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Over the weekend, after the hangover from the wild night at Tun subsided, we all learned of the passing of the venerable and strong Bea Arthur. Your correspondent remembers watching every week, as a little budding homo, episodes of The Golden Girls, a pastime, which continued into university when the show was syndicated to Lifetime. It leaves little room to wonder why she was such an icon for the LGBT community: she was a very strong and witty woman who was always breaking barriers throughout her career and varied roles. Her role of Dorothy on The Golden Girls could not have been more perfect role since it allowed her to portray her witty and catty personality as her adopted character. That show, with its excellent cast and chemistry between the four leading ladies, help set the stage for similar shows involving an all-female cast such as Sex and the City. I think it is time I dust off my DVDs and revisit the gals back in Miami and have a few more laughs with a now lost icon. We’ll miss you Bea; you truly were a pal and a confidant.

Last night, our friends from Queer Comrades celebrated the first episode of season 3 with a huge blowout party at Tun. Despite initial apprehension of throwing a huge gay bash at a straight bar that might end in a gay bash, it was a great success with even the straight boys getting into all the pink fun. The highlight of the evening was another spectacular performance by Drewcsilla: Queen of the Peasants, who wowed the crowds with more of her greatest hits. In fact, drag was the specialty of the evening with gender benders prancing and dancing their way among the crowds throughout the evening, including one drag king who resembled American Idol’s

We here at Gayographic celebrated our new house last night by stocking a bar, hiring a bartender and packing the place full of flamers; a perfect recipe for a perfect housewarming. The party became so crowded at one point that it rivaled Destination according to a few guests. Those observations certainly seemed accurate since your host could barely move through the crowds of homos that were wall-to-wall. Barring a few minor incidents such as a broken glass and a flaming head of hair, the party went off without a hitch. We want to thank everyone again for coming and warming our house, quite literally in one case! We hope to see you all next Thursday at Lantung for round two. Come and get your pink on!

Greetings Pink Gayjingers! Last week we were lamenting the loss of the much-loved Mesh happy hour after management decided that those pesky straight people and their rented friends were cashing in on our pink discount. So from the "can we make it before 11pm?" happy hour, we are now at the "oh, hell no we ain’t gonna make it before 9pm!" happy hour. Though your correspondent loves Mesh, it might be time to infuse some fresh blood in our long-standing tradition of getting pink in the face every Thursday. Your friends at Gayographic.cn have teamed up with Lantung Thai Bar and Bistro in Solana to bring back the pinkest 2-for-1 happy hour in the Capital, this time with an extra half hour of happiness ending at 11:30pm. All the usuals are on offer, from lychee martinis to the venerable cosmo. For a unique twist, Lantung will also offer signature cocktails infused with Thai flavors, such as

As of late, Thursday nights at Mesh have become THE place to see and be seen by the pink socialites of the Capital. Much less aggressive than Destination, its weekly gay night has been a runaway success, especially with the two for one drink specials until 11pm. As of this week, a new policy change has lowered the happiness level of happy hour by two full hours landing at the much less merry 9pm. Your correspondent did a little sleuthing while drinking his one and only drink for the evening and heard from a few patrons that management claims gay night was becoming overrun with prostitutes and straight men who were crashing the sausage party for cheap drinks. The former, as you would expect, would be the ever present money boys, but, in fact, they were female hookers, ladies of the night, supposedly servicing the straight men who had little other choice of finding an after hours partner unless they really didn’t mind same-sex after hours company. Management’s strategy to address this most awful situation was to limit happy hour to 9pm in hopes of driving those straight boys and their hired help back to Kai Club. It waits to be seen if this plan backfires since our kind is a fickle lot who, in the end, may choose an alternative new and fresh instead of Mesh.

Look out Gayjingers! Queer Comrades is BACK on April 25th at TUN Bar (Sanlitun) with drag shows and the ever gay friendly band Ziyo. Hopefully, another thrilling launch episode will blow us away.
 

Oops, they did it again! The Odd games, a fundraising event for the worldOutgames, and organized by a bunch of enthusiastic Danes, brought Boat Bar another heavy dose of debauchery last Friday April 10th. With a total amount of 3,500 RMB in the pocket, another Chinese gay athlete is going to Copenhagen and will have enough eats during the stay, thanks to our Danish fundraisers. On behalf of the community, I want to give many thanks to Anthony, Theis, Maria and Lene for supporting the gay Chinese community and throwing such a great party!