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Old-school gay bar names
The Manhole
The Back Door
The Ramrod
The Tool Shed
The Mineshaft
The Glory Hole
The Mud Hole
Members Only
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Actual gay bars in Chicago:
Jackhammer
Manhole
Cocktail (snicker)
Buck's Saloon
InnExile
Closet (I think that one's lesbian, actually.)
Manhandler
Maneuvers
Touche
And the one I didn't know until just now is a gay bar: The Wild Pug. Not that it's a particularly punny or old-school name, I've just loved their sign for ages.
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Really? The Mud Hole? How about "The Shitty Anus?"Originally posted by elmwood
I used to live in a tiny town with a NON-gay bar named "The Loading Chute." Sounds vaguely gay to me...
The Blue Oyster Bar
The Lancer
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Not quite as...graphic...as some of these, but there's one in Malibu (maybe Pacific Palisades) whose facade is built and decorated to look like a ship, and it's called "The S.S. Friendship." I always thought that was gayer than gay.
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Hmmm... I wonder who resurrected Touche? The original was destroyed in a fire, somewhere around 1989 or so. I'm pretty sure AA Meat Market and Deeks are gone.
There are so many bars called the Eagle across the country, that it almost seems like a franchise.
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There used to be a bar in California, on the Monterey peninsula, called the Gilded Cage.
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Dunno. It's been open - well, wait, there's been a sign out front and people inside it drinking and out back in the alley having sex - ever since I started working right around the corner in '99.
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering. Stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it.
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The I-Beam
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Dick's Dirty Den.
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To that, I'll add ..
The Male Slot
Bottoms Up
The Docking Station
The Junk Yard
The San Francisco Deep Mining and Drilling Company
NTTAWWT.
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I did some remodel work in a gay bar in Des Moines IA called The Blue Goose
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Here in Nashville used to be The Chute, pretty close to where I live. Story goes that they turned away Boy George at the door, for lack of proper I.D.
Just a guy made of dots and lines.
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Gay bar or steakhouse?
Longhorn
Outback
Wildrose
Fox & Hound
Bull Pen
Sidewinders Ranch
Million Dollar Cowboy
Butcher Shop
The Brick
Altitude
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The Blue Oyster.
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Until very recently, there was one near me called the Nutbush.
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I bet it's full of seamen...
There's a gay bar in Erie called The Silver Slipper (the original magical shoes in the book version of the Wizard of Oz were silver, not ruby).
The bar in Altoona, PA, (my hometown gay bar) was originally called the LaPierre. It's now called the Escapade.
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Legend has it there was once a bar is SF called the White Swallow.
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The White Swallow was at 1750 Polk Street, and is now called Bigfoot Lodge.
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Given how popular Yeti is in the gay community, it must still be a gay bar.
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You know what they say about a guy with big feet...Given how popular Yeti is in the gay community, it must still be a gay bar.
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Actual bar in Philadelphia:
The 12th Air Command - "Headquarters for Men"
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Big shoes.You know what they say about a guy with big feet...Given how popular Yeti is in the gay community, it must still be a gay bar.
Joe
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Throckmorton Mining Company
Crew's In
Both in Dallas.
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How about the Inn & Out?
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There was an infamous gay bar in Laguna Beach, CA, called The Little Shrimp. Gone now, sadly...
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There's one here in Denver called Boyz Town. I giggle like a little girl whenever I drive by.
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The Pendulum
Rawhide
Bottom's Up
All in SF
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Toronto's St. Charles' Tavern (now closed)
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