Gay club darkroom
The allure of a dark room lies in its lighting – it should be dark, but not too dim. Ideally, you won’t recognise the cashier from your local Tesco Metro, but you will be able to construct out a sweaty throng of bodies in positions you’d normally only notice on OnlyFans. Shadowy rooms have been a draw in queer spaces for decades and endure de rigueur in other, friskier parts of Europe. Lay 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 lengthy 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 philanthropy LGBT HERO. “Gay men want a place where they can have amusing, and a obscure room in a club can be the perfect place to let proceed of your inhibitions and be sexually free.”
This new wave of gay sex-positivity is being fuelled partly by post-pandemic carpe diem – we now realize there’s no direct saving your “any hole’
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 bar that would continue open even later. I recall leaving the basement bar at 8am a few times. In the back corner was the bathroom and a darkroom. The only light in the room was an exit sign, and it usually got covered up with somebody's shirt so the room would be pitch shadowy . On weekends, it was wall to wall men in this pitch black room. Pretty much anything and everything sexual you can think of going on around you and your only way to get around/know what was around you was to feel you way around. A few years later, they moved it to a space in the middle of the basement bar with chain link fencing as the walls, so it wasn't as dark. Still entertaining, but now you were on exhibit in front of everybody down there. Not sure if this place is still unlock, last time I was there was 20+ years ago.
The other one that comes to mind 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 hidden behind an unmarked black door debased by graffiti, easy to miss unless you were looking. After 8PM, a Puerto Rican drug dealer who claimed to own 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 compact movie theater where they mostly played 2000s rom-coms and animated films. Once, I watched half of Ice Age 2 there, but it was unfeasible to focus over the sounds of moaning men, most of them older and white, 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 dark hallway adv enough, someone would graze your crotch and ask you in with a nod. Recently, I felt nostalgic for the Bijou and tried to leave back, only to detect out it had closed permanently in 2019.
The Bijou was an emblem of a pre-pandemic New York when cruising was confined to cum-filled basements and obscure sex parties you had to learn via word of mouth. But in the y
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Gay culture has many exciting features, including the infamous gay dark room – a place steeped in myths, half-truths and history. A place that holds a distinct place in the hearts of many a gay men, but is so often misunderstood by those in our community (and the outside world). So, let us out for you exactly what a same-sex attracted dark room is…
A dark room or black room is a room where consenting gay men go to hold discreet mind-blowing sex. Dark rooms are exciting places start only in male lover bars, saunas, and clubs, most frequently in Europe (but by no means exclusively). They are great cruising detect that provides partygoers with refreshing savage, and often uninhibited sex. Gay shadowy 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 jet or dim clear. Most times, they are dimly lit, so you can barely make out the frame of a person’s body. But dark rooms sometimes are