We really loved the 18 and up Discotekka club located just blocks from Space and other downtown Miami clubs.  It was busy and had three dance rooms.. oh wait I think that was 4 dance rooms.  The main room had a stage with drag performances every hour or so.

There was a room with gogo dancers, hip hip room, latin-ish room, and an outside area to smoke and cool off from the sweaty dancefloor. Lot’s of nice VIP.  Discotekka had many hot boys but did have its problems as we saw with the ATM issue.

Heres a pic of the Discotekka dancefloor as you can see some hotties making out in the right hand corner and notice the amazing mirror balls hanging down low.

There was a show at Bill’s Filling Station on Saturday night with Ultra Nate which really put on a good performance and sung live. Always nice to see someone who is not lip syncing (Britney, meh) and can actually get her voice out there to her live audience. She looked killer in her outfit and diva-ed out her hit songs to the crowd. I did not stay there long afterwards because the crowd was pretty much bears and a little on the older side but I did enjoy the music and the strong drinks and free shots from Absolut Vodka. I see Absolut out at more clubs doing promotions than any other vodka or beverage brand so I continue to support them when I have a Vodka Red Bull in hand. Bill’s Filling station was a nice club with a good sized dance floor and located in Wilton Manors.

We had heard it was a gay night over at Voodoo Lounge on Saturdays now but it was pretty lame. They had go-go dancers dancing away on the stage but they were a little beefy for me. The drinks are hella expensive and the barbacks have an attitude. They were filming some D-List looking show in the lounge area with a VH-1 crew. Too bad there was not much of a crowd out there Saturday night it could have been more fun.

Saturday night we just had to bar hop it on over to Johnnies where they have all the twink dancers but it seemed dead as well. I really was starting to feel like I was in a ghost town for a minute unless your straight the gays did not get out to support their clubs as much. The door guy or security guy at Johnnies was a total jerk to people that will run people off and make them never come back. The drinks were strong but it was lacking people and boys.

Where are the boys in Ft. Lauderdale these days? I guess all the twinks live in Orlando now because we know they certainly do not live in Miami.

The coolest thing I saw while I was in town was a tour of the Route 66 Nightclub built by the guy who opened up Crowbar and has opened up clubs across the U.S. It has been sold to new owners so they do not have the weekly Sunday night pool and T-dance parties anymore but they certainly still have a cute bartender out there by the pool serving things up. His name is Lynden. I was impressed by the insides of the Route 66 club where it is named from the adventures of the Crowbar owner. The bar inside has a glass coating where it has hotel keys, bags or something resembling drugs that were taken on this journey haha, all kinds of things even included a cremated bag of the now deceased partner of the Crowbar in Miami who worked the door. Vito who was such a nice guy who I was lucky to meet back in the big club Salvation days. You know the club where everyone was sweating, had their shirts off, and could probably not speak a sentence they were so fucked up.

Ultra Nate sings Live at Bill's Filling Station

Allegra is an event thrown every so often at the Route 66 and will be a New Years Day party and one on January 14th I believe is what we were told by the bartender. You can then check out this unique club for yourself and see all the goodies in the glass case at the bar.
Sundays are the T-Dance at Sea Monster where it starts early but people do not show up until a few hours after the doors open. The party then dies down around 10 or so and people walk it on over to the Voodoo Lounge where you will see some fabulous drag performances headlined by Daisy Deadpeddles . She performs the most amazing Madonna. Sea Monster was closed down for awhile but it is back and roaring. Voodoo Lounge was pretty busy Sunday but not as busy as I had remembered it a few years back. You are still able to get VIP and get bottle service and have front row seating to the drag queens performing which I love about that place. Then go dance in the white room.

Performer at Living room nightclub Friday nights in Fort Lauderdale

Memorabilia found along the travels of Crowbar founder during his Route 66 journey. Displayed at Route 66 Nightclub in Fort Lauderdale.

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.

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

Sunday, September 20 – Spectrum Sunday Tea Dance Myst Lounge (Next to Purgatory) 2210 Main Street, Dallas, TX starts at 6pm runs til Midnight. Tickets $20 Door.

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

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.

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.

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.

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:

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?