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Guerrilla Gay Bar - My new topic
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on August 22, 2008, 07:13:22 pm --- as long as it is done with respect and dignity.
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You just said a mouthful, Katie. Its amazing what one can accomplish if it is done with respect and dignity.
And thanks for sharing that story about the pub in your town. Back in the 80s, I was living in Bermuda. There were no gay bars there at the time (I don't think they have any now either). So everyone just went to whatever bar they liked best. Everyone got along just fine. If a guy was interested, he was interested. If not, he just said so. Pretty darn simple.
Milo
injest:
--- Quote from: Flashframe777 on August 13, 2008, 12:23:29 pm ---What do you guys think of this? I'm have joined Guerilla Gay Bar. But I've never actually participated in it yet. I may seem all political regarding gay rights, but I'm still not quite an activist. GGB is a secret event that happens once a month. Basically, group organizers send out a series of emails that hint at a meeting place on a specific night of the week. The last email informing everyone of the meeting place goes out a day or on the same day of the scheduled event. What happens on that evening is several hundred gay men and/or women show up at a straight/hetero establishment and turn it into a gay bar for the evening without warning. Cool, and just a tad scary. Would you participate?
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so with all this... :laugh: :laugh:
have you decided to take part?
we want to know what happened!!
optom3:
When I was back in England,there was a whole street of gay bars in Manchester (north England). They were incredibly popular with everyone, male,female,gay or straight.It gradually became known as the part of town to have a good time.In fact during the day it was just as busy, with the office folk who descended for a drink and sandwich.
The whole thing became part of the Manchester scene, with bands like The Verve, Blur and Oasis, and it seemed like Manchester, was the center of the world.
It was still going strong when I left England.I have been there with gay friends, male and female and straight too.I never had anything less than an amazing time.
I still can't get my head around the fact that the USA allegedly one of, if not the biggest super power in the world can be so backward in some areas.
Even in Greece, on the island of Santorini, fabulous bars and clubs, predominantly gay, but always with a mixed queue to get in.It seems to me that gays seem much better at having a good time than straights like me.Same goes for Ibetha, the club capital of the world.
Why is it so difficult here, to have the same situation.I cannot understand it.
What I have noticed is that way, way more people are church goers here, compared with most of Europe, yet we seem to be more tolerant.I wonder of there is a link there somewhere.
In the meantime check out Santorini for a holiday,a truly stunning island, famed for the best sunsets in the world, and with as many mixed bars/clubs as anyone could want.Ditto Ibetha.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: optom3 on August 26, 2008, 10:48:06 am ---I still can't get my head around the fact that the USA allegedly one of, if not the biggest super power in the world can be so backward in some areas.
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Oh, trust me.....it's backwards.
Even in the gay areas, bashings happen. Like this story of out club performer Kevin Aviance.
(Taken from Wikipedia) On June 10, 2006 while exiting the Phoenix, a popular gay bar located in the East Village, Manhattan, he was robbed and beaten by a group of men who yelled anti-gay slurs at him. Four suspects were arrested under New York's hate-crime law, but reports say up to seven men were involved in the attack. Despite suffering a broken jaw, he insisted on appearing in the city's gay pride parade later that month.
On March 21, 2007 all four assailants pled guilty, receiving prison sentences ranging from 6 to 15 years in plea agreements that included hate crimes embellishments. The four young men, who range in age from 17 to 21 years old, had faced up to 25 years each for the attack, had they been found guilty in a trial. All had been charged with gang assault as a hate crime.
oilgun:
I haven't read the article, for some reason, the link to the Vue article didn't work for me but I like the idea of the Guerrilla Gay Bar if only for nostalgic reasons.
It reminds me of back in the seventies (When porn was expensive and sex was free ;)) when it was the trend for (activist) gays to make Public Displays of Affection for political reasons. This basically consisted of holding hands or walking arm in arm and maybe some kissing.
They weren't organized events, just things we tried to do during our everyday lives when the occasion presented itself, such as walking around in public with another willing gay person. The idea was to normalise gay people (Yikes! The dreaded Gay Agenda!), to show that "we are everywhere". If we swarmed a bar or restaurant as a group, it was usually as a response to some anti-gay incident at that establishment.
I'm surprised that there would be a need for Guerrilla Gay Bars (sorry Milo, I love the name) in this day and age. But then we are talking Edmonton here. Alberta is basically the Texas of Canada... ;D
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