My Perspective: Gay vs Straight clubs

Here's the tea: GAY CLUBS ARE SO MUCH MORE FUN FOR GAY PEOPLE.

Throughout my quest to graduation, I've probably went out to party every other weekend.

It's exhausting, but exhilarating. Picking out your favorite outfit, calling your best friends, and pre-gaming so you can save money were the highlights of mine before heading to any venue.

This usually sets the tone of any night out, but wherever we went to, I've had to mentally prepare myself.

We'd get to a straight club and it's fun like always, but then I'd always catch myself wishing there were more gay people. I'm too self aware that I'm really gay when I start dancing "like a girl". I'd get funny looks, and it's uncomfortable.

"Can I just live my best life?"

Once in a blue moon, we'd party it up in a gay club and it was night and day.

Everyone expressed their most authentic selves. The people feel so much more accepting and loving. It felt like home for me.

I glance over to my other friends, and I can't help to wonder if they're feeling okay in a gay club too.

This is something that shouldn't even matter. All spaces should feel amazing, but they don't.

Here's the tea part 2: The social construct of masculinity is to blame.

Social constructs are practiced every day. They are the norms of our society. What it means to be masculine in one culture would typically be different in another. Gay men are typically seen as not masculine and placed under the mainstream of what is accepted. Being aware of that, affects my time in any venue. It's tiring to think about it all the time, but in a gay space, I don't really have to think about it all. That's pretty much my deciding factor in this comparison.

No matter how you spin it, gay clubs are so much more accepting than straight clubs.