Making out in a gay bar

Something that has categorically shifted in our community due to this pandemic is the gay bar scene. Even ones that have reopened recently have a completely different vibe.

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I visited a popular gay bar in my hometown of New York City last month that before COVID was packed every single night with hundreds of handsome gay men. Now you are seated with dividers up in between each table where the capacity looks to be about 30 people at a time plus they put you on a waiting list for said seating arrangement.

But it is what it is, at least for now. I never thought there would be a day where gay bars would transform into something like this but its a problem that its owners are not in control of. But I digress…. There is hope that we will go back to where we once were, even if it is a new normal kind of situation.

The memories I have in many of these places are still in my mind anytime I think of going back to one of them. They happened pre-COVID, of course, and took place much more freely compared to the new gay set in place for now. And I know many of you can relate to at least one of them.

Lots of Kissing. I had my second first kiss at a gay bar. Which leads me to my next point…. Many legendary hotspots have been the place for us to do something beyond a kiss. Those poor floors and walls though. Crowds… But Make It Fashion. Although annoying to some a crowded gay bar can bar mean something wonderful to others.

Now move the hell out of my way so I can making my jack and coke, sir. All Types of Shows! The idea of going to a drag brunch now and sipping out a delicious cocktail while some fabulous drag performer lip syncs to a Spice Girls track is very tempting but unrealistic at the moment. Gay bars thrived on these sorts of things, whether its drag talent or go-go dancers shaking their thing for our viewing pleasure.

This is the opinion of one contributing writer and not that of Instinct Magazine or other contributing writers.