Do You Wanna Funk wh Me?: A Begner’s Gui to Gay Nightclubs | PopMatters

Contents:

• HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR
• DO YOU WANNA FUNK WH ME?: A BEGNER’S GUI TO GAY NIGHTCLUBS
• THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• GAY USA
• GAY TORONTO
• HOW TO START A GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE (GSA)

HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR

Whether you are gog to a gay bar alone or wh iends, 's possible to be the most popular one there. The bt part of gog to a gay bar is the mic. If you're a girl, nothg giv you an edge like beg the accsory for a hot gay guy.

Can I go to a gay bar if I'm straight? Though you should prepare yourself for the fact that people might assume you're gay and might even exprs romantic or sexual tert you.

DO YOU WANNA FUNK WH ME?: A BEGNER’S GUI TO GAY NIGHTCLUBS

Also, is nsired to brg a large group of straight people to a gay bar/club (i.

THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG

A bachelorette party), so if you're gog, you should ially go wh some gay iends. How n I get to a gay bar if I am unr 21?

How n I get to a gay bar when I'm 21? Dgs n feature the gay club scene, but dog dgs do not make you popular and may even isolate you or get you barred.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Good advice, but you uld jt do the easy way: fd the bit gay club town.

(By “gay bar”, I mean any bar that ters primarily to gay men or lbians. But if you want to go dance, party, and have a good time, tst me — a gay club is where you should be head.

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

To be fair, there are straight clubs that play great mic and have fun, nonjudgmental crowds, and there are gay bars that are nothg more than S and M (Stand and Mol) clubs.

GAY USA

Certa gay/lbian clubs have their target clientele, of urse — wboys and wgirls (The Round-up Saloon Dallas), leather men (La Track Montreal), punk lbians (The Dyke Bar Brighton, UK), and drag queens (1001 Pub Maryl Istanbul), for stance — but what I’m talkg about is your basic glter-ball, all-wele, humpg-on-the-dance-floor dis.

This wouldn’t have happened at any of the gay bars town, and we fely would have had a better time, as the doorman was jt the first of numero snooty employe we enuntered, there. If you’ve never been to a gay bar, there are a few thgs you need to unrstand so that you n have the right attu.

GAY TORONTO

First, there are gog to be homosexuals there. That may seem obv, but ’s amazg how many people enter what is clearly a gay bar and say, “Hey, thar’s a bunch a queers ‘ere. ” And the homosexuals who are there will be dancg wh one another, holdg hands, huggg, and, y, kissg.

A gay bar is one of the few plac where homosexuals n exprs their affectn for one another whout beg subjected to someone’s narrow judgment, or, prumably, riskg harm to themselv, so expect to happen. I went wh three iends — a lbian and a straight uple — to a gay nightclub a while back, but was separated om them immediately after enterg the crowd club.

Unlike what you may have seen on Queer as Folk, the overwhelmg majory of gay bars don’t have backrooms and hallways where wild i are takg place. Dg e, particularly the e of ecstasy and other signer dgs, is higher among the gay populatn than the straight populatn, and some gays and lbians equate a night on the town wh a night of high-energy, dg-duced spastic dancg. Havg said all that, why should you go to a gay nightclub?

HOW TO START A GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE (GSA)

In my qut for the perfect dance club, I tried, or was dragged to, diss of all varieti, so I know om experience that the bt dance mic is a gay bar. And numero dance masters and producers market their goods to gay clubs specifilly. Sylvter, the late dis diva of the ’80s, was one of the first to target gay dienc, and he tablished a proud tradn of producg multi-layered tracks to which even the most rhythmilly-challenged uld dance.

Not so a gay club.