Gay club dark room
A few years ago, I frequented a gay cinema in the East Village called the Bijou. It was hidden behind an unmarked black door debased by graffiti, easy to miss unless you were looking. After 8PM, a Puerto Rican drug dealer who claimed to hold the best coke Downtown loitered out front. You had to pass him and ring a doorbell to be buzzed in.
Inside were hideous orange walls and a stairway that descended into a petty movie theater where they mostly played 2000s rom-coms and animated films. Once, I watched half of Ice Age 2 there, but it was unachievable to focus over the sounds of moaning men, most of them older and white, who gave each other hand jobs in the seats. Behind the seating area were about half a dozen stalls that smelled of unwashed balls where people went in to fuck. If you cruised through the dark hallway behind enough, someone would graze your crotch and encourage you in with a nod. Recently, I felt nostalgic for the Bijou and tried to depart back, only to locate out it had closed permanently in 2019.
The Bijou was an emblem of a pre-pandemic New York when cruising was confined to cum-filled basements and obscure sex parties you had to learn via word of mouth. But in the y
The allure of a obscure room lies in its lighting – it should be dark, but not too dark. Ideally, you won’t recognise the cashier from your local Tesco Metro, but you will be able to craft out a sweaty throng of bodies in positions you’d normally only view on OnlyFans. Dark rooms have been a outline in queer spaces for decades and remain de rigueur in other, friskier parts of Europe. Lay it this way: It’s a rookie error to wear your best shoes to Berlin’s famously bohemian superclub Berghain, because you’ll just have to chuck them away after you leave seven hours later.
But now, dark rooms are enjoying a long overdue boom in the UK, especially among MSM (men who have sex with men). “Essentially, the reason they’re becoming popular again is a supply and demand issue,” says Ian Howley, CEO of health and wellbeing charity LGBT HERO. “Gay men yearn a place where they can have fun, and a dark room in a club can be the perfect place to let go of your inhibitions and be sexually free.”
This new wave of gay sex-positivity is organism fuelled partly by post-pandemic carpe diem – we now know there’s no point saving your “any hole’
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Gay culture has many exciting features, including the infamous gay black room – a place steeped in myths, half-truths and history. A place that holds a particular place in the hearts of many a same-sex attracted men, but is so often misunderstood by those in our community (and the outside world). So, let us out for you exactly what a gay dark room is…
A dark room or dark room is a room where consenting gay men go to have prudent mind-blowing sex. Dark rooms are exciting places establish only in gay bars, saunas, and clubs, most frequently in Europe (but by no means exclusively). They are great cruising spot that provides partygoers with refreshing wild, and often uninhibited sex. Male lover dark rooms are as tempestuous as they come; group sex, orgies, gangbangs, and all manner of gay kinks are often on the menu.
Typically, one would expect a dark room to be pitch black or dim light. Most times, they are dimly lit, so you can barely build out the frame of a person’s body. But dark rooms sometimes are
What's the sleaziest gay exclude you've ever been to?
Which bar? Why was it so sleazy - did you partake in whatever sleaziness?
| by Anonymous | reply 233 | December 17, 2023 10:31 AM |
J's in the Village, assist in the day.
Yeah, I put on a short-lived show with the guy I was dating. I was a little bit of a ho.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 20, 2022 9:58 PM |
You might find this thread of interest.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 20, 2022 9:58 PM |
You might come across this thread of interest as well.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 20, 2022 9:59 PM |
Oh, but 'sleaziest' isn't 'worst'. Not by a long-shot.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 20, 2022 10:00 PM |
Rawhide in New Orleans way support in the day - no idea if it's still fun.
The sleaziest lgbtq+ bars overall for me were in Berlin. I can't remember any of the names, though!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 20, 2022 10:01 PM |
The Cock or The Eagle
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 20, 2022 10:01 PM |
The one Miss Lindz runs out of his basement
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 20, 2022 10:02 PM |
CXR in London. The toilets in there were legendary.
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