ABSTRACT: What mak a drk "gay"? Some say all tak is a name endg "ra" or "ti," while others specify the cln of chopped u and fanciful ratns. For the purpos of this experiment, the signatn and selectn of gay drks has been left to profsnals--real live bartenrs real live gay bars. HYPOTHESIS: Tt subject "Sanep" is a 37-year-old straight man who, his natural habat, enjoys Jim Beam on the rocks...
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GAY BOY DRINKS
* gay boy drunk *
ABSTRACT: What mak a drk "gay"? For the purpos of this experiment, the signatn and selectn of gay drks has been left to profsnals--real live bartenrs real live gay bars. Will an eveng spent downg "gay drks" gay bars spire "Sanep" to nvert to homosexualy, however fleetgly?
MEANS AND METHODS: Our experiment began at the elegant Capol Hill gay bar Thumpers. Inlitely phemized as a "wrkle room, " Thumpers appeals largely to gay elrs, boastg not only a full-service bar, but also an upsle dg room and performanc by jazz pianists.
The subject's first "gay drk" of the night was a Grape Nehi (2 oz vodka, 2 oz raspberry liqur, lemon, blend wh ice), given an extra splash of gay by our acmodatg bartenr, who crowned the drk wh a spear of marascho cherri and a paper umbrella. As he imbibed drk number two--a Cabana Boy Rum Sunset (2 oz Cabana Boy m, 4 oz lemon-lime soda), scribed as "really, really sweet"--he gamely shared his "gayt" memori om childhood, om roller-skatg to the Village People to his once-passnate love for N.