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! 

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.” 

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.

Circuit Notebook

Are circuit parties dead? Kind of.

Even Jeffrey Sanker knows that smart promoters need to distance themselves from such a passé term. The White Party Palm Springs steers itself as a “spring break” weekend vacation. And from the looks of it, the White Party is alive and going strong. From April 18-21, eight parties were strung together in the gorgeous resort town east of Los Angeles.
It’s not a get-together that attracts mid-term queer collegians — because the tickets for these parties are pretty steep. However at the White Party, youth has nothing to do with beauty. Attendance records are reported in the umpteen thousands, but the numbers of drop-dead gorgeous A-listers who attend is utterly staggering.
Instead of a all-out-sex buffet, the vibe is more “see and be seen,” and there’s a large population of Los Angelinos muscle gods. On top of that, almost every queer celeb from Southern California were making the rounds: Reichen, Alex Mapa, Wilson Cruz, David “Color Splash” Bromstad and JD Jordan, the new massage therapist from “Work Out.”

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See how Meredith is in the moderator’s chair? This was taped before O’Donnell officially became a panelist.

Two well-known (and better yet, well-liked) veterans of Dallas theater are on the move — one right out of the state.

Staying put is Lee Trull, who this week moved on to a full-time position as artistic associate with the Dallas Theater Center. Trull, who’s straight but a nice guy anyway, is an actor (”End Times,” DTC’s “A Christmas Carol”) and playwright (”Puppet Boy”) who has been one of the team that produces at Kitchen Dog Theater.

At least Lee will still be local; not so Tom Sime, the managing director of the Contemporary Theatre of Dallas and erstwhile theater critic for the Dallas Morning News. Sime, who’s gay but a nice guy anyway,  is making the big move: He’s headed for New York. Sime has always worn multiple hats in the arts, as a critic then theater manager, but also as a visual artist and playwright. His newest full-length play, “Bloodletters” (which I saw in an enjoyable staged reading last year), opens at Teatro Dallas later this summer.

We’ll have Tom around for a while longer — he’ll be with CTD until the end of the year, when Russell Dyer takes over… and I have to break another one in… 

Margaret Cho’s show was North Texas’ gayest event last night. Her “Beautiful” tour stopped at Nokia in Grand Prairie.
Here are some tidbits:
She talked about filming her upcoming reality show, “Where my mom and I will be doing some ignunt shit.” One episode will be about anal bleaching and having a white anus: “How did it get dark down there? Because that’s where the sun don’t shine?”
On Britney Spears: “Handcuffed to a gurney — oh, girl. I’ve been there … The Zen of partying is to stick to one drug at a time … Like marijuana? I don’t even consider it a drug. To me, it’s a vegetable.”
On Paris Hilton: “In the future, we’ll be able to understand her. Paris is like a crop circle.”
On crotch shots and the downfall of celebrities: “Don’t let the paparazzi take pictures of your pussy. It steals the pussy’s soul.”
On “Project Runway”: “Whenever I see Michael Kors, my asshole just slams shut — Clang! — not that it’s open all the time. It’s just that Michael Kors is so critical. And he uses so much self-tanner — he’s like a bitchy tangerine.”
Comparing former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey to Rick Perry. “Why did [McGreevey] have to resign? Because a gay man can’t be a governor? Do you guys still have that gay governor here in Texas? Governor Richard Perry? He’s such a fag — with his boyfriend and that haircut.”
On “Miss Larry Craig” “His stance was so wide, he was giving us ballet second position.” “But he won’t come out. He’s like a sorry old queen without a piano bar.”
On John McCain: “He’s such an old bitch — he don’t make jizz. He makes glue.”
On Internet hunting: “Nothing is sadder than cruising for dick on Craigslist. It’s like the PennySaver.”

David Sedaris has a new shorty published in The New Yorker. It’s about smoking.

Sedaris has a new collection of essays coming out in June, ” When You Are Engulfed in Flames.”

His upcoming book tour doesn’t have him in Dallas. But he’s stopping in Austin on June 19. And then in Houston on Oct. 21.