It says a lot when ballroom drag music starts playing and I am expected to “vogue like RuPaul” just because I am one the few black gays on the dance floor. There is something to be said for the bouncer at the front who expects me to pay full price and let the borderline underage, blonde white guy enter for free after hours. I had to co-mingle within a 50/50 half-white, half-multicultural space on the dance floor.Īs I’ve become more familiar to Philly’s gay club scene, I have also become more accustomed to what might be at the root of this divide – racial stereotypes and patriarchal inferiority complexes. So when I heard that there was a “Beyonce night” at Woody’s the next week, I tried again and noticed that even though there was more diversity in the room, such inclusion came with a price. I was later told that this was “a mostly white/Asian Twink/techno gay bar.” ![]() My first night at ICandy (254 S 12th St.), I remember being one of only five black men on the crowded dance floor. ![]() Living in Philly for the past five years, I have had my own personal rifts with the racial exclusion of the Gayborhood as a gay man of color.
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