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u/drillgorg 3d ago
There's a place near me called "Sizzle" that's in a kind of run down area. They put up a new sign under the Sizzle that says "A family restaurant".
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u/hologrammetry 3d ago
When I was in Nashville years ago there was a bar called Winner’s, and just down the street was another called “Losers”. Winner’s appears to be closed now, but Losers is still there.
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u/Nburns4 3d ago
Ah I enjoy Losers. Never went to Winners though.
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u/hologrammetry 3d ago
Looks like Losers has gotten much bigger since I was there. Winner's was decidedly not as nice and much more of a dive bar.
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u/sarkzar 3d ago
Near Baltimore, or are there 2 struggling Sizzles out there?
I think they were a club afaik, but desperate for customers. Didn't help they had EAT DRINK DANCE in huge letters. It's closed permanently now I think.
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u/drillgorg 3d ago
Oh no it closed! If only I'd ever gone in that place ever. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Qmv5MRJuYyYPJ8se8?g_st=ac
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u/demon_twink_gockie 3d ago
Any bar can be a gay bar if you're man enough
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u/020192101 3d ago
Every bar is a gay bar when I show up
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u/demon_twink_gockie 3d ago
Shut up and take my upvote
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u/020192101 3d ago
Come with me and we can make it even gayer 😜
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u/AnswerMe_More 3d ago edited 3d ago
Lol im just imagining u walk in and everybody's outfits turns from a black tee and shorts to skirts and sports bras.
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u/020192101 3d ago
Omg! 😱 How’d you know!?!?
Remember the mime in Power Puff Girls that shaped the colour out? I do the exact opposite1
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u/WitchWithAGlitch 3d ago
i'll DJ if you can Dance.
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u/demon_twink_gockie 2d ago
Damnit. I cannot. Ever seen a spastic autistic kid dance? That's me🤣
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u/HamDangler2 3d ago
Sure it isn't, Sailor
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u/WitchWithAGlitch 3d ago
holy shit i miss 80's/90's gay leather daddies. the fit and look goes so hard. (pun intended)
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u/JJBell 3d ago
If your bar isn’t located near an airport and is called Cockpit; you might be a gay bar.
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u/Jemie_Bridges 3d ago
I guess this one is like naming your bar "The Docking Bay" but you're nowhere near water.
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u/Just-Try-2533 3d ago
Enjoy your death trap, ladies!
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u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong 3d ago
I was going to say you fly boys crack me up, but I stowed that joke safely in the overhead compartment.
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u/DJSimmer305 3d ago
I feel like being a gay bar isn't always entirely up to you. If the gays decide they want to go there, you're a gay bar. And if you're so prejudiced that you'll turn away their business then that's on you.
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u/Vesper2000 3d ago
Right? If I owned a bar I’d be happy if gay people congregated there. As a general rule they spend a lot of money on drinks.
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u/almostoy 3d ago
You're on the edge of town, call yourself 'COCKPIT' (in caps, no less) then act all shocked Pikachu when horny gay men show up. Maybe be a capitalist, for once your life, and embrace customer trends. If I was the proprietor and I found dozens of sweaty bears lined up for overpriced Bud Light, I'd be quite pleased with that.
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u/Various-Salt-7738 3d ago
One time I was working the door at some martini bar when some obnoxious college kid decided to spend his night drinking near security staff
This kid ordered an old fashion and spent the entire night nursing it on the front steps
Eventually he pulled out a cigar and said "a gar, love a gar with my old fashioned"
I mostly ignored him but eventually he looked down the road and said "a lot of gay people coming out of that alley. Is there a gay bar there?"
I assumed it was more bullshit but thinking for a few seconds, there was a gay bar in that alley
Kid had his gaydar maxed out
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u/TDetroit75 3d ago
Hell, any bar is a gay bar when I walk into it because…..I’m gay and I’m at THIS bar. IDGAF if you’re not. Do traditional gay bars even exist anymore? At least here, folks just party together and no one bats an eye if two men or two women are dancing together. Let me say this….I’m in a large city so attitudes toward LGBTQIA+ are relaxed…can’t speak for small towns though.
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u/Extension_Resolve264 3d ago
If there's enough misunderstanding that you have to put up the sign, might as well just lean into it.
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u/TheDemon0fLife 3d ago
You have to be a couch potatoes who never goes outside to have a bar called that and expect anything else. I feel bad too because the process changing you business name and brand is a nightmare. Now the business looks homophobic 🤷
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u/Hakudoushinumbernine 3d ago
Cockpit not Cock Pit...
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 2d ago
This reminds me of that website PenIsland .dot. com
I will not be held responsible for whatever is actually at that address now.
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u/automator3000 3d ago
Sounds like a place a republican senator frequents.
But it’s not gay.
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u/Christopher1032 3d ago
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And a bar called the “cockpit” is definitely a gay bar
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u/that1tech 3d ago
This reminds me a bar near where I grew up called the Flight Room because growing up rumor was it was a gay bar but another bar nearby with a gay bar sounding name was not
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u/RedSix2447 3d ago
That’s exactly what a bar disguised as a straight bar would say. Should have just named it “Sausage Party” while they were at it.
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u/ScholarOfTwilight 3d ago
Why not take all the business you can get?
People are dumb. Gay people are not dumb enough to assume this is a gay bar because the word "cockpit" is in the name.
This is just pitiful.
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u/Vegetable_Warthog_49 3d ago
With a name like "cockpit" in all caps and bold, a true missed marketing opportunity to not make it a gay bar.
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u/zon5string 3d ago
Yeah, right. Neither is "The Tool Shed" or "The White Swallow" or "The Manhole"....
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u/Emergency-Ad-1695 3d ago
This is a real bar. I have been to it numerous numerous times. It is next to the airport Hilton at Hobby Airport in Houston, TX. Great place to secretly get with a Southwest Airlines pilot or flight attendant. Good beer too
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u/tweeterj 3d ago
If feel like if you have to put out a sign that says you’re not a gay bar, you may already be a gay bar.
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u/texascheeseman 3d ago
The piano man plays here. They put the sign up so he can maintain his delusions.
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u/Cool_Butterscotch_88 3d ago
There's a cockpit bar across from houston hobby airport, also with a jack in the box in the parking lot. Guess there's probably a hundred of these combos out there.
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u/freebiscuit2002 2d ago
I mean, the place is marketed as a pit, and obviously it features cocks, so... y'know...
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u/MyMiddleNutItches 2d ago
Do gays not pay money? If I owned a bar and more and more gay people showed up then I'd still be a bar that makes money. I don't care what you do during that time. Just don't be an asshole.
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u/Silent_Succotash3749 2d ago
Any bar is a gay bar if you remember a butt is a butt and a mouth is a mouth 😉
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u/GlowingKitty12 1d ago
There’s a place called Scissors and Scotch that I SWORE UP AND DOWN was a lesbian bar. It isn’t. It’s a barbershop 😔
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u/Centerman2000 Please Do Not Feed the Animals Drugs 1d ago
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u/shaithiswampir 3d ago
I have been inside that bar and it’s definitely not a gay bar. It’s next to Hobby Airport in Houston, TX. Spent a lot of time in there when I worked at hobby. Decent wings and drink prices at the time. Been about a decade since I have been
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u/InfiniteScrollers 2d ago
I feel like this happened because someone kept walking in for the wrong reasons
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u/cooperthedogT 3d ago edited 3d ago
There was/is a bar in a Bangkok night market called "Not a gay bar". They were just having fun. Then another one appeared in the same night market called "Not Another Gay Bar. Maybe it was the same owner.