TROUBLE WITH THE DIRTY GIRL GALA

Just calm your little gay head right down, ladypants. Do not get me "wrong" or whatever. (As if I could ever be such a thing.) Movies are... okay—some of them okayer than others, I guess—but sometimes I dare to imagine that any/all film festivals would be tons better off sans the damn films. But the parties! That's where the meat is. The glamour. The booze! And tonight's the biggie that "kicks off" (as they say) the 16th Annual Gay & Lesbian Film Festival—always one big gay doozy of a big gay do—and this year, it's being thrown by the boys of TROUBLE (formerly Trouble Dicso), so you can be sure it's going to be doozier than ever. Now, the film that accompanies the party is called DIRTY GIRL, and the press release says terrifying things like "Not since Will & Grace has a gay/gal duo spawned such outrageous adventures and side-splitting comedy!" So. EEEEK! But! Delightful '80s classics abound in the film—including favorites from Melissa Manchester—so it seems only appropriate that Lady Manchester herself make a personal appearance at the gala. Allow me to repeat: MELISSA MANCHESTER IS GOING TO BE THERE. If you miss this, you're a stone-cold fool. 'Dirty Girl' at the Egyptian, 7:30 pm, gala at Fred Wildlife Refuge; $35 film and gala/$10 gala; gala 21+.

COCO PERU

Stop whatever the hell you're doing! (STOP, damnit!) Log into your streaming Netflix account (of course you have one—what are you, a peasant?) and select To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. (Delightful! I know!) Watch the big drag competition scene—it begins with all the queens primping backstage. What you are looking at is the brightest, bitchiest, and most faglamorous NYC drag queens in history. Lady Bunny? Check! Joey Arias? Check! Candis Cayne? You betcher cha-cha pumps! And a skinny white "girl" in an auburn pageboy wig. THAT is the incomparable Miss Coco Peru, star of stage, screen, and boys-with-boobs. Tonight, Miss Peru comes to charm your pants off and tickle your soul with her new cabaret-style show: Coco Peru: There Comes a Time. It promises to be packed to its panties with songs, laughs, "and those wryly pointed observations of life that only Miss Coco Peru can provide." Re-bar, 8 pm, $15 adv/$20 DOS, 21+.