There's an amazing new phenominon in San Francisco's gay club scene, and the credit goes entirely to Coco Canal, Miss Trannyshack 2005.
Stripping games!
Strip poker. Spin-the-bottle. Strip twister.
In a club! With people watching. And the players don't stop at their socks, or their underwear. They go all the way in public. Completely naked in a bar.
It all began when DJ Donimo and his partner Dan approached Coco to help them pull together a new club at The Stud (399 Harrison @ 9th) on the first Friday of every month. They called it Lucky Pierre, a reference to the person simultaneously giving and receiving in the middle of a penetrative three-way, because they wanted to convey the idea that club-goers should both take from and give back to the energy of the club.
In an interview on Gay.com Local Scene,
To create something more interactive, Coco turned to Landa Lakes to host "Landa Lakes' Indian GAY-ming Casino," a special area where Landa hosted games of strip poker.
"The strip poker worked out even better than I expected, especially when drag queens got into the action," Coco said. To get the game going, Coco wandered through the crowd to recruit cute guys to play ("It's amazing how guys respond to a flirty drag queen!"), plying players with free shots to loosen them up...
-- Get in the middle of Lucky Pierre, Gay.com Local Scene
Landa's role as dealer has subsequently been taken over by Artemis Chase (who, by the way, represents the Big Gay Frat House as Miss August in the 2008 Desperate Divas calendar), who has blogged extensively about her experiences as both a player and a dealer.
Strip poker continues every first Friday at Lucky Pierre, along with spin-the-bottle, but now Coco Canal has been asked by Renttecca to assist with her event, Starfucker, held on the last Friday of every month at the Deco Lounge (510 Larkin @ Turk). And here she has introduced another amazing game:
Strip twister.
In this game, every player must remove an article of clothing whenever a red is rolled. In a full game, usually only a few fall over before the rest are naked, so they continue playing naked until there's only one left standing. (Though, perhaps the suspense would be drawn out more if each player had a different color...)
And yeah, the times we've witnessed it, there were some shy boys who bowed out before the games progressed too far ... but other boys who stripped totally naked.
You can check out Kevin's Flickr galleries, but because of SafeSearch concerns, you'll need to sign up with Flickr and turn off your SafeSearch settings to see most of them. And to see the full monty, you will need to ask Kevin to make you a friend. Once you've done that, here are the galleries for Lucky Pierre and Starfucker:
The next Lucky Pierre is coming up this Friday, July 6! If you've ever wanted to risk getting naked in a public place, or wanna watch other cute guys do it, come on down to The Stud.
(Also, as an aside, we found a website that specializes in gay stripping games. Check it out!)
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