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When rating particular gay bars
in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood, Manhole might
rank low in the class and style categories, but
extremely high in the “just want to be a little
dirty” category. Gay porn with full penetration and
“release” shots play on television screens around
the club’s three rooms--main bar, inner bar, and
dance floor. |
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Exposed brick separates each
chamber, while rusted metal sheets flank the walls.
This isn’t a bar where you admire the art work, it’s
a bar where you grab a beer (some grab “juices”),
strip your shirt (you have to if you want to get to
the inner bar or dance floor), and get down to the
gritty job of finding a hard muscled man to take
home for the night. Especially popular with circuit
boys on Friday nights, due to the shirtless dancing
and lack of alternative, the crowd is far from
collegiate or twinky. In fact, some gay men, usually
in their early twenties, even brag about never
having checked the bar out (“I’d never be caught
with my shirt off”). Almost exclusively gay men, the
boys, ranging in the late twenties, thirties, and
forties, grind on the sweaty dance floor. |
