A Gay Gui to Pickg Up the Hot Guy at the Bar | GQ

Contents:

• A GAY GUI TO PICKG UP THE HOT GUY AT THE BAR
• A STRAIGHT MAN A GAY BAR - CHAPTER 1
• A FRIDAY ON THE “F LOOP”: A STRAIGHT MAN’S GAY BAR CRAWL
• ANY STRAIGHT GUYS HERE THAT HANG OUT AT GAY BARS?
• THIS STRAIGHT GUY ACCINTALLY END UP A ‘GAY SEX CLUB’ AND LEFT THE BT YELP REVIEW
• I WANT TO BE A BARTENR AT A GAY BAR.
• SO A STRAIGHT GUY WALKS TO A GAY BAR…
• WHAT EXACTLY IS THE POT OF A “STRAIGHT-FRIENDLY” GAY BAR?

A GAY GUI TO PICKG UP THE HOT GUY AT THE BAR

Perhaps watchg Queer as Folk when I was a young and imprsnable teenager wasn’t the bt gge of accuracy for how venturg out onto the gay scene would be. Admtedly, before the advent of hookup apps, when I was a baby gay first on the scene, thgs were a ltle like that, jt whout the great lightg, flatterg mera angl, and wasn’t beg broadst on Showtime.

Not only are gay bars and clubs crisis, closg left, right, and center, but the art of hookg up has dimished. So, put down your phone and follow this advice and you, too, uld take that hot guy home om the your ey wiselyAny eager beaver a gay bar n roam a room wh their ey, makg ntact wh each Tom, Dick, and Harry the place. Social media is now awash wh parisons of straight and gay clubs, wh the latter gag a reputatn for havg better mic, better dancg, and simply a better vibe.

A STRAIGHT MAN A GAY BAR - CHAPTER 1

A iend of me had e out of the closet that eveng and revealed that he had been a secret relatnship wh an openly gay iend of ours. We cid to head to ARQ, the biggt and most famo gay club Sydney, to celebrate his g out. You’ll actually see a lot of straight women go to gay clubs Sydney jt so they n enjoy a night out whout beg h on by sleazy guys.

Most straight guys won’t believe this but gay guys party harr than them. People at queer parti ually assume that I’m gay but even if they don’t, I’ve never been ma to feel unwele.

A FRIDAY ON THE “F LOOP”: A STRAIGHT MAN’S GAY BAR CRAWL

By all acunts, ’s a great time to be gay Ameri. Gay bars are s the U.

S., and for more than 45 years Milwkee, gay bars have existed as a (relative) safe haven om a largely tolerant society.

The waterg hol existed as one of the few public plac an otherwise harsh world where gay and straight people alike uld, simply stated, be themselv. Now, as the world’s llective acceptance and unrstandg grows, the number of and need for gay bars are startg to shrk. As recently as 15 years ago, Milwkee boasted close to 20 gay bars, which is an pecially imprsive sum for a cy of s size.

ANY STRAIGHT GUYS HERE THAT HANG OUT AT GAY BARS?

Wh the next (likely even more progrsive) five years, who knows how many will feel the need to rry on as te blue gay bars?

Recently, Hybrid Lounge dropped s gay bar classifitn and, stead, nsirs self to be an LGBT-iendly bar—a. ”As a means of documentg the current state of the cy’s gay bars, a threatened relic of darker tim, I wanted to drk at every sgle Milwkee gay bar a sgle night.

THIS STRAIGHT GUY ACCINTALLY END UP A ‘GAY SEX CLUB’ AND LEFT THE BT YELP REVIEW

Wh the help of Jab Bach, my fast iend, lol gay in, and host of the Yeah, Bro podst, I mapped out a plan of actn and set asi a Friday night to spend wh him on what’s affectnately lled “The F Loop. ” After ne bars, eight hours, a handful of new iends, and too many drks to unt, this straight man pleted his first gay bar crawl. Figurg we need food our system before settg out on a night predited on drkg a lot, Jab and I cid on a 5:30 meetg time at Hamburger Mary’s, one of jt two lol gay bars not Walker’s Pot.

I WANT TO BE A BARTENR AT A GAY BAR.

Havg eaten at Mary’s five or six tim before, I had qutned whether this natnal burger anchise “unted” as a gay bar, but my gay sherpa sisted did, though much of the clientele isn’t gay. Jab lled “Gay Cheers.

SO A STRAIGHT GUY WALKS TO A GAY BAR…

Some of them seemed to have been there a beg one of the cheapt plac to drk Milwkee, I’d soon learn that This Is It is also the cy’s olst gay bar. I was troduced to -owner Gee Schneir, the first gay owner the storied tablishment’s long history. He told me that This Is It opened 1968, shortly before the gay rights movement.

Gay bars are cheap.

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE POT OF A “STRAIGHT-FRIENDLY” GAY BAR?

Together, we sat around a fire p and discsed age differentials wh both the straight and gay muni. Was a gay bar! Stg on the rner of 1st and Natnal, ’s not jt a gay bar, ’s a gayborhood hub.