Gay Town
I had always heard that Dallas had a significant gay population, but I had never ventured to Oak Lawn until 5.5 months ago when a friend took me to the strip.
It was magical and wonderful and a total celebration of a Sunday night with gay men and glitter and dancing until 2am. Low and behold I was smitten.
Last week I returned for the first time to the strip and discovered S4. We hit up the upstairs lounge to find a dragshow…I have no words for how happy I was. It was just outstanding. I have never seen such a combination of all walks of life and no one giving a shit about anything except having fun. Judging was completely out the window. Men were in little thongs passing around tube shots while the DragQueens each had a solo performance to lipsynch and molest randomers in the crowd…God it was killer.
So.what is the point of the story? Well, I left my credit card there last week, so Sunday I decided to head back to pick it up. S4 wasn’t opened yet, so Staci and I hit up JR’s because I had to use the restroom. We get to the restroom to discover two toilets with a wall divider, no doors, and no lock on the door. Yes! As we are finishing, two fat and nasty women come in and try to get it going while we are in there..I have never run so fast in my life..I was not quite ready for that scene.
We went upstairs to get a drink to wait for S4 to open to get my card, and the upstairs was just packed. Within 2 hours the following happened:
1) “Straight” waiter stares me down for 5 minutes and finally comes over to tell me that my tshirt is from Berlin and that he was stationed there and wants to hang out after he gets off work
2) Gay man is annoyed we have asked for his lighter 2 different times, but then he concludes we are new best friends because we both have matching John Hardy bracelets..Love his ass.
3) “Straight” waiter introduces us to another gay man who insists that we come with him to sing at a bar across the street before dancing at S4. We follow him over where we watch numerous men singing including the song Buttons from The Pussycat Dolls..I was not drunk enough to get my sing on quite yet
4) We run over to S4 where we literally find a line wrapped around the building of drags and gays trying to get in before 11 because it’s FREE….FREE is also required to be stamped on your right hand which just came off my hand last night….finally.
5) I invite a bartender/dancer from Zippers whom I haven’t seen since November to come and join us just to mix it up..and yes of course he showed up and tells me about how his brother was kidnapped in Haiti for 22 days.
6) Dragshow-Yes I hit up the same dragshow again, so we’ll ditch the details on that..
7) The danceoff-At 1am this insane danceoff began on the ground floor. There are two main security guys..one wearing a huge diamond skull around his neck, and both wearing earpieces trying to push back the crowd from the contestants in the middle. To get the danceoff started, Miss Thang who is a She-He in a string bikini and 6 inch clear shoes starts dancing and literally doing the most inappropriate things I have ever seen in my life. I will have to leave the rest of the details out because I cannot repeat things that I saw….but let me tell you this..I will 100% be back.
Call me if you want to go.
3 years ago • Notes