Friday
M4M Fridays @ SF Underground
424 Haight Street
10PM – 2AM
Get off the internet and back to the bars… Joshua J and Frankie Sharp just started this new party at the site of the now (mercifully) dead Drunk n Horny, featuring rotating DJs including 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.
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.
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Skin Underwear Party @ The Stud
9th and Harrison
10PM
Sfskaterboyz.com hosts this bi-weekly party, coaxing boys to strip down in return for cheap drinks and slutty admirers. Coat check is free, naturally. DJ MJ spins. $5.
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Bearracuda Underbear Party @ DNA Lounge
375 11th St. (at Harrison)
9PM
Who says that bears don’t dance? Well, we did, but that was before we tried out this sprawling, intimate and delightfully dancey space. There are several DJs, three bars, two dance floors, and one sketchy basement. Apparently there are free chips and Cheetos too. (Even though we were always taught to suspend food in trees when bears were around.) $15.
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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
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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Beer Bust @ The Eagle398 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
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1984 @ Pyramid
101 Ave A.
10PM – 4AM
In this very dark space, it is sometimes tempting to shine the light in your cell phone in your neighbor’s face to see whether he’s cute or not. It’s a search party for everyone. The boys are drunk, the men are horny, and the music — delights of the 80s like Boy George and Erasure — is loud.
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Saturday
Backroom @ The Dugout
185 Christopher St.
10PM
This sports bar’s variety of sleaze involves a free coat check and large-screen porn projections. $5.
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Cock Fight @ The Cock29 2nd Avenue
10PM – 4AM
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
Ticklyn @ Sugarland221 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
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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
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Dirty floor. Dirty men.
Electroshock Therapy @ Therapy348 W 52nd
10PM
Make sure to buff your business cards before heading out. This place is cruisier than its oh-so-chic decor lets on, and you never know when a come-hither handshake might lead to a one-night stand with a theatre queen. (Mamma Mia’s around the corner.)
Shits & Giggles @ Club 740740 S Broadway
10PM
Expect drunken performances, a packed smoker’s patio, and boys with wiry armpit hair scraggling out from under tattered tank tops. Dancing and booze abounds, of course.
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Stallion @ Fubar7994 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
Swallow @ MJ’s2810 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 Eagle9PM – 2AM
Cherry Pop @ UltraSuede661 N. Robertson
9PM – 6AM
It’s the only after-hours in West Hollywood, 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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Free Dance Night @ Akbar4356 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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Sunday
Beer Bust @ Faultline4216 Melrose Ave
2PM – 2AM
We once saw a midget giving head to a war veteran here.
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The long, narrow patio here at Here Lounge (696 N Robertson Blvd) makes for some good people-watching here is good, but it rarely turns into people-meeting; snobbiness has never smelled so much like fear. Still, the boys are pretty, the men are rich, and the v-necks are low. It’s a West Hollywood signature, so give it a try before you too decide you hate it here at Here.