Friday
GhettoDisco @ The Endup
6th & Harrison
11PM til well into Saturday
Fag
Fridays are no more, but for those of you who still want to hear house
DJs and for reasons known only to your dealers prefer your parties not
to get going until after 2 AM, check out the slate at Ghetto Disco this
weekend: DJs Cuervo, Hawthorne and Nikita (no cover before midnight,
$20-30 after)…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 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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Saturday
198 Church Street
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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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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Sunday
1900 Folsom @ 15th
9PM
Beer Bust @ The Eagle
398 12th Street
Every Sunday, 3PM to 7PM
It’s just about summer, or just about the end of SF summer depending on how you look at, so you might as well keep drinking beer outside at this weekly $10 all-you-can-slug bear
fest. This week’s event benefits the SF Gay Softball League….read more
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Friday
Bloc Party @ Easternbloc
505 East 6th Street
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. …read more
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Star Fridays @ Star Lounge
Chelsea Hotel Basement
222 W 23rd Street
10PM – 4AM
back to Chelsea for some Factory-era style and red velvet-and-chandelier glamour.
Nick Van Bremen and Matt Tratner host. …read more
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A Night at the Y – Bana Pool Party @ The Wall Street Spa
88 Fulton Street
Midnight – 5 AM
It’s the Continental Baths all over again, complete with entertainment. Michael Formika Jones and the Bana boys present this aquatic party where you check your clothes and even get a locker to call your own if you pay full price. Tonight’s “A Night at the Y” party will feature special performances DJ Billy Beyond, and an exhibitionist photo booth with photographer Jeremy Kost.$40-80 in advance, $50-100 at the door. More info here.
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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. Host Michael Formika
Jones brings in plenty of friends, like 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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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.
Boy Beat @ Posh405 W 51st Street
4 PM
Get your Sunday afternoon drink on at this weekly party at the
“original gay bar in Hell’s Kitchen.” They have about the jankiest,
1996-esque website we’ve ever
seen, so maybe they have been around at least that long. Happy Hour
from 4-8, DJ T-boy spins, and there’s a pizza party if you’re still
hanging around there come midnight.
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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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