Gay, Straight, Bi, whatever....sounds like you're just suffering from a generation gap.

That's a same reason I don't listen to the radio!

Try a gay coffee house or a mature social club, you may find what you're looking for.

Terrib3Towel said:

Hello all, I'm not sure if this belongs in GD or not because I'm not talking about a particular artists. So if so, mods please move. So anyways, in my extremely slow process of accepting my sexuality I say "I should go to a gay club" I figure I'm in a big ass city, I should do some living. So I go and the music is AWFUL. I've never been the guy to act a fool on the dancefloor I like to to post up on the wall and search for cuties. But I still want some good music while I'm doing so! Every damn song sounded like Rhianna's "We Found Love." Every song seemed to have that same annoying ass electric-techno beat. And the guys in there was going crazy over it. I'm like, really? It's that great to you? I'd rather go to the black clubs where all they play is dance rap songs about "the dougie" Or maybe I should go to Atlanta where there's more of my type (young black gay men), from what I've heard there's a rather large black gay sub-culture down there. Needless to say, I haven't been back. If that's what they mean by "House Music" that shit sucks.

First, you will hear that crap in ANY CLUB where youngins gather. It is total shit but kids don't know any better gay or straight. It's what is pumped into their young ears by the music industry.

Second, that aint House Music!

And congrats on living your life the way you want!

G3000 said:

Gay, Straight, Bi, whatever....sounds like you're just suffering from a generation gap.

That's a same reason I don't listen to the radio!

Try a gay coffee house or a mature social club, you may find what you're looking for.

Most artists I really like are stereotypically the ones with large gay audiences, and aside from Madonna, I don't hear many of them at gay clubs. Though I like Gaga, I wasn't counting her, I like her but I don't love her. So it's definitely generation, and I don't think specific music should be associated with one's sexuality.

I hear ya. I have been dealing with this shit for awhile. I cringe when i hear the same old crap they've been playing at clubs for years. As I do like my share of "gay" music (Olivia, Erasure, Madonna, etc...), but this gay white boy's fave music of all is classic rock...try asking for a little Boston while in a club...that record scratches so hard it flys out the window. That's why I am the first to raise my hand when my straight friends want to go to a sports bar...at least I get to hear my stuff in peace and get to (secretly) ogle over the straight jocks.

This is House Music...

I was never satisfied with what I heard in the clubs either, but it isn't for weak artists in the genre.

The House Music Appreciation thread:

http://prince.org/msg/8/295695

CHECK IT!

Being gay does not mean you gotta like anything other than dick, my friend.

Anyways, why were you so slow in accepting your sexuality?

It's a known stereotype that the type of music preferred by gay men has been dancing music but that was always inaccurate. Music choice should never be used as a prejudgment to someone's religion, race, gender or sexuality so I definitely agree with you.

Most clubs cater to youth anyway regardless of what kind of club it is. Not to long ago I voiced this same thing! I hate going to clubs and listening to the same things and I love clubbin but it sucks when the DJ plays the same shit on the radio!!.. you have to find the right clubs with the right DJs!

No. You don't gotta like it. The thing about a sterotype is that there are often grains of truth in them, for some. The problem is that there are many queer people who are not interested in that "just cuz I'm gay" music. This is the rub, because the range of musical idioms with queer toes in the water is as wide as the range of Jazz styles - Ella to Manhattan Transfer, Country styles - Taylor Swift to WILLIE NELSON, Soul styles - Al Green to Angie Stone .... For clubs they are often trying to hit the most common denominator that will pull money people in the door; a reflection of the shit music industry as it lives presently, in my feeling. Queer people are nothing if not diverse. As with every sub-culture, there is crap music being listened to by (young black gay men), too. As with every sub-culture, there is wonderful, transcendent music being listened to by (young black gay men), too - Whitney to MeShell.

Get your back up off the wall, Flower, and start setting some trends yourself. There may well be an "off" night at that club you speak of where they play different music. Talk to the DJ if he is in reach and make some inquiries (probing questions about music can work better for opening someone's mind than requests to simply play what you want.) The doorman and bartender are going someplace after that dump closes, "don't hang up, just talk about it." Atlanta sounds nice, but you don't need to move necessarily to avoid Rihanna. (But if it comes down to it call fuckin Uhaul and get that girl the hell out of your love life.) And books are awesome; I find that I have commonality musically with people who I find commonali ty with in what I enjoy reading. Where is Tower Books/Records when you need them?

"Being gay does not mean you gotta like anything other than dick, my friend." And for some straight men, being straight means the same damn thing given the chance.

What the heck?

1) "denominator that will pull money people in the" is what I typed in. *****denominator that will pull money people in the door is what came up in the post.

2 ) "transcendent music being listened to by (young black gay men), too - Whitney to MeShell" is what I typed in and ...

All I did in this second post was cut into the first post and paste into this one and it translated back to the original text. ??

allsmutaside said:

"Being gay does not mean you gotta like anything other than dick, my friend." And for some straight men, being straight means the same damn thing given the chance.

Heheheh, yeah sometimes I crack myself up.

But I question your heterosexuality if given the chance to like dick, you actually

decided to like it. That's two strikes against being straight:

1). You took the chance to like dick

2). You liked the dick

Can't be straight and given the chance to chow down on or orifically accept man

girth, you do.

..................................

Anyways, TerribleTowel, I would really like to know why you were so slow to

accept the fact that you are gay.

I'm digressing on this point because I have to write a paper for a theology class on

justice but I think that if you profess to being a Christian and are homophobic or anti-

gay or what have you, you are a hypocrite.

Thus saith the Lawd.

duccichucka said:

allsmutaside said:

"Being gay does not mean you gotta like anything other than dick, my friend." And for some straight men, being straight means the same damn thing given the chance.

Heheheh, yeah sometimes I crack myself up.

But I question your heterosexuality! if given the chance to like dick, you actually

decided to like it. That's two strikes against being straight:

1). You took the chance to like dick

2). You liked the dick

Can't be straight and given the chance to chow down on or orifically accept man

girth, you do.

..................................

Anyways, TerribleTowel, I would really like to know why you were so slow to

accept the fact that you are gay.

I'm digressing on this point because I have to write a paper for a theology class on

justice but I think that if you profess to being a Christian and are homophobic or anti-

gay or what have you, you are a hypocrite.

Thus saith the Lawd.

Life, sexuality - it's all on a single spectrum to my thinking. Just as with Christianity and homo phobia and homo sexuality being on that same spectrum. It really is too bad that fear (phobia) is present to such an extent. Rick Santorum and his hate filled bullshit is really just about someone trying to lift themselves up by stepping on someone else's neck and shoving them down to do so. Now that could be a good Justice topic - a false sense of justice that is at the end of the day short on truth and long on self service.

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House music has been a major part of my life for more than twenty years. It's part of my very being - I would be lost without it. But it has fuck all to do with sexual orientation. That's all.

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