# You know it's a gay bar before you even go inside... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235 "2001-06-10T00:34:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235/61 "2001-06-12T08:14:39Z")
There is a Brass Rail in Greenville, TX that is not a gay bar. We DO have one of the ‘Mining Company’ variations in Dallas, The Throckmorton Mining Company. ---
**Author:** ![RocketHorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RocketHorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocketHorse)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235/62 "2001-06-12T13:45:36Z")
There’s a bar around here called the Loading Zone. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235/63 "2001-06-12T13:47:18Z")
(searches for a newish copy of HX, NYC’s premiere gay bar rag) Okay, let’s play Linnaeus here and categorize our Bar Names for Boy Nellies: **The Butch Names** : Rawhide, the Eagle (RIP), the Spike (RIP), the Manhole (RIP), Boots & Saddle, the Boiler Room, Montana Saloon, The Break (RIP), the Works, Hangar (although Flight 151 is straight), the Dugout, the Lure **The Pathetic Sex Pun Names** : Dick’s Bar, the Cock (with neon light of rooster), the Fat Cock (same owners), Tool Box, Splash **The Gay Unicorns-and-Rainbows-and-Crystals-and-Pride Barfabilia Names** : Stonewall (different location and owners from original), Oscar Wilde, Pegasus **The Come-On-Girls-We-All-Know-This-One! Names** : Marie’s Crisis, Stella’s, Don’t Tell Mama, Brandy’s Piano Bar, Julie’s Piano Bar, Eighty-Eights (RIP) **The What-Us-Gay? Names** : Townhouse, Regents, Ty’s, Julius’ Finally, we have the **Modern, Post-Gay** names: Two Potato, Chase, g (that’s right, just the single, lower-case letter), Liquids, B Bar/Beige, Hannah’s Lava Lounge, hell, Wonder Bar, Barracuda, Starlight 167, Crow Bar (RIP), Pyramid, Phoenix, Posh, Pieces, Blu, Bar d’O, Dusk, The Web, View, xl, Cake (RIP). Most of the newest places are single-syllable (Blu, Chase, g, View, Posh, Beige, hell, Dusk). ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235/64 "2001-06-12T14:08:54Z")
Don’t forget the **Named-After-A-Character-In-_Beaches_** category, as in Edinburgh’s very own **CC Blooms**. (Less of a club, more of a broom cupboard with music.) I strongly suspect that **Planet Out** , right next door to CC’s, may also have been frequented by a high proportion of homosexuals. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235/65 "2001-06-12T14:12:35Z")
\>There’s a bar in SF called “The Glory Hole”? News to me, and I’ve been here since before VCR’s. Do you mean “The Hole In The Wall”, which bills itself as a nasty little biker bar? And “All American Boy” is an overpriced little clothing store on Castro street. Maybe they serve drinks now! It was many years ago; perhaps I was misremembering. I do remember hearing about a bar called Glory Hole that had to change its name to GH; might not have been in SF though. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235/66 "2001-06-12T18:57:07Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **OxyMoron** _ > > Eighty-Eights (RIP) {sigh} What a fun place that was. Been to Hell, g, Splash - too crowded, too noisy. Is Mickey’s still around? > [@](#): > > The Web Mmmm… Asian boy bar… Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235/67 "2001-06-12T20:18:55Z")
Gaudy said: > [@](#): > > Although right in the heart of boystown there’s a place with a big sign out front that says “Michael’s: The Place for Games” and a picture of a youth (looks, hm, 15?) in a sailor outfit…and it appears to be an arcade, not at _all_ what I thought it was going to be. Even now I have trouble believing it’s really an arcade with a sign like that. Just wanted to point out that while the sign and name do certainly sound campy enough to be a gay bar, or at least not your basic gaming parlor, this is **not** in the heart of Boystown. It is however right in the meaty part of the sex shop/piercing studio/tattoo parlor/campy clothes and decor stores region of the Northside. I won’t argue that gay neighborhoods don’t tend to have alot of these stores, and North Halsted as a matter of fact is loaded with them, but this particular area is about 4 blocks from the stereotypical boystown. But then of course, this whole “gay neighborhood” thing isn’t an exact science. A couple of Chicago ones that Gaudy left off the list. **Girlbar** - Duh; **Cocktail** - Double Duh; **The Ram** - see the trend here?; As well as **Spin** and **Berlin** - these two aren’t real obvious, nor are they _completely_ gay; Finally **Roscoe’s** - its the rolling stereotype of everything gay, campy, flamboyant and taking itself seriously all the while, not straight friendly, and while Roscoe seems to be a gay name (just ask Homer) its on Roscoe St. and presumably named as such. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-its-a-gay-bar-before-you-even-go-inside/68235.md?page=3)