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Labor Day Weekend is edging closer and closer each day and the party teasers are coming out. I almost thought nothing exciting was coming our way this year but the older New Orleans party. I think there was a mention of a “pool party” in Lubbock or a underwear party in Detroit.. jk. I am excited and very excited to bring the news that the Spoiled Boyz (based in Houston, TX) are bring one of my favorite parties back… well sort of. The main event that we once knew in the Austin City Music Hall will not be around but the afterhours at Element will live on at its newly named venue Antro. Antro is located one block west and one block north of RAIN. This party starts at 3am and goes on until the bats go back under the bridge at Towne Lake at 8am.

Austin, TX

Several of us have planned for months to attend the huge “pool party on the rocks” at Lake Travis. I could also say this is something similar to the Typhoon Lagoon Gay Days Event a.k.a. Beach Ball. Lake Travis has an area called Hippy Hollow where you can go with or without that skimpy bathing suit. But the real fun is hanging out on the boats and floating around on some tubes or just lounging on the rocks being totally intoxicated. Then the darkness comes around and the Austin club scene is very compact with little room inside their clubs but now that they are throwing Chris Cox in the mix at RAIN (next to Oil Can Harry’s). Friday night will be like a 3 hour line to get in instead of the 2 hours line already predicted… I plan on getting out early. The DJ last year at RAIN on Saturday night of Labor Day had some excellent remixes – I hope to hear him again as well (not sure his name).

I emailed the Spoiled Boyz to see if there are any hotel discounts in the area and it seems there is nothing negotiated yet but the Hampton Inn, Courtyard Marriott, and the Hyatt at Towne Lake (and Super are all relatively close to the Austin gay scene. Hotels in Austin are hella expensive but hey this is a once a year trip. It might be a good time to use up some frequent hotel points.

We also plan to float the Guadalupe river just south of Austin. This is an adventure that can get your mind off of things for a few hours. Expect I-35 to be really bad traffic though as it is every year. Speaking of bad traffic…

Los Angeles, CA

Masterbeat is throwing an event in the LA area with DJ’s Brett Henrichsen & Manny Lehman inside Hollywood’s Avalon nightclub. They have turned Avalon into a construction site for those of you who who can’t get enough of LA traffic I suppose? I think that’s the last thing I like to see is construction. I think this is also the only 21+ only event out of these. But hey who knows you might meet the construction man of your dreams and get some of that road rage worked off.

Ft. Lauderdale/Miami, FL

Gary Santis and bunch are launching a BlackWear weekend with DJ Tracy Young and DJ Tony Moran at venues such as Coliseum and Voo Doo Lounge. The hottest part of that weekend sounds like the “Dark, Drunk & Dirty Blackwear After party” at 4am on Monday morning. There will even be a Blackwear fashion show presented by Zoo Too at a club that rhymes with that name.

Rosie’s Bar & Grill, the restaurant formerly known as Hamburger Mary’s, is also throwing a T-Dance but this one is free.  This will be held at Rosie’s outside in the Wilton Manors area of Ft. Lauderdale.  DJ Wendy Hunt and DJ Warren Gluck will be spinning beginning at 1 p.m. (I assume p.m. since its a “T-dance”).  I always seem to miss the T-dances because I am more of a night person but this one sounds fun :)  It might be a good idea to come back Monday to Rosie’s and sip on their Bloody Mary’s to recover in time to go back to work.

New Orleans, LA

Southern Decadence goes on Wednesday through Monday of Labor Day weekend each year. You can expect Chi Chi LaRue “the Diva of Decadence” and porn producer to host the events at the Bourbon Pub & Parade. You can also catch performances by Shirley Q. Liquor, Lady Bunny, and Pepper MaShay.

My pick: Austin for Labor Day Weekend… it’s where the hotties will be.

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