Has the paradigm changed for gay bars?

[Iceblink]

You snowbird (I envy the hell out of you)! Ditto your post IceBlink. So many bars are just gone from Michigan. Wasn't Gigi's a huge bar back then? What about the Tangerine Ballroom in Ann Arbor? Tramps is gone from Lansing. I'm not sure Paradise is still around either. My brother used to DJ at a bar in Saginaw called Tallulah's, but that is as dead as the dinosaurs too.

It was the Nectarine Ballroom in Ann Arbor. It is still there but it is now called Necto. They also still have the Aut Bar. I was at Tallulah's in Saginaw a couple times. I met my first serious relationship at Paradise in Lansing. He asked me to dance and I didn't really think anything would come of it as I was out of town, but it turned out so was he and lived about 4 miles from me. We went out for 7 years. Gigi's in Detroit is still in existence, but since I am not single, I haven't been there in years. I heard it is all drag queen shows now every night. I loved that place back in the day because the clientele was heavily Middle Eastern because of the area it's in and since a lot of them are hairy men, I find many of them hot. Before I stopped going there, the signs in the bar were in both English and Arabic. A few of the other bars (Menjo's, Goldcoast, RnR) from back in the old days in Detroit still exist, but there are some recent ones I've never been to.