Reply #47: Speaking from experience, I had 1000 times more fun in a gay bar than a straight one. [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

Let me summarize every straight bar I've ever been to:

Sit.
Drink way-overpriced alcohol (not in my case).
Mill past tons of either a) frat boys or b) Jersey-mook-looking beer guts with cheap cologne, Hogan headrags, gold and Harley shirts to take a piss.
Listen to really bad modern rap, really bad modern country, John Mellen CougarCamp, AC/DC or post Smell the Glove-Metallica.
Sit.
Look around at a bunch of people you don't know, because the ones you're with aren't involving you in their conversation.
All of your conversations border on yelling, if you have one at all, because music listed above is blaring to the point of agony.
Drink more way-overpriced alcohol (again, not in my case).
Watch people on TV you can't hear (or even read, because they don't even bother to put the CC on), music videos you can't hear or sports you don't like.
Repeat for four to six HOURS.

I've been to two gay bars on four different occasions and I gotta tell ya -

WAY more fun.
WAY better music.
WAY more positive vibe.
WAY less bad midwestern mulletude.
Everyone's unique rather than just a big dumbass blend of A&F, neckless football players or fight-starting dickheads. Incidentally, why is it that people who start fights usually CAN'T fight?

One of those occasions was Halloween. That was the best damned Halloween I had anywhere. I met so many great people and the costumes were unbelievable. One guy came with s functioning clock tower atop his frightwig.

I cannot believe in this day and age that straight guys actually worry that a gay guy is going to hit on them. That's just fucking laughable.