It's our pleasure.
Again, we turned to author Steve Friess for his take on this one. In his guidebook, Gay Las Vegas, (due to be published by HP in January 2007), Steve cites what in his opinion are the five best shows for gays. Here's another sneak preview.
1. Steve calls Clint Holmes "by far the most underrated and hardest working headliner on the Strip." He also insists that "gay audiences will warm to the message of tolerance from one of the Strip performers most likely to show up first to raise money for GLBT or HIV/AIDS causes."
2. Elton John. "The minute the titillating video of Pamela Anderson pole-dancing to "The Bitch is Back" gives way to a mammoth inflatable banana and suggestively placed cherries, you know Sir Elton has ushered in a new era for Strip entertainment. And he hardly even rises off his piano bench!"
3. KÀ. "...In the end, the redeeming quality of the two bad guys is that they seem to have been a couple. When one dies, the anguish is sort of touching."
4. Mamma Mia! "What could be more queer than a ditzy musical scored to ABBA music in which a gaggle of well-toned shirtless studs actually undress the lead male character on stage and slip him into a skimpy spandex wetsuit while singing 'Lay All Your Love on Me'?"
5. Mystère. "...There's a classic scene in which two shirtless Adonises lift and twirl one another, at many points with their faces inches from each other's crotches. In the pre-Zumanity era, this was the hottest homoerotic moment in Vegas."
