It's Dore Alley weekend in San Francisco, and boy howdy, we don't know where this year has gone! Why, it seems like just yesterday we took that pic of that fresh bottle of piss lying in wait in the gutter for someone to enjoy. Anyway, for those of you in SF and NY, here's a roundup of gay stuff going on this weekend in the two meccas we currently have the bandwidth to cover.
Friday New Recruits @ Truck 1900 Folsom Street @ 15th 9PM to 2AMIt's a leather event for "those who know, and those who don't"; in other words, the leather queens are trying to spread the leather love and get the young'uns into it just in time for Dore Alley. The stage show, which might involve blindfolds like in the pic(--->) is at 11PM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 Fuck Shit Let's Dance (FSLD) @ Deco Lounge
510 Larkin Street
9PM to 3AM, $5
Lord Kook and DJ Pup 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
It's
a hike if you don't live in the Russian Hill/Nob Hill/'Loin vicinity,
but this rock-centric drag show hosted by the ever-soused Anna Conda
beat out Trannyshack last year for best drag show.
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Saturday
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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Hercules and Love Affair @ Mezzanine 444 Jesse Street
9PM - 2AM Those Italo-disco headliners will be backed up by local openers DJ Omar and Honey Soundsystem. Expect a way hip and way gay crowd, as well as a crew of confused BnTers standing around drinking Long Islands and wondering when the real dance music starts. Tix here or $20 at the door. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 Hot Mess @ The Stud
9th & Harrison
10PM - 4AM The sloppiest kids in town are
colonizing the Stud for this Saturday night party, featuring drink
specials for exhibitionists, live whip cream wrestling and Frat House
DJ Kidd Sysko. ...read more
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Midnight Mass - Star Booty @ Bridge Theater 3010 Geary Street Midnight til the show ends (think 3 AM) This is a special Midnight Mass with celeb guest Rupaul Charles, who's bringing her big drag-o-rific blaxploitation spoof to the Bridge for one night only. And as with all Midnight Masses, you're there for
the pre-show and the first half hour of the movie, tops. Only the
hardcore cult movie people stay for the whole thing. Tix.
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9PM
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 were wearing
them, it can be a little unnerving. Their tagline, oddly, is "Upscale,
Downlow," even though there's nothing really down-low about it. DJs Lee
Decker and Luke Fry will be spinning, and there's 2 for 1 vodka
cocktails before 10:30, c/o 42 Below.
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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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Sunday Up Your Alley @ Dore Alley (bet. Folsom and Howard) 11AM to 6PM Russian River Valley: Napa Valley :: Dore Alley: Folsom Street Fair. It's smaller, dirtier, and mos def the leather/piss/fetish connoisseur's street fair given the huge touristy clusterfuck Folsom has become. Get out your chaps, drink up that bottle of G and come get your portrait taken for TheSword. We'd love to see you.
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 Big Top @ The Transfer 198 Church Street 7PM - 2AM
After getting drunk outdoors at Dore, come on down for this wound up weekend-wind-down 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. ... read more
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9PM
People will be spilling over from Dore probably starting at 6ish, but Suppositori
Spelling hosts this weekly venue around 9ish... perfect for turning your Sunday hangover into
a Monday hangover. She works the room, performs and generally spazzes
out for your drinking pleasure... read more
Friday
Gary 49 @ Mr. Black
27 West 24th Street
It's back, and so is The Ass. Come party and dance like the bleak early aughts never happened in this dance den's new location in the Flatiron District, with resident DJs Sammy Jo and Johnny Dynell. ...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. ...read more
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 Baña @ Wall Street Bath & Spa
88 Fulton Street/William
Midnight - 5AM
Kick off your shoes, and your clothes, and kick off the weekend at
this month's Baña pool party, hosted by Michael Formika Jones and
featuring a performance by Cazwell (!), who just might be premiering his new single "I Seen Beyonce at Burger King." It's
just like the Continental Baths in the 70s only with Speedos and
without Bette Midler. Get tix here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Saturday
The Big Time @ The Ritz
369 W 46th Street
We
think the name of DJ JonJon Battles new party at The Ritz is probably
meant ironically, or it's a reference to the Peter Gabriel song.
Anyway, try to stay clear of that narrow-ass corridor and enjoy the
electro-pop goodness while sipping that low-carb vodka soda.
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Blocaholic @ Easternbloc
505 East 6th Street
This
is one of our favorite gay bars in New York: the music's good, the
crowd is smart and cool, the bartenders are hot and it's the kind of
come-as-you-are,
non-BnT booze fest Manhattan needs more of. DJ Gabe spins on Saturdays, and we like him. The end. ... read more
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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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 Ticklyn @ Sugarland 221 N. 9th Street (Williamsburg) 10PM - 4AM Brooklyn: it's where half the under-thirty gays live now anyway. DJ
Emjay spins deep house, etcetera for the Manhatts party monsters and
Billyburg homos alike. ... read more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 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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 Rendezvous @ The Ritz 349 W 46th Street 4PMIt
may not be as scene-y as the Garden of Ono fete downtown, but DJ Lina
(and sometimes Adam Joseph) and the boys of Hells Kitchen rock out at this summer Sunday mixer with
two outdoor patio decks and happy hour prices until 7PM. . .. more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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