GAY PRIDE NYC…Our TOP Picks!!!
FRIDAY 24
Jackie Beat: Pray The Gay Away
Jackie Beat loves her gay fans. But she just doesn’t understand the sick, perverted lifestyle that they have chosen to lead. This year, just in time for Gay Pride, she wants to help. Preaching to the perverted from her bullying pulpit, JACKIE BEAT: PRAY THE GAY AWAY is an evening of Divine intervention featuring Beat’s award winning comedy and song parodys that slaughter sacred cows including Madonna, Britney and Lady Gaga. By the end of the evening, you will be on your knees and en-Raptured, ready for the Second Coming.
Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd St bet Park Ave So. & Lexington Ave, NYC, 212-852-3101, Fri 24 & Sat 25, 7:30pm, $20-$25, spincyclenyc.com
Blowoff
Bears, boys and booze!!! The perfect mix of electro, house and rock to kick-off yr Gay Pride weekend. Music by legendary house music producer Richard Morel and Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü fame.
Highline Ballroom, 431 W 16th st bet Ninth and Tenth Aves, NYC, 212-414-5994, 11:30pm, $20, blowoff.us
SATURDAY 25
“I …Amanda Lepore”
AMANDA LEPORE Turn Me Over (Edit) by Peace Bisquit
Everybooty: North 6th Pride
NYC’s Best Queer Party-throwers at Hey Queen, Spank, Xanadude & Earl Dax combine forces for Join us for a massive queer takeover of North 6th Street, with one pass getting you into Public Assembly (both rooms), The Loft, and Cubana Social for an evening of debauchery and LGBTQ togetherness spirit! Tons of DJs, including Sean B, Will Automagic. Shows by Gio Black Peter, Making Friendz, Sargent Sass and sooo many more! Check out the full spread HERE.
Public Assembly, 70 North 6th St bet Kent and Wythe Aves, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-384-4586, 10pm, $15
House of Iman presents: The Time Machine Ball
Let the Voguing battles begin!!!…HOUSE OF IMAN PRESENTS THE 3RD ANNUAL HOUSE OF IMAN BALL-TIME MACHINE FOR NYC GAY PRIDE
COME ENTER THE TIME MACHINE. YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE YOU WILL LAND! WILL IT BE THE FUTURE OR WILL IT BE THE PAST ONLY TIME WILL TELL! IT’S THAT TIME TO COME SLAY THE RUNWAY OR COME WATCH THE MAGIC HAPPEN. COMMENTATORS: ICON JAY BLAHNIK IMAN, LEGENDARY MIMI DIOR IMAN & SYMBA MIZRAHI IMAN.Click HERE for full competition categories and more!!!
404 Tenth Ave at 33rd St, NYC, 646-820-1345, 2-9pm, $20
Olivia Newton-John
Wahwee
Club 57: Candis Cayne + Amanda Lepore + Cazwell
SUNDAY 26
2011 NYC Pride March
It’s that time again!!! Put on yr best frock, tap pants, and cha cha Louboutins and strut yr stuff down Fifth Ave for the annual Pride March! It all began in 1970 as an annual civil rights demonstration, beginning the year after the Stonewall Riots (and Judy Garland’s death). Over the years, the parades purpose has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to the illness, violence and neglect. It has also evolved to include being a celebration of our lives and our community. After, check out Dance on Pier (Pier 25 at West Side Highway) with DJs Lina, Vito Fun and Anna Paula.
March begins at Fifth Ave and 36th St and ends on Christopher St at Greenwich St, NYC, 212-807-7433, 12 noon, free, nycpride.org
Haus
Shark: Candis Cayne