All you beautiful boys gather round! It’s hip boutique bar Déjà Vu’s second birthday and their ridiculously handsome barmen are giving it away – well, by ‘it’ I mean free-flowing prosecco, and you know how those bubbles go straight to my head. So get yourself down those treacherous little steps and raise a glass to a Hong Kong bar making it to its second year! Congratulations, Deja Vu! Here’s to many more years to come!

Time: 10.00pm – 12.00pm
Venue: Déjà Vu, Basement, 41 Staunton street, Central
Price: Free entry

Don’t have a date for Valentine’s Day this year? No ticket for Janet’s Number One’s? Why not let Wokai do the work for you? Come join the Wokai Charity Date Auction! 5 girls and 5 guys will take part in a battle of the sexes to see who can raise the most money for Wokai.org’s loan recipients–small business owners living under the poverty line in rural parts of China. Come bid on your favourite hot young professional, and win a fabulous date with him or her!

Time: 8-late
Venue: Hyde Bar, 2nd Floor, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central
Price: $100 in advance / $150 at the door

This monthly gathering for gay professionals and friends is a must for those wishing for an evening of great networking. Conveniently held at Drop near Hollywood Road, you have the chance every month to win numerous lucky draw prizes and find out what’s happening for the community in Hong Kong.

Time: 6.30pm ﹣11.00pm
Venue: Drop, Basement On Lok Mansion, 39-43 Hollywood Road, Central
Price: $60 / Students 50% off with ID
Website: www.fruitsinsuits.com.hk

I’ll be honest – I was stunned to hear that Hong Kong was going to be the first stop on La Jackson’s ‘Number Ones’ World Tour. The city was chosen by public vote, so I guess there are A LOT of Janet Jackson fans lurking here. I imagine most of you will have already got your tickets, but if you haven’t, get to HK Ticketing lickety-split for what should be an incredible night. All the songs will be from her ‘Number Ones’ album, so it’s all killah – zero fillah. If you’re not a fan, and you’re being dragged to it on Valentine’s Day, then I guess you can always hope for a ‘wardrobe malfunction’. For the rest of us, remember: no crazy antics – this is a story about control.

Time: 8pm
Venue: HKCEC
Price: $1480/$1080/$880/$580/$480

Richard Smith, a regular at, well, I guess, every bar in Hong Kong is showing the method behind his madness. Apparently, his recent Christmas Turducken blow-out (that’s a chicken stuffed inside a duck inside a turkey) wasn’t just pure indulgence. In fact, far from it – he claims he was in fact gorging himself for charity. Apparently, Richard is undertaking a 5 month charity weight-loss for the Elephant Asia Rescue and Survival Foundation (‘EARS’ – cute) and his first weigh-in will of course be marked by a huge party at Drop on Saturday February 12th. Come down to Drop to say a last farewell to his lard and make sure you watch his progress over the next 5 months as he slowly blossoms into the Calvin Klein model (or two) we always knew he had inside…

Time: 8.00pm ﹣12.30am
Venue : Drop, Basement On Lok Mansion, 39-43 Hollywood Road, Central (Entrance off Hollywood Road under the escalator)

Attention all you modelizers out there! There’s going to be a bevy of nubile young things competing for Asia’s next top male model at ‘Starry Night’, the launch party for the new party organizers ‘the night’. The cream of Thailand will be competing against Hong Kong’s finest for first prize – get there early to bag your front row seat! Oh, and don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes to party with the stars of the evening – DJs, gifts and hot hot models – what more could a man ask for?

Time : 8.00pm
Venue: Explode Bar, 9/F, Jardine Centre, 50 Jardine Bazaar Causeway Bay
Enquires: 2890 8882

In the immortal words of Salt’n’Pepa’s controversial 1991 smash, let’s talk about sex baby. Or rather, let’s have a look at what 8 up-and-coming young Hong Kong artists have to say about it. For their Valentine’s Day exhibition, Voxfire Gallery is presenting “Heat – an exploration of sex in relationships”, where paintings, photos and installations (!) try to get us to explore what sex means to us today. Part of the sale proceeds for their works will be donated to the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation, so if you head down hoping for a glimpse of something naughty, you can tell yourself it’s really for a good cause.

Time: 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Venue: Voxfire Gallery, 1／F, 52 Gage Street (enter on Aberdeen St.), Central
Price: Free entry

Hong Kong seems blessed with talented young gay men. Clifton Kwan is at it again – after sell-outs of his two previous shows “Singles in Love” and “There’s a Kind of Hush”. But this time Kwan is producer, director, writer and actor all-in-one. It’s Oh So Queer examines the life of a gay man from different perspectives – growing up, family, love and work. Tickets are selling out fast – Kwan has already had to add one extra show, so get yours quick!

Time 時間: 11﹣13 Feb (Fri to Sun) 8.00pm
12 – 13 (Sat – Sun) 3.00pm
Venue: Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Multi Media Theatre
Price: $190, $150
Website: www.urbtix.hk

Those Cocktail boys are at it again, bringing RED to Hong Kong on 4th Feb. If you enjoyed their Snowball, you can ring in the (Chinese) New Year all over again at RED. Music: fabulous; dress: minimal.

Time: 11.30pm – 5.00am
Venue: TBC
Enquiry: 9642 2264

Always My Child – Director Kit Hung takes a brave look at the complexities of homosexuality and coming out in Chinese families with this documentary which charts the dialogue between three mothers and their gay children. Each child has had to face a different aspect of the subtle homophobia in Asia today, and we see their courageous stories of learning to be proud of who they are. The film is organized by the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong and each screening will be followed by discussion group with a guest speaker.

Time: 7.30pm / 9.00pm
Venue:Agnes b, The Arts Center, 3 Harbour Road, Wan Chai
Price: Free entry with tickets; for tickets please email diversity@bgca.org.hk or call Mr Chau on 2320 4005