I saw this come through on e-mail tonight... what do you'll think about it?
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GAY NEWS BLOG: 11/03
Gay clubs put on extinction list?
Some queens have complained for decades about the gay nightlife scene being tired, but a business website recently went one step further by placing gay bars and nightclubs on the brink of extinction, predicting they'll become relics of the past by 2017.
Gay clubs were placed on an endangered species list alongside piggy banks, pay phones and record stores as part of Entrepreneur.com's "10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years."
"Around the country, gay bars have been going out of business as gay men and women have been gaining greater acceptance in society," states the article, which also appeared on AOL's small business website. "What used to be a hangout for people who felt unwelcome elsewhere is becoming less necessary.
"When gauging the gay bar industry's "odds of survival in 10 years," the website quips: "As with many industries, the very best of them will endure; the rest won't."
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Interesting, but they're still going strong in Nashville. Guess the South always is behind the rest of the country.
There is a huge need for gay clubs in the south and in the Bible Belt, where homosexuality still isn't being accepted as readily as it is elsewhere. Hopefully, one day we will live in a nation where homosexuality isn't something one must hide, nor something that one can only present comfortably in the bounds of a club.
I think the website that posted this is totally wrong. There will always be a need for homosexuals to go to bars and have fun with our peers. At most bars, you never know who is heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, etc., and that can get you injured or killed. I enjoy seeing Drag Queens; I just think that most gay bars today are old and rundown (except for the new and wonderful Adonis near Cincinnati). We just need some new bars, or current ownership at most gay bars should invest some money to update their appearances.
I think the website that posted this is totally wrong. There will always be a need for homosexuals to go to bars and have fun with our peers. At most bars, you never know who is heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, etc., and that can get you injured or killed. I enjoy seeing Drag Queens; I just think that most gay bars today are old and rundown (except for the new and wonderful Adonis near Cincinnati). We just need some new bars, or current ownership at most gay bars should invest some money to update their appearances.
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