NIGHTLIFE EXCLUSIVE

GaySocialites.com can report that Rush isn't going out of business right away.  BoiParty.com's Alan Picus released a statement via e-mail on Monday saying that his Saturday night isn't moving until after the new year.

As a matter of fact, we're told that Rush will also once again allow the 18 and over crowd back in with open arms.  So what's with the flip-flop and sudden change?

The promotions team is crediting it to "record attendance," but a Rush insider tells tells me the opposite.  There's evidently a bit of a power struggle going on over there ya'll!

As GaySocialites.com first reported on our blog earlier this year, the partners at the Ritz have some strange desire to buy that location.  They're evidently in the process of purchasing half the shares in the company from a silent partner.  The problem is that Dave Beaty, who owns the other half of the company, may have a different vision for the company.

For the past few weeks, the partners at the Ritz have practically been running Rush, "the way they know how" bringing in big names like Candis Cayne, "Drag Race" winner Nina Flowers and various bigger named DJ's.  "It didn't work," our insider dished.

We're told the plan was to take Rush (by name and concept) off the grid.  As a result, Alan Picus was primed to join us in a dual venture at an undisclosed location named "Drama."  For now, that deal is on hold as Dave seems to have re-nabbed control of Rush declaring things 18 and over and granting BoiParty permission to stay.

Another source from inside the Rush empire (who also wishes to remain anonymous) had previous tipped off GaySocialites.com that Beaty was being ousted from control.  Our source told us that the new owners were hoping to acquire enough shares to "out vote" Dave as needed.

I guess they weren't successful with that... yet.