straight people going to gay bars/clubs: is this bullshit?

Tell your friends to stop being pussies.

xpost HA

I think there is probably a lot of factors at play, especially for women who do this. Not least a perceived "no pressure" zone in dealing with the opposite sex, like a gender free utopia or something.

if you're a straight dude who really loves dancing to diva house or old whitney houston, you're not gonna have a lot of straight bar options

That's weird, considering the direction of the thread I'd have thought it wd be more like "skin darker than a brown paper bag could pass" because if it's about proving you're gay "enough"...oh well.

That goes completely against all social precedent, though.

xp: if you're a str8 dude who loves that, give it up

i understand this is not a real problem xpost

My friends are Pearl Jam fans.

No wonder they're pussies!

the only thing i love more than dancing to diva house is pussy

haha -- ABANDON HOPE

i understand this is not a real problem

i think maybe it is for some... i mean... totally theoretically. Totally.

No, I guess not, Dan. I thought of it as a black pride thing -- prove yr "one of us" or whatever.

Straights need to realize that they're doomed as a species.

gotta make way for the homo superior

oh boo

the church of man-love is such a holy place to be.

max!

so wait pearl jam lovin homos are taking over the world????

http://www.23hq.com/edouard/photo/822151/standard

loves Pearl Jam, is gay

haha -- my straight friends love PJ, the gay ones don't go to straight clubs, I got the brains, you got the looks, etc.

Gay man who only hits gay bars:

http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/46/68/0000034668_20061021010455.jpg

lol hueg

http://www.dickdestiny.com/jpg

Please Mommy, don't tell me any more stories about Daddy at the gay club!

straight man who loves teh gays:

http://nickolas17dp.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/jake_gyllenhaal_02.jpg.w300h474.jpg

lol tripod

lol "tripod"

image blocked by third leg

http://www.solocine.it/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/jake_gyllenhaal.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19748199@N04/

My experiences going to gay bars as a straight guy is that it's by and large totally chill. That being said, if gay dudes were to resent my presence there in some big way (which has never happened, as far as I can tell), then I would be inclined to not argue and respect their wishes to have a space where they don't have to deal with the "straight" world during their leisure time...esp. if they happen to live somewhere that is less receptive to gay culture overall. Everyone deserves some kind of sanctuary from bullshit.

going to gay bars is usually pretty fun, except i got dragged to some weird warehouse called the eagle once where there were dudes in leather chaps and masks and i heard some dude say "eew, women" -- I WAS OUTTA THERE PRETTY QUICKLIKE

being said, if gay dudes were to resent my presence there in some big way (which has never happened, as far as I can tell)

We only do this if you're ugly.

Maybe it has something to do with patrons' ages? My most extensive experience in a gay bar involved going there with an ex-girlfriend, in part b/c oftentimes the environment there seemed less annoying somehow than other local "straight" places. I wouldn't classify her as a "fag hag", whatever that means, in any sense, but the guys there always treated her awesomely.

Oh, the part I forgot to post is that the patrons of this particular place were largely middle-aged.

i think it's a good bet that if any bar has the word "eagle" in the title it's a leather daddy bar

as long as they don't mind being hit on in a civilized way.

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 09:21 (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ this

Straight guys who go to gay bars and WHINE LIKE BABIES because some guy groped them in the arse c/d

some gay/lesbian bars are fun (in SF I dig the Eagle and El Rio and used to enjoy Kimo's). Some I have no interest in but always chuckle at their "risque" names (the Men's Room, the Midnight Sun, Look Daddy's Coming, Moby Dick, etc.)

http://www.metavox.co.kr/images/userdif/goods/jazz/ncd/f002/16430.jpg

I think it depends on the situation. There are bars I don't tend to want to go to: lesbian pick-up bars where I feel distinctly unappreciated on a Saturday, say, or gay pick-up bars where I end up having to fend off lots of inquiries without looking like I'm a rubbernecker or otherwise causing offense, but that's often more a function of the day and time than the bar itself and if I'm there with a bunch of gay friends, I figure I'm a 'guest' and I don't care if anybody takes offense. I also think that it depends on your behavior. I don't get grossed out by dudes kissing on the dance floor or talking dirty or checking people out or hitting on me, for that matter, if there not louts about it, or going off to do drugs together or whatever, so I don't feel that I'm sullying anybody's sanctuary.

There's a place near me called The Dick Liquor. Sadly it's nothing to do with the gays.

Kimo's is gay?! I played there once and didn't notice. Or get laid.

I have arguably never been to a gay bar in Portland, but I'm told I'm not missing much. Still that might give you a sense of my take on this "issue", if you couldn't already guess.

Kimo's is old skool gay for sure. I don't go there, however, as the owner is a completely creepy pervy voyeur who has a security camera system that's wired TO HIS HOME where he can keep an eye on the bar's patrons 24/7. I am not kidding.

pics

Looks like he's trying to sell.

http://www.kimosbar.com/

omg Embarchie there's a ton of punchable stuff on that link that is completely ignorable because of NAZI WOLF

My impression of Kimo's was that it was more of a sort of transexual bar or something? But maybe I'm confabulating it with other Polk St. institutions.

I just wish that Hemlock Tavern had opened up under the old-school Giraffe name. That signage rules.

Some I have no interest in but always chuckle at their "risque" names (the Men's Room, the Midnight Sun, Look Daddy's Coming, Moby Dick, etc.)

Best gay bar logo in SF: the Pendulum.

NB: Paper-bag test = do you have to put a paper bag over their head when you hump them?

what about straight guys who go to gay bars to pick up chicks?

!

On the weekend, an overly solicitous salesman in a gayish swimwear store was giving me a lengthy sales pitch when suddenly he stopped, indicated a particularly fruity pair of speedos, and said, "Can I tell you something serious? Straight men buy these now. They go to Arc (trashy gay nightclub) because they like the music and they like to have their back licked by men, but they won't have sex with you. They're not gay for sex." This rant went forever and became more and more clearly about one particular dude who had refused to sleep with the salesmen, ending with, "And he has a wife. She knows all about it." Did not seem like a good time to tell him I have girlfriend.

want to hear that story in more detail!

So does that straight man wear the speedos to the club? That would make it a lot easier for people to lick his back, if he was just wearing speedos.

Another highlight was his opening his spiel with, "If you buy those, you have to take 'straight-acting' off your Manhunt profile."

OMG!

gayish swimwear store

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Another highlight was his opening his spiel with, "If you buy those, you have to take 'straight-acting' off your Manhunt profile."

― sandy, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:21 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

amazing

i can only imagine your face as he is telling you that story

gayish swimwear store

Yeah what were you doing there in the first place?

Looking for gayish swimwear, obv.

Another highlight was his opening his spiel with, "If you buy those, you have to take 'straight-acting' off your Manhunt profile."

lolz