{"id":103280,"date":"2026-01-02T14:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103280\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:15:39","slug":"photos-every-fabulous-space-slut-we-saw-ringing-in-the-new-year-at-st-petes-cocktail-gay-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103280\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Every fabulous \u2018Space Slut\u2019 we saw ringing in the new year at St. Pete\u2019s Cocktail gay bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"APartygoers at Cocktail in St. Petersburg, Florida on Dec. 31, 2025. Credit: Dave Decker \/ Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not really the new year in the Tampa Bay area until a drag queen rappels down the wall of St. Petersburg\u2019s most popular gay hotel. Thank god for Adriana Sparkle<\/a>, bearded beauty of the Bay.<\/p>\n

As the cock, I mean clock, struck midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve, the queen who\u2019s bucked the system since 2017 rang in 2026 as part of The Mari Jean<\/a>, Cocktail<\/a> and The Wet Spot<\/a>\u2019s UFO-themed, \u201cSpace Sluts Save the World\u201d end-of-year throwdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everyone we saw partying. Happy new year everyone.<\/p>\n

All photos by Dave Decker\/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/p>\n

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This article appears in Dec. 25 \u2013 31, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\t\tTagged: Adriana Sparkle<\/a>,\u00a0Cocktail St. Pete<\/a>,\u00a0New Year’s Eve parties in Tampa Bay<\/a>,\u00a0Slideshow Gallery<\/a>,\u00a0Tampa Bay drag shows<\/a>,\u00a0The Mari Jean Hotel<\/a>,\u00a0The Wet Spot<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Partygoers at Cocktail in St. Petersburg, Florida on Dec. 31, 2025. Credit: Dave Decker \/ Creative Loafing Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[53744,39225,53745,1628,202,204,203,199,201,200,53746,53747,53748],"class_list":["post-103280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-adriana-sparkle","tag-cocktail-st-pete","tag-new-years-eve-parties-in-tampa-bay","tag-slideshow-gallery","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-drag-shows","tag-the-mari-jean-hotel","tag-the-wet-spot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}