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November 21, 2011

A Girl’s Guide To Attending A Gay Bar

The relationship between girls and gay bars (male-only crowd, for our purposes) is fraught at best. While treatment of queer women at such establishments is another article entirely, a gaggle of straight women in one of “our” spaces can provoke confusion and intolerance on both sides.

Zack Rosen (of the now-defunk The New Gay) breaks down some rules for women who like to cruise gay bars [or as they are referred to here in DC, “bars that cater to the neighborhood”].

  1. obviouslyeddy reblogged this from notean and added:
    oh yeah, I love this. kind of.
  2. notean reblogged this from imwithkanye and added:
    hags, take notes.
  3. newboldcub reblogged this from hoonspoon
  4. nailtipflips said: I AM FUCKING SICK OF THESE FUCKING “dear str8girls you suck unless you’re a hag” diatribes. Seriously.
  5. binxbolling reblogged this from imwithkanye and added:
    And if you take away one thing from this article, let it be this: keep your fucking bachelorette party out of our bars....
  6. oddsonfavorite reblogged this from imwithkanye and added:
    I enjoyed this article, but I almost never go to gay bars anyway. Maybe I should…
  7. paraespanolmarquedos reblogged this from redrunningfox and added:
    “And if you take away one thing from this article, let it be this: keep your fucking bachelorette party out of our bars....
  8. redrunningfox reblogged this from imwithkanye and added:
    I know so many people who need to read this.
  9. notnadia said: The rule about being a hetero lady in a gay bar is that you are always the wingman. Wingman rules (and their non-interference clauses) are universal. Wingperson?
  10. hoonspoon reblogged this from imwithkanye and added:
    TRUTH.
  11. chrstopher said: Quite possibly the best line from this article: “No matter how much I’ve been enjoying your company (or pretending to), when the Zachary Quinto look-alike smiles at me I’ll be off like a condom at a meth party.”
  12. lafraudebelle reblogged this from imwithkanye and added:
    love this. but gay bars in dc all bars in dc are shit.
  13. elledeau said: One of the best nights of my social life was @ JRs on broadway night awhile back. I wasn’t with a gaggle of straight women, but one gay male friend. Needless to say you haven’t lived until you’ve sung “I feel pretty” in a room full of drunk gay men.
  14. imwithkanye posted this

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