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The blog Gay Escort, about one man’s life as a male prostitute, serves up a juicy diary of relationship woes and twisted client escapades.

Peter LaBarbera,  the president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality and self-appointed penis inspector, was on-hand again at Folsom with his creepy ginger hair and lookie-loo eyes, taking copious amounts of video footage and photos.

Are you one of those homosexuals who still orders Cosmopolitans in a busy club on a Saturday night? Or one of those fools who shoots Courvoisier like it was tequila? Our stalwart, go-to Castro bartender, Yuri Kagan, has a few suggestions which may improve your chances of getting laid–or at the very least, improve your chances of not pissing off the bartender who is your lifeline to blessed inebriation.

The nation’s first great super-tranny, Rupaul, is getting up there in years, and in contemplating her legacy she has teamed with gay cable channel Logo and World of Wonder to produce Rupaul’s Drag Race, a combo Project Runway/Top Model where trannies and their stylist/hag pals team up to make outfits, do makeup and stage memorable numbers. Though the show won’t air until early 2009 (we know, we’re dying too), the competition for getting cast is already getting fa-roche, with online voting for Round 1 set to close on June 27th. We’re sort of partial to the likes of SF queens like Candi Gurl and Putanesca, or bizarro Old Hollywood-ish characters like Tammie Brown and Cassandra Forever.
But the queens getting the most votes so far are the ones who have gone
to the trouble of uploading videos of themselves, either performing or,
Real World-confessional-style, telling us their lives on tape. The best of breed, after the jump.

We admit we were a little crabby when we landed, but after three days of
barramundi, wine and cruising, on the harbor and otherwise, we’re feeling a
little bit better about San Francisco’s sister city down under. In fact, we like it so much upside-down here, we think we might
bring something of their gay culture back to the states, and we’re not talking
about the ecstasy hidden in our wig.

Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Tenderloin

133 Turk Street

The carpet probably hasn’t been replaced since the mid-70s, there’s one of those flammable-stuffed-animal crane games up front, and Anthony the toothless bartender is the sweetest thing to happen to the Tenderloin since the advent of crack. Don’t miss the Hot Boxxx Girls, Fri-Sat 10 PM.

Ginger’s Trois

Downtown

246 Kearny Street

Though Damron Guides cite a “professional crowd” and a recent makeover and change of ownership has brightened up the inside a bit, our experience of Ginger’s leans more toward wheelchairs and Cutty Sark neat on a Tuesday afternoon. Not exactly a late-night destination, but a good bet for a gayische happy hour crowd replete with bobo financiers and retail queens.

Hole in the Wall Saloon

SOMA

1369 Folsom Street

Expect a selection of leather daddies and pool-hustling cubs at this Harley-friendly dive recently relocated to Folsom Street.  It opens at noon and it’s about bottled beer and hankies around here, so don’t even think about ordering a fucking Cosmo. Also, the occasional patron craps outside the door for our viewing pleasure.

Gangway

Polk Gulch

841 Larkin Street

The bandana’d and rolled-jeans bicycle crew takes the place over twice a month at Chrome and Manquake, but most nights the Gangway is the sort place where old guys have slurred shout-fights about the names of Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands and who got more tail during the war.

The Men’s Room
Castro
3988 18th Street

It’s a bit like a ski lodge in this tiny joint on 18th, complete with 60s canister fireplace in the back corner, and it’s perfect for a weeknight birthday because you and your friends can basically take over the place and own the jukebox, which isn’t half bad.  Also, a nice escape from the usual shitshow up the street on a Saturday night–the kind of place you can watch a closed-captioned PBS on Broadway special while sipping some Scotch and working through a breakup.

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