That leads to the fact that my city-Athens- doesn’t have a gay bar. He came back wearing a t shirt and I knew at that moment that I was going to do whatever I could to eventually go to a gar bar.Īs a man now firmly seated in my queerness, I have seen my fair share of gay bars. A friend of mine went there for his birthday but I was terrified to go so I didn’t. That was the days when Boneshakers was around. At that point gay was nothing more than a name that I had no identity for yet. Being gay was a target on my back that only led to promises of violence.
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Every day was a battle just to be able to go to class and exist in my skin and figure it out like everyone else. The life of a gay man for me was not something to be admired. And, at Babylon everyone was dancing and shirtless and covered in glitter and not reflecting anything that was going on in my small-town life. They all had to deal with being gay in a world that might not always get it,but the one thing that was certain is that at the end of the day, they would all end up at Babylon. Every Thursday, I would sit in the living room watching all these gay men trying to learn from them what it meant to be gay. The show Queer As Folk was on television. I had no space to be myself outside of my bedroom, where I would put on my Dad’s old sweatshirts and dance to the radio, waiting and wanting to be anywhere else.
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Peter particularly got into the gay scene (schmoozing with a whole group of gay dudes, getting interviewed by a TV crew doing a documentary and saying things on camera like “oh yeah I think it is all right for married guys in America to have an affair with a gay man” in his Scottish accent, etc.) During karaoke I sang a Garth Brooks song but I guess I didn’t do the most impressive asian country singer impression because no one was stuffing dollar bills down my pants, as was the case with Peter (who sang three Beatles song and sounded like the 5th Beatle.) Or maybe it was because I wasn’t rubbing my stomach or thrusting my pelvis like Peter.When I was growing up, being queer was not easy.
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(They did do karaoke at midnight, however.) Now, Peter the Scot was particularly excited by this (that we found ourselves in a gay bar in America) so we stayed. On Tuesday night we all went to a bar to do karaoke, though upon arriving we found out it was a… gay bar. So on Monday-Tuesday I met some other travelers (Bryce from NY and Liz and Peter from Scotland). I will very briefly tell you about one of them. I didn’t care for Atlanta that much though I had a few adventures out there.
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Here’s an email I sent out describing a rather interesting night: Much of Atlanta has no sidewalks or bicycle lanes, even in places where the roads were wide enough to have 6 car lanes. Traffic was definitely better than San Francisco’s, though Atlanta is decidedly less pedestrian friendly particularly outside of downtown and midtown. While my brief visit to Atlanta did not dispel these notions, I do have to say I never felt unsafe or threatened during the daytime in the downtown and midtown areas or The Underground (an underground mall). To compound matters, Atlanta is infamous for its sprawl.
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Indeed, its police chief has recently claimed that his city underreports crime and that Atlanta is actually the most dangerous city in the U.S.
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