Punk-Drag Party Charlie Horse Killed By Neighbor Noise Complaints
The expanding War on Fun has taken another life, ladies and germs. Marke B. over at the SFBG reports that punk-politico drag queen Anna Conda has decided to call it quits on her weekly Friday party Charlie Horse at the Cinch after complaining Polk Street neighbors brought the bar before the Entertainment Commission. Rather than "take a break" and try to tone down the often raucous drag night (where it was likely the noisy smoking porch out back and the spillover out front that brought the complaints) Anna has decided to put a bullet in the head of this five-year-old party and pursue other ventures.
It's possible she's just tired (like Heklina was when she ended Trannyshack after twelve straight years as a weekly), and saw this as a good excuse to move on. But Anna took this opportunity for some fightin words against Marina yuppies, many of whom liked to crash the upper-Polk party in groups, not understanding that this particular drag show wasn't all that bachelorette-friendly:
"The Polk no longer welcomes gay businesses and the Polk Street Merchants Association has even taken action against leasing to gay businesses... [There is] continued pressure to end the gay presence in the Polk so that the Marina and all its clean falsehood can expand. It is gentrification and bigotry. It has been an entire year of facing this as a gay culture. In fact our last show was almost a year after Prop 8 passed and we did our Yeah Yeah Yeah's tribute."
You tell 'em Anna. You can still catch her and her merry band of rock-and-roll drag queens at the semi-monthly party Herr-a-Chick at The Eagle, on the first, third and fifth Wednesdays of the month.