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There must be some kind of law that says that all gays must come out from hiding the end of June. You must log out of manhunt and adam4adam and go clubbing this particular weekend or you will no longer exist. Seriously there is lots going on
June 22, 23, and 24th must be the biggest gay weekend of the year. I never though I would say this but there are too many events going on at the same time. Almost every city has an event, pride parade, or DJ playing that Saturday or Sunday. I have no idea which city to book that weekend and here is why.

Oklahoma City pride is normally so much fun that I hate to miss it. It is not your Long Beach or San Francisco pride but it offers something different. You do not have as big of a parade but there are lots of fun things to do including a festival at one of the parks and a jam-packed nightclub from around 6pm to 2am (following the parade). OKC offers an awesome club that is free to get in and free beer. The atmosphere is so much fun that day making it hard to pass up.

Houston has its pride the same night as well as a True Colors concert that day. Talk about a busy day in Houston.

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Toronto is having a huge 4 day weekend full of some of the best DJ’s in the world. Toronto’s events will be 19 to enter. June 22-24 will be the Prism Toronto Parties featuring DJ Ed Bailey Thursday; DJ Hector Fonseca Friday at Boot Camp; Aqua Fresh Magazine party with DJ Roland Belmares/DJ Cajjmere Wray on Saturday; Arctic Babylon Tour with DJ Manny Lehman/Tony Moran with a performance from LA’s FLAVA on Saturday (Kool Haus); and Sunday brings a Revival with DJ Peter Rauhofer & Shawn Riker. There will be student passes available for $99 online.

There is also San Francisco pride and NYC pride going on this same weekend among other great cities. I was thinking we would try something different and hit up NYC this year and see what it’s all about during pride until I found this.

It sounds like Toronto wins this year if we wish to try something different but we are still undecided!

Just when New York City nightlife is going more downhill because of Mayor Bloomberg it just gets worse.PrideFest was given an ultimatum by the NYC Mayor’s Office where they would only be given a permit for Sunday, June 24th for Washington Street in the West Village.  June 24th is the same day as the pride march so there would be fewer volunteers available.

The most shocking part of this is that the NYC Mayor’s office expected the gays and lesbians to be stuffed into a dark, narrow street in the West Village.  Is that a way to treat people coming into town to spend money?

Here is where you can print and mail a letter to the mayor’s office in New York City.  This will not help this years’ NYC Pride but it may get much needed action for a license for 2008.  This may also draw more awareness to this issue.

NYC Pride Events

Dance 21 will be held on the Pier 54 (13th St. @ the Hudson River) in Hudson River Park on Sunday, June 24th, 2007, 4:00pm-10:30pm.  I did not see any age restrictions on the website so you may want to verify if its 18 or 21 to enter.  Also, no tickets will be sold at the Pier which may be inconvenient to some who were not able to buy a ticket beforehand.

Find out more about NYC pride at NYCPride.org.

We made it to the Main Event with DJ Tony Moran Saturday night at the Galveston Convention center. It was very convenient since it was next door to our hotel at the Hilton Galveston Beach resort. It was definitely cool to walk next door to go out but let me tell you there were so many police officers just standing around in that little area it was like we were on surveillance or something.

We walked in this huge building expecting a big dance floor and boxes to dance on. When we walked in there was a lounge kind of area and bars then went inside to the convention dance room. The dance room had a dance floor and ballroom-style round tables all around. I was surprised we did not have any boxes like you find at most circuit parties but we still had fun. Kind of reminded me of Prom which brought back lots of memories for all of us.

There was a special performance by Billboard Recording Artist Jacinta which we enjoyed. I always love it when dancers or talent show up and get the party started.

The Red Magazine pre-party was DJ Josh Gram at 3rd Coast Bar overlooking the beach at 31st and Seawall Blvd. This was a chill place that had an upstairs deck and a great sound system. If only all beaches could come equipped with a gay bar like this… I had to go back the next day and enjoy the breeze and sun on the upper deck while having a cocktail. A very nice bar to chill with a prime location and view.

The afterparty was at Undercurrent (2409 Market St) which was a zig zag around the city from the main event. This was the best part of the event. I wish the main event was in that club because it had awesome dance floor and layered stage to dance on. I will definitely have to check out Undercurrent again sometime.

It was the first year of the Beach Ball in Texas and considering the rain and flooding statewide this weekend it was a better turnout than some would expect. I hope it someday turns into a party to replace the amazing events thrown in Austin every year that Ben Parsley promoted at the Austin City Music Hall. We lucked out that Galveston was one of the only towns in Texas without all the rain and it was nice and sunny. I feel sorry for the people at hippy hollow who were rained out.

Now it’s off to Gay Days in Orlando to the Mighty Weekend events and pool parties.

We are headed to Galveston, TX (from Dallas, TX) after a brief stop in Houston tonight for our favorite club “Southbeach”. The rains will not seem to go away so we will be driving in bad weather and possible flooding. I am wondering why I did not fly.

I hate to miss DJ Ronnie Bruno tonight because he is one of my favorites but we won’t make it in time to drive to Galveston in one trip. There is no telling how bad the traffic will be from Houston to the G island. The Hilton host hotel should be packed with boys by the time we get there though.

I hope the town of Galveston can handle all this madness. It is a great thing they are letting us invade for the weekend. From what I hear this party will be huge. We are even staying in Galveston Memorial Day instead of our annual Splash at Lake Travis in Austin.

Can’t make it out to the club? You can now post a code into your MySpace or your website that plays dance hits. I stumbled across this cool device on the Undercurrent MySpace page (a bar in Galveston,TX) and love it.

To add the code all you have to do is click on the player below and plug it into your “my interests” or “music” section of your MySpace or DList. If this code does not come up them just hit up boystownlive.com. BTW, you can find our myspace page at myspace.com/gayparty. Make sure you add us on myspace!

One of the largest pride events of the year is about to take place this weekend in Long Beach, California. From a circuit party on the Queen Mary ship to the dancing in tents to hip hop this is definitely one of the largest prides in America. Pride parades are lining up across the country right now. Last week was Vegas Pride that had lots of grand appearances including Hex Hector and Deborah Cox to name a few.

Long Beach has some unique things in store for this years pride you may not have noticed. A singing competition with a $2,500 grand prize called the Pride Star 2007 takes place where an unknown talent will go home with some cash.

DJ Ray Rhodes announced on a Myspace bulletin there is a Long Beach Pride party for all ages on Sunday May 20 called “Aftermath”. That sounds fun and will be held at the modern Renaissance Hotel at 111 E. Ocean Blvd.

The Longbeachpride.com site is annoying with all the graphics and flash but after you get past that you can see there will be performances from Jennifer Hudson, The Indigo Girls, and more May 19 and 20th. It is fun to walk around to all the booths setup but you have to pay an admission it is not free like most cities. General admission to get into the Pride festival is $20, but it goes to a good cause.

I partied it up in Los Angeles last weekend at Rage, Tiger Heat (Thursday), and The Abbey, and Mickey’s afterhours. I was really amazed by the music at Mickey’s after Rage was closed at 2am. I also had a blast on Sunday night at Rage with a really cute crowd that night and a personality you cannot miss.

This boy that was performing most of the night at Rage on Sunday night was like a boy version of Daisy Deadpettles we love so much from Ft. Lauderdale. Although, Daisy can look boyish when she wants. Such a twink hottie and a fun party monster to host the show at Rage that moves and grooves to the music and some perfect lip-synching. Who needs Britney now? You get more than a 13 minute show and don’t have to pay $60 plus to see the Fairie Boy. Every city should have something fun like this.

I checked out the Fairie Boys myspace (myspace.com/boyfairie) and noticed he does a show on Thursday nights at Rage and the pictures look like a hot crowd that night. I don’t know if I could goto Rage every night of the week so it would be a hard decision whether to drive down the street to Tigerheat or stay at Rage on Sunday. Sundays are a blast at Rage but its too bad they cannot stay open until at least 3am. Let us dance off some of those strong drinks. Rage is a nightclub in West Hollywood that seems to be 18+ every night.

As we reported a few weeks ago the nightclub scene in Oklahoma City has started to take off again. I was there for their Boys Gone Wild party and it was out of control. Next weekend May 19, Angles plans on having a blackout type party where they give out Fleshlights to everyone at the door. OK, I am only kidding about the Fleshlights, but that would be fun right? They are really handing out Flashlights (not the sex toys but the ones that light up) but it will still be fun.

Is that not a good idea for a nightclub to have a Fleshlight promotion? Or is that too naughty of an event? They could get them to sponsor it just like Red Bull sponsors events. Maybe the Hustlaball event works best for this.

Speaking of Fleshlights you can get one at Drugstore.com and get free shipping. This sale ends up being cheaper than buying it on the fleshjack or fleshlight.com sites.