Guerilla Queer Bar Takeover
“In Washington, where nightlife is often stratified by race, income and sexual orientation, the Guerilla Queer Bar Takeover events are one of the boldest experiments in recent memory: Mix a few hundred gay and straight patrons in a small space, add music and alcohol and see what happens. The formula is simple: On the third Friday of the month, a group of gay men and lesbians descends on an otherwise ’straight’ bar for the night. They dance, they drink, they interact with the regular clientele. ‘The intent is that you go places where you don’t usually go,’ organizer Karl Jones says. ‘We see it as a great opportunity to mingle with other types of people. Straight people don’t go to gay bars because they might feel uncomfortable,’ so the group takes the initiative.” —Washington Post (US)
(Thanks to A2K for the link and the accompanying ironic comment: “Larger scale operations will follow and soon they’ll have control of EVERYTHING. Just as the esoteric shadow goverment was planning all along, I’m sure.”)
Gays and lesbians have become such an increasingly visible part of mainstream culture that it doesn’t seem so surprising they should invade “straight” bars. In fact, you have to wonder if that division between straight and gay bars might even break down someday, the same as the color barrier broke down in the 1960s. Blacks don’t have to sit in the back of the bus anymore. Maybe gays won’t have to congregate in their own watering holes in the future. People will go to bars not because of the sexual orientation of the clientele but because the place serves cheap drinks or has good music or whatever.
That being said, though, you do have to wonder one thing: imagine what would happen if large groups of straight people organized evenings where they invaded gay bars. You can only think that the regular clientele would raise a ruckus about it. The reaction wouldn’t be “Isn’t this great that we’re mixing and meeting different types of people?” Rather, there would be an outcry something like “How dare these people oppress us by taking over our communal space?”
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