What happens if someone is still in the closet and trying to feel their way out? How can you prove that someone is heterosexual? Are we going to go back to the days of ‘oh he/she looks gay’ ?

I think gay clubs should just be clubs. Every club has a bouncer or three for misbehaving children.

We have no grounds to discriminate anymore than we should be discriminated against. How else will we educate people if we don’t let people explore?

It is hard for gay and lesbians to have freedom in the public eye without being discriminated or attacked. The straight must respect the gay community and likewise. When they straight people want to walk on our territory then they need to be tolerant with the gay lifestyle and if they do cause trouble then they should be kicked out of the club.

Maybe what should happen- is gay clubs should have a membership card and if that person weather be straight or gay must adhere to the code of conduct and if they dont then they are banned and may no longer be part of that club. Maybe in this way the is better control.

It is hard for gay and lesbians to have freedom in the public eye without being discriminated or attacked. The straight must respect the gay community and likewise. When they straight people want to walk on our territory then they need to be tolerant with the gay lifestyle and if they do cause trouble then they should be kicked out of the club.

Maybe what should happen- is gay clubs should have a membership card and if that person weather be straight or gay must adhere to the code of conduct and if they dont then they are banned and may no longer be part of that club. Maybe in this way the is better control.

There is another dimension to it – and I have seen it happen many times in our clubs – it happened at the legendary clubs Steamers in Pretoria as well as Stardust and to a certain extent at Legends and at Therapy – as soon as a gay club becomes very popular, it gets overrun by straights. The straights become the majority very quickly, a lot of them are there for the first time, get drunk and start fights. The gay crowd then leaves and the club closes because it is not fun anymore. It is not so much just gays who leave – but the original crowd who made the club what it was and what made it popular, disappear and so does the club inevitably. It is a death knell for a gay club when the straights move in en masse. It should firmly be a gay safe haven for gays and it is very, very difficult to keep it that way – we just do not always have the numbers to keep these big clubs going ourselves and str8 patrons are also needed. The problems start when there are too many – and there is very little a club owner can do but to raise the ‘gay only’ or ‘accompanied by gay’ rule.