If you're a die-hard leather queen, porn star or circuit bear, you're probably in Chicago this weekend for the cataclysmic concurrence of IML, the Grabby Awards and Bear Pride. But if you're not, and you're stuck in the homo meccas of New York or San Francisco this Memorial Day, we've picked out a few options for you... 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. Tonight is a Sex and the City movie release party! Cosmos, gurls!
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Manquake @ The Gangway 841 Larkin Street
9PM - 2AM DJ Bus Station John hosts this monthly party in the TenderPolk, where the alterna-gays and bicycle boys nudge aside the colorful cast of elderly regulars to order cheap drinks and nod to the 70s and 80s beats. The dancefloor at the back always reminds of a suburban basement family room, minus Dad's golf trophies. $5.
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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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 Cocktailgate @ Truck
1900 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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Monday, Memorial Day
Boys by the Bay @ Kelly's Mission Rock 817 Terry Francois Blvd (China Basin) 1 PM til dusk Gus Bean teams up with Matinee to bring you this weekend wind-down at a fine outdoorsy venue on the water, with music from DJs Rob Kaftan and Jamie J. Sanchez.
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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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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
Ships Ahoy! @ The Woodshop 24 9th Ave, 5th Floor 10 PM
Ever wanted to fuck a sailor, or similar? Daniel Nardicio and the Dlisit boys are giving out free Fleet Enemas at this Fleet Week themed party, with frisky sailors and coast guards go-going naked and cheap drinks from Svedka and Bulldog Gin. $15-20
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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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