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I am headed to the Parliament House in Orlando to bring in the new year.  Thanks for making this blog the most popular event blog for GLBT for New Years 2 years in a row!!!  Record breaking traffic this week on our website.  Make sure you comment what you did for new years and let us know!!

OK its time to go see the performance at the Phouse.  This will be the first time in a few years we did not goto L.A. but were gonna party our azzes off.  Party Time bitches!!Here are some pics from Savoy and Parliament house on New Years Eve Weekend.  The Phouse had a great fireworks show above the lake behind the resort and featured drag shows and the performance from Inaya Day who brought in the New Year.  I can say I would much rather spend New Years weekend in the warm climate of Florida instead of the chilly, crowded streets of balls dropping in Times Square.

We survived 2008 baby!  Now its time to party our titties off for 2009.  There are quite a few parties going on across the nation for New Years Eve to bring in 2009.  Masterbeat is making another comeback with their annual party in Los Angeles with DJ Abel at Avalon and DJs Ralphi Rosario and Brett Henrichsen at the Mayan.  The hotels in the West Hollywood area will all be around $300 a night at the host hotel the London and some others in the area.

If you are a DJ, Club Promoter, night club owner, socialite, or club kid make sure you comment on what’s happening in your area.  Use the comment area below or email me with the contact us link to give me details on your event or party.

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Los Angeles – Masterbeat New Years starts up Wednesday, December 31 at 9pm with DJ Brett Henrichsen of that hot online music store Masterbeat and Ralphi Rosario. Tickets are $120 at door or $100 in advance at circuitticket.com.  Party goes on until 6am and the age is 21 to all their events.  DJ Paulo spins afterhours at 4am to 12pm at the Arena Café ($60 at door) and DJ Abel T-Dances at the Avalon Hollywood from 7pm to 3am where you normally get Tigerheat but this event is 21 and up.  If you are under 21 in LA then Rage is your best bet for New Years Eve.  VIP Passes are $180 advance and $200 at door.

Orlando – Inaya Day performs at The Parliament House (Phouse) she sings Movin’ Up and You Spin Me Round.  Oh yeah and that “Horn”ed Up Song that is fun!

Atlanta - Kristine W performs along with Bianco Nicole & Nicole Paige Brooks at The Foundry at Puritan Mill (916 Joseph E Lowery Blvd). DJ Chad Jack Spins the beats.  $25 Presale at Outright Bookstore.  NavigationATL.com for information.

Tampa - Steam Nightclub at HoneyPot presents David Knapp

Dallas – Sin-parties.com New Years Party at 3025 Main Street. Also, the Roundup for those of you Country dancers is free, large, and has big screens to watch the ball drop in NYC. They will play Country early in the night then switch to top 40 dance music after 12:30am or so.

Las Vegas – DJ Hex Hector at Krave (on the strip).  Make sure you do a dinner and watch the Lucky Cheng’s show at the same venue.

Ft. Lauderdale – The Living Room:  The venue is 11,000 sq. Ft. With three rooms and three formats with three rooms and three formats. Living room was just voted one of the five most beautiful clubs in the U.S. They will announce soon a Roberto Cavalli fashion and runway event as well as performance artists major dj etc. Stay tuned for the info or see them online at livingroomnightclub.com.

Miami –  Genesis VI with DJ Tracy Young on the tables Mansion on Miami Beach $60 tickets or $90 gets you VIP.  21 and up.  Myspace.com/GenesisMiami has more details.

Houston – Southbeach Nightclub presents DJ Roland Belmares with champagne toast and afterhours until 5am. Tickets are ONLY $15 advance and $20 at door.  This was our national pick for the best club of 2008.  Absolutely the best club in Texas with nitrogen and its 18 to enter.

New Orleans – OZ at 800 Bourbon Street brings you Jeanie Tracy performing to hits Keep The Party Jumpin’ and Cha Cha Heels with a balloon drop and free champagne.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - $150 for a weekend pass to the events.  A tease of more info at WillGorges.com.  18+ Events to be held at Oscar’s on the Rio Cuale.

London looks like the place to be!!

London, UK –  1. G-A-Y in the UK is the largest indoor event ever planned in the UK at the Alexandra Palace. 10pm to 6am Alcohol sold up to 5am. ONLY £30 charged for the event which is probably more like 60 bucks for us poor Dollar holders. Tickets can be obtained via Ticketmasters 0207344 0044 or online via meanfiddler.com. Lulu is live on stage with Jessie Wallace “Kat” from East Enders TV Soap Winner. There will be a funfair, Ice rink and club.   These London boys know how to party!

2.  HEAVEN - Crying At The Discoteque to say goodbye to 2008 at the G-A-Y NEW YEARS EVE Party (Wed 31st Dec) on the Main Floor – POP feat ALCAZAR.  The Star Bar – Up Lifting House and The Island & Pop Room has 80s & 90s music playing.  The Dakota Bar will be Commercial RnB.  This Heavenly place will be open from 10:30pm - 6am (alcohol served to 6am).  Interesting note: G-A-Y is located in the famous Astoria now owned by the MAMA group.

See what’s left in 2008 or plan ahead for 2009 with these events.  If you don’t go out every weekend like me and have a life doing something else *laughs* then check out my guide for New Years Eve. And yes a lot of my site has weird characters in the older posts because of some database problem I had so sorry about all the mess.  The euros and pound signs in the posts are not supposed to be there lol.

“If there’s excitement put me in it! If its against the law… arrest me. If you can handle it.. undress me.” - Madonna Give it To Me

We spent our New Years at two places in Los Angeles as predicted. One of them was Rage nightclub which is on the strip in West Hollywood. They had a great countdown that I enjoyed last year where they put up the top ten songs of the year on their big projector screens. Of course I predicted the song of the year… “Umbrella” by Rihanna.

We did not want to spend the entire New Years Eve at Rage but traffic was so bad in Hollywood and Vine near the other party we wanted to go to called Scandal. They had a live performance by Amuka who sings “Appreciate Me.” Scandal also had DJ Isaac Escalante from Mexico City to go with their resident DJ Alexander (who is fabulous based on his myspace music) and go-go boys. We had driven over to the Scandal New Years Party at the Henry Fonda Theatre (Music Box) and we gave up because of the traffic holdups. The (MNDEVENTS.com) Scandal New Years was $100 and an open bar until 4am with dancing until 9 or 10am. Please someone let me know how this party turned out because we missed out and it sure looked juicy.

The New Year rang in and it was time to head over to the MasterBeat L.A. Party where we found over 2,500 shirtless guys in a building downtown called the Mayan. Fabulous music and so many people it looked like some kind of movie scene. This circuit party was $100 to enter and did not include drinks of any kind from what I could tell. It also cost us a good cab ride from Hollywood to Downtown which was around $35 or $40.

It was a fun night and I meet some cool & sexy people. I am ready to rest and work out and get ready for 2008’s events!

This has been another year of extreme weather conditions, falling American Dollar, Republican gay-sex scandals, and brainless journalism of Britney and Paris happenings.  2007 marked the year the Gay Halloween was canceled in San Francisco.  I can hardly believe its November and almost time to celebrate the beginning of a new, exciting year of 2008.  New Years Day falls on a Tuesday which makes this years’ celebration longer since we will have to extend an extra party day to Monday for New Years Eve (December 31st).  That makes it Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday to get wild.  Assuming everyone can handle that many days…

It seems the circuit party calendar has some major events lined up via MasterBeat.  There is a party scheduled in Los Angeles, Miami, and Atlanta with the MasterBeat promoters.  The Atlanta event seems to be the only 18+ Masterbeat Event.  The other cities are 21 and up connected with this promoter.

If you compare the events with Masterbeat I would have to decide between Atlanta and L.A.  SOHO Studios at The Wynwood Convention Center will be the location of the Miami party with DJ Abel versus the more exotic L.A. location of The Mayan.  One other hint is that Brett Henrichsen will be playing there on New Years Eve.

I love how the VIP says private bathrooms.  I wished.  It is really a private bathroom area though instead of an actual private stall you would get at say M.I.N.C. in Dallas.  Last year at Avalon L.A. the VIP area had the bathrooms you could goto.  The place was not as crowded so it did not really matter the night I was there but on New Years Eve that will be a wonderful thing to even have a select area of bathrooms.

If you are thinking of going to New York or Vegas please save that ticket for another weekend.  There are far too many hot clubs across the nation to attend on New Years Eve than to deal with the congestion in the streets of Manhattan or the Strip in Vegas.

You better get your hotels booked now because they will be so expensive the last minute if you can get a hotel room.  Hotel prices have went up so much in the last year along with rising airfare that making these reservations seem more of a task.  I always try to book a few cities ahead of time if I am not sure where I am going yet if it is refundable.

Be sure to read our rulebook for New Years Eve…

The largest party night of the entire year deserves the largest party. Stay away from Vegas and NYC while celebrating New Years this year and get away from the overcrowded street mess watching balls drop and running into each other. The best place to be is inside your favorite nightclub celebrating with your closest friends or inside a huge New Years Eve top notch event.
Here is a list of the hottest events going on in the gay communities across the US for New Years Eve:

Pick One: Los Angeles New Years Eve - Hollywood Palladium (6215 Sunset Blvd.)

The New Years Los Angeles presented by Jeffery Sanker starts out with comedy from Pam Ann on Friday, December 29, 2006 at the Hollywood Palladium (6215 Sunset Blvd.). The show starts at 9pm.

Friday night - Last Dance with DJ Ralphi Rosaro and DJ Brett Henrichsen to be held at the Mayan Theater (1038 S. Hill Street, LA,CA). The party goes on from 9pm until 8am.

New Years Eve - December 31, 2006 - DJ Manny Lehman with a special performance from Flava. Party starts at 9pm until 4am at the Hollywood Palladium (6215 Sunset Blvd)

NYE Afterhours - January 1, 2007 - The first dance of the year will be held at the Hollywood Arena (6655 Santa Monica Blvd) immediately following the New Years Event at the Palladium. The first dance will feature DJ Phil B.

PIck Two: New England New Years - Chris Harris Presents - chrisharrispresents.com - Grand opening of Roxy Providence in Providence, RI. The Get Your Cha Cha Hills On singer will be there Jeanie Tracy singing “Party People”.

PIck Three: New Orleans - Bourbon Pub Parade - DJ Darren Thomas, $1,000 balloon drop and champagne toast at midnight. There will be a special Miss Gay America 2006 performance from Nicole Dubois. Bourbon Pub Parade owns the gaynewyears.com domain but their new years event line up is nothing compared to Club Oz in New Orleans. Club Oz will be featuring the bigger name DJ Alison Calgagna and Susan Palmer will be performing.

Pick Four: Atlanta, GA - Club Jungle - DJ Chris Cox

Runner Up: Coliseum Nightclub, Ft. Lauderdale, FL - this was last year’s hot spot who featured Kristine W. with a beautiful jazzy New Years Music. The Coliseum Nightclub website has yet to see any New Years announcement this year but I know it will be good as always.  Last year Daisy D did an awesome performance of Madonna Hung Up - I am sure she has something big in store for this year as well!
Then there are always your buddies at your Local Pub/Club/Bar. I sometimes hate traveling on New years because I cant see my bar family but its so much fun to be out of town for a bigger event.

Be prepared for the hottest party night of the year which is also the last night of the year.  It is a night to look back at the top club songs of 2006 and a night to look forward to starting over with New Years Resolutions.  Here are the top things to consider when preparing to party on New Years Eve:

1.  Time - you must get out early to party so you do not miss the countdown
2.  Parking - this will be the ultimate bitch.
3.  VIP Passes or Tickets in Advance - buy tickets a week or a few days in advance to avoid some of the huge lines (and save money)
4.  New Meat - remember all the people who never go out come on New Years so dress your best.  Oh yeah.. bring condoms - no telling how drunk your going to get
5.  Party Favors - make sure you plan this in advance.  Everything seems to be marked up for New Years Weekend even party favors (hats and glow sticks of course).
6.  Alcohol - good luck - the lines to the bar will be crazy.  I cannot advise drinking and driving on your way out but I do advise ordering a double so you don’t have to go back to the bar as many times.
New Years is the start of a new day and everyone’s favorite night to be out.  It is a night to love people and hug and kiss them once the clock strikes midnight while you are in the most joyous state.  It might even be the night to meet the love of your life.