but all he mentions is gay bars. Are those the only gay safe spaces? And how many bachelorette parties take place in these bars? I used to hang out in the bars a good bit back in the day, and I can only remember one such party with a bunch of straight women. Don't know if it was a bachelorette party or something else.
But times have changed and maybe it's all the rage for straight women to have parties in the gay bars. If I was in one of those bars and something like that was happening and it was bothering me, I'd leave and I would let the manager know I was going. If the guys started leaving every time one of those parties was going on, it might make the owner stop booking the parties.
But I understand how the owner feels about having the parties. It might be a night when he has about 20 people come in and out of the place. He can make hundreds or maybe more from those parties, so he books them and it keeps his business afloat. If he didn't book events now and then, he might go out of business and then there would be one less place in town that was welcoming to gay people.
So I see it as possibly a necessary evil to have those events sometimes. I can see how it would be annoying, especially if you're in a town with one or two gay bars and there's nowhere else to go out. But it might be a good idea to start calling the bar before you go out and ask them if they're having a party that night. You'd save yourself a lot of aggravation.
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