I have a straight drinking buddy who admitted he went to a gay club a few times to "support a friend" whatever that means. I wish I found that endearing…honestly I felt creeped out a little for some reason I couldn't quite articulate.

I didn't find it supportive...more like that feeling a black person probably gets when a white friend feels they've the right to use the N word.  Not the same thing at all but I don't want straight friends in the gay part of my world and I don't want to be the token gay friend that gets them off the hook every time they do something douchey. With strangers I don't care where they go. But I don't want straight friends trying to bond with me about how supportive they are. I can stomach a somewhat homophobic friend who's at least honest about their feelings and boundaries...I don't want a fake supposedly supportive friend...those are the worst.

I'm sorry, but if you don't like your straight friends to be a part of your gay life, maybe you don't consider them really friends. Why are some of you guys trying to push your gay life apart from the other part of you. It's all you. And if your friends give you grief about how you live your life, they're not your friends. And about those bars. Everyone can go to straight bar, noone is talking about who'd go there and who wouldn't, but to go or not to go to gay pub, there has to be a discussion. I never went to gay pubs or maybe I did actually because I never knew where they were and these days I just don't go out anymore that much. I know there's this club where gay ppl would go on sundays, other nights were for everyone.

Even as a gay man I don't go to many gay clubs.  I find them to be very superficial and concentrated only on outward appearance and fashion sense.

Straight men that go to gay clubs could also be homophobic, they could just be working on that particular issue in their lives.  I think homophobia would be something that's hard to express at a gay club.  Homophobia expresses itself at other venues, in daily life, at the work place, in more public places.

"If you're straight and you've never been to a gay club then you're homophobic."
Would you agree with this view of things?

What's your opinion?

I disagree.. I think the statement is too general.. perhaps if the statement was "If a person has not been to a gay club because he dislikes gay people, that person is homophobic", the answer would be different..

I know that I am. lol

but i dont mind that straight people come to gay clubs. diversity is great.

I have a straight drinking buddy who admitted he went to a gay club a few times to "support a friend" whatever that means. I wish I found that endearing…honestly I felt creeped out a little for some reason I couldn't quite articulate.

I didn't find it supportive...more like that feeling a black person probably gets when a white friend feels they've the right to use the N word.  Not the same thing at all but I don't want straight friends in the gay part of my world and I don't want to be the token gay friend that gets them off the hook every time they do something douchey. With strangers I don't care where they go. But I don't want straight friends trying to bond with me about how supportive they are. I can stomach a somewhat homophobic friend who's at least honest about their feelings and boundaries...I don't want a fake supposedly supportive friend...those are the worst.

Going to a gay club for the first time, I wasn't feeling confident about it and I didn't have any close gay friends yet at the time- so my best friend who is straight, agreed to come along with me and be my date for the night. I appreciated the gesture, he didn't have to go with me but he did anyway just to make me feel better.

Didn't really fancy the guy myself, I left the company a couple of years later and never spoke to the guy.

You never always know for sure….........................do you!

"If you're straight and you've never been to a gay club then you're homophobic."

I think that assumption is entirely baseless and totally idiotic.

@semurg30:

more like that feeling a black person probably gets when a white friend feels they've the right to use the N word.  Not the same thing at all

Uh, yeah. Not by a country mile.

I really couldn't give less fucks about it, personally. Frankly, I've got more important shit to worry about. It's only annoying when it's some girl who constantly wants to make a scene of herself for being the "loveable hag" who's "so down" and "omg, loves gay ppl!", as if it's even about her. Fortunately, most straight people don't do that in my experience. There's always going to be that minority of people who do. Yeah, it's misguided and annoying, but it's really not worth having a conniption over. I'm enough of an adult not to get "like, so triggered RN" over something so insignificant.

I didn't find it supportive...more like that feeling a black person probably gets when a white friend feels they've the right to use the N word.  Not the same thing at all but I don't want straight friends in the gay part of my world and I don't want to be the token gay friend that gets them off the hook every time they do something douchey. With strangers I don't care where they go. But I don't want straight friends trying to bond with me about how supportive they are. I can stomach a somewhat homophobic friend who's at least honest about their feelings and boundaries...I don't want a fake supposedly supportive friend...those are the worst.

"If you're straight and you've never been to a gay club then you're homophobic."

If you're a man and you've never been to a women's bathroom then you're sexist!

That is just silly.

When I saw the title "Straights in gay clubs" I thought it would be asking if it is OK for straight people to be there- not demanding that they should!

Everyone likes to have a "Safe space" that is just them. I don't think it's bad for some straight friends to come with their gay friends from time to time, but if EVERY straight person started hanging out at gay clubs, then how the hell would it be a gay club!?!?

Lots of gay friendly straight people have not set foot in gay clubs... perhaps it's not their thing...

I wholeheartedly disagree with that unfair stupid statement!!
How someone views or treats gay people defines whether you're homophobic.

By the way, going to a gay club doesn't automatically make you not homophobic/gay-friendly! just saying…