Girl!
I wanna take you to a gay bar,
I wanna take you to a gay bar,
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
A most unusual Saturday. Actually let me correct that. A most unusual Saturday night. Saturday was quite good, with the music (if not the weather) at B-Live being top. It probably started getting weird when we (being myself and Dan) met Ann-Marie.
And I use met in the loosest possible sense. As Dan and I where leaving the festi-gig, a girl a bit [a lot] drunk swung her legs over the fencing and hopped onto the path in front of us. We pointed out that the fence ended not two meters from where she clambered over and there was no need to do the clambering. She winked at Dan (apparently) and said "I just wanted to show you my legs". Then after crossing the road she yelled at us "Want to see my tits?" Naturally there was only one answer. I miss Ann-Marie.
Then we proceeded to head to Clapham North to meet up with a friend of mine. We never made it, as we met up with Charlie, trying to spade some mad Scottish girl. At a gay bar, where Charlie knew someone he used to work with, who knew the mad Scottish (1000 words a minute) girl Charlie was trying to spade. Actually it seemed like half of Scotland's girls were there.
I think that's where the night got strange. not strange bad. Strange unusual. For example observing some guy biting some girls arse and commenting on how that was unusual turned out with the said arse being offered to me and Dan. To be bitten. Cause she liked pain. She a school teacher.
Anyway in a day that could be characterised by the phrase "Being blanked" (well Dan and myself, Charlie got into near shouting debate about the politics of poverty in Africa with mad Scottish girl that was rather pointless), Dan and I landed up speaking to a lot of the gay people at the bar. All very friendly (observations on this later).
Then right after Dan left with a cute Australian lesbian girl to catch the last train up North, I started chatting with a South African Bisexual with a Australian boyfriend who turned out to be a year below me at high school and physio at my university. This led to the normal chat about this teacher and that teacher until she was buying me drinks in the gay club up the road.
Like I said, unusual night.
Observations from the night
- All the gay blokes knew Dan and I were straight without question.
- All the girls (straight, gay or otherwise) kept asking, "So you're sure your straight?"
- Must have got asked 100 times "So what are you straight boys doing in a gay bar?" Is it that unusual?
- There were a lot of straight women in the gay bar. And all over the gay guys. There is definitely something in the gay environment that some girls seem to like, and it seems to be the gay guys.
- Being in a large group of gay guys is very different to being in a large group of gay girls. When I went out (last year I think) with about a dozen and half lesbian girls, it was a very different environment. Although that dynamic might merely be the single straight guy in large group of gay girls over anything else.
- Gay guys seem to be friendly in a way that straight guys only manage if you're supporting the same sports team.
- I was totally fascinated by the procession of very expensive chauffeur driven cars pulling up the whole night and very well dressed very young, very good looking gay guys getting out and walking into the bar as if they owned. in fact the first time I thought the guys did own it. By the 6th car was I didn't really know what to make of it.
- I was warned I 'll probably get my arse pinched a lot in the gay club. Didn't happen once. Jeeze what's wrong with my arse guys? It was bad enough being blanked by the girls the whole day. :-)
- A gay club (or at least this gay club) was definitely not a straight club. For starters all the guys where better looking. The numbers of people pulling where definitely higher than a straight club too. By an order of magnitude.
- It was weird being in a club where there was no need for me to think about pulling. I was asked if their was anyone I fancy by the gay friend of the gay friend of the girl who went to my school. I replied saying I was straight, and was then asked "Even so, anyone?".
- Everyone I had met who I was told was just friends with someone and not dating them, seemed to be snogging that someone there were not dating but just friends with.
You're a superstar, at the gay bar.
You're a superstar, at the gay bar.
Yeah! you're a superstar, at the gay bar.
You're a superstar, at the gay bar.
Superstar.
Super, super, superstar

1. badly dubbed boy
I used to frequent gay/lesbian bars with my friends. Until last summer, in the height of my “not getting any” phase, I found myself surrounded by seven gorgeous women, all with tank tops and heaving cleavages. All of them lesbians, who knew I was straight, and were teasing me to buggery.
I haven’t been back since.
2. razorhead
“teasing me to buggery”, in a gay bar, that’s the general idea BDB.
3. Emchi
Ok so now the texts are making slightly more sense! and I thought I was having a bizarre Saturday…
4. Destructor
I got my butt pinched. My butt rules.
5. Princess of Darkness
“spade”
That’s one I haven’t heard for a loooooong time :)
6. Sarsparilla
”# All the gay blokes knew Dan and I were straight without question.”
Gay blokes wash more than straight blokes. That’s part of the straight-girl attraction.
:)
7. Adrian
I wash just fine thank you very much.
At least once a week. :-)
8. Carlos
I think (and I could be wrong with this) that girls feel less threatened by going to gay bars as they know that they are not going to be constantly hit on like they probably would be if they were in a regular chain bar/club. Admittedly this then leaves them a bit stuffed if they do decide that they want to pull as the pickings are then slim ;-)
9. Adrian
See i’ve heard that reason many times, but the girls didn’t look at all like they were there because they wanted less attention, but because they wanted more.
10. Green Fairy
There are different kinds of attention.
11. Alan Graham
It’s been yeeears since I was last in a gay bar. I used to go with my friend, while he sussed out the whole gay-bar scene for himself.
So, we quickly became known as the gay guy and his straight mate.
I got a bit tired of being mistaken as the gay guy! :(