This Gay Weekend Around The Nation: June 5-7

(Scroll down for our weekend event guide to mainstay meccas New York, San Francisco and LA.)

It’s Utah Pride week in Salt Lake City, starting with Shitwrecked tonight and featuring an appearance by The Jarics this weekend (SLC’s Gay News Now has the deets). It’s also Pride weekend in Austin, El Paso, Detroit, Kansas City, Tulsa, New Jersey and West Virginia (where the dog show[!] has been postponed til Sunday).

There’s also a kickoff party on Saturday for PrideFest Key West, and in Boston there’s Pride Day at Faneuil Hall, and the start of the Boston LGBT Film Fest.

If you’re in Florida, it’s One Mighty Weekend in Orlando, the center of which is Gay Days at Disney World.

For members of the Gay Rodeo Association, it’s Sierra Stampede Weekend in Sacramento, featuring many butch gays who’ve actually earned the right to wear chaps.

And across the pond it’s Oxford Pride in the UK, and it’s the culmination of EuroPride in Zurich, Switzerland.

As always, click here for The Sword’s guide to regular weekly events happening Friday – Sunday in SF, NY & LA.

Below, some special weekend highlights in the three faggiest cities we could think of — but only San Francisco can claim to be the bottomiest.

Photo by Goldberg.

What’s the Big Idea? @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
Saturday, 9PM – 3AM, FREE

It’s a big, “Fellini-esque,” homo shitshow at the YBCA, featuring full access to the galleries (including the Sisters’ archive show, and a Nick Cave sound suit exhibition), and performances by poster-tranny Monistat, Anna Conda, The Ex-Boyfriends, The Pansy Division and music by Honey Soundsystem and DJ Dirty Knees. The RSVP list is closed, meaning you may have to stand in line, but if you arrive early you’ll probably get in.

FRIDAY: Charlie Horse Goes Disco @ The Cinch; Hot Boxxx Girls @ Aunt Charlie’s; Deep Dickin @ Deco; 25th Anniversary of House Music @ Club 6
SATURDAY: Adonis @ 550 Barneveld; Hyp Saturdays @ Club Eight; Dancing With the Drag Stars @ Cheryl Burke Dance Studio;
SUNDAY: Honey w/ Chris Bowen @ Paradise Lounge; Salsa @ El Rio; Confession @ Qbar

Frisky Fridays @ Dtox

31 Second Ave (bet 1st & 2nd)

Friday, 10PM – 4AM

Get drunk on the cheap with East Village boys and their admirers at this party that relocated earlier this year from Brooklyn. Cool new tunage with DJs Aaron Elvis and Corey Tut.

FRIDAY: Gary 49/I Love NY @ Mr. Black; Bloc Party @ EasternBloc; Fridays @ Sugarland; Head Doctor @ Therapy; Bianca Del Rio @ Blue Whale (Fire Island)
SATURDAY: Staten Island Pride; Long Island Pride (Sayville); Tubway @ Mr. Black; John Blair Saturday @ Splash
SUNDAY: Queens Pride; Jersey Pride; Garden of Ono @ Hotel Gansevoort; Vandam @ Greenhouse feat. Juanita MORE!; Superhero Celebrity Rehab: The Musical