itt 100 gay bar names (fake is OK)

inspired by Dr. Morbius

1. The Ramrod

2. the cock
3. the hole

I thought you were joking about the second one!

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/12080/

4. the oil change

5. Pump

6 - that bar they kept tricking that guy into going to in the hilarious Police Academy series

6. The Toolbox

7? - The Penis Metaphor

The Dark Lady (Providence)

only pvd gay bar name worth mentioning imo, not too many inspired names here

xp oh no, the cock is very much a real thing

9. paresis hall (unofficial name of a gay bar/brothel from the late 1890's that used to be on cooper square)

though i think there used to be one called The Fife and Drum iirc

6 - that bar they kept tricking that guy into going to in the hilarious Police Academy series

Sez Wikipedia: The Blue Oyster Bar

and the guy was Sgt. Mauser!

synchronicity!

Good lord, the full description:

The bar is a stereotypical depiction of a leathermen's/bear gay bar, featuring patrons dressed up as bikers in leather clothing, police officers, sailors, and other stereotypical masculine gay fashion archetypes. The Blue Oyster was originally located on Howell St. in the first movie but was relocated to 655 Cowan Ave. in the second (Proctor erroneosly gives the address number as 621).

Within the Police Academy film series, unsuspecting characters periodically enter the bar unaware of its nature (this usually happens as a prank by the lead characters). Once inside, a group of patrons are depicted as leering towards the police officers and ready to force the frightened victims to dance with them, invariably to a tango called "El Bimbo", a 1972 hit from Bimbo Jet.

The Blue Oyster Bar only appeared in the first four Police Academy movies. Among those lured into the place were...

* Cadets Blankes and Copeland (twice in the first movie; once intentionally by Mahoney, once accidentally in order to avoid rioters)
* Sweetchuck (as a civilian in the second movie as he tries to evade Zed's gang, although he manages to escape after a brief tango)
* Mahoney (in the second movie as he fails to put down a bar-room brawl between Zed's gang and the patrons - the brawl was singlehandedly brought to an end by Hightower)
* Proctor (in the third and fourth movies)
* Captain Harris (in the fourth movie)
* Com. Eric Lassard (in the sixth movie)

In the animated series, the bar did not appear, but he is substituite by Crime Club.

Within the Police Academy film series, unsuspecting characters periodically enter the bar unaware of its nature (this usually happens as a prank by the lead characters). Once inside, a group of patrons are depicted as leering towards the police officers and ready to force the frightened victims to dance with them, invariably to a tango called "El Bimbo", a 1972 hit from Bimbo Jet.

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x-post LOL

WTF, there's a PA animated series?!

SLC edition:

10. Try-Angles
11. The Trapp Door
12. Paper Moon

the bars are even shittier than the names!

The Blue Oyster Bar only appeared in the first four Police Academy movies. Among those lured into the place were...

[...]
* Com. Eric Lassard (in the sixth movie)

um

WTF, there's a PA animated series?!

Trust me, I'm equally shocked.

In the animated series, the bar did not appear, but he is substituite by Crime Club.

my favorite name is "reflections," in halifax i think. that's very funny to me.

Okay I just went to the Wikipedia page for the animated PA series and:

The show placed chronologymentully between the fourth and the fifth movie of the film series.

That...that is a misspelling for the ages.

Mahoney's friends include the aptly named Moses Hightower

wtf at this

there is a 'reflections' in providence but it is a horrible gay coffeeshop, also the site of maybe half of all pvd m4m missed connections

yup. xp

chronologymentully

^^^ a word left over from a script for ST:TAS?

Some episodes feature a crime boss named Kingpin. His keen intelligence, girth, and stature are very similar to the Marvel Comics character of the same name. New characters were added to the show as well. Among them were a group of talking police dogs called the Canine Corps. They were made up of Samson (the bulldog leader), Lobo ( the noble yet clumsy husky), Bonehead (the dimwitted giant St. Bernard), Chilipepper (the excitable chihuahua), and Schitzy (the only female golden retriever with an identity crisis).

Okay it needs its own thread:

The Police Academy animated series

Moby Dick's by 18th and Castro

The Everlasting Gobstopper

J. Wags

Homo Social

GG's Speakeasy

(to get in you have to knock and tell the doorman that you are a friend of Dorothy's)

http://www.cafefernando.com/images/goldengirlsall.jpg

hey that was a picture of the golden girls!

http://www.smudailymustang.com/Images/uploads/goldengirlsbig1.jpg

also:

Cafe Fernando

had some time to kill in chicago and went into the closest place with a old style sign out front. it was called the anvil. didn't realize it was a gay bar until after my second beer. looked around and suddenly noticed all the tom of finland prints. oh, and the giant phallus hanging above the restroom.

J. Wags

― Trip Maker, Monday, June 29, 2009 1:19 PM (5 minutes ago)

RIP a true classic

other locals:
Backstreet
The Pumping Station (RIP also)
The Pipeline
Mary's

12th Air Command in philly was always a lovely spot.

http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/22901682.jpg

monday is mingle night!

http://www.12thair.com/index_mon.html

The Baron and Baroness.

The Polo Lounge.

The Gauntlet II (RIP)

Sons and Lovers

The Blue Oyster was originally located on Howell St. in the first movie but was relocated to 655 Cowan Ave. in the second (Proctor erroneosly gives the address number as 621).

sure, be all anal about the street address of THE BLUE OYSTER BAR FROM THE POLICE ACADEMY MOVIES but spell "erroneously" wrong.

In every city...The Eagle

In Tulsa OK:

The Renegade
The Yellow Brick Road

rehoboth beach has:

Partners
Double L (bear/leather)
Blue Moon
Purple Parrot

Chicago:
13 (?) The Manhole (Is no more. David Sedaris wrote an essay that mentioned it.)
14 The Manhandler.

had some time to kill in chicago and went into the closest place with a old style sign out front. it was called the anvil. didn't realize it was a gay bar until after my second beer. looked around and suddenly noticed all the tom of finland prints. oh, and the giant phallus hanging above the restroom.

― andrew m., Monday, June 29, 2009 1:26 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Granville Anvil! What a filthy, inexpensive place. Full of possibly creepy, definitely dirty, old men.

15. Also Chicago: The Closet (lesbian)

Tuomas, is there a Tom of Finland thing in Finland?

This one replaced a legendary older gay bar called H2O, was later replaced by a third bar called Stuff

Remembering what you said about Finnish movie titles, shouldn't that have been "Hey! We're Stuffing!"

Well, there are of course some Tom of Finland inspired leather gay guys, but not as many as you'd think. I think Tom of Finland and the style he inspired has always been more popular outside Finland than in here. Before the 1990s he was practically unknown here beyond gay circles, but in the early 90she got some attention due to a documentary that was made about him just before he died, and due to a few books that collected his works coming out. (Btw, that's a great documentary, everyone should see it!) He did get a big exhibition a few years ago at a Helsinki city owned museum/gallery, and I think even the official art circles now admit that he is probably the most influential Finnish visual artist ever.

Driving Miss Daisy

^^^ winner

Neither exist (as far as I know)

Flaming 'Mo's

and for latin/communist themed bar: Ghe Chevara's

The Granville Anvil! What a filthy, inexpensive place. Full of possibly creepy, definitely dirty, old men.

haha that's the one. i failed to mention that shamefully it was well before noon. there were about 4 quite elderly guys in there.

Brocar

related thread idea: in every "levi/leather" bar ever

(#1. about 4 quite elderly guys)

in my old toronto neighborhood:

alibi
the barn and stables
pinocchio's
zelda's
goodhandy's
el convento rico
zipperz

A Different Drummer
Roosterfish

The White Swallow

Been there, done that: If you owned a gay bar/club, what would you call it?

The Cockpit
The Mineshaft
The Tunnel

and for real names, Pasadena has (or had, don't know if it's still around) Encounters (the 70s live!) and Boulevard. And there used to be a lesbian bar called 3772, named for the address.

jenny - no idea, haven't been to rehoboth in years

i've always liked the name Henrietta Hudson (lesbian bar in the w. village)

Emil's Night Rate

Berlin goes for subtlety: CLUB ANAL.

i went to a gay bar in berlin called "zu mir oder zu dir" (trans.: my place or yours?)

Man City
&
Man United

San Francisco Edition:

- Truck
- Aunt Charlie's Lounge
- The Gangway
- The Cinch
- Paradise Lounge
- Bearracuda

Baltimore throw your hood up:

The Phoenix
The Hippo
Grand Central
The Eagle (duh, best gay bar in town imho)
The Drinkery
Leon's
Sappho's

seemingly in every tragic midwestern town there are gay bars called:

Reflections
Faces
Rumors
Traxx
etc.

I've always wished there was a gay bar called:

My Shameful Other Life
Self-Oppression
Shhhhhhhhh
etc.

Rumors
Different Seasons/ Crossroads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Town_Gay_Bar

The Eagle is everywhere, btw.

and Small Town Gay Bar is such a good flick!

Aut Bar - Ann Arbor, MI

http://www.insaneboi.com/decay/gay/image_001.jpg

i just googled 'best gay bar names' and this thread was the 2nd result

The Gothic Asshole

From Stephen King's IT:

The Falcon
Peck's Big Boy
(and yes, per the original post) The Ramrod

Dallas of course has J.R.'s for the men and Sue Ellen's for the ladies. Also the best line-dancing C&W bar I've ever seen in the Round-Up Saloon.

And about two blocks from my house:

http://www.pekersbar.com/images/Pekersbird.jpg

XD

i just learned that there is a new bar opening in providence called EGO

kinda lol but also bad

Jail

Austin had Kiss 'n Fly before it was shut down last year.

there's a Blue Oyster Club opened about 100 yards from my work

Woody's
Big Sissies
Q Lounge
Voyeur
Tabu
^all real, all terrible

I've always wished there was a gay bar called:

My Shameful Other Life
Self-Oppression
Shhhhhhhhh
etc.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:08 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

serious IRL lols here

Phagetz
Don't Tell Mom
Roommates
Up The Ass
Pillow Biters

^not real. Yet.

I recently became friends on FB with a gay bar in Scottland because it has the best gay bar name ever. It's called CC Bloom's. CC Bloom was Bette Midler's character in Beaches. It kills me.

CC Babcock's

There's a country/western themed gay bar here called FLAMING SADDLES... it wasnt as fun as it sounded, but they sold frito pies at least

favorite Castro bar names (some long-since gone)

Uncle Bert's Place
Daddy's (ads announcing its opening were all-time classic: "Look! Daddy's Coming!")
The Glass Coffin (actual name "Twin Peaks")
Moby Dick
The Men's Room
The Pendulum

The Midnight Sun

ooh and how could I forget

The Transfer

the pendulum sounds like a swingers' bar amirite

I saw a play written by Dan Savage last year and the lesbian bar in it was called Acres of Clams, which is also the name of an old seafood restaurant. Maybe this is only funny if you live in Seattle.

there was another one I'm blanking on the actual name of - all I can remember was that it had Rainbow in it, and (lol irony) eventually got shut down after protests about racist treatment of patrons of color

personal favorite (ie, one I have actually been in) is Aunt Charlie's in the Tenderloin

the black banana
if img does not show up, logo here http://archives.citypaper.net/images/articles/2011/01/13/agenda_picks12-1.jpg

I don't have a bar name, but I do have a made-up third annual pub crawl night title:

Bar Trek III: The Search for Cock