Hey sailor! New York City’s annual Fleet Week is when our nation’s brave and honorable boys and girls get to party in the Big Apple. City establishments have always been welcoming to visiting sailors with deals, sales, and free drinks. Enjoy.

Even if your own closet is devoid of whips and vests, there is one universal truth that can be found in watching the International Mr. Leather contests: IML keeps it real. Unlike a straight beauty pageant, where the contestants may name such nebulous concepts as “happiness” and “world peace” as their passions, International Mr. Leather interests included jockstraps and ball gags.

Once called, Sex on the Beach, Sizzle brings in the hottest black and Latino guys from South Florida and around the country for dancing and grinding.

Held annually during Memorial Day Weekend, DC Black Pride celebrates the African-American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. This Pride extends beyond parties to events like poetry slams, seminars, and job fairs.

Las Vegas welcomes the largest gay dance festival of the summer, Matinee Las Vegas. The festival is celebrating its sixth year and the festivities will take over Rumor Hotel for four days of revelry. Matinee Las Vegas features sizzling parties and DJs and welcomes thousands of LGBT partiers.

Tennis anyone? Memorial Day Weekend is your chance to show off your skills. Cute shorts, backhand, and balls. Sign us up.

The Courage Game brings people together from all walks of life to embrace the LGBT community and promote lifelong equality in sport. The event was co-founded by two-time Dartmouth “All American” Andrew Goldstein and Washington-based coach Nick Welton to “encourage and support gay youth, rebuke bullying and promote wider education and awareness of LGBT equality within the sport of lacrosse.”

A wonderful day for gay youth to rally together to support awareness, visibility and pride for those under the age of 24.

Wig out with some of the most fantastic, fierce and funny ladies, such as Victoria “Porkchop” Parker and Varla Jean Merman as they do their best to “Keep Austin Weird.”

Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival has been bringing audiences a new kind of porn since 2005. The festival features short dirty movies—each less than five minutes—all created by people who aren’t porn stars but want to be one for a weekend. The filmmakers and stars show us what they think is hot and sexy, creative and kinky, their ultimate turn-ons and their craziest fantasies.

HUMP! is a celebration of creative sexual expression. You will see films at HUMP! that shock you. You will see films at HUMP! that make you laugh. And you will see films at HUMP! that turn you on.

HUMP!’s main mission is to change the way America sees—and makes and shares—porn.