo of Lucky Pierre fame will be spinning at this inclusive, no holds barred, faggot techno dancefest. It's in the middle of the Tender-Polk and the crowd's more punky and bear-y than, say, your average Friday at Boy Bar. ...more
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Charlie Horse @ The Cinch
1723 Polk Street (bet. Clay & Washington) 10 PM, show at midnight
A little further up the street you can crawl to this hot mess. 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. The drag performances tend toward the rock end of the spectrum and can be pretty hit or miss, but aren't they all?
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Saturday
9PM, $3
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 will be wearing
them, it can be a little unnerving. The tagline for this event, oddly, is "Upscale,
Downlow," even though there's nothing really down-low about it. This week is a CD release party for George Michael's new album, Twentyfive.
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9PM - 2AM DJ's Richie Panic and Jeffrey Paradise spin their
eclectic-electro-punk-dancey best at this weekly hipster haven where
you're just as likely to make out with a gay boy wearing a kaffiyeh as
you are to get elbowed by a baby-dyke with lipstick smeared all over
her face. ... read more
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10PM - 4AM The sloppiest kids in town are
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 baby-oil wrestling and Frat House
DJ Kidd Sysko. ... read more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday
Big Top @ The Transfer 198 Church Street Last Sunday of the month, 7PM - 2AM
Come on down for this wound up weekend-wind-down event and toss back a few two-for-one
well drinks, stick a dollar in the g-string of a hot go-go twunk and dance to a revolving list of
DJs at this self-described "homo disco circus" hosted by Joshua
J. and Rayza Burn ... 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
With everyone wearing sweatpants and fucking Crocs these days, come
back to Chelsea for some style and red velvet-and-chandelier-style glamour.
Nick Van Bremen and Matt Tratner host with DJ Lina and a V2 vodka open bar from 10 to 11. ...read more
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SqueezeBox Movie Afterparty @ The Blender Theater
127 E 23rd Street
10PM, $25
In honor of a documentary about it showing at the Tribeca Film Fest, it's a one-night-only recreation of the legendary rock-n-drag nightclub where John Cameron Mitchell premiered the character of Hedwig. Mistress Formika hosts, alongside promoters Michael Schmidt and Marc Jacobs, with a bevy of special guests including Deborah Harry, Sherry Vine and Justin Bond.
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Saturday
Family @ 40C
40 Avenue C (3rd St)
10PM
A band of marvelous and revolutionary homos
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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Schmooze Saturdays @ HK 523 9th Ave 10PM - 4AMMarc 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sunday
Hot Mess @ Porky's 55 W 21st Street 11 PM
A lot of hardcore party boys storm Porky's on Sundays for this tribute
to low class whorishness. Shoutouts to the fishbowl cocktails (um, do
you really need that second one for fuck's sake? It's Sunday) and the
sloppy teenagers (we use that term loosely) in their underwear playing
Twister. Good luck getting home without herpes!
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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
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