Local drag star Juanita MORE! and friends Dulce de Leche and Mutha Chucka are kicking off a new series of "Gayme Nights" in the downstairs Peace Lounge at the Hotel Zeppelin Wednesday evening.
Following on Juanita's series of hotel happy hours at the Starlight Room at the Sir Francis Drake down the block several years back, and following on her successful run of a dinner and brunch pop-up at nearby Jones last year, she's returning to the 'hood to host a happy hour/game night. The happy hour features performances, music, games, and drink specials — all in the deliberately rock-and-roll-themed space in the lower rear part of this Viceroy property where Wolfgang Puck's Postrio once lived.
Juanita tells SFist she's had a working relationship with the Hotel Zeppelin for a few years, and that both Dulce and Mutha will be performing. "I love that they're both involved," she says. And, she explains, game-wise, there'll be Connect Four, pool, a full-size bingo board, other board games, along with the arcade games installed in the space like Skee-ball, Quick-shot basketball, and shuffleboard.
Pal Mutha Chucka was featured in April along with several other local legends in a photo spread for Vogue — which also featured a photo of her wall of wigs. In it she described getting her rent-controlled apartment in the Mission in the early 1990s. "All the baby queens and club kids have been through here” she sid. “Half the kids you see performing [in SF] are wearing something I gave them!" She also talked about SF's unique brand of political-theater drag, of which she's been a model practitioner. "I would get naked on stage just to encourage other fat people to do it," she told Vogue. "And I was decapitating Trump and pissing on him as soon as all that happened."
Says Mutha, regarding the game night: "We'll show you how to make an hour HAPPY!"
Gayme Night runs from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Peace Lounge — through the front lobby and down the stairs — at the Hotel Zeppelin, 545 Post Street.
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