Belfast gay bar

**Gerrit** · 28/08/2005, 1:34 PM

I went to a gay bar yesterday for the first time... Unintended though!

I had friends over from Belgium and we wanted to enjoy a drink. Because the famous "The Crown" on Great Victoria Street was full, we looked for another place and thought we found a friendly wee pub. After a few minutes I started to notice many people sat on a table with someone of the same gender next to them. When the two boys on the table next to me started to give each other kisses, I got suspicious. When one of them put his leg in the pants of his friend (the bottom end luckily !) I knew for sure

The scariest part for this make-up wearing straight man was going to the bathroom

And I thought the Kremlin was the only local gay bar... This was a scary experience, and what are my Belgian friends gonna think of me when my visitors tell them I took them to a gay bar ??

**thejollyrodger** · 28/08/2005, 2:34 PM

Gerrit are you trying to tell us something here ?

**dcfcsteve** · 28/08/2005, 2:46 PM

Belfast drags itself into the 21st Century.

My God, what next - a gay bar in Derry...?

**Green Tribe** · 28/08/2005, 2:57 PM

Originally Posted by Gerrit

I went to a gay bar yesterday for the first time... Unintended though!

I had friends over from Belgium and we wanted to enjoy a drink. Because the famous "The Crown" on Great Victoria Street was full, we looked for another place and thought we found a friendly wee pub. After a few minutes I started to notice many people sat on a table with someone of the same gender next to them. When the two boys on the table next to me started to give each other kisses, I got suspicious. When one of them put his leg in the pants of his friend (the bottom end luckily !) I knew for sure

The scariest part for this make-up wearing straight man was going to the bathroom

And I thought the Kremlin was the only local gay bar... This was a scary experience, and what are my Belgian friends gonna think of me when my visitors tell them I took them to a gay bar ??

Pants Gerrit? I hope you mean trousers? Pants is a yankee word that can lead to some confusion here!

**Partizan** · 28/08/2005, 4:56 PM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

Belfast drags itself into the 21st Century.

My God, what next - a gay bar in Derry...?

The Brandywell Bar is long overdue a renovation. Maybe the landlord may decide to branch out.

**Macy** · 29/08/2005, 7:50 AM

You'll be okay, we all know that pink t shirts are the real sign of being gay, as discussed previously

**pete** · 29/08/2005, 9:58 AM

Originally Posted by Gerrit

When the two boys on the table next to me started to give each other kisses, I got suspicious.

You only became suspicious then? How many other clues did you need?

I don't know if its a new thing but seems popular to hang those rainbow flags outside what i assume are gay bars (either that or Greenpeace) so no accidental patrons.

**Drumcondra Red** · 29/08/2005, 12:14 PM

So what did the boyfriend think of it Gerrit???

**dahamsta** · 29/08/2005, 12:33 PM

I've been in several gay bars and clubs over the years and in many ways they beat the pants - pardon the expression - off "regular" bars. The staff are invariably much friendlier and better at their job, everyone's much more polite, and there's never a queue for the urinals cos they all want to use the cubicles (which is bizarre, since presumably they have to pee sometime). And you can use the Ladies if you like. I even got hit on in one in London, which was oddly flattering since it's never once happened to me in a straight bar. (Well, once, but by a bird uglier than the gay bloke. Seriously.)

The whole thing would nearly make you want to go over to the other side. However the idea of a big hairy fella standing behind me, telling me he loves me, is still somewhat of a problem for me. Now if guys had boobies, and vaginas, and less hair, and were more curvy, and did my washing, the job'd be OXO.

adam

**dcfcsteve** · 29/08/2005, 1:19 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

I've been in several gay bars and clubs over the years and in many ways they beat the pants - pardon the expression - off "regular" bars. The staff are invariably much friendlier and better at their job, everyone's much more polite, and there's never a queue for the urinals cos they all want to use the cubicles (which is bizarre, since presumably they have to pee sometime). And you can use the Ladies if you like. I even got hit on in one in London, which was oddly flattering since it's never once happened to me in a straight bar. (Well, once, but by a bird uglier than the gay bloke. Seriously.)

The whole thing would nearly make you want to go over to the other side. However the idea of a big hairy fella standing behind me, telling me he loves me, is still somewhat of a problem for me. Now if guys had boobies, and vaginas, and less hair, and were more curvy, and did my washing, the job'd be OXO.

adam

Sounds like you're in the market for a Thai ladyboy then Adam.... !