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I understand why everyone wants to go to the gay bar! It’s fun, it’s full of pretty rainbows, there lots of sequins and the rare vibrations of unrepressed sexual energy! Who wouldn’t want to go to the gay bar? It’s where I came of age, accepted my sexuality and became comfortable in my skin. The friends I’ve made inside the four walls of the gay bar are my family. It’s where I locked eyes with a woman for the first time. What I do mind is when straight people enter the queer territory and disrespect it.After all the gay bar is our church. I know certain queer people who prefer heterosexuals don’t attend gay events, but I’m not really one of them. And please, allow me to disclaim (though I’m pretty tired of disclaiming, disclaiming, disclaiming, aren’t you, girls?): I don’t mind straight people in queer spaces.
“Stop hetero hating!” I can hear some of you scream through the static of the computer screen. The kind of mayhem I try to avoid by going to the gay bar to begin with. And not the same kind of havoc we queer kittens get into, a different kind of mayhem. I’ll be dancing my problems away in the sanctity of the gay bay when suddenly an army of straight people will burst through the doors and wreak havoc. It had been happening more often than usual, not just in Fire Island but in the city too. My tired eyes had borne witness to this scene one too many times, babes. The vibe had gone from free-spirited and safe, to suddenly unpredictable and scary. I crossed my arms and huffed and puffed as the whole pile of them proceeded to man spread their board-short-clad legs in the center of the bar (the mature lesbian territory!). I sighed into the thick, humid air as I watched another bro pretend to be disgusted by a gay boy strutting across the bar in a tiny cherry-red speedo. I found myself suddenly craving a cigarette as I watched a tall boy creature sporting a backward baseball cap aggressively hit on a young lesbian couple. Had our safe, cozy, gay bar been highjacked by a group of drunken straight boys? Just like that, my brief moment of unabashed queer joy had was knocked out of my fingers and lay broken on the ash-laden bar floor. “MAKE OUT!” The crew roared in perfect unison, collective wild looks in their red eyes, their sunburnt shoulders stiff and tense as they stared hungrily in our direction.Īnd BAM. We were suddenly surrounded by a group of seemingly heterosexual men, jeering at us. “MAKE OUT!” a male voice roared behind me. We’ve earned it.”īefore I had the chance to finish my sentence I was interrupted by the devilish tickle of nicotine breath dancing across my vulnerable, bare shoulders. She smiled and took in the scene.”Well, when you’ve been bullied, beaten-up and shamed in silence your entire life, it feels good to come out the other side. “There’s just something magical about gay energy.” I drunkenly purred to Meghan as I gulped down the remains of my drink. A leather-bikini-clad girl in her mid-thirties stood all by herself, facing the glorious bay minding her own business, squinting into the teal blue sky. A deeply tanned gay boy couple leaned up against the wall by the bathrooms, batting their flirty long lashes at each other.
A drag queen extraordinaire performed back-to-back covers of feel good pop songs, her sky high wig gracing the clouds with its sugar-pink synthetic prowess. More mature lesbians held court in the center of the bar, flicking their ciggies, gossiping with old friends they hadn’t seen since labor day weekend 2016. The place was teeming with all kinds of queers baby lesbians with their cute, little, half-shaved haircuts confidently clutched sweaty hands and exchanged intoxicated kisses with their equally green girlfriends. We were sucking back mudslides whilst indulging in the palpable gay-energy at our favorite bar, an outdoor haunt, that overlooks a healthy mass of sparkly seaside. If you say you’re okay I’m gonna heal you anyway ??Ī post shared by Zara Barrie on at 5:08pm PDT