The State of Amsterdam

As you may have noticed BUTT’s FAG MAP section doesn’t provide any tips yet for Amsterdam, the magazine’s founding home. One of the reasons is that homo clubbing in the former gay capital of the universe is in quite a dead state – what with lots clubs closing recently, including the legendary trashy Cockring. Latest news is that Argos, a fine old leather bar where a lot of fun can be had, is facing a grim future — the building is crumbling down while police keeps coming up with impossible new rules and regulations. The only good things happening in Amsterdam are one-off nights that need a lot of careful planning; Hoerenbal at Church, UNK at Club 8, Spellbound at OCCI, and the young but absolute hysterical F*cking Pop Queers. FPQ is a disco night held once a month in the basement of an otherwise to-be-avoided-like-the-plague club called Jimmy Woo. Last Saturday’s FPQ was a total revelation, with a basement packed with drunk guys jumping up and down on a nice mix of current pop hits and pure eurotrash, from The Vengaboys’s ‘Shalala Lala’ to Shania Twain to Corona’s ‘Rhythm of the Night’. Sorry if that sounds like absolute gay hell, but for all attending it was Amsterdam’s most fun dance night out in ages. Next one’s on December 11.