San Francisco
1st Saturdays 10PM – 2AM
When you’re as tired of hearing Janet remixes as we are, you might
want to head to this monthly party at Club 8, where the music tends
more to the punk and rock end of the spectrum.
San Francisco
1st Saturdays 10PM – 2AM
When you’re as tired of hearing Janet remixes as we are, you might
want to head to this monthly party at Club 8, where the music tends
more to the punk and rock end of the spectrum.
Deco Lounge
510 Larkin Street
San Francisco
2nd Fridays 10PM – 2AM
Once a month, the more dingily denimed and Converse shoe’d
Deco Lounge
510 Larkin Street
San Francisco
2nd Fridays 10PM – 2AM
Once a month, the more dingily denimed and Converse shoe’d
Easternbloc
505 E 6th Street
New York
Every Friday
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.
Easternbloc
505 E 6th Street
New York
Every Friday
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.
The Café
2367 Market Street
San Francisco
Every Friday 9PM – 2AM
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to feel old before your time, washed up by age 28…
The Café
2367 Market Street
San Francisco
Every Friday 9PM – 2AM
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to feel old before your time, washed up by age 28…
Bordeaux-Begles
November 3, 2007
A Frenchier sort of White Party which bills itself as defined by deux mots (actually trois) “SMILE and HAPPY HOUSE.” The more southern Gallic gays, in response to the lack of big parties in their neck of the woods, flock to this party in the Bordeaux suburb of Begles to whip off their shirts and–excuse our lackluster translation skills–“to feel, at the same time, the feet in Paris and the head in Barcelona.” We’re sure it’s just like a night in Miami except way fewer Cubans and presided over by “la belle, la fabuleuse, la merveilleuse, l’incomparable… Mademoiselle Lucy,” who’s apparently a wicked big DJ over there. The action starts at 11 p.m. http://www.feel-detergent.com/
Bordeaux-Begles
November 3, 2007
A Frenchier sort of White Party which bills itself as defined by deux mots (actually trois) “SMILE and HAPPY HOUSE.” The more southern Gallic gays, in response to the lack of big parties in their neck of the woods, flock to this party in the Bordeaux suburb of Begles to whip off their shirts and–excuse our lackluster translation skills–“to feel, at the same time, the feet in Paris and the head in Barcelona.” We’re sure it’s just like a night in Miami except way fewer Cubans and presided over by “la belle, la fabuleuse, la merveilleuse, l’incomparable… Mademoiselle Lucy,” who’s apparently a wicked big DJ over there. The action starts at 11 p.m. http://www.feel-detergent.com/
Oscars, Rio Cuale
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
November 21-26
In case you’re closer to Puerto Vallarta than you are to Miami, and if you like your men with a little more Latin in their blood then you may want to opt for this other White Party over the Thanksgiving weekend. Gays don’t have families, right? Who gives a fuck about Thanksgiving? Tis the season for getting freaky with your bois and jumping up and down to some house music, dude. DJs Cary Stringfellow (LA), Oscar Velazquez, and Ramses will be joined by drag diva Lady Bunny and international club diva Sofonda Fox. http://www.willgorges.com/
Latin Fever Puerto Vallarta Read More »
Oscars, Rio Cuale
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
November 21-26
In case you’re closer to Puerto Vallarta than you are to Miami, and if you like your men with a little more Latin in their blood then you may want to opt for this other White Party over the Thanksgiving weekend. Gays don’t have families, right? Who gives a fuck about Thanksgiving? Tis the season for getting freaky with your bois and jumping up and down to some house music, dude. DJs Cary Stringfellow (LA), Oscar Velazquez, and Ramses will be joined by drag diva Lady Bunny and international club diva Sofonda Fox. http://www.willgorges.com/
Downtown Palm Springs
November 3, 2007
You know the drill: parties, nods to culture like films and exhibits, fags mumbling “happy pride” while sipping mojitos, and a parade on Sunday featuring some dykes on bikes and uncomfortable tourists and trannies in shiny outfits. It’s the closing event of California’s half-year-long pride festivities, and this time it’s in the desert people, with performances from Ari Gold, Brian Kent, and meteorologically inclined diva Martha Wash. Bring your sunscreen, and your sense of entitlement, and wander the streets among the well-heeled gays of Southern California, i.e. the ones who choose what you watch on television and take percentages off the top from the Shakiras and Anistons of the world so they can keep themselves in fresh BMWs and Prada sandals. http://www.pspride.org/
Greater Palm Springs Pride Read More »
Downtown Palm Springs
November 3, 2007
You know the drill: parties, nods to culture like films and exhibits, fags mumbling “happy pride” while sipping mojitos, and a parade on Sunday featuring some dykes on bikes and uncomfortable tourists and trannies in shiny outfits. It’s the closing event of California’s half-year-long pride festivities, and this time it’s in the desert people, with performances from Ari Gold, Brian Kent, and meteorologically inclined diva Martha Wash. Bring your sunscreen, and your sense of entitlement, and wander the streets among the well-heeled gays of Southern California, i.e. the ones who choose what you watch on television and take percentages off the top from the Shakiras and Anistons of the world so they can keep themselves in fresh BMWs and Prada sandals. http://www.pspride.org/
Wonkette made our Thursday not just for referring to Congressman Larry Craig as “gay restroom goblin Larry Craig,” but for posting this exclusive interview with former geek twink turned “bear-about-town” David Phillips. The take-aways from this piece: there apparently used to be a go-go-boy bar for rich, closeted right-wingers called La Cage Aux Follies on Capitol Hill and we wish we’d been there; Larry Craig is a feces-averse top; and Phillips, besides having apparently bent over for Craig in the Spring of ’87, was allegedly the trick of choice for a host of married Houston oil execs back in the day.
Larry Craig’s Feces Phobia Gives Twink Trauma, Chest Hair Read More »
Wonkette made our Thursday not just for referring to Congressman Larry Craig as “gay restroom goblin Larry Craig,” but for posting this exclusive interview with former geek twink turned “bear-about-town” David Phillips. The take-aways from this piece: there apparently used to be a go-go-boy bar for rich, closeted right-wingers called La Cage Aux Follies on Capitol Hill and we wish we’d been there; Larry Craig is a feces-averse top; and Phillips, besides having apparently bent over for Craig in the Spring of ’87, was allegedly the trick of choice for a host of married Houston oil execs back in the day.
1. Icelandic Phallological Museum HUSAVIK, ICELAND Through Sept 10 It’s your last chance to visit the world’s only penis museum. Over 200 preserved phalluses represent every mammal that can be found in Iceland. (Yes, that means whales, polar bears and humans, among others.) 2. Run For More Time
FRANKFURT September 14 This popular charity event is the German counterpart to America’s Walk for Life. Not into exercise? Don’t care about AIDS? Skip the race and go straight to the beer-soaked after-party. 3. Janet Jackson Rock Witchu Tour
VANCOUVER September 10 After spending seven years away from the road, the mistress of thump kicks off her highly anticipated North American tour in Vancouver. Eh? Eh! 4. Folsom Street Fair
SAN FRANCISCO September 28 Are you ready, Daddy? This annual leatherfest is celebrating its 25th year of bald heads and hairy bodies. Time to polish those leashes and memorize those safe words! 5. Atlantic Stampede Gay Rodeo
GAITHERSBURG, MD September 5 – 7 Watch as that cowboy riles up a steer, mounts him and holds on tight. After the show, buy him a drink and show him what you learned. | 6. Gay Sunday at the London Zoo
LONDON September 14 Hang out with the bears. Stave off the apes. Smile at the peacocks. And if you have time, go take a look at the animals too. 7. Get Wet Weekend
CURACAO September 25-28 Star DJs, boat parties and art shows await. How nice: a Caribbean island that throws the gay boys a party instead of stoning them outside a pharmacy in a mass mob. (Holla, Jamaica!) 8. Rainbow March
SAPORRO September 14 Saporro is not just a premium Japanese beer. It’s also the host of Japan’s longest-running gay pride parade. Don’t miss the dance party the night before the march. 9. South African Gay Film Fest
JOHANNESBURG September 4-14 Take in the best of gay and lesbian cinema with this diverse offering of screenings, workshops and city-wide events. 10. Gay Ski Week
QUEENSLAND, NZ Aug 29 – Sept 7 With powdery slopes, apres-ski socials, retro bowling, wine-country hiking and closing night dancing, this annual event attracts skiiers from across the gay globe. |
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1. Icelandic Phallological Museum HUSAVIK, ICELAND Through Sept 10 It’s your last chance to visit the world’s only penis museum. Over 200 preserved phalluses represent every mammal that can be found in Iceland. (Yes, that means whales, polar bears and humans, among others.) 2. Run For More Time
FRANKFURT September 14 This popular charity event is the German counterpart to America’s Walk for Life. Not into exercise? Don’t care about AIDS? Skip the race and go straight to the beer-soaked after-party. 3. Janet Jackson Rock Witchu Tour
VANCOUVER September 10 After spending seven years away from the road, the mistress of thump kicks off her highly anticipated North American tour in Vancouver. Eh? Eh! 4. Folsom Street Fair
SAN FRANCISCO September 28 Are you ready, Daddy? This annual leatherfest is celebrating its 25th year of bald heads and hairy bodies. Time to polish those leashes and memorize those safe words! 5. Atlantic Stampede Gay Rodeo
GAITHERSBURG, MD September 5 – 7 Watch as that cowboy riles up a steer, mounts him and holds on tight. After the show, buy him a drink and show him what you learned. | 6. Gay Sunday at the London Zoo
LONDON September 14 Hang out with the bears. Stave off the apes. Smile at the peacocks. And if you have time, go take a look at the animals too. 7. Get Wet Weekend
CURACAO September 25-28 Star DJs, boat parties and art shows await. How nice: a Caribbean island that throws the gay boys a party instead of stoning them outside a pharmacy in a mass mob. (Holla, Jamaica!) 8. Rainbow March
SAPORRO September 14 Saporro is not just a premium Japanese beer. It’s also the host of Japan’s longest-running gay pride parade. Don’t miss the dance party the night before the march. 9. South African Gay Film Fest
JOHANNESBURG September 4-14 Take in the best of gay and lesbian cinema with this diverse offering of screenings, workshops and city-wide events. 10. Gay Ski Week
QUEENSLAND, NZ Aug 29 – Sept 7 With powdery slopes, apres-ski socials, retro bowling, wine-country hiking and closing night dancing, this annual event attracts skiiers from across the gay globe. |
Oh, Zac. Don’t be coy. We know there’s something you’re dying to come out and say – at least as soon as the current hype dies down and you’ve already done the rehab thing and maybe packed on a couple pounds and your agent’s desperate for a new angle. Is it such a stretch to suggest that someone starring in a High School Musical (or 2) could be a little, uh, bohemian?
After the jump, we molest a red carpet photo in search of evidence.
Zac Efron Not Gay Yet, But Close Read More »
Oh, Zac. Don’t be coy. We know there’s something you’re dying to come out and say – at least as soon as the current hype dies down and you’ve already done the rehab thing and maybe packed on a couple pounds and your agent’s desperate for a new angle. Is it such a stretch to suggest that someone starring in a High School Musical (or 2) could be a little, uh, bohemian?
After the jump, we molest a red carpet photo in search of evidence.
Over the years, the Anheuser-Busch Companies and their advertising agency, DDB Needham Worldwide, have made some truly valiant efforts to court the gays into drinking more Bud Light (fags love diets!). Among these inspired campaigns, found in back issues of Out and HX, we chose a few to remind us that Heidi Fleiss and David Forest aren’t the ones who should be charged with pandering.
After the jump, we take a look at the last decade of Bud Light print ads geared toward gays.
The Worst in Gay Marketing: Bud Light Read More »
Over the years, the Anheuser-Busch Companies and their advertising agency, DDB Needham Worldwide, have made some truly valiant efforts to court the gays into drinking more Bud Light (fags love diets!). Among these inspired campaigns, found in back issues of Out and HX, we chose a few to remind us that Heidi Fleiss and David Forest aren’t the ones who should be charged with pandering.
After the jump, we take a look at the last decade of Bud Light print ads geared toward gays.
Marc Jacobs is showing a lot of skin these days, and not just on his runway models. Jezebel notes that in this month’s issue of Arena Homme Plus, the it-man designer traipses about his Paris flat without a shirt on discussing the fact that he is having a mid-life crisis, buying a lot of jewelry, and getting some asinine tattoos (“I had thought, what a dumb thing to have your own name put on your body. But I really wanted to have my initial, so it had to be in the context of something really stupid: the M&M.”). Of course, now we want more than a walk-on in the next Lucas feature…
More embarassment (and skin) after the jump.
Marc Jacobs Way Too Proud of Skinniness, Tattoos Read More »
Marc Jacobs is showing a lot of skin these days, and not just on his runway models. Jezebel notes that in this month’s issue of Arena Homme Plus, the it-man designer traipses about his Paris flat without a shirt on discussing the fact that he is having a mid-life crisis, buying a lot of jewelry, and getting some asinine tattoos (“I had thought, what a dumb thing to have your own name put on your body. But I really wanted to have my initial, so it had to be in the context of something really stupid: the M&M.”). Of course, now we want more than a walk-on in the next Lucas feature…
More embarassment (and skin) after the jump.
Photoshopped? Probably. Actually David Beckham? Probably not (from the waist down anyway). Shower nozzle masturbation material? Um, yeah.
See full-size photo after the jump.
Nude Becks: Probably Photoshopped, Definitely Hot Read More »
Photoshopped? Probably. Actually David Beckham? Probably not (from the waist down anyway). Shower nozzle masturbation material? Um, yeah.
See full-size photo after the jump.
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An organization called the Equality California Institute is spending untold millions to “spark a million conversations” with a television spot supporting rights for same-sex marriage. According to polls (which we rarely trust, unless we do them), the gay mafia is not far from achieving its goal of getting its own bridal registries and licenses to perpetual mediocrity; it will only take convincing between five and nine percent of the voting population of the state, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 600,000 to 1.2 million people, which isn’t much considering the viewer base of Bravo.
Equality California Tries to Shotgun Wedding Rights Read More »
An organization called the Equality California Institute is spending untold millions to “spark a million conversations” with a television spot supporting rights for same-sex marriage. According to polls (which we rarely trust, unless we do them), the gay mafia is not far from achieving its goal of getting its own bridal registries and licenses to perpetual mediocrity; it will only take convincing between five and nine percent of the voting population of the state, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 600,000 to 1.2 million people, which isn’t much considering the viewer base of Bravo.
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