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.)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.metavox.co.kr/images/userdif/goods/jazz/ncd/f002/16430.jpg
― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Michael White, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a place near me called The Dick Liquor. Sadly it's nothing to do with the gays.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
pics
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks like he's trying to sell.
http://www.kimosbar.com/
― Michael White, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
omg Embarchie there's a ton of punchable stuff on that link that is completely ignorable because of NAZI WOLF
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― dell, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I just wish that Hemlock Tavern had opened up under the old-school Giraffe name. That signage rules.
― dell, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
NB: Paper-bag test = do you have to put a paper bag over their head when you hump them?
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
what about straight guys who go to gay bars to pick up chicks?
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i mentioned it!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
we used to dance at the gay/lesbian bar quite a bit... it's a better place to go to dance and not be bothered imho. but this was like a dance club in a lot of ways.
i guess my question might be... the bar, is the sole purpose hooking up? or can a person just be getting a drink and being out around people?
kimo's and hemlock i mostly just know for some of the more nutty rock/art shows i've seen. (which ain't sayin too much probably... never did get to see extreme elvis do his thing. nice guy tho.) m.
― msp, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
When you straight guys get back from the gay bars, tell me what they're like.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
the only thing i love more than dancing to diva house is pussy
-- max, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
max otm ftw
― deej, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Any chicago folks go to that club by Belmont called Berlin ever?? that place is a fuckin party
Hey, Eric, let's hang out and do anything other than go to gay bars.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i love u max
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Straight people are not allowed to go to this gay bar:
http://melbourne.metblogs.com/archives/2007/05/the_peel_has_wo.phtml
― S-, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
How do they regulate it? Is there a gay breath test or something?
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes. Does your breath smell like cock? Then you're in.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 06:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never felt unwelcome in gaybars/night clubs. Should I be?
The one I've been to most (quite a famous establishment in Brisbane) has mirrors behind all the urinals so everything's on show. Is this common?
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I've heard of that one, so probably not.
I'm going to Melbourne's big gay street parade on Sunday. Will take cock breath spray just in case.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 07:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that midsumma fest?
― Trayce, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
yer.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Why bother with the breath spray? Actual cock is surely more fun.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Costs more in this area
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 07:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you in bizarro world, where the blowjob recipient gets paid to endure the blowjob?
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 08:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
My god, you're right.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a gay pub just over the road from my flat. It stays open later than the other places in our area, so my boyfriend and I sometimes pop over for a quick late drink. One of our downstairs neighbours works behind the bar. It's a pub not bar, so it's pretty chilled and not especially hook-uppy. It's much friendlier than the pub opposite it, where they look askance at you if you have all your own teeth.
On Saturday a female friend and I were taken to a transvestite/ transgendered club. That was a hook-up joint, but no one minded us being there, several people asked if we'd consider going again. I've never felt quite so short in my entire life though.
That said I don't consider it a right of mine to be able to prance into any given bar or club - establishments make their own rules, written or unwritten - people generally want to hang out with those who share a roughly similar mind set. It's about decoding the signals the place is sending. Dress code and music policy play as big a part in this as anything else. There are certain gay nights I wouldn't go to as a straight woman and I don't go to other places because I'm not a teenager and others yet again because I don't like sports, don't work in the City, am not a goth etc.
― Anna, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know if this has been covered above as such, but:
Back in the day, my wife would go to gay clubs with friends, as it was one place they wouldn't get hit on by blokes all the time. Of course, they'd bump into other friends and it would be all "you?" "No" "Me neither"...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Why bother with the breath spray? Actual cock is surely more fun. -- Casuistry, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 07:30 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
where do you think the cock breath spray comes from?
― ken c, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
China.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I briefly shared a house with a bloke who'd go to the local gay bar (the Granby for Reading ilxors) to pick up women (successfully).
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
every mouthful could potentially be several of ~700 million people's sperms
xpost
― ken c, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
You're confusing cock breath with cum breath again.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
the one time i went to a gay club todd terje was playing and i received a sensual back rub from a big shirtless gurning dude with a handlebar. cannot recommend it enough!
― rio (r1o natsume), Monday, 24 November 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
this guy?
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41129000/jpg/_41129645_gurner203.jpg
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 24 November 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ kenan
― cash rules ? me (The Reverend), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link
FAGGOTS FUCK FAGGOT ASS AND GET NIGGER AIDS AND DIE AND ALSO HITLER
― kenan, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:27 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
kenan's best post ever
― NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
My best male friend at the moment is gay and most of the rest of my friends are women and I don't feel entirely comfortable around most heteronormative dudes as they roar like a bunch of testosterone-fueled grizzlies over touchdowns and goals on the TV and I like to dance and I like to karaoke. So I hope the gays in the gay bars that I go to don't think my presence is bullshit, because they're some of the few places that I don't feel entirely out of place. If there were more non-scenester hetero nancy boy bars, I would go to those.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I HEART CREEPY MENS
― cash rules ? me (The Reverend), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
A good male friend of mine used to bartend at a lesbian bar and swears that it was the most sexually active time of his life (he's married now).
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
my friend & i stumbled into an older dudes' gay bar in prague, it took a little while to even realize it was a gay bar. no dancing or anything, just seemed like regular quiet czech bar.
we sat down w/ our beers, noticed we were being stared at a little bit, then noticed the photographs of naked dudes on the walls.
― mark cl, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i imagine most people just assumed we were gay, too. we got the stares mostly b/c we were the youngest there by like 20-30 years
― mark cl, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
max otm btw
― zing touch me I'm (sic), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link