How to Pick Up Gay Men: Buildg Confince & Makg a Move

Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY
• IS IT LAST CALL FOR THE GAY BAR?
• STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW GAY BARS
• ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.

Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player.

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio. Gay bars offer LGBTQ+ muny members a place to go which they n be fortable and treated as humans, they ’s important that the spac rema open, as a bs and to the public, so people and outsi of the LGBTQ+ muny n enjoy the bars and experience queer culture, said Alexanr, stage name Duchs Morngstar. The bs has sce remaed a part of the gay bar Our Place routely hosts drag performance nights, featurg artists such as Sage Summers, Heather Bea and Brooklyn Burroughs, and drag pageants.

INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY

English Ivy's -owner Sam Stt said about 80% of the bar's clientele are regulars, llg the bar a "gay Cheers, " referencg the bar the 90s s "where everybody knows your name. The eatery loted the Sat Joseph neighborhood is not a dance club, but rather a “gay-therg” place for members of the LGBTQ+ muny and alli, acrdg to s webse. By night is Almost Famo, an “everyone bar, ” which do not market self as a gay bar but ters to queer people, said assistant general manager Jam Alexanr, stage name Duchs Morngstar.

“You n e to this environment and be queer and feel like you’re safe but ’s not your typil what you would thk gay bar feel, ” said show director Myke Dobbs, whose stage name is Lady Dumpster. For many years, Zonie’s has been one of the ma plac to see profsnal performers and one of the few gay bars to host open stage nights for amatr artists. I was sadned when I heard some months ago that The Mars Bar, the only dited gay and lbian nightclub Alai, South Atralia, would be closg after 40 years bs.

In a 2015 paper, Toby Lea, John W, and Robert Reynolds outled prev rearch regardg reasons for chang socializatn and, drawg on prev work, the “stctural cle” of lbian and gay scen, such as that of Oxford Street Sydney. The rearchers outled theoretil bate as to whether the gay liberatn movement has given way to a post-gay era, where sexual orientatn is not central to inty, there is creased stigmatizatn, and ls isolatn is felt by same-sex attracted persons; all of which translat to different methods of socializatn and relatnship formatn.

IS IT LAST CALL FOR THE GAY BAR?

Some of my iends were of the opn that changg social attus meant that there wasn’t as much of a need for gay nightclubs or bars. They believed same-sex attracted people uld go to and show affectn at any number of “gay-iendly” venu whout fear.

Ined, surveys of gay Atralian men livg Sydney (published 2016) and Melbourne (published 2017) reveal that the proportn of men g apps to meet sexual partners signifintly creased om 2015 to 2016 and 2016 to 2017, rpectively, wh a cle over a five-year perd both ci for meetg at gay bars.

However, while many of feel that we equent “safe” or “gay-iendly, ” spac, and actively seek out spac that are simpati wh our terts and preferenc, isn’t the se that all venu are like this or that younger people (and even olr people) would feel fortable and have the agency to fd such venu. The rearchers found that 50 percent of participants reported at least monthly attendance at lbian and gay venu.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

However, 60 percent of participants did not nsir the lbian/gay scene an important part of how they spent their leisure time, and 76 percent of participants reported a weak sense of nnectn wh the lbian/gay muny their everyday liv. Reasons for attendg lbian and gay venu clud beg around other same-sex attracted people (51. The rearchers posed that utn regardg displays of attractn and timacy and ncerns over safety, which were reflected the rults, may dite “homophobia is a pervasive force that has not cled at the same rate as social acceptance has creased.

” They also felt that “the rults pot both to the endurance and the dimishg relevance of Sydney’s lbian and gay scene for different subgroups of same-sex attracted young people.

I thk the challenge for gay and lbian venu will be how to rpond to social and technologil chang that motivate and disurage patrons to attend their premis. One cricism of gay bars and clubs is that they are geared to those wh one type of mic tert or are overly foced on dancg and drkg.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

There were queer bars along the ast, but they largely tered to cisgenr gay men. On one night, the Smallmans met a iend at a New Orleans gay bar.

MOSW GAY BARS

Mattson, who has extensively rearched recent chang gay bars, veloped his report om the gay bar listgs the Damron Gui, the longt-nng and only guibook that documents LGBTQ plac the natn. So if you’re lookg at the pal of whe cis gay men vers the pal of whe, Black, brown, Asian, Lata, queer women, the dispary is huge.

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

“When Tanya [the origal owner] me out, was the 1950s, early ’60s, and the bar she ed to go to was always gay men and gay women together bee she told that wasn’t legal.

[Tanya] always really enjoyed the pany of gay men and transgenr people, and even though she wanted the lbian space, she never unrstood why the whole gay muny uldn’t socialize wh each other. ’ The opportuny me along for a women’s night at Flix [a gay men’s bar] and I started that women’s night there 2001. But we’re all women: Gay, straight, bi, trans, everythg, queer.