Give away gay bars...

Let's do this bar-by-bar, one-by-one. Let's start with the Midnight Sun in SF, raze that piece of shit to the ground -- but slowly ... maybe celebrating as each video monitor is crushed and every old episode of "Designing Women" and "Will and Grace" is shredded. Allow the aroma of overpriced and garish cologne to waft freely away. Hear the crunch and crackle of the glassware, no longer needed to serve cosmopolitans or apple-tinis. Allow the wind to blow away the years and years of stale conversation, celebrity worship and idle gossip. Poof. Gone.

Well I vote for Rage and Micky's In WEHO!! They are long over due for a change, those young twinks think they were the other gay boys ever to go to the bars, Ove priced, wated down drinks, Stick up pretty boys for days, too loud music you can't even hear what they are singing anyway.

I can't stand gay bars - why do they gotta be so cliche'?? glitter, feather,s neon colours, rainbow flags, photos of drag queens and liza minelli, ok some people like that stuff, but if i wanna go for a drink can i not sit in a decent bar with nice lighting, a laid back atmosphere and friendly people? apparently not - as the minute u get in there you're faced with pouty rancid attitude engorged bitches ripping everyone and everything to shreds in some vain attempt to not secretly hate them selves so much. I'm happy with who I am, i'm just a guy who happens to like other guys, difference is it doesn't have to take over my life. it's kinda about time gay people made being gay as important as straight people make being straight - ie: its another small part of u - not your whole life.

I think it really funny that the thread starts off with 'give away gay bars' and then down the line peolpe are just talking about all the gay bars that they want to keep; the message here to me is fix some gay bars change 'OUR' gay scene.
I know that a lot of gay bars that I have been to: especially those in the gay village, were often...stereotypical. At a time in my life that was all I wanted. I come from a very small town and that scene was important to me, important acuse it was all I knew to look for, and important as a launching pad for the really cool queer spaces I now enjoy; i.e the Dufferin in Vancouver B.C which is very much part of the gay scence.
I am all for, what I believe is the underlying message, get rid of the gay, gay, gay, staple [(rainbow anything, Liza, and black and whites of what I am told is supposed to be two beautiful boys making out (Not! Just more staples)], but we need some, or at least one. Call them museums, or our new and improved bar ancestors, whatever, we all need a space for all styles, just like I need a new non-glory to gaylordy lordy lord glitter gash sites that make me tap to Danny Tenaglia remixes of Madonna, THAT I HAVE BEEN HEARING FOR FIVE YEARS!!!
No gay bar genocide, just a little homocentric cleansing,... or is that too one sided.

Yeah, like The Business says -- SMASH THE DISCOS!!!!!!!!

The last time I set foot in a Gay bar, was almost a yera ago, and that was for my mate floss B'day. Before that it would of been years.

I just did not fit in at all. I could not even get drunk..........

My garden is a acre, with it's very own gazbo. So I am more than happy to sit in it, and dance with marry jane.

But thne I am also an old fag, of 43. (pension card is in the mail.) so were do us old fella's go!

I think we kinda missed the point on this one. The theme of the tribe is about giving away things that no longer work for us. The original post'er was complete on the mark.

Gay bars do not work for too many reasons. 1. Alcohol and drug abuse in the gay community has skyrocketed, 2. Lewd, uncomfortable, invasive behavior that would not be tolerated anywhere else, is the norm 3. Attitudes, games and the lack of a fresh perspective predominate the scene

If you think about what makes going out fun it's really hanging with your friends, meeting new people and having a mix of personalities in the place. That doesn't happen in gay bars because it's all the same people who are all the same (gay men).

I go to gay bars in town (my friends work there/mange/own them) but we're lucky enough here to have a few mixed bars (gay/str8) and a good dance club (str8) but they have drag and homo's are welcome!

I think it's time we give away gay bars and get some good dance clubs (which if true to their nature are 100% gay friendly) and ultra-lounges. Let's hang with the dykes, let's dance with the heteros! Who knows you might have fun!

Btw, I didn't forget the leather guys. If we have to have a leather bar let it be like the Eagle in Columbus, which looks like a combination of alternative dance club / darque ultra lounge.