‘Stud One’ chronicl nightclub’s nt reign as queen of queer LA nightlife - Washgton Bla: LGBTQ News, Polics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News

Contents:

• GOG OUT OUT: MY LIFE GAY BARS
• BIRMGHAM GAY NIGHTCLUBS | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO BIRMGHAM NIGHTLIFE
• BT GAY CLUBS BARCELONA
• GAY NIGHTLIFE IS DYG AND GRDR AND GENTRIFITN ARE TO BLAME
• WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA
• GAY FLORIDA
• 5 SOIRé GAY à NE PAS MANQUER à PARIS

GOG OUT OUT: MY LIFE GAY BARS

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

BIRMGHAM GAY NIGHTCLUBS | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO BIRMGHAM NIGHTLIFE

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist.

BT GAY CLUBS BARCELONA

On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

18 Typ of Sex All Gay Men Should Have Their LifetimeThere are so many different ways guys have sex wh each other. There's a lot between the two extrem of makg love to the man of your life, and havg a rnchy, anonymo hookup a here are 18 typ of sex all gay/bi men should experience (at least once) at some pot their liv! Like an amatr slth, velopg his nose for sniffg out the clost available mischief wh a five-e radi of the hoe I grew up , I’d accintally unvered my first neighbourhood gay bar.

I’ve sce drank gay bars om Belfast to Beijg, Toronto to Tokyo. I was sacked om a storied Glasgow gay club for helpg myself to s spirs.

GAY NIGHTLIFE IS DYG AND GRDR AND GENTRIFITN ARE TO BLAME

I watched the first gay bar beg built at Glastonbury 2009, liberatg the monolhic ftival’s orientatn, feel-good factor and taste level overnight. I attend the openg of the first, post-crimalisatn gay bar the Baltic stat.

In 20-odd years of livg London, I’ve amassed a small, specific checklist of favoure gay bars, plucked om across s multus. I learned to love boozers as diverse as The Old Quebec Marble Arch, an arne stutn ‘for olr gay gentlemen and their admirers’ (fondly dubbed ‘The Elephants’ Graveyard’ by s regulars) and The Whe Swan Limehoe, where TV prenter Michael Barrymore crashed out of the closet. The Kgs Arms / Alamy Stock Photo I was thkg about all this while vourg an early py of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, by Jeremy Atherton L; a tailed, ank and brilliantly personal acunt of the thor’s life gay bars.

Atherton L is a Californian his late 40s, married to an Englishman, and Gay Bar is his first book.

WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA

Already, Gay Bar reads like a cult classic. Atherton L began wrg his book rponse to an alarmg news story 2015, that almost half the gay spac London had shut down durg the precedg .

‘I started thkg about what that meant for me, ’ he says, ‘and lookg at the gay bars I actually went to. After multiple lockdowns we’ve watched aghast at the mercils cimatn of the hospaly dtry; everyone who learned to live and love gay bars is wonrg which will survive.

GAY FLORIDA

Gay bars are the clost the LGBTQ+ muny gets to a physil lotn which to observe and document our llective experience. So, walkg to a gay bar for the first time n be a stabilisg experience. Cultural reprentatn of the neighbourhood gay bar has been patchy, at bt.

As recently as 2011 Steve McQueen’s Shame, Michael Fassbenr’s sex addict is portrayed as fallg to the most irrencilable pths of bodily pravy by endg up a New York gay sex dungeon. The current evotn of the gay bar is almost illy oppose to s forebears.

5 SOIRé GAY à NE PAS MANQUER à PARIS

There is even a gay bar EastEnrs, where Phil Mchell’s gangster son proposed to his cute policeman boyiend; a Romeo and Romeo for our tim. From the outset, Atherton L’s book posns his thor’s voice hoverg above the gay muny, while wadg through the thick of .