How I Ended Up at a Gay Bar

“It’s the first weekend all together in the apartments, we should go out and explore. There’s this bar around the corner, let’s go check it out!” said no one in particular, but it sums up the start to our night. So it’s maybe 9 pm, and a group of nine of us head out in search of this bar, called “The See man’s Club”. It’s a very short walk away, so we’re there in no time. All the windows are blacked out and there seems to be no one outside, so we’re a little confused, but go in anyways. In true club fashion, there’s very low lighting, music pumping, and laser lights going on. And there was the occasional spurt from a fog machine which seemed to be on no particular schedule.

We seat ourselves in the comfy couches in the upper section and order a round of drinks (okay so we ordered a fifth, but whatever let’s not get too technical). We’re drinking our way through that while carrying on with conversation and singing along to the English music. Then one of my group-mates says “hey there are only dudes in this club and there’s a stage. I think we might be at a gay bar…” which we all laugh along to. When one of the guys comes back from the bathroom he informs us that there are posters of nearly naked attractive men in the bathroom. We’re definitely at a gay bar. But what do we care? We’re out together having a good time so it’s all good.

We’re sipping on a second order of drinks when all of a sudden the club changes. Lights set up on stage and the curtains open. Out struts a woman in high heels and a tight dress, dancing and singing. Yep, definitely a gay bar. We cannot contain ourselves, now cheering and singing along with her (genetically male, but mentally female). We even got a shout out from one of the women on stage. They were speaking to the audience of maybe 40 men, when the woman turns to us we heard the word “farang”. Immediately, of course, we stand up and cheer for ourselves. No idea what she’s saying, but she’s gesturing to us and talking to us and it sounds positive, so we embrace it. The show goes on into the night, but after spending a few hours at this club we decide to move on. Who knows what the finale might have been. ;)

It was definitely not what we expected to find when we set out, but it turned into a really fun night.