I Take It They Are Not Worried About Housing Then.

[webbo3]

there is a housing shortage in London, so instead of a pub they can make a few flats for the residents of Grenfell to move into if they want it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4763298/London-planners-insist-new-flats-gay-bar.html


Dave.

[-Talbot-]

It's true ... I was in a cab and the cab driver told me that these days ... say you're not gay and you get arrested and thrown in jail.

[Mamyalynne]

Ah but these days....

[david small]

Homosexuality will one day become mandatory:}

[Mamyalynne]

Have you got a date for that?

[Peter Pedant]

Am I right in thinking we have had fifty or so contributions from dear sweet knowledgeable articulate AOG on what it is like to go and drink in a gay bar ....
when he has never been in one ?

ZM - tell me that that is tosh

[douglas9401]

Bars are supposed to be places of entertainment, the gayer the better say I, forsooth and zounds.

[douglas9401]

"Homosexuality will one day become mandatory:}"

Then where better a place to go for a man date?

[ummmm]

I love gay bars. So much fun, a room full of happy people who don't judge anyone.

[jno]

Homosexuality will one day become mandatory

I swear I hadn't heard that line since 1972. I thought it had gone the way of the dinosaur .

[trt]

## I love gay bars. So much fun, a room full of happy people who don't judge anyone. ##

I agree Ummmm.
When I was about 22ish, I used to work as a waiter above the Rembrandt Hotel pub in Canal St Manchester.

The bar downstairs was always packed out, and never any trouble, drunkish yes, but no fights, like today's heterosexual bars.

[EDDIE51]

sp1814 I did once walk into a 'Gay' bar by mistake. Every other customer was male had a beard and black leather clothes, they looked like contestants in a Village People look alike contest. They stared at me and I felt very unwelcome. I had one quick drink and left. I was careful not to drop a £1 coin as I would have had to kick it 50 yards down the road before I would dare to bend over to pick it up! ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

You been dusted off your Grandfather's joke book Eddie?


:-)

[Mamyalynne]

^ dusting

[EDDIE51]

Not quite Grandfathers but I did first hear that one in 1982, I remember it as someone came up with it at my 31st birthday. I was in a Bar in Bahrain.

[anotheoldgit]

Peter Pedant
/// Am I right in thinking we have had fifty or so contributions from dear sweet knowledgeable articulate AOG on what it is like to go and drink in a gay bar ....
when he has never been in
one ? ///

/// ZM - tell me that that is
tosh ///

Why ask ZM I will tell you that is absolute tosh.

My scant knowledge of gay bars has been gathered from sp1814's descriptions, and as a self confessed gay person I think that he would know.

[sp1814]

AOG

I am not 'self confessed'.

People now do not confess to being gay. They confirm it. People normally confess to something that is bad or that they are ashamed of.

Neither of those things apply.

By the way - do you get my point about one of the primary reasons for gay bars is to provide a meeting place where young gay people chat each other up, same as straight bars (and in older times dancehall)?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

No such places as Straight Bars, they don't discriminate, everyone is welcome.

Try one sometime, no one will bat an eyelid.

[sp1814]

AOG

Do you get my point about one of the primary reasons for gay bars is to provide a meeting place where young gay people chat each other up, same as regular bars (and in older times dancehalls)?

[Cloverjo]

I hope oldies are allowed in, too. I've just been catching up on this thread, and I keep reading about young gay people being able to meet each other etc. I'm neither young nor gay but I might want want to have a drink and a chat, would I be allowed in? :)

[sp1814]

Of course Cloverjo, but older people generally don't go to bars and clubs that play loud EDM.