DIRTY SEXY MONDAYS

By ADA HUTCHINSON

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Since their early days at Axis around the corner, Dirty Sexy Mondays has been the party de rigueur for the LGBT industry set. Chances are, if you're one of the night's regulars, you undoubtedly know all about DSM and its 13-year legacy. Yet during Pride Week 2009, not all that much will change. It'll be just the same great party.

"We're just doing all the pride anthems in our show," says host Miss Kris Knievil, talking about the weekly drag show featuring resident guests Fena Barbitall, Raquel Blake and JuJuBee. "Pretty much just keeping with the theme—keeping it gay and fun."

Fun doesn't begin to describe the outrageous nights that can sometimes go down at Machine, the huge club behind the shrubbery at 1254 Boylston. Consider, for example, the approaching Drag Queen Jell-O Wrestling event in July. "Last year we made 40 gallons of Jell-O. My mother actually works for a food service—so we get the big industrial boxes of it.

"That crap gets all over," she says. "I was just talking with the lighting guy at the club, in fact, and he actually found one of our wigs stuck to the ceiling six months after the fact." The sans-Jell-O pride party should certainly be at least an outright blast, and Knievil is sure everyone will have a grand time, especially with the all-encompassing aesthetic of resident DJ Susan Esthera.

"It's gays, it's lesbians, it's straight, it's trannies, it's tranny-chasers—it's such a wide variety of people."

[Dirty Sexy Mondays. Machine, 1254 Boylston St., Boston. 617.536.1950. 10pm/21+/$6, $3 with college ID. machine-boston.com]