Fellas, if you got some faghags who like to throw down, make them be your date for a night at Master Blaster Ladies Club.

Right off of I-35 at Commonwealth, this dick-dancing establishment is a lavish hoot. Every guy must have a female companion. I recently attended with two cool gals. They got in for free, I paid an $8 cover. It was a Friday night, and the place was jam-packed. Expect to valet your car ($5) because you won’t be able to find a parking spot on your own.

The joint is pretty swanky. Customers are seated at tables, and the boys are scattered on risers throught the club. There’s also a mainstage. At one point, I counted at least a dozen men dancing at once. They floor hump and shake groove thangs in G-strings and banana hammocks. From the DJ booth, an obnoxious emcee talks — a lot — to keep vibe pumped up.

On the mainstage, the boys do routines. Sometimes they even lip-synch. The women regulars fawn and treat them like rockstars. And when it comes to tips, these boys do exceptionally well!

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Next week, I’ll have in the print edition of Dallas Voice a comprehensive story about the Fort Worth Opera’s production of the opera of “Angels in America.” But “Angels” isn’t the only show being staged this season by the FWO this month — they are doing three other productions, including “Of Mice and Men.”

So perhaps it wasn’t a surprise when a box-office worker at the opera had the following exchange with a patron:

Patron: “Now, George and Lennie — they aren’t gay, are they?”

Employee: “No, ma’am, they’re not gay.”

Patron: “They why do they live on a farm together?”

Good question. And if you ask me, George and Lennie are gay — I even said as much in my review a few years ago of the Dallas Theater Center’s production of the tale —then-artistic director Richard Hamburger even called me after the piece ran to discuss the homoerotic undertones in the story.

Consider: they do talk a lot about living together in a one-room farmhouse and they are always in each others’ company. You could make a case that they were the original “Brokeback Mountain” duo. 

So what does it mean when the FWO, even accidentally, has two gay productions in one season?

‘Bout time is all I have to say. 

Marco Rodriguez is a tease.

 For a number of months now, the local playwright and actor has been telling me he had something “big” in the wings, but try as I might, he wouldn’t spill the beans. (He said even his boyfriend didn’t know what it was.) All I knew was that (a) it had to do with his most recent play, “Heaven Forbid(s)!” being (b) staged somewhere other than Dallas. 

So today, he finally ‘fessed up: “Heaven,” in which Marco and Rhianna Mack cross-dress to play a variety of character in purgatory, has been selected from among more than 1,000 entries to play at the New York International Fringe Festival in New York. If you don’t already know or can’t guess, whenever you say “New York” and “play” in the same sentence it’s a pretty big deal. And this is a very big deal.

But, as with almost every independent theater operation, Rodriguez needs money to do. So, he’s asking for contributions. If you wanna help out, try calling his ticket line at 214-750-7435. Or you can even write to me and I’ll forward along his e-mail. I’ll do in despite the fact that Marco didn’t even bother to offer me an exclusive. Congrats anyway, Marco! 

I sent gay Dallas Democratic superdelegate David Hardt an e-mail yesterday, asking whether he planned to commit in the wake of Tuesday’s primaries, which essentially sealed the nomination for Obama. Hardt didn’t respond. Maybe he’s still miffed about this post in which I said that just because he’s uncommitted doesn’t mean he’s undecided. That’s why they invented the term “undeclared.” Or maybe he just hasn’t checked his e-mail. In any case, Hardt was quoted in The Dallas Morning News today. Turns out, he’s still undeclared, but he had this to say: “The healing process is already beginning. No matter what happens, Hillary Clinton will do the right thing.”

Also, I didn’t realize this until recently, but we actually have another gay superdelegate here in Texas. Superdelegate Sue Lovell (pictured above), a Houston city councilwoman, is a member of the Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Steering Committee for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. That gives Texas two of the 20 gay superdelegates nationwide. Not bad! You can read more about Lovell and Hardt on the Huffington Post Web site here.

Speaking of the HuffPo, here’s this morning’s headline: “Obamamania is back.” Did it ever really go away?

When members of the Youth First Texas softball team play in their Pegasus league games against their (generally) older, it isn’t just arthritis and 401(k)s that they have been missing — it’s been uniforms.

“They were literally playing in white jerseys with electrical tape put on to create numbers,” Jonathan Palant, the artistic director of the Turtle Creek Chorale, told me.

Members of the chorale didn’t like that, so they raised some money and have bought YFT some high-quality jerseys and equipment for the young people. There will be a presentation ceremony tomorrow, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Youth First Texas offices.

Terry Martin, the gay artistic director of WaterTower Theatre in Addison, has come up with a very queer-friendly slate for the next season. Most notable is the area premiere of “Doubt,” John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play about allegations of misconduct against a priest. The Dallas Theater Center has had a hold on it for two years, so the announcement of DTC’s next season last month made it likely for WTT to pick it up.

Also in the line-up: “Make Me a Song,” a jukebox compilation of songs by gay composer William Finn (”A New Brain,” “Falsettos,” “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”); “Based on a Totally True Story,” by gay comic book writer and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; and one of the sharpest musical-comedies ever written, “How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.” 

San Antonio authorities plan to prosecute 73-year-old Chaplain Bill Day, who has AIDS, for running a needle exchange program designed to reduce the spread of HIV, The Dallas Morning News reports today. Texas is the only state in the country without a government-sanctioned needle exchange program. With stuff like this going on, can you really blame people like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (pictured above) for suggesting that the government invented HIV as a means of genocide against the black community? Perhaps a better question would be, where is the outrage in the gay community about the lack of a needle exchange law in Texas? Those needles they use for lethal injections aren’t the only ones killing people in this backward-ass state.

The Dallas Morning News today kicked off its official campaign to elect Republican Lowell Cannaday sheriff in 2008, with a full-length editorial blaming incumbent Lupe Valdez for something involving her department. At this point, the details of the incident don’t really matter to The DMN’s editorial board. What matters is that she’s running for re-election, and The DMN supports her opponent, Cannaday. So you can be sure that between now and November, we’ll be seeing plenty more of this. In fact, I’m surprised The DMN hasn’t blamed the Mavericks’ first-round exit from the playoffs on Valdez. (That would be more logical than the assertions typically made by their sports columnists.) And there’s no doubt Cannaday deserves most of the credit for the Stars’ quadruple-overtime victory last night …

Mildred Loving died Friday, May 2, at her home in Caroline County, Va. She was 68.

Mrs. Loving and her husband, Richard, an interracial couple, made history in 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their right to marry, and in doing so, invalidated laws existing in at least 17 states at the time, including their home state of Virginia, that banned interracial marriage.

Kevin Cathcart, executive director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, issued this statement: “Mrs. Loving and her husband are a testament to the power of standing up for equality and fairness. Love always wins over hate and bigotry in the end — though the road to justice can be long.

“Last year on the 40th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia decision Mrs. Loving bravely stepped forward to include marriage equality for same-sex couples as part of her vision of equality. We are grateful for her leadership. Our thoughts are with her family today.”

Richard Loving was killed in a car accident in 1975.

For more information about the history of the case, read the Wikipedia entry here.

Gay retailer Richard Neal, pictured above, center, set up CAPE, the comic book expo at Craddock Park on Saturday.

He just posted pictures from the event on flickr.com.