Gay club darkroom
I have been to a couple of bars that had darkrooms/backrooms.
The first one was many years ago, it was Faces in East St. Louis, IL. This bars in St Louis, MO, closed early and this one in East St Louis would stay open until late (4am?). The basement of this bar was a men's only lock that would reside open even later. I remember disappearing the basement exclude at 8am a few times. In the back corner was the bathroom and a darkroom. The only bright in the room was an go out sign, and it usually got covered up with somebody's shirt so the room would be pitch black. On weekends, it was wall to wall men in this pitch black room. Pretty much anything and everything sexual you can reflect of going on around you and your only way to get around/know what was around you was to feel you way around. A limited years later, they moved it to a space in the middle of the basement exclude with chain link fencing as the walls, so it wasn't as shadowy. Still fun, but now you were on exhibit in front of everybody down there. Not sure if this place is still open, last period I was there was 20+ years ago.
The other one that comes to brain is the Phoenix in New Orleans. The upstairs in pretty dark (the bartender
A few years ago, I frequented a gay cinema in the East Village called the Bijou. It was concealed behind an unmarked black door debased by graffiti, simple to miss unless you were looking. After 8PM, a Puerto Rican drug dealer who claimed to have the best coke Downtown loitered out front. You had to pass him and ring a doorbell to be buzzed in.
Inside were hideous orange walls and a stairway that descended into a small movie theater where they mostly played 2000s rom-coms and animated films. Once, I watched half of Ice Age 2 there, but it was impossible to center over the sounds of moaning men, most of them older and colorless, who gave each other hand jobs in the seats. Behind the seating area were about half a dozen stalls that smelled of unwashed balls where people went in to fuck. If you cruised through the shadowy hallway slowly enough, someone would graze your crotch and invite you in with a nod. Recently, I felt nostalgic for the Bijou and tried to go advocate , only to locate out it had closed permanently in 2019.
The Bijou was an emblem of a pre-pandemic Unused York when cruising was confined to cum-filled basements and obscure sex parties you had to learn via synonyms of mouth. But in the y
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Gay culture has many exciting features, including the infamous gay dusky room – a place steeped in myths, half-truths and history. A place that holds a extraordinary place in the hearts of many a homosexual men, but is so often misunderstood by those in our community (and the outside world). So, let us out for you exactly what a gay dark room is…
A dark room or shadowy room is a room where consenting gay men go to have subtle mind-blowing sex. Dark rooms are exciting places create only in gay bars, saunas, and clubs, most frequently in Europe (but by no means exclusively). They are great cruising spot that provides partygoers with refreshing wild, and often uninhibited sex. Homosexual dark rooms are as tempestuous as they come; group sex, orgies, gangbangs, and all manner of gay kinks are often on the menu.
Typically, one would expect a dark room to be pitch black or dim light. Most times, they are dimly lit, so you can barely create out the frame of a person’s body. But dark rooms sometimes are
The allure of a dark room lies in its lighting – it should be dark, but not too dark. Ideally, you won’t recognise the cashier from your local Tesco Metro, but you will be able to make out a sweaty throng of bodies in positions you’d normally only see on OnlyFans. Dark rooms have been a draw in queer spaces for decades and remain de rigueur in other, friskier parts of Europe. Put it this way: It’s a rookie error to wear your best shoes to Berlin’s famously bohemian superclub Berghain, because you’ll just have to chuck them away after you leave seven hours later.
But now, dark rooms are enjoying a long overdue boom in the UK, especially among MSM (men who have sex with men). “Essentially, the reason they’re becoming popular again is a supply and demand issue,” says Ian Howley, CEO of health and wellbeing charity LGBT HERO. “Gay men want a place where they can have fun, and a dark room in a club can be the ideal place to let go of your inhibitions and be sexually free.”
This new wave of homosexual sex-positivity is being fuelled partly by post-pandemic carpe diem – we now know there’s no point saving your “any hole’