Thursday 01.21.16
BABY TEA : 1/17
The Dauphine of Bushwick X Wise Men: Music by Charlene and Lemon Verbena! ALL TEA! Performance by Charlene and The Dauphine. Tea set winner Zach Ligas! Hosted by Birthday Boy Ryan Lobo!
Sunday 01.17.16
Party: Horse Meat Disco MLK Edition
I forgot it’s a long weekend this weekend. Thanks Martin Luther King Jr., just one more reason to love you! Here’s a party that you will definitely need an extra day to recover from. The London party Horse Meat Disco is in town, at Output this Sunday night, January 17 and they are ready to turn you out. The party goes over two rooms. In the main room is music by Horse Meat Disco and Sean B. & Will Automagic. In the Panther Room (sounds sexy lol) music is by Mike Servito and Ron Like Hell. They’re all amazing DJs that will keep you on your feet way past your bedtime (drink plenty of water queen, but not too much — don’t want to flood your brain, aghhh!) Hosts are Marco Ovando, Paloma Perez, TJ Samson. Tickets are a little pricey at $45 but it’s a special occasion so whatevs. Have fun party monsters. And remember, MLK is one of the few holidays worth celebrating!
Saturday 01.16.16
Party: Holy Mountain: Journey XVI
I was looking over links the other day on gayletter.com and in one of the articles from 2010 we said that we pretty much recommend anything that Ladyfag does. She wasn’t a fan of our last write up for Holy Mountain, but we wouldn’t write about her if we didn’t love what she does. And I got to give it to her, she’s consistent, she’s been throwing awesome events even before we started this newsletter. Since we are now at the beginning of a new year, and a new journey, it feels right that we tell you about Holy Mountain: Journey XVI. As Ladyfag puts it, “It’s 2016...the future is now. Crawl out of your cocoons, my sweet cyborg queens & slither your Giger tails & scales out of the primordial ooze to a place where music is god, & dancing will set you free. The truth is out there… 2 Floors. 4 Rooms. 1 Mountain...Holy Mountain!” Some of the best DJs in NYC will be providing tunes for the night: Michael Magnan, Nita Aviance, Ryan Smith, Total Freedom, Dicap, Juliana Huxtable, Greg K. and Chapman. Amazing line up, I’d go for that alone. P.S. If you go all out with a “SERIOUS GIGER OR CYBORG LQQK,” you’ll only pay $5. Yassss Queen.
Wednesday 01.13.16
THE TENTH VOL. 3 Launch at the Ace Hotel in Downtown LA
Their Hollywood Issue is out now! #BLACK #GAY #UNBOTHERED
Saturday 01.09.16
R.I.P. The Spectrum
Check out the images from their final party
The Spectrum came from nowhere. Someone said, “Are you going?” and two hours later we were there, looking around a windowless room, trying to decide whether it was good. That was in 2012. I guess it could be called “underground” since if you were walking by it, you wouldn’t know it was there. The façade was plain. The steps were crumbling. The windows were covered in bars. It looked like every other building in East Williamsburg.
Founded by Gage of the Boone and Nicolas Gorham, Spectrum promoted itself as a community space for queer artists, musicians and performers. There were self-defense classes, disco yoga and queer pilates but nobody I knew went during the day. Everyone went at night, when lights went off, the cover went up and the DJs took over. There were music shows (Cloud Soundz), performances (Mama Said Sparkle!) and readings (Dick-tionary).
After midnight, you couldn’t move without stepping on someone’s platforms. The parties were wild and Dagger was king. It was the monthly “LEZ dance party” and it had the most punk pay scale. Entrance was $10 for queer ladies, $15 for queer guys and $50 for str8 cys dudes. Ova the Rainbow was good too. It was always themed something campy like “oil spill,” “snake skin” or “gold.” I once saw dueling Dolly Parton’s perform in the middle of the room. Everyone circled around them and clapped. It felt like we were watching the best Show & Tell ever.
The Spectrum was legitimately not legit because they didn’t check IDs. …
Party: The New Cock
It’s not often that a new gay bar opens in NYC, new parties pop up pretty often, but new bars, they’re rarer. While this is not technically a new bar, it’s pretty damn close. The Cock recently moved to a new space at 93 Second Ave. This Friday they continue at the new space with their party King Size featuring DJs Ernie Cote and Sammy Jo. The new bar is laid out over two levels and here’s how it all plays out: upstairs is a casual hangout area with a DJ and downstairs is where the real fun is had as on busy nights they open it up as a cruising, darkroom space. It’ll take a few years for this new bar to acquire the grot and grime that made the old Cock so special (whatever you thought of the bar, you gotta be thankful that it has kept some sleaze in the East Village). If you have a chance to check it out this weekend let us know what you think on our Facebook page. New Year, newish bar.
Trouble
A brand new Sunday beer blast in the LES
Welcome to 2016! I am so excited to tell you about this brand new weekly party called Trouble, only because it’s the premiere. It starts today, January 3rd, 2016 and it sounds super chill. Paul Short (from the parties Snaxx, SPIT and The House) who is hosting the party, along with DJ Mirch, sent us an email to inform us what to expect from this new event. It’s a “Hunky and Humpy Hair-O-Da Dog, Dance-n-Drink Beer Blast!” Do you follow? Trouble is hosted at Fontanas Bar in the Lower East Side, it’s a “two level multi-room bar, pool table. Bartender Patrick serving up cheap drafts and shots. Wig and Merkin Contest with Special Guest DJ Mike Grimes.”
Paul also told us about how this is all got started: “DJ Mike Grimes and I used to throw a notoriously successful sleaze-fest party called Spit. Ever since Spit, we’ve been looking for the appropriate party venue to try something new.” The party also promises cheap drinks, “a spicy ballroom, no rules, crazy contests, dick dunkin, sassy sluts…” I’d say check it out, you have nothing to lose, and who doesn’t like a little bit of trouble?
FREE, 2:00PM-9:00PM, Fontana’s, 105 Eldridge St. NY, NY. …
Saturday 01.02.16
BABY TEA: 12/20
The Dauphine of Bushwick X Wise Men say goodbye to 2015 in this last Baby Tea of the year. Music by LVJjay and XOXO QOSSIP QURL! Performance by The Dauphine of Bushwick. Happy Birthday Larissa Velez-Jackon!
