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Originally Posted by Medusa

. Our club owner then informed me that the famed "Buddies" in Dallas, Texas recently closed. Color me flabbergasted! (some of you might remember Buddies from the B-F bash in Dallas a few years back).


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I went out last night to a queer dance party. Joe and I are very active in our community. I am a queer stand-up comic and also work for the local GLBT newspaper. I can see where the trend is leaving from the local glbt watering hole.

I lived in Dallas. Buddies had watered down their drinks for a good long time. I had a couple of friends who came to Buddies one night after drinking at dinner. 4 hours later they left more sober than when they showed up.

The issue is that our bars aren't used to competition. They are used to being the social outlet for all of queerdom, and now with the internet and random gay parties and the like, people don't just want to go to the same bar that has the same DJ and the same people week after week. These owners (at least in the places I've lived) are not proactive enough in doing things to bring people in and then they whine about the business not being busy enough. As if hanging a rainbow flag outside is enough to just get the gays coming in droves.

Oh god, and you can have the Wild Rose. That's boredom mixed mixed with liquor. I'd probably f**k someone in the bathroom to say that I'd done something in that bar.