Bachelorette parties "destroying LGBTQ+ safe spaces" in Provincetown

mmmm, maybe as dumb, but not even close to as threatening. And exactly the reason these women want to go to gay venues in the first place. This is doubly sad, one because they feel they need a place that is relatively safe from straight guys (yes, we suck) but two, and maybe more so, they just cannot get past their own privilege and end up ruining what they came there for in the first place. Sucks all around…

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That’s why you need more lesbians in the club.

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These women in the bachlorette parties want to go to gay bars because male strip clubs tend to charge more for those parties. I’m not saying all of the straight women at the gay club are like that, but the bachlorette parties are seeking one kind of action.

The straight regulars at a gay club are usually regulars, perfectly wonderful people who have their own reasons for coming, but they are regulars, not one off flash mobs.

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I say play the long game ,
step 1. mingle with them , chat them up find out where and when the wedding is to be held.
step 2. Crash the wedding by means of rick rolling
step 3. carry on and attempt to seduce the groom with romantic karaoke hits.

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Edit:
I wrote this thinking it was about banning heterosexual people, not hen nights. It has been a bad day so far, forgive me.

The false positive rate for bisexual people is far too high for that to be a real solution, and it is not helped by a small minority of biphobes who reject LGBTQI+ and want to go back to the days of Gay and Lesbian.

We need a solution, but that is not it.

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No worries, and yeah, I’m speaking of the group of thirty that show up all wearing matching clothes/dresses and stepping off the pedal tavern or out of the drinkybus straight into the gaybar.

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Maybe not

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I had a friend who owned a couple of AirBNBs in Savannah which is a big place for bachelorette parties. He said that they were all-but universally awful tenants - to the point where he attached a several hundred dollar glitter/confetti fee on the clean up. He was still finding penis confetti years later when he sold his two places.

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Glitter is truly the herpes of craft supplies.

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Better music, the men leave you alone… Plus queer women are just so nice when they hit on you.

Women need better options all around, but a bachelorette party at the gay bar just shows a lack of vision.

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Damned hetro agenda! Rubbing their “lifestyle” in everyone’s faces.

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My muddle brain expected this to be a Viagra Boys video. Rather a different vibe.

Edited for word order, and also to say that, having listened to both tracks earlier, it is the Venga Bus that has become my ear-worm.

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Ok, then. I didn’t know “penis confetti” existed.
Why don’t these boors just go to Vegas like normal people and get hotel rooms?

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Apropos…

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Very. The guy is local to there, so he may have been in P-town.

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Is that a gay bar?

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Provincetown, MA

You know someone who just went there for vacation. :grimacing:

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Oh. Well. Easy mistake to make :grimacing:

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This is NOT a new problem. As a gay from the Twin Cities, and an old one at that, I have distinct memories of the bachelorette parties coming through the one big gay bar in Minneapolis (The Gay 90’s) and basically being on their worst behavior and ruining the bar going experience as far back as the early 90’s. They show up already drunk, act like denizens of the bar are there for their amusement and would get very handsy. I have seen them groping guys who were not interested, force their way in-between men dancing together, and otherwise engage in borderline illegal activity.
Women, even straight white women, do very much deserve safe spaces in which they can cut loose, but that space should not come at the expense of the Queer community who often have no other choice but to be treated like zoo animals or not participate in public culture.

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They do. Nothing like a part bus full of drunk ladies pulling up in front of your favorite watering hole.

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