Friday
M4M Fridays @ SF Underground
424 Haight Street
10PM – 2AM
Get
off the internet and back to the bars… Joshua J and Frankie Sharp are
launching this new party at the site of the now (mercifully) dead Drunk
n Horny, featuring DJs Chelsea Starr, Goldblooded, Juanita More! and
Kidd Sysko. There’ll be go-go boys, $4 Svedka drinks, and that smokey
patio out back with the tiny alley the boys piss in when the bathroom
lines get too long. $5.
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Charlie Horse @ The Cinch
1723 Polk Street (bet. Clay & Washington)
10 PM, show at 12. Free
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 has a ceiling
covered in colored in those multicolored Mexican paper flags. Tonight: Downey’s ‘September 12: What the World Needs Now’
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The Rod @ Deco Lounge
510 Larkin Street
10PM
DJ
Bus Station John spins his vintage underground best for the hip kids.
The wet jockstrap contest at midnight isn’t aging terribly gracefully,
but it’s still a decent diversion after one’s eighth vodka tonic…more
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Boy Bar @ The Cafe
Market & Castro
9PM – 2AM
we need to explain? If you’re under 25, peace be with you. You’ll love
this new singer they play called Madonna. If you’re over 30 and not
especially fucked up, god help you–you will feel, prematurely or not,
really fucking old. $2
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9PM
They call it “Sophisticated Saturdays” and they encourage ties and
such, but let’s
just say there are a lot of polo shirts and t-shirts and while it’s
definitely a cute crowd, it’s also turning into a very Cafe-ish,
twentysomething crowd indistinguishable from Boy Bar or Frat House.
That said, it’s way more tolerable than most of the shitshow that is
the Castro on a Saturday. $4.
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The Hot Boxxx Girls @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge
133 Turk Street
10 PM
Get
your dollar bills ready and get there early (they’ve been turning folks away lately) as the girls pull out all the stops–and at
least five costume changes apiece–at this old-school dragztravaganza.
Tips are a definite must and Gina LaDivina is sure to blow you away. $5 …read more
Sunday
Cocktailgate @ Truck
1900 Folsom @ 15th
9PM
Suppositori
Spelling hosts this weekly venue for turning your Sunday hangover into
a Monday hangover. She works the room, performs and generally spazzes
out for your drinking pleasure…read more
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398 12th Street
Every Sunday, 3PM on
It’s all the beer you can drink for $10 and always benefits a good, gay cause. Whatever you
do, for god’s sake, don’t go in there wearing flip-flops….read more
Friday
Bloc Party @ Easternbloc
505 East 6th Street
This
is one of our favorite gay bars in New York: DJ Gabe gives good pop, 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 style and red velvet-and-chandelier-style glamour.
Nick Van Bremen and Matt Tratner host with DJ Lina and a V2 vodka open bar from 10 to 11. …read more
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Gary 49 @ Mr. Black
27 West 24th Street

221 N. 9th Street (Williamsburg)
10PM – 4AM
Acid Betty, fresh from her appearance on Project Rungay, hosts this weekly hoe-down for Billyburg queers, also starring DJs Corey Tut and Aaron Elvis.
Saturday

100 Lafayette St (at Canal)
10PM – 4AM
Think sweaty. Think sex party. Linda Simpson likes it… DJ Bill Coleman
spins at this Fall Jock Party while the boys make out and grope each other (and
what’s more!) in the dark. $10 before midnight. $15 after. More info.

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

40 Avenue C (3rd St)
10PM
are livening up the East Village tonight with an actual party that
promises to be actual fun. Hosts include Justin Bond, Michael Formika
Jones, Cazwell, Amanda Lepore, Michael T, Miss Guy and Philippe Blonde,
with DJ Adam and special guests. $5-$10.

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.
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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Sunday
It’s getting a little mobbed after midnight at this glam weekly fete, but given that Sundays are for drinking …read more

349 W 46th Street
4PM
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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18 9th Avenue
6 PM – Midnight
Josh Wood, DJ Vito Fun and host Matt Trattner are winding down 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.
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(yay! new graphic!)
Guerrilla Gay Bar, LA @ The Griffin
3000 Los Feliz Blvd.
9PM
You ever hear of Guerrilla Gay Bar? It’s kind of an underground org.,
which we think started in San Francisco in the late 90s, wherein member
fags show up en masse and take over a straight bar for one night,
guerrilla style. Done right, it can be kind of awesome. The LA branch
gathers once a month, and tonight’s target is cavernous hipster haven The Griffin. For email notifications of future takeover targets, email them here.
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7994 Santa Monica Blvd.
9PM
Yes, this bar is trashy and wild. But it’s still technically located in
West Hollywood, and the handful of snobby, watchful, pretty-people
scenesters who come here prevent anyone from truly letting go. So the
sleaze at Fubar is more of a piece of furniture in the corner than an
all-encompassing vibe.
Still, now that Hot Dog is woefully defunct, this is the best place to go for a dirty night west of Fairfax. …read more
–Gay Bar Culture

2810 Hyperion Ave
10PM
Speaking
of Hot Dog… this party comes via the loins of Mario Diaz, creator of
Hot Dog and Big Fat Dick, and features DJ Barbeau. From Gay Bar Culture: “While the music is sometimes so gay here we feel like hate-criming
ourselves, on many nights the music is just lovely, and the crowd and
the DJ hold hands and throb together until closing.” …read more
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Trash @ The Eagle L.A.
9PM – 2AM

661 N. Robertson
9PM – 2AM
It’s
the bastard child of Popular and an ancient party called your grandpa
might have gone to called Cherry, held at the same space. And it’s a Tom Whitman
event, so expect the usual WeHo cornucopia of trainers who are really
models, retail queens who are really aspiring set dressers and former
models who are now graphic designers all dancing to Rihanna and
drinking Ketel sodas, splash of cran.
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4356 W Sunset Blvd
10PM – 2AM
From Gay Bar Culture: “On the weekends the boys elbow
the pushy lezbots aside and take to the
dance floor, which is arguably the most reckless, least judgmental
dance floor in L.A. (It’s also about the least cruisy.)” …read more
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Sundays @ Area
643 N La Cienaga Blvd.
10 PM
You’d better not have a demanding day job if you’re going to hoot it up with the shirtless masses at this Jeffrey Sanker semi-monthly, featuring DJ Morningstar and a morning after that’ll make you wish you were never born. Free before 11, $10 after.
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