Sat. June 5

Gay Pride Week - will Gay Pride Stretch - takes place June 4-13 and Brendan Boogie and Andrewa Kremer are doing a cool thing at the Lizard Lounge to celebrate Saturday June 5 - a night of gay music, or gay-identified music, as played by a variety of gay and not-gay Boston area musicians. It's part of their series "The Cover Up," where locals masquerade as other bands and have a hoot doing so. No specific bands this time - what you want an entire Frankie Goes to Hollywood Set? Sylvester? Holly Near? Indigo Girls? - but songs. Here's host Brendan Boogie on what he's doing:

"I fear I may be completely unqualified to host the Gay Pride-themed Cover-Up show. You see, I am not gay. I also have no pride. But no matter if you're gay, hetero, bi, transgender, bi-curious, genderqueer or tri-sensual, there's no doubt about one simple fact: the gays know how to rock. Some of the greatest trailblazers of rock and roll have walked down the yellow brick road, if you catch my meaning nudge nudge wink wink." (Could he mean ... Elton John? God, another celebrity outed!) "So it is only fitting that during Gay Pride week, the Cover-Up celebrates the amazing contributions artists of the gay culture have made on the world of music.

"Instead of paying tribute to a single artist, we are breaking the format and unleashing our artists to interpret the 'Gay Pride' theme however they see fit. Gay artists, icons, and maybe even a few suspected closet cases - the music will cut a swath across genres and styles, all with one goal in mind: to get your gay groove on."

The possibilities are enticing? Maybe someone will do Pete Townshend's "Rough Boys," the sometimes bisexual Who leader's ode to having a crush on the Sex Pistols. There's certain to be a slew of Bowie, T.Rex and ... um Adam Lambert? Pansy Division? Pete Shelley? (One of the coolest/ugliest things we ever saw was Pansy Division opening up arena shows for Green Day. Cool, because Green Day no doubt knew a chunk of their snotty young punk audience was anti-queer and wanted the punk-rockin' Pansies on the bill to educate, entertain and antagonize 'em. Let's say the band and crowd lived up to expectations. But it was disheartening to hear the mainstream punk crowd be so vocally homophobic. You love Green Day; this comes with the package, was the message I got from Billie Joe and company.)

Who's playing at the Liz? Gene Dante & The Future Starlets (in photo), Larry Banilow, John Powhida International Airport, Coehlo Bravo, Nate Rogers of the Future Everybody with guests, Eddie Japan and more. Starts at 8:30. Cover: $10 advance/$12 door.

1667 Massachusetts Ave., 617-547-0759 Cambridge, www.lizardloungeclub.com or 
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/114863