THURSDAY 2/7

WADS OF GAY, A TOUCH OF GRIT

WE ARE TAKING A BREAK, GOD DAMN IT. From drag queens. DRAG QUEENS! They're everywhere! Day and night! Breakfast, lunch, and dinner! We've been just a wee bit fucking inundated lately, haven't we just? Jinkx Monsoons up to our phony D cups! Ben DeLaCremes coming out our plucked and powdered noses! Not that I'm complaining—it's a glittery problem to have. But even too much of a good thing is too much of a good thing, and everyone deserves a break today. (Take some time and get away—from the drag queens! They do it all for you...) So tonight I want you to put Sylvia and Mama Tits and Aleksa Manila and DonnaTella and Ursula Major and all the rest of 'em on the shelf for a minute (if you can dare bring yourself to do it), and turn your weeping brown eyes upon this thing instead: GayWad! A hardcore queer punk rock sex nightmare of intensity and pitch. (Please note! I'm not, like, saying that drag queens aren't allowed or anything stupid like that, and I certainly can't promise that none will be there, so don't be absurd.) The event features some of the best of some of the best: the subtle and coy riot-grrrl musical stylings of Fucking Dyke Bitches, for example. Or the happy hardcore sickness that is DJ Porq, or that carnival of queer that is DJs Amateur Youth and FistFight. Plus, it's an important sort of a thing, as all the money goes to support 'Mo-Wave, the new queer arts festival you've been hearing so much about. Let's dump the glittery glitter for one night and embrace a touch of gritty grit. Wildrose, 8 pm, $5–$10 donation, 21+.

SATURDAY 2/9

BACONY S&M

(Psst! Okay, now I know I said we were going to take a break from drag queens, so I am definitely not going to remind you that tonight is Bacon Strip—the second one at Chop Suey, in fact—and that the theme is Master and Servant, so please don't expect me to. Gol.) Chop Suey, 10 pm, $10 adv/$15 DOS, 21+.