PORKY'S
Porky’s - A fun new queer music party!
FRIDAY MAY 1st 2026
10PM–Late!
$10 / $15 / $20
Performances by Sweaty Eddie and Stephin Merritt
Music all night by DJs Mona Dehghan, Jesse Dorris, Luke Williams, and Stephin Merritt
Arrive on the early side for performances
We can’t wait to see you!
@sweatyeddie.tv @newyorkmayor @themagfields @monamierecords @jessedorris
Wet Spot Presents: What's the Tea
Wet Spot Presents What's the Tea from Unhinged Rose Productions at The Parkside Lounge
May 3 2026
Doors at 7pm/ Show at 7:30pm
Advance $17 / Door $25
“What’s the Tea” is edu-tainment at its silliest… and also probably it’s sexiest too. Blending burlesque, drag, live vocals and the diligent research of two type-A, gifted kid burnouts, this show will take you on a journey through the history of tea: where did it come from, why do we drink it, and who spilled it first. Anne Hinged and Vivien Rose work together to bring you insightful TED-style talks that will inspire you to start thinking about the history and botany of tea, as well as the linguistic origins of “tea.” This three segment show will feature bold performances, exciting lectures, and ample opportunities for audience talk back. Come horny for knowledge and thirsty for fun, and leave with a piping hot cup “What’s the Tea.”
SLOTH: the good hang
SLOTH 15: THE GOOD HANG
Monday, May 4, 2026
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Parkside Lounge
FREE / No cover
Join your SLOTH friends for an event celebrating three-and-a-half years of community building and storytelling! We’ll be at our home of Parkside Lounge on Monday, May 4 to dance, imbibe, make new friends, and dream up all the new ways we can create together.
What are SLOTH events?
The SLOTH is our queer gathering for friends to share stories inspired by our selected themes. Come to listen or come to tell. We welcome authentic and true(ish) tales, comedy, poetry, music, and any creative form you can put into a compelling 5-minute share. Follow us @sloth.nyc
READINGS AT PARKSIDE: CECILIA DOUGHERTY
TUESDAY MAY 5th
Doors 7:00 Screening 7:30pm
sliding scale $5-25
* If funds are an issue please reach out to tenteditions@gmail.com
Please join us for a special screening of Cecilia Dougherty’s video portraits of writers KEVIN KILLIAN, EILEEN MYLES, LESLIE SCALAPINO, CEDAR SIGO, LAURIE WEEKS & JOE WESTMORELAND — followed by a conversation between Lia Gangitano & Cecilia Dougherty.
Screening:
JOE, 2018
KEVIN & CEDAR, 2002
EILEEN, 2000
LESLIE, 1998
LAURIE, 1998
Cecilia Dougherty is a visual artist working in video and web-based media programs. She has created more than 30 videoworks in experimental narrative, documentary, and installation and has exhibited and screened her work in many venues, internationally. She has a PhD in Philosophy and teaches in New York.
Lia Gangitano is director of PARTICIPANT INC, NY, a not-for-profit art space she founded in 2001. She has served as curator of Thread Waxing Space, NY, associate curator, The ICA, Boston, and curatorial advisor, MoMA PS1. She is a recipient of Skowhegan Governors’ Award for Outstanding Service to Artists (2015), the inaugural White Columns/Shoot the Lobster Award (2016), and the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (2018). She teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Jeremy Elliot Comes Home
Doors 7:30 / Show 8:00
early bird $15 / advanced $20 / door $25
Music to Heal, one song at a time. Jeremy Elliot comes back home to share tracks from his upcoming debut album alongside a special cast of friends.
POSTMORTEMDEMON Single Release Show
POSTMORTEMDEMON Single Release Show Live at The Parkside Lounge
May 8 2026
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Advance $12 / Door $15
INTRODUCING THE POSTMORTEMDEMON SINGLE RELEASE SHOW! Come celebrate the release of “SHE” from postmortemdemon’s upcoming EP at the best bar in the lower east side! Featuring experimental pop, punk, and dance sounds from lollirot, postmortemdemon, effee hawk, and deathrayz
Love Love Magazine - Obsession
LOVE LOVE
Saturday May 9th 2026
5pm - 9pm
Love Love - the Parisian cult underground print arts magazine - is coming to New York for the release of its 10th issue - Obsession!
Unprofessional Variety Show: Physique
The Unprofessional Variety Show:
Physique
Doors 7:30 Show 8 PM
An unprofessional, unimportant, and undisciplined cabaret-style night of performance.
You never quite know what you'll get, but it's always gonna be a time.
PERFORMERS
•Emceed by Maya Suess @MayaSuess
•Sets by Libby Paloma
If you haven't been to Unprofessional before, check out previous shows on our Instagram page.
Acties Award Fundraiser & Dance - Celebrate Creative Resistance
THE ACTIES AWARDS
Monday May 11th 2026
7pm
The Acties Party is a community party and fundraiser for the fall NYC “Acties”, a new award for local creative queer++ activism and artivism. We are celebrating all kinds of creative street and public cultural resistance. Come learn about The Acties. Featuring video, comedy, a Protest Fashion Contest, free pizza, and dancing! Organized by GenDemocracy with local activist ally groups. The goal is FUN!
Organization: GenDemocracy (www.gendemocracy.org) and Resisting Project 2025 (www.resistingproject2025.org)
Tree Adams and Friends Live In NYC
Tree Adams and Friends Live in NYC
Thursday May 14th
Doors 7:30 / Show 8
Advanced Tickets $18 / Door $20
Tree Adams delivers a gritty blend of swampy grooves, deep blues, and psychedelic jams. A veteran road warrior (with THE HATTERS) and award-winning composer behind iconic film and TV scores including Californication, Lethal Weapon, The 100, and NCIS: New Orleans, Adams is known for explosive live shows and fearless musicality. He has shared stages and studios with New Orleans legends Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, George Porter Jr., Tony Hall, and produced tracks for artists ranging from Cyril Neville and Zoë Kravitz to Taj Mahal, YG, and Bassekou Kouyaté. Tonight at The Parkside Lounge, Adams reunites with members of The Hatters (Adam Evans, Billy Jay Stein, Tommy Kaelin and Bill Rives), joined by special guests Brett Bass (Gregg Allman Band), Eric Bolivar (Anders Osborne, Bonerama), Craig Dreyer, Rene Lopez and Chris Scianni for a one-of-a-kind Nightengale/Wetlands flashback!
READINGS AT PARKSIDE: LYNNE TILLMAN
READINGS AT PARKSIDE:
LYNNE TILLMAN
Sunday, May 17th
doors 3:30 reading 4pm
sliding scale $5-25
* If funds are an issue please reach out to tenteditions@gmail.com
Paying Attention
Essays on Art and Culture
By Lynne Tillman
Published by David Zwirner Books
This event will feature a reading from Paying Attention followed by a conversation between Nayland Blake & Lynne Tillman.
From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Paying Attention is the first collection of essays devoted to her incisive, singular reflections on art and culture.
TICKETS
A Night Inside with Claywoman and Friends
A NIGHT INSIDE WITH CLAYWOMAN AND FRIENDS Live at The Parkside Lounge
MAY 17 2026
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Early Bird $20 / Advance $25 / Door $30
A most spectacular astral occasion will take place on SUNDAY May 17 when CLAYWOMAN and Friends reunite for A NIGHT INSIDE...an intimate evening of shared thoughts and artistic expressions. An oracle from a far off galaxy and her friends bring you their crusty pearls of wisdom and dusty volumes of experience. Special guests Aaron Jackson, Delia Delia, and Pierce Campion.
Join them along with their stern sidekick, JUDITH, all at THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE, as they explore new and uncharted realms together!
Please purchase tickets in advance to assure passage to this monumental affair.
Seating is very limited!
*artwork by Brett Lindell
The Curio Society Presents: Rebirth
Ask peculiar questions, get peculiar answers. Join us for our first show, featuring five talks - tales from history of renewal, renaissance, revivals, re-emergences, and resurgences!
SLOP
Sexy Loving Original People Salon
Thursday May 21st
Doors 7pm Show 7:30
early bird $5 / Advanced $10 / Door $15
Brought to you by Candystore and DJ Gay Panic, Sexy Loving Original People (SLOP) Salon is a night of performance committed to presence, exchange, and experimentation for emerging and established artists alike. In order to offer performers full body-heart-mind presence, attendees are strongly encouraged to not use phones or devices during the performances.
SEXY LOVING ORIGINAL BULLETIN BOARD (SLOBB) All guests are invited to use our real-ass bulletin board to pin fliers, personal ads, artwork, poetry, or any other printed matter to share with our community. The material will live on the board for the duration of SLOP Salon and may receive an on-stage mention.
Performances by:
Amber Alert
Colin Self
Dusty Shoulders
Joekinghole
Maya Martinez
Gogo's:
Cochina Divina
Triple D
HOT FOR YOU
Hot For You is a backroom disco for the family. On Sunday May 24, a holiday weekend, we kick off Gemini season with a very special sister act: Amber Valentine b2b Chelsea Starr. Our favorite time of day is night.
Advance tickets available here.
Naked Queers Reading
Naked Queers Reading Live at The Parkside Lounge
May 25 2026
Doors at 6:30pm / Show at 7pm
Early Bird $12 / Advance $15 / Door $20
Naked Queers Reading"is a literary salon with a twist. Each NQR, a selection of readers will take to the stage and share a curated series of readings, chosen around a particular theme or author. These readers will also be completely nude. Hosted and curated by Stefan Fae, NQR was inspired by the international hit "Naked Girls Reading" and our friends across the pond "Naked Boys Reading", created by Dr Justin Hunt and Alexander Karotsch in London in 2012. For the inaugural NQR at Parkside Lounge - "Wilde At Heart" - we are celebrating the works of the great queer Irish playwright, novelist and essay writer Oscar Wilde. Expect withering epigrams, sparkling prose and paeons to all that is beautiful. And some cute butts. Naturally.
Danny's Devils Blues with Exit 99, Density Black Cat and The Rover Boys
Danny’s Devils Blues Rock and Roll !!!
Saturday May 30th
Doors 6:30 / Show 7pm
TICKETS
Danny will be in town from Tokyo so we got a show. It’s an early show 6:30. Density BlackCat NYC R&R, The Rover Boys Trio rockabilly combo & Anne Husick Exit 99 beautiful songs,Danny’s Devils Blues close the night with elements of old school blues & 70’s kick.
Danny’s Devils Blues 9:15 - 9:45
Exit 99 8:30 - 9:00
The Rover Boys 7:45 - 8:15
Density Black Cat 7 - 7:30
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MÉNAGE A TROIS III: THE MOON
MÉNAGE A TROIS III: THE MOON
Open Book, Sloth, and Wet Spot Present MÉNAGE A TROIS III: THE MOON at The Parkside Lounge
JUNE 7 2026
Doors at 7PM / Show at 7:30PM
Advance $15 / Door $20
Once in a blue moon, three stellar queer collectives gather to create the best party in the Lower East Side. Join Open Book, SLOTH, and Wet Spot as we embark on our annual 3x3 lunar mission, featuring nine dazzling performers from across our communities. Witness a meteoric shower of theatre, dance, music, and storytelling inspired by that great, big wheel of cheese in the sky. We’d tell you that we are over the moon about this event, but we are clearly pretty moonstruck.
Threesome still means three groups, not an orgy. But shoot for the moon and you may land among the stars!
Plus flash tattoos from Hmac
THE GRUESOMES, Muck and the Mires, The Dracu-Las
Garage Rock Mayhem!
THE GRUESOMES, Muck and the Mires, The Dracu-Las
6:30 Doors 7:00 Show
Advanced $15/18 - Door $20
Formed in 1985, when members were between the ages of 16 and 19, Montreal’s legendary THE GRUESOMES have maintained the same lineup since 1987. Their debut album, Tyrants of Teen Trash (1986), became a cult hit, cementing their reputation as leaders of the 1960’s garage rock revival. This is their first NY show in decades! Boston’s veteran garage rockers MUCK AND THE MIRES were once described as “a mix of the 1964 Beatles and The Ramones” by legendary Runaways producer Kim Fowley (Fowley went on to produce several of the band’s records). The group achieved worldwide recognition after they were crowned #1 US Garage Rock Band by LITTLE STEVEN Van Zandt in his battle of the bands on MTV. The Dracu-Las from NJ open offering girl group inspired surfy garage punk for the beach goth set. DJ Crystal Blu spins from here amazing collection of garage and underground rock.
"Mom, I Have Something To Tell You" Screening
Screening and Talkback
Monday June 15th 2026
7pm
Early Bird $12 / Advanced $20 / Doors $25
To celebrate Pride Month, please join us for a special evening focusing on the bond between mothers and their gay sons on film.
We will be sharing three funny and profound short films:
Outed (Charlie Paulin)
302 (Leon Cheo)
and
Mom, I Have Something To Tell You (Rick Miller)
This special screening of films, curated by Gay Sons and Mothers Founder and Executive Director, Rick Miller, will include a talkback after the films, led by Rick Miller, with drinks and conversation to follow. This event is sponsored by Gay Sons and Mothers.
Mary Ross and Friends
Mary Ross and Friends
June 16 2026
Doors at 6:30pm / Show at 7pm
Advance $14 / Door $17
Mary Ross and Friends is a storytelling comedy show created by New York–based comedian and psychology PhD student Mary Ross. The show features a lineup of NYC’s best comedians and performers telling true, personal stories live on stage. Audiences can expect a mix of humor, heart, and stories they’ll be thinking about long after the show ends.
FATDAD
FATDAD
SATURDAY JUNE 20th 2026
10pm-4am
Early Bird $10 / General Admission $15 / Door $20
FATDAD is back for a rerun. Sorry it's been a while, kid. But it'll be nice to see ya again. Come dance, sweat it out, and maybe get a pat on the butt if you're good. Still proud of you. FATDAD is a state of mind, not body. All are welcome.
Nath Ann Carrera: A Showgirl Turned Criminal
NATH ANN CARRERA LIVE
A SHOWGIRL TURNED CRIMINAL
TUESDAY APRIL 28th 2026
doors 6:30 show 7pm
early bird $12
general $15
door $20
Nath Ann returns to the Parkside Lounge with an evening of original songwriting, intriguing footnote queen obscurities, and riveting storytelling! Immerse yourself in an enthralling arc through… Cult-Laden Anti-Patriarchal Murder Balladry! Gender-Variant Occultism! San Francisco Sleaze! Historic And Contemporary Anti-Assimilationist Queer Depravity! Altars Of The Flesh! Consensual A-Moralism! The Still Liberating Gaze Of A Showgirl Turned Criminal! And BEYOND! Photo by Gregory Kramer.
TICKETS
Wet Spot Presents Noise Complaint at The Parkside Lounge
Wet Spot Presents Noise Complaint at The Parkside Lounge
April 26 2026
Doors at 6:30pm / Show at 7pm
Advance $12 / Door $15
Wet Spot and Under the Sun Collective present Noise Complaint, a fundraising show celebrating queercore, drag, and mutual aid! Expect heavy-hitting and danceworthy music by Chico Raro, War Honey, Iridescent Pools, and The Gay Ramones, as well as drag by Sir Clover. Alongside the shows, there will be flash tattoos by @inky.radish.tattoo, art from @inezinthesun, and a raffle with prizes worth shouting about. All proceeds will go toward Fight to Live, a collective that provides commissary funds to incarcerated trans people of color across New York State, and Haboba’s House, which helps repair homes that have been damaged by the war in Sudan.
We will have an air purifier supplied by A.I.R. NYC and free KN95s at the door.
A night of live wax
LIVE WAX
FRIDAY APRIL 24th
Doors 7 / Show 7:30
Early Bird $10 / General Admission $15 / Door $20 / Livestream $5
The Live Wax Experience:
3 Musicians & 1 DJ - Mixing and Remixing a live set TOGETHER
in front of immersive visuals.
If you can't come in person, join us online for the livestream.
J-Line Presents: DIRTY POP PARTY
Doors 7:30 Shows 8:00
Come hear the best local indie pop acts while the DJ spins pop hits from the 90s/2000s in between acts.
Dance. Sing. Slay.
J-LINE: https://www.instagram.com/jlinemusic/
Ricky Allson https://www.instagram.com/rickyallson/
Julian Harper https://www.instagram.com/itsjulianharper/
Pillow Prince https://www.instagram.com/helloitspillow/
Jacob Covert https://www.instagram.com/jacob26covert/
Dusty Shoulders Presents Sissies R Us: Guzzle Lynn's Country Hour
Dusty Shoulders Presents Sissies R Us: Guzzle Lynn's Country Hour Live at The Parkside Lounge
The Sissies have gone country! Come toe tap to this incredible line up of homegrown hotties!
We've got a very special out of town guest, Dusty's college bestie Greg Baker alongside some of downtown's hottest stars!
Amber Martin! Charlene Incarnate! Angela DiCarlo! Darrell Thorne! Nath Ann Carrera! Joanie Drago! Sequinette & West Vargina!
AND THE BAND!
James Jackson on guitar! Mike Lunoe on Drums! Paul Leschen on keys!
It's gonna be sooooo damn good!
April 20 2026
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Early Bird $12 / Advance $15 / Door $20
READINGS AT PARKSIDE: Andrew Durbin
Readings at Parkside:
Andrew Durbin
Sunday, April 19th
Doors 3:30 reading 4pm
sliding scale $5-25
* If funds are an issue please reach out to tenteditions@gmail.com
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Andrew Durbin’s
THE WONDERFUL WORLD THAT ALMOST WAS
A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
The cinematic, never-before-told story of two intimately entangled artists who redefined queer art.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
*seating is limited, first come first served
TICKETS
Slamdinistas Return To NYC
SLAMDINISTAS
LIVE IN NYC AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE
$15 Advance $20 Door
doors 7:00pm
7:30pm SLAMDINISTAS have a classic rock ‘n’ roll sound as powerful as their name. The five members of this Los Angeles band have spent their lives writing and performing, and those musical chops are blazingly apparent in their contemporary take on New York glitter trash, Detroit Street punk, and British Invasion rave-ups.
8:30pm PALMYRA DELRAN and the DOPPEL GANG "Palmyra is the Lucille Ball of rock & roll" - Steven Van Zandt
9:30pm THE CYNZ are a full-throttle rock band formed around the songwriting talents of poet CYNDI DAWSON (voc) and HENRY SEIZ (gtr/voc). The band has been called "the closest thing to the 1970's CBGB's you will get from a band that formed in 2011." Their songs are hard-rocking tales of heartbreak, survival, determination, redemption, and sometimes unbridled joy at break-neck speed!!!
Candystore's SLOP: Sexy Loving Original People Salon
Sexy Loving Original People Salon
Thursday April 16th
Doors 7pm Show 7:30
early bird $5 / Advanced $10/Door $15
Sexy Loving Original People (SLOP) Salon is a monthly, live engagement hosted by Candystore. Committed to presence, experimentation, and exchange in art and performance and designed to be a platform for emerging and established artists alike, SLOP Salon borrows from the vulnerability of the open mic format where performances are intended to be fresh, unrefined, and authentic. SLOP Salon performers are invited to present unpolished, risky, and experimental works. Amateurism is strongly encouraged and fucking up is inevitable.
Tales from the $trip
Peekaboo Pointe Presents
TUESDAY APRIL 14th
7:30pm - late
Reading & Pop-up Strip Club
Take TALES to the STRIP!
Tales from the Strip live is expanding its archive!
The last weekend of May we will travel to Las Vegas for the Burlesque Hall of Fame to collect stories from multiple generations of strippers who will all be converging in one place for the annual Striptease Reunion! Because of the vast number of performers at the Plaza hotel that weekend, stories will be flying! And Tales from the $trip plans to listen to and record all of them! Tales from the $trip will be setting up a Story Booth, and inviting attendees to tell their favorite stories. These stories are a vital part of our history. Stories from the 1960s up to today will be circulating around the Plaza all weekend. We have an opportunity to collect as many of them as possible. By recording as many of these stories, Tales will add them to the archive already started in the live show. This digital archive will live on the YouTube Channel : Listen to $luts. This channel will serve as a place where these stories can come alive, and be preserved as part of our oral history. As an industry with a long history of staying hidden, where our work often lives in our collective secret lives, our stories can serve as a powerful (and entertaining) tool for destigmatizing what we choose to do for a living while preserving our rich history. This is a history not only of our industry, but also of queer history, feminist history and immigration history. We can’t afford to lose our stories as the time passes. Our stories have power. We are raising money to take our Tales from the $trip team to Vegas. We need funds for flights, room and board for THREE of the Tales Crew members. Let’s grow this spicy archive! Please join us in helping
TAKE TALES TO THE STRIP! April 14: Stories at 7:30; Pop up $trip Club 9:30!
Here’s how you can help! COME TO THE SHOW!
STAY FOR THE POP UP STRIP AFTERPARTY!
MAKE IT RAIN!
Buy a LAP DANCE!
All proceeds go to the archive! Buy merch! Venmo US! Send us Airline Miles!
Laura Desiree, Valentine, Dame Sin Cyr, Peekaboo Pointe, Viola West, Sam the Blue Eyed Bombshell
Hot for You
Hot For You is a backroom disco for the family.
On Sunday April 12, we are jazzed to welcome back the electric sounds of Mutualism for an all night set.
Advance tickets available here.
Our favorite time of day is night.
Auntie Climax
AUNTIE CLIMAX
Saturday April 11th
6-10pm
A daytime dance party at the Parkside Lounge organized by Maya Suess and Savannah Knoop
DJS:
Gretta
Nath Ann Carrera
Octavius Neveux
Expertfundude
Savannah Knoop
SLOTH 15: SHE IS RISEN!
SLOTH 15: SHE IS RISEN! at The Parkside Lounge
April 10 2026
Doors at 6pm/ Stores at 7pm
tickets $12
Sharers and listeners are all welcome! No story is required to come and enjoy the scene. To sustain our work, there is a $12 entry fee, but we turn no one away for a lack of funds.
On the fence about telling a story? We're here to help you develop it for primetime! Reach out to one of our gracious and beautiful hosts to brainstorm and refine. We'd love to get a glimpse of your inner worlds.
What’s the story theme?
RISE, SLOTHETTES, RISE! Arise from the dead, from the sheets, from your former self. Tell us about the comeback you never saw coming, the faith you lost or found, the altars you built (or burned), the season you chose to begin again. On this night, res-erection is about whatever has risen within you: desire, doubt, devotion, defiance. Show us your transformation at SHE IS RISEN.
What are SLOTH events?
The SLOTH is our queer gathering for friends to share stories inspired by our selected themes. Come to listen or come to tell. We welcome authentic and true(ish) tales, comedy, poetry, music, and any creative form you can put into a compelling 5-minute share. Follow us @sloth.nyc
Lydia Lunch, Joseph Keckler, & Kevin Shea: Easter Sunday Salon
Easter Sunday Salon
Sunday April 5th
doors 7:30 show 8:00
Slide down the rabbit hole with No Wave Queen Lydia Lunch, otherworldly singer Joseph Keckler, and explosive drummer Kevin Shea for a night of communion—sonic mayhem, sermonic prose, unlikely duets, and ecstatic disturbance. A resurrection of sound and word for Easter night.
www.lydia-lunch.net. www.josephkeckler.com https://www.kevinshea.info/ i
Brick Presents: BEAR BOUNCE / buNnY BoUnCe
BUNNY bOuNcE
Friday April 3rd
10pm-4am
OPEN BAR 10-11pm
$10 before midnight / $20 after
Something sexy for all big, beautiful men. Come relax and dance with Nyc hottest. A Big Man's playground full bar, beautiful bodies of large proportions.
HOSTS:
Parts is Parts! George Gilmore and the Giblets, Tim Heap and the Buybacks and the Werewolves
Friday April 3rd
Doors 6:30 / Show 7pm
Tim Heap and The Buybacks Dirty pre Punk, George Gilmore and The Giblets Rockin Soul with a touch of rockabilly, The Warewolves and they ain’t from London