I went out with some friends last night for dinner at Gloria's. Behind was a full table, someones birthday. After their meal a drunk woman stopped at our table to ask what we were celebrating. We said; "Wednesday..?" and she said; "Oh, a boys night out huh?" Someone in the group said; "No, we usually go out like this with friends."
We have spotted more and more straights in our establishments. In another restaurant I overheard a woman tell her very cute husband "Is this place always so gay?"(he was getting way more attention than she was!)
I blame this on the gays that bring their fag-hags out on a Saturday night! Then said hags go back to their offices on Monday morning telling everyone how much fun they had in the gayborhood. Then the next thing you know the hag is bringing her friends there for their bachelorette party and it grows and grows! Pretty soon the gayborhood is not so unique anymore. It'll soon be like any suburb in the city and restaurant like any chain you would go into in the 'burbs.
What do y'all think? I know you want to take the hag out, dust off the cobwebs and give the poor things a thrill once in a while, but think about where this will lead!
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We went to Provincetown, MA for Bear Week this past July and it was more straight than I have ever seen it. Couple of the bars we went to (gay bars) were crammed with young straight ladies dancing and whooping it up. Sigh...
I'm with you in a way, but in places other than Texas, and maybe Portland's a bad example since straights/gays mix together all OVER this town, I "had" been thinking that in 2009, in many places, those are the old days. Then, again, Jim, I think of UTAH where I spent a few years, and I realized that what you were observing is plainly still alive there too....and in Boise, Idaho or Spokane. Texas....just seems it would be a bit conservative for me, no?
We went out with our hag all the time when we lived in Florida. She's bi, so we always went to places where there were lesbians hanging out. I wouldn't trade our fun times with her for anything! It's hard to imagine NOT going out with her.
The prefer to called fruit flies... hee hee
As barriers break down and we feel more comfortable being who we are outside the gayborhood, we will see more and more of the equal and opposite reaction you describe.
Of course, that doesn't invalidate the nostalgic feelings we have, or the need/desire to have a place or two that's just ours.
Two cents.
And my word verif is "mantshe." That's gotta mean something...
I agree. In the time that I've been 'out and about' - Boston's South End has undergone a crazy transformation. On most days I see more straight people than I do gay people. It's taken some time to get used to.
Same thing with P-Town (as cutie, Breenlantern stated above). Straights, straights, straights everywhere you look!!
The one time I was in Dallas was for the Gay Softball World Series, so there were LOTS of gays around. :-)
I've always had more fun dancing with my hags than guys, I don't know why. It's not that I'm uncomfortable with guys, more like I always relate better to women and thus don't have a guard up with my female friends?
Regardless, one of the best times I had was at Mannequins in Disney/Florida. It was just such an awesome mix of gay and straight with no judgment, but the flavor of the club that night was clearly gay :)
I have no problem with straights coming into the clubs, as long as they have respect and acceptance as I would in a straight club. What I hate (and I'm in philly, where your photo is from) is when the gay club starts catering to the straights. In Philly a certain club ended up catering way too much to the straight hip-hop crowd and surprise, it brought in a crowd to the club that wasn't exactly friendly or welcoming anymore. It became "When did our gay club decide to exclude gays and gay dance music?"
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