Pure Raddness in 2010!
This week’s Gay-genda is all over the place, so get ready! The birthdays we’ll celebrate are just folks that are plain old rad. Rad for making great movies, music or just being amazing. There are parties to attend, drinks to drink and a new year to be rung in. 2010 is a welcome reprieve from the terror of ‘09, so ruin your fitness resolutions and order a few to toast all the better things to come! (Maybe!) Cheers and have a blast!
Wednesday
Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Community Pride Center is having a program development meeting at Borough Hall to discuss connectivity with the Brooklyn community and to build momentum for the borough’s first modern pride center. The group is looking for interested parties to come and express concerns, desires and ideas. It’s also a platform from which Brooklyn residents can become more involved in making the center a thriving reality. The open meeting is at 6:30 in Room 310. Catch them on facebook for upcoming events, let your voice be heard so you can make a difference this year.
Manhattan: Bluestockings bookstore, café and activist center is brimming with liberals and their lovers. The radical oasis for free thinkers has been a stomping ground for New York’s LBGTQA community for a while now. Join filmmaker Jonah Mossberg for a 10 minute short film interpretation of her film The Queer Farmer Film Project and enjoy an open dialogue about the film and queer culture at 7pm. Along side Mossberg on the panel Owen Taylor and Bilen Berhanu will shoot the breeze and maybe a conservative or two. Grab a hot cup of fair-trade coffee and be in a room full of like-minded peeps.
Celebrity Birthday: Druggy Syd Barrett founded Pink Floyd and changed the way people listen to music.
Drink of Choice: Whiskey to chase…well, anything!
Thursday
Nerd-Alert! The swank Galapagos Art Space at 16 Main Street in Dumbo is hosting another round of geeks for more queer speed dating. Tragic, amazing and possible matches are waiting! 20 bachelors and 20 bachelorettes will put down their calculators and their worn copy of essential chronology of star wars and mingle. Advance tickets are encouraged and check-in is at 6:45. Post the awkward and sexy sit downs DJ Eric Eo and Solid Goldberger will spin for a dance floor of dweebs, the likes of which you’ve never seen!
Celebrity Birthday: Nicolas Cage made the heartstring pulling Moonstruck and the best Alcatraz movie ever. Lets just give him some credit (c’mon!). At least that Wicker Man movie is funny on YouTube.
Drink of Choice: Bourbon to put hair on his head! (Y’all seen it! He needs to shave his head or wear a real wig. Just admit it Nick!)
Friday
Nowhere bar is the where, and throwback hits is the why! The party, He’s A Rebel #12 is the self proclaimed “only vintage rock n’ soul dance party for the gays by the gays.” It’s the second Friday of every month at 322 East 14th between 1st and 2nd ave. The classic hits are a great way to toast 2010, or as I like to call it plenty-men. So sport a T-Bird look or grease your hair like the Fonz because we are going to swing tonight! Zan and Go-Karff play hits while John the Vampire and River sling drinks. So don’t be a square! Be there!
Celebrity Birthday: David Bowie was especially naked in Labyrinth and I loved it!
Drink of Choice: A tall Guinness
Saturday
The Queers, Beers, and Rears first party of the new year is bound to be well attended by folks who resolved to get laid. The Cake Shop party is a one-stop shop for hipster bedhead boys who are eager to please and even more eager to dance; Hand and Knees start the post-punk nearly naked scene off and The Ruffian Arms close the show after 1am. It’s $5 before midnight and from 11-12 there are some heavy pours on the house, so make it before you turn into a pumpkin, or this case a slaphappy drunk. Rock N’ Roll Go-go Boys and DJ’s Go-Karff, Sir Loins, and A.Martini get you on the dance floor. Pre-game at near by Magician or grab a PBR with the folks at Welcome To the Johnson’s.
Celebrity Birthday: He’s so old, what can I say? Jimmy Page is a versatile guitarist and songwriter of Led Zeppelin.
Drink of Choice: Stoli Rocks
Sunday
The Scotch Slam 2010 at the Bowery Poetry Club is meant for drunken intellectual types, but anybody can come! Bob Holman and Robert Fitterman host this crew of vagabonds and have matched each writer with a single-malt beverage. You can pick your favorite match at the end, but by that point it might be a tall order. Featured authors include Kriten Prevallet, Steven Zultanski and Matvei Yankelevich. Standout Lonely Christopher of The Corresponding Society is an adventurer of queer politics and cliché. Christopher’s editions of “Gay Plays”, “Satan”, and “Wow Where Do You Come from, Upside-Down Land?” can all be found at Vanderbilt Avenue’s own Unnamable Books if your looking for a head start. The drinks will be neat, the authors will be drunk, and so will you! Attend in person at 308 Bowery or catch it live online. Get into it and sit down for a warming bevy and some words in the air.
Celebrity Birthday: A tight bob, heavy eye make up, and music genius made Pat Benatar a badass chick. Plus she’s still touring! Get it lady!
Drink of Choice: Champagne with Blondie
