You're not in LA for Pride, so 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
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.
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Lucky Pierre @ The Stud
9th & Harrison
10PM - 3AM
This
monthly party hosted by Miss Trannyshack 2006 Coco Canal-with co-host
and strip poker dealer Artemis Chase manning the game room-has some
good music (DJ Donimo), an alterna-but-cute crowd and some even cuter
go-go boys for your glowering pleasure. $5 before 11PM, $7 after ...read more
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Saturday
Collide @ Club 222 222 Hyde Street 10PM This place used to be The Blackhawk Jazz Club and now has homemade pizza, Pilsner Urquell tallboys and a basement dancefloor. It's in the middle of the crackiest part of the Tenderloin, and it may not have taken off yet exactly but you always gotta work to find the coolest parties in town. Expect the crowd to thicken around 12 (Also, it's not gay exactly... their MySpace lists itself as "Bi.")
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Hot Mess @ The Stud
9th & Harrison
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 whip cream wrestling and Frat House
DJ Kidd Sysko. ...read more
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Trans Am @ Club 8
1151 Folsom Street
10PM - 2AM
When you're as tired of hearing remixes of "Rehab" as we are, you might
want to head to this monthly party at Club 8, where the music and the boys tend
more to the punk and rock end of the spectrum. ...read more
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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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Friday
Greg Araki Screening & Q&A @ BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn
9:40 PM
Once called a "gay Thelma & Louise," Gregg Araki's film The Living End (which is being screened in a Remixed and Remastered version with a Q&A with Araki afterward) is a classic in what was once called New Queer Cinema. We don't even know what to call it now, and it doesn't need categorization. Just know that two HIV positive fags kill a cop and go on the road with the motto "fuck everything."
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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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Sunday
Garden of Ono @ Hotel Gansevoort 18 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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 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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