Are all Eagle bars the same...?

[Boy4]

A place where you can get up to some nonsense? And no one will bat an eye.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

No. Most US-based gay bars, even leather bars, have been fully, brutally sanitized.

 

I just had another awesome visit to CDMX (and Tom's Leather Bar), which made me think about what old-school gay bars must have been like. You have to go through a dark room to get to the bathrooms. It was a lot of fun. In fact, all of gay Mexico City was great.

[+ keroscenefire]

No. Most US-based gay bars, even leather bars, have been fully, brutally sanitized.

 

I just had another awesome visit to CDMX (and Tom's Leather Bar), which made me think about what old-school gay bars must have been like. You have to go through a dark room to get to the bathrooms. It was a lot of fun. In fact, all of gay Mexico City was great.

 

I went to a great one in Manchester, UK (also called The Eagle). Street level looked like a regular pub basically but two basement sections one a dark, blue and red lit dance space with a stage and dancefloor filled with writhing bears in leather vests and harnesses, very old school. The second space basically a straight-up fetish cruising area with St. Andrews cross rack, a bondage horse and other such things and then several TVs playing explicit bondage porn. It was pretty hot.

Edited October 15, 2019 by keroscenefire

[RM]

The patio is usually packed on Sunday afternoon at the Eagle in San Francisco. I've seen a few blow jobs there in broad daylight.

[Guest MikeThomas]

While not a leather bar in the true sense of the term, I did have a lot of fun in the back room at The Cock in New York last June.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Re: Eagles

 

I will say that the Eagle Blue in Tokyo was a fun place for a few drinks. Tokyo is one of the few cities in the world to have two Eagles.

[Shawn Monroe]

After the eagle in Houston burned down and they rebuilt it, it’s just a regular sterile gay bar now. MMC was the closest thing to an eagle there but it’s closed now too.

[hypothetically]

A place where you can get up to some nonsense? And no one will bat an eye.

 

Sadly, no.

[tsgarp]

Not to get too nostalgic (or off topic), but does anyone remember the fun times at The Works on the UWS in the '90s and '00s?

[Guest MikeThomas]

No. Most US-based gay bars, even leather bars, have been fully, brutally sanitized.

 

I just had another awesome visit to CDMX (and Tom's Leather Bar), which made me think about what old-school gay bars must have been like. You have to go through a dark room to get to the bathrooms. It was a lot of fun. In fact, all of gay Mexico City was great.

Sounds like a great source of material for a much needed blog update :-j

[InterestingGuy]

I haven’t been to any gay bar in a while. I imagine that these days it’s just a lot of guys staring down at their phones?

[Guest MikeThomas]

I haven’t been to any gay bar in a while. I imagine that these days it’s just a lot of guys staring down at their phones?

Yes... with their straight girl friends.

[InterestingGuy]

Lol. It really does just keep getting worse, huh?

[+ g56whiz]

Not to get too nostalgic (or off topic), but does anyone remember the fun times at The Works on the UWS in the '90s and '00s?

Yes. And before it was The Works it was an Irish bar called Dinty Moore’s. In the mid ‘70’s my employer was in the news constantly. I used to go out at midnight to get a bulldog edition of The NY Times to see if I was still employed. By the time I passed The Works on my way home, guys in various leather works were draped across the parked cars surrounding it. FYI the building across 78th Street from The Works was used for the exterior shots of the bathhouse that was the subject of the filmed version of Terrance McNally’s comedy The Ritz. By the time I migrated from the UWS a decade ago the space had been glassified and turned into a coffee bar devoid of the sit down comfort of the Sbux located 2 blocks to its north.