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It looks like there is finally, finally, finally an 18 to enter club in Ft. Lauderdale again.  After our last visit we noticed there was some missing energy in town ever since the closing of Coliseum.  It seems this club has only been open a few weeks now but they already have a new night with Daisy D.

Tuesday and Thursday nights are 9pm to 2am being the T-Girl (not T-Dance or T-bag) Party

Wednesday nights are Pledge college night with Daisy D (18+).  Coming Soon the site says!

Fridays - You will hear the sounds of Kid Cudi, Kayne West, Lady Gaga, Common and more from TPROMIX in the Situation room for Fierce Fridays (Hip Hop mostly).

Saturdays - 18 and up only $5. Cire Cintron and TPROMIX spin POP. Dance, and Electro.

Sundays - Noche Latina Sundays

11 Nightclub sounds fun and I hope to check it out soon!  I hope it has a big dancefloor but we have no pics of the inside of the the club yet.

Where is 11 nightclub?  Located at 1116 Broward Blvd in Ft. Lauderdale near the intersection of W. Broward and NW 11th Avenue.  Call them at 954-522-5931 if you cannot find the spot.

This is the complete event that you will find no where else on the internet.  I have searched out the hottest parties of the year and these are not promoters who paid me in some way to be listed on the site.  If you wish to get your party or event listed then please email us with the contact link.

Non US/Canada events:  If you live somewhere besides North America then check out our pages for Brazil and London.  More to come on these fun exotic party places.  I definitely want to make it a goal to see more hidden treasure clubs across the world and hear some sexy beats in 2009.

This list does not include the huge pride events around the country and the protests that you should make sure you attend.  We will try and list those when we get the dates.

April 16, 2009  8:00P Britney Spears  Staples Center Los Angeles, California

Friday, May 1, 2009 Dallas Purple Party DJ Alyson Calagna @ (The Legendary) Lizard Lounge.  The Lizard Lounge reminds me of Avalon in NYC it’s an old church with multiple rooms and deep mystery.

Saturday, May 2, 2009 DJ Tony Moran spins the Purple Party Main Event @ The House of Blues with Afterhours at The Starlight Room with Eddie Baez

Sunday, May 3, 2009 Dallas Purple T-Dance with Bryan Konrad at Club Purgatory

Sunday, May 3 - Splash Days in Austin. TX

Weds, May 6 - Lady Gaga in Austin, TX and OCH afterparty.

Saturday, March 14 - St. Patties Day Super Cherry Pop with DJ Josh Peace.DJ Ray Rhodes at Ultra Suede in West Hollywood, CA

May 21-25, 2009 Memorial Day Pensacola Weekend! Johnny Chisholm presents Memorial Day Weekend (DJ’s and host hotel to be announced).  Emerald City nightclub will of course be packed as usual.

Wednesday, June 3, Gay Days Orlando begins with Pulse Nightclub

Thursday, June 4 Gay Days Orlando Revolution Nightclub

Friday, June 5, Gay Days Orlando Buena Vista Palace Pool Party and Beach Ball Luau (it’s like one big underwear party)

Saturday, June 5, Gay Days Orlando Buena Vista Palace Pool Party and Deborah Cox Performs at Parliament House (at Midnight)

Sunday, June 6, Gay Days Orlando Buena Vista Palace Pool Party and Phouse Performance with Jennifer Holliday (at Midnight); 11am-3am Parliament house foam party

Monday, June 7, Recover from Gay Days Orlando

Friday, June 26-Sat, June 27th - Electric Daisy Carnival at the Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park in Downtown Los Angeles.  Two days of Non-stop freaks, fun, and festivities.  Friday brings out Paul Oakenfold, ATB, and Eddie Halliwell.  Saturday spinning David Guetta, Paul Van Dyk, Fat Boy Slim, and Benny Benossi.  ElectricDaisyCarnival.com.

Sun. June 26th - Oklahoma City Pride. We got a Habanna room for this day and hope there will be a drunken T-Dance at Angles Club following pride parade as their was in the past.

Friday, July 3, Independence Day Observed

Friday, July 3rd- Thursday July 9th - P-Town Independence 2009 with DJ’s Susan Morabito, Eddie Baez, Joe Gauthreaux, Chris Racine OnlyattheCrown.com. Crown & Anchor is Provincetown’s largest nightclub & caberet.

Saturday, July 4, Independence Day

August 14-16  Fire Island Pines Ascension Beach Party

Wednesday, September 2  thru Monday, September 7 Southern Decadence 2009
New Orleans (maybe there will not be Hurricane drama this year?!?)

Monday, September 7, Labor Day Austin (Splash Days) Best Lake Party!

Sunday, September 20, Dallas Gay Pride off Cedar Springs in Oaklawn

Saturday, October 24 Dallas Oaklawn Halloween Block Party (best Halloween party in the nation)

Thursday, November 26. Thanksgiving

Friday, December 25,   Christmas Day

GayPartyblog.com has been the #1 Gay New Year’s Eve resource for 2 years now!  We will have complete New Year’s info coming your way.

Thursday, December 31, New Year’s Eve

Things you may have missed already in 2009–

January 9-12, 2009 - Hustlaball Vegas was replaced by a bigger party called Temptation with DJ Irene and DJ Chris Cox as the headliners.  We plan to just keep the party going from New Years into the big GAYVN expo week in Vegas for this huge, hung fun.

January 11-18 Aspen Gay Ski Week (GaySkiWeek.com) located about 3.5 hours from Denver, Colorado.

Sunday, January 18, 2009 - Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend – Big club night everywhere on Sunday due to the Federal holiday on Monday.

Sunday, Jan. 18 - Masterbeat BPM Hollywood,CA Free admission into Avalon 21 and up.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 – Obama Presidential Inauguration Day.  A new beginning for America.  Clubs in Washington D.C. will serve alcohol until 5am instead of the normal 2am and can serve food and stay open for 24 hours for the events night out and the entire weekend before the big day!! It will be the MLK Weekend of never-ending partying!

February 1 – 8, 2009, Gay Whistler (gaywhistler.com) in BC Canada (Vancouver is the biggest populated area closest) for WinterPRIDE.  An event to attend since we have a ban on Utah ski resorts and this was named the #1 Gay Ski Event in the World from Gay.com.

Saturday, February 7, 2009 - Legendary Club One Reunion with DJ Ronnie Bruno (Dallas, TX) 18 to enter

Saturday, February 14, 2009, Valentines Sweetheart Dinner

Sunday, February 15 - President’s Day (holiday on Monday) Masterbeat BPM Avalon Hollywood,CA

February 20, 2009 – Mardi Gras New Orleans at Oz with DJ Tracy Young

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 – Fat Tuesday

February 26 – March 2, 2009 – Winter Party Miami –This was an event that was HOT, HOT, HOT last year!  Stay in the Surfcomber Doubletree and get a view of the pool on Saturday or Sunday.  More info at winterparty.com/travel

February 28th, 2009 - Quarantined Ii: Alien Substance Featuring House/Trance/Hardcore/Techno/Breaks/Psytrance/UK Hardcore/Hardstyle/DnB/Dub Step/Electro/Progressive with Six Live PA’s on 5 Stages and Fully Themed Environment & Transformed Atmosphere. VENUE: Afterlife located at 1819 W NW Highway Dallas, TX with large indoor/outdoor facility w/ courtyard and chill areas w/ visual stimulation. No alcohol is available and the event is 17 to enter with id. More of a str8 crowd but who cares when your raving—this venue has always been GLBT friendly.

March 2009 – Cher Returns her show to Las Vegas, Lady Gaga starts her Fame Ball Tour as the headliner!

Saturday, March 7, 2009 to Sunday, March 8, 2009 - Mardi Gras Weekend at Parliament House Orlando.

Gay Spring Break 2009

Sunday, March 8 – Daylight Savings Time and Spring break begins for SMU and other colleges across the US

Saturday, March 14 St. Patty’s Day and Super Cherry Pop DJ Josh Peace/DJ Ray Rhodes Ultra Suede 661 N. Robertson West Hollywood, CA

Sunday, March 15 to Sunday March 22 Spring Break begins for UT and other universities

March 18 - Elevation at Mammoth Lakes, CA (mammothgayski.com) 5 day ski event in the Sierras

March 7, 2009  8:00P Britney Spears American Airlines Arena  Miami, Florida

Saturday, March 21 - MadonnaRama at Southbeach The Nightclub in Houston, TX  DJ Ed Bailey with Non-stop Madonna All Night. 18 and up.

March 27-29-2009 Ultra Music Festival, to be held at Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami. DJ Tiesto, Carl Cox, Bloc Party, Deadmau5, the Ting Tings, Cut Copy and Crystal Castles.

March 30, 2009  8:00P Britney Spears  Toyota Center  Houston, Texas

March 31, 2009 8:00P Britney Spears  American Airlines Center Dallas, Texas

April 10-13, 2009 - White Party Palm Springs performance by Lady Gaga

The city of Ft. Lauderdale has turned into the new South Beach judging from the resorts opening up along the beach.  A new W hotel and Westin are just a few of the additions in 2009 not to mention all the gay resorts.  Crobar known for their Chicago and Miami locations plans to open up in Ft. Lauderdale in April.

Alegria will throw the Sunday night events with some big names on Easter weekend.  If you are staying on the East Coast for April 12th they will have DJ’s Tracy Young and Paulo.  We are assuming the club is gay on Sundays only and that it will also be 21 to enter.

Alegria at Crobar is located at 219 South Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd and is supposed to have ocean views and even a pool area inside.  Send in some pics if anyone has any I would love to see what this club looks like.  This Ric Sena event sounds like more of a T-Dance (4pm) than a club night so maybe people goto Voodoo Lounge for the Life’s A Drag afterwards.

Is there a gay night anywhere on Saturday nights in Ft. Lauderdale besides Steel/Jackhammer?  We checked out The Living Room on a Friday night.

The Winter Party benefiting the Gay and Lesbian Task Force which is a grassroots political muscle was quite an event this year. The events are hella expensive but it makes you feel better when you are giving back to the community such as the Task Force.  This event brings some of the biggest dj’s to the Miami area
just a few weeks before the Winter Music Conference.  It also brings in guys and gals from London, Paris, and from all abroad.

I will say that two dj’s stood out more than anyone at the events and they were DJ Roland Belmares at the pool party and Offer Nissam at Mansion Sunday night. We got to the pool party late and did not want it to end just loving Roland’s music as always.  I never realized the following Offer Nissam had until this weekend.  It was something else to watch!

The party Saturday night was held at ParkWest in downtown Miami next to Space. It was the biggest waste of time and money. First of all they do not allow re-entry. You would think after paying $80 to get in a party
you could damn well re-enter the motha. I think just to be able to breath someone would have to walk outside it was like 100 degrees inside there which came down to 99.9 degrees when the nitrogen came down for its split second. I understand nitrogen is expensive but the club in Houston called Southbeach pours it down for several minutes until you freeze and this circuit party could barely squeeze out a few drops leaving us sweating to death lol. But hey its all good we will run our way out of this place and learn our lesson.

So we head over to Twist because its open until 5am and everyone else did the same because the Mercury Rising party was too hot, bartenders from hell, oh wait it was hell… We then get over to Twist and there was a line going all the way down to the next block outside twist and the fire marshall was not allowing anyone to go inside.  They kept people standing outside twist for an hour and a half and when it was around 4:40am they decided to inform everyone no one else is getting inside the rest of the night.  Well so much for Saturday night it was a waste.

The beach party the next day was lots of fun. We especially loved the grand stands at the side it was like a high school football game with WINTER PARTY words on both sides.  That’s hot!

FOOD BREAK - If you want a cheap, trendy, and really tasty place to eat try out Raphael’s off Lincoln.  We ate there twice while we were there in South Beach.  They had some 50% off deal and it was like $7 for delicious pasta meals.  And yeah we did eat some lol.

Sunday night was Cameo which used to be Crowbar with DJ Tony Moran.  We were super excited to goto Cameo again and hit it up for a bit, danced, then went down to see Offer Nissam at the Work party at Mansion.  Yup, another eighty bucks.  Cha-Ching! We walked in and it was lots of hot juicy dancers and amazing music.  It was like a religious experience with Offer Nissam playing he was waving his hands from side to side doing a show on top of the spinning of the music.

We stayed at the Doubletree Surfcomber hotel Saturday and Sunday nights and sure loved the cabanas and quick walk over to the beach.  The shopping in South beach is always addictive until you realize how much you just spent!

I think next year we will just skip the Saturday night party since it has not been all that great two years in a row now.  We will for sure do the pool party and beach party and just do twist and score for the clubbing part at night. Save some money and not die of a heatstroke inside the saunas.

The Winter Party was sooo much fun. We finally made it to Miami for the first time since the Madonna Concert and it’s fabulous Pawn Shop afterparty. The Under One Sun Pool Party from around noon to 6pm was held at the DoubleTree SurfComber Hotel at 1717 Collins in South Beach Miami. It could not have been a more beautiful day to hold a pool party. I think calling this a pool party is an understatement. It was a giant outdoor club taking over the entire back end of the hotel space. The straight people walking by outside near the beach walk were looking back there wishing they could be part of the endless sea of hotties.

It was similar to the gay days pool parties which I think cannot be beat. Typhoon Lagoon’s Beach Ball and the Gay Day Reunion Hotel have the best pool beach parties I have attended. But this one was great because it was right in the middle of South Beach. You could just walk out the gate to see the Atlantic Ocean. Maybe pick up a hot straight boy and bring him back inside for some drinks.

Under the Stars at Karu & Y Club in Downtown Miami was Saturday night. It was a nice venue with an amazing outside. The outside as you can see in the pic to the above left was like a jungle and beautiful. We spent most of the night outside just enjoying how nice it was. DJ Abel and Rosabel were spinning on the inside but the indoors was kind of long and low ceiling. No boxes to dance on.

The outside area had little cabana areas and hut-like bathrooms making it unique. Small man-made river streams and bridges just made this outdoor patio the best I have seen… Karu & Y club is located at 71 NW 14th Street.

Orbit was Sunday night at Cameo (pics below) 1445 Washington Avenue. I have not been there since Crowbar and it looked like they remodeled it some. It was a highly expensive $85 compared to the $45 on Saturday (normally the other way around). Orbit was unbelievably packed and had the greatness of Tony Moran spinning. There were many boxes to dance on, vip areas, lounges, many bars, and lots of bathrooms. I missed it last year and after this years fun I will definately be back again in 2009.

We were in South Florida again for the Winter Party events going on in Miami and decided to drop by the grand opening of the China White night on Friday. China White which recently closed down is now called Jet Set (109 S.W. 2nd Ave.). Not to be confused with the gay adult site called Jet Set Boys or the popular Jet Set Modeling Agency. Jet Set after all means a social group of wealthy people participating in things that ordinary people cannot participate in. Fabulous name for a nightclub.

Keep in mind this is a straight club on every night but Wednesday and Friday. But the gays definately dared the drunken straight streets of this downtown Ft. Lauderdale area to take over that night. Yes, and police everywhere like a terror zone. Make sure you do not get stuck behind a train trying to walk from your car to the club.

There was a performance from a singing diva, cabaret umbrella girls, and drag queens. It was a fun night with house music and top 40/hip hop, and I think I even heard Grease Lightning.

Here are some pics from the China White Friday Night in Ft. Lauderdale:

While we were partying on the opposite coast there must have been a Hurricane crashing ashore New Years Eve in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  The Copa nightclub has been closed down for a few years from hurricane damages but I felt the time bomb was ticking on Coliseum the last time I saw the building.  Although, Lauderdale residents had the Coliseum to party at on Friday nights even while they survived China White.  Florida nightlife changes around constantly but I would assume it was the bad sound system and repairs needed on the Coliseum building that lead it to close down this week.

Emails have been coming in about the closing of the Coliseum nightclub and what is next so we looked over their site and noticed they are promoting parties at two other clubs named Purgatory (formerly The Saint) and Steele.  Steele is already busy on Saturday nights but I guess they are moving the Coli crew over there to bring in a new club night called Flash.

The new party is named Nu on Friday nights to bring in College Night with the usual performers such as TP Lords and Mizz Cori.  The entire staff is moving over for Friday’s including promoters such as Gary Santis, 305BOYZ, DJ Miik, and the bartenders.  Purgatory is located at 1000 West State Road 84, being only a few blocks west of Coliseum.  It’s a big dance area and has three rooms or so of different music so it should be fun.

Will this be the hot, steamy college night in South Florida it once was we don’t know but it’s looks like it could compare.

But what happened to Coli?
Is it remodeling? Did it cash in on the real estate?

There is a new T Dance in the South Florida area.  This T Dance is located off of the Los Olas Riverwalk on the second floor over looking the area.  The Simple T is held every Sunday with free admission from 4p-6p and free drinks during that time as well.  We stopped by the event Sunday afternoon and it was not real busy (everyone said it was much busier last weekend) but they had fabulous music.  The Winter Music Festival in Miami and Gay Pride in West Palm could have diluted some of their business.  The DJ was great playing all of our gay anthem songs and they had great drinks and gorgeous toned bartenders.    If you go to this event make sure you pick up your Simple T card and register for their promotions where you can save at many businesses.