Last night, The New Gay editor Zack Rosen set out to determine once and for all whether all those heteros who flock to the Dupont High Heel Race every year are there to support the gay community, or just mock all the queens in dresses. This year, the pre-Halloween drag queen race was pushed into the political arena by a little administrative switch: Instead of a parade permit, the race secured a First Amendment permit, shifting the balance a bit from party to protest. So, are people who love watching gay guys stumble around in stripper heels as enthusiastic about supporting marriage equality? According to Rosen’s findings: Kinda.

It’s the classic double standard: If a woman is sexually promiscuous, she’s a slut; if a man is sexually promiscuous, he’s . . . a man. The origin of this fun gender construct can be attributed to the biological way-back-machine. Men, the theory goes, were created to spread their seed to as many wombs as possible; women were created to bear the children of one man only, so she knows which dude to sue for child support.

Whenever a man deviates from this reproductive gender role, he’s labeled as kind of a pussy. When a woman deviates from the role, she doesn’t get off so easy—she’s a bad, immoral, evil slut. It’s funny: even those who believe that men and women were “created” this way though the process of evolution—and not via some God who wove his moral authority into our very genitals—will still argue that deviating from gender norms results in great moral depravity.

Except for gay guys! When gay men are sexually promiscuous—you know, like men are evolutionarily wired to be—they are bad, immoral, evil sluts, too. Welcome to the club, guys (there are no free towels). It’s funny: even those who believe that there’s nothing wrong with being gay still argue that gay sex results in the great moral depravity usually reserved only for female sluts. Why? Because there are no women around to virtuously refuse to have sex with them.

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The New Gay doesn’t usually like hanging out at Town Danceboutique. Unless they’re running it.

“Don’t like the ‘usual’ at Town?” TNG writes. “Neither do we.”

Tonight, TNG is throwing a dance party at the 2009 8th St. NE warehouse with a party called “Seizure.” The night will be different from most dance events at Town, most of which appear to be “shirtless dude” themed (check the gallery). TNG promises that the party will be open to all genders and shirt-wearers.

“We will be filling the downstairs dance floor of Town with hard-edged rock, dance punk and retro, and all the boys, girls and transfolk who never before found Town to be their kind of space,” TNG says. “Town is just a building. Let’s SEIZE it for a night.”

Details:

Saturday, May 30, 11 PM—4 AM
$12 . 21+

Town Danceboutique, 2009 8th St NW (downstairs)
Doors 9 PM.  No entry after 2:30 AM, Club open until 4 AM

Featuring:
Performance by The DC Kings, 11 PM
DJ K La Rock, co-founder First Ladies DJ Collective, 11:15 PM

Today, The New Gay blogger Mike B. posted an interview with Mike Rogers, a gay blogger noted for advocating the outing of secretly gay politicians who practice anti-gay politics. Earlier this month, NewsChannel 8 reporter Doug McKelway threatened to punch Rogers in the face on the air.

Mike B. asks the question everybody was thinking when we saw that exchange:

The New Gay: Doug McKelway was noticeably riled up about this whole issue throughout the entire interview. So the natural question (which I promised TNG music maven Rocky I would ask you) is: So how gay is Doug McKelway?

Mike Rogers: I don’t know if Doug McKelway is gay, bisexual or straight. I do know that Doug has incredibly personal feelings about this issue. And the way he expresses those feelings is more passionate than anyone I’ve ever met. I even tried to be nice afterwards but he gave me the equivalent of a “fuck you.”

I’m looking to speak to some District-based male strippers for a story I’m working on. They can e-mail me here. In advance thanks for hooking me up with our city’s best erotic male dancers, I give you: Man2Man’s “Male Stripper,” courtesy of The New Gay’s Zack Rosen. Enjoy.

Tomorrow, Zack and Michael, The New Gay co-founders and condom-advocate extraordinaires, host another Homo/Sonic dance party at the Black Cat. Zack and Michael are doing their part to make sure the local gay nightlife scene successfully evolves past shirtless “oonts-oonts-oonts” club nights and into the realm of good music. Zack and Michael have managed to book a queer dance night on a Saturday night at the Black Cat’s Mainstage—actually, it’s kind of a big deal. So do your part, too: Submit song requests to Zack at zack@thenewgay.net.

Homo/Sonic is an all-ages dance party held Saturday, April 4 at the Black Cat Mainstage, 1811 14th St. NW. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. $10 cover.

Zack Rosen over at The New Gay wrote an excellent column the other day about the importance of condom use within the gay community. The post covers a lot of ground—personal responsibility, modes of transmission, casual anal bleeding:

A couple years ago when one of the cutest boys I’d ever seen begged me to fuck him without a condom. Actually, beg is the wrong word. He pleaded. He whined. He implored me not to use one as if it was simply some seasoning our our sexual entree that he found disagreeable.

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Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a story on local alternative gay media that featured Zack Rosen, co-creator of D.C. gay blog The New Gay. Rosen helped TNG develop into an exciting new online community that has courted readers and writers from all sides of the community—gay, lesbian, trans, and straight (but mostly, young). The blog has only gotten better since Rosen was laid off from his job at a more mainstream gay publication, the Washington Blade. The Post story has this funny back-and-forth, with Rosen talking Blade, and the Blade talking The New Gay:

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Semper Guy: Phase 1 aims to take the barracks out of Barracks Row

When Phase 1 opened up in Capitol Hill in 1970, it chose an unlikely spot for the District’s first lesbian bar: a windowless joint half a block from the historic Marine Corps barracks at 8th and I Streets SE. Now the “nation’s oldest lesbian bar,” Phase 1’s longevity in Marine territory may be attributed to its peculiar door policy: No unaccompanied men are allowed to enter the bar without a female escort.
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Hush. Grandma loves her “cute” elderly home, which is not overcome with the unspeakable stench of death.

* Spend Valentine’s Day at “several cute DC, Arlington elderly homes!” helping the D.C. Young Republicans administer manicures to the elderly in their “Mani’s for the Grannies” initiative. Sexist says, the grannies may be cute, the mani’s may be cute, but the elderly homes? Don’t kid yourselves.

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