Hot in the City - Vancouver's Next Go-Go Boy Star

In these few scant weeks before Vancouver Pride, it makes sense that there is a new city-wide contest featuring scantily clad guys competing to see who is the best booty shaker in all of Vancouverdom. Check it out:



Despite the fact that the dancers in this video appear to be headless, they have nice bodies. I mean really, who doesn't like staring at disembodied torsos writhing about to Donna Summer? Show me a man that doesn't like watching go-go dancing and I will tell that man to smarten the fuck up and enjoy himself...or else.

I am planning on attending both nights at Celebrities to see if any of the headless dancers in the video posted above are, in fact, contestants. That my friends, would be a freaky deaky show worth blogging about.

Here's the write up from www.gogoboystar.com:

DJ ZACH SHORE joins the team as the official DJ for both nights: July 17 and July 24th, while Vancouver's Next Gay Top Model winner, Aaron Ursacki hosts the finale on the 24th. It is all happening at Celebrities Nightclub and the doors open at 9pm. www.celebritiesnightclub.com $10 tickets now available at Little Sister's Bookstore.

PRIZE: All contestants will receive IQONIQ wear. The winner will receive a trip to New York City, a professional photoshoot from local photographer David Sandford and the opportunity to sign a $5000 contract to dance at Celebrities Nightclub.

All about...

Energy, vigor, galore, pizzazz, performance and strength in body, mind and soul are some of the qualities the judges will be looking for in the contestants. And, of course, a go-go dancer is expected to animate to any music available at their disposal.

Go-Go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain at a club. Go-go dancing originated in the early 1960s when women at the Peppermint Lounge in New York City began to get up on tables and dance the twist. There were many 1960s-era miniskirt club goers who wore what came to be called go-go boots to night clubs; club promoters in the mid 1960s conceived the idea of hiring them to entertain the patrons.

Many Gay clubs had male go-go dancers, called go-go boys, during the period 1965-1968. After that, few gay clubs had go-go dancers until performance art dancer John Sex, and his python Delilah, made go-go dancing popular again at gay/bisexual clubs in the mid 80s. John Sex performed at many NYC legendary clubs including Andy Warhol’s Underground, organized the Go-Go Stars float for the NYC Pride Parade in 1986 and was a hit until his last performance at club Mars in 1989 when his breath was taken away by AIDS. Go-go dancing became fashionable again at gay clubs, and has remained so ever since.