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In real life, the average gay bar is simply a pub where most of the regular patrons are of [[Queer As Tropes|gay male, lesbian, bisexual]], and/or [[Transsexualism|transgendered]] persuasion. That's really all there is to it. Mostly they are just places where GLBT people socialize, dance, have a few beers, play pool, etc. Sometimes people chat up/pick up a new partner in these places just as straight people do in straight bars and pubs.
In the media, this is simply not the case, especially if the story is treating the gay community as the [[Freaks of the Week]]. Any bar or club catering to GLBT people will be portrayed as far wilder than its straight counterpart. People will order drinks dressed in fetish gear such as studded leather, gimp masks or tight rubber. [[Drag Queen
Lesbian bars will be filled entirely with broad-shouldered, cigar chomping, work-booted, [[Butch Lesbian|diesel dykes]]; or [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|young, nubile,]] [[Lipstick Lesbian
As is the [[Rule of Cool]], gay audiences will note that such bars will be larger, sleeker, flashier, wilder, and generally far more interesting than anything they have in their own neck of the woods, unless they live in a big city. In fiction, the gay bars in Youngstown, Ohio are just as huge and lively as anything in West Hollywood.
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== [[Film]] ==
* There's one of these in ''[[But I'm a Cheerleader]]''.
** Also something of a
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* The infamous 1980 movie ''Cruising'' is made of this trope, with an emphasis on the depraved and scary nature of the gay club scene.
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** Averted, however, in that it's just a somewhat upscale bar with non-stereotypically gay patrons.
* In Brazilian film ''Diva'', the protagonist is taken to a gay club by her date (who is straight).
* In ''The Killing of Sister George'', one scene was filmed in a real and extremely famous lesbian bar, Gateways. Perhaps due to the time period (1969), it's not as wild as your stereotypical gay venue. Most of the extras were
* Probably the earliest depiction of a gay bar in film is in the 1919 German silent film ''Different from the Others''. It looks pretty much like any other German beerhall, except that the men are waltzing with each other rather than with women.
* Averted in ''[[Chasing Amy]]'', when Alyssa takes Banky, Holden, and Hooper to a bar in New York. It's a normal New York dive bar, so much so that Holden doesn't realize the significance that Alyssa chose it until after he's fallen for her.
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