oh dan...

Everyone should check out Sugar though. I got lucky and got to go through it yesterday and the place is freaking nice. Should be a great spot for good clean gay fun - just like Dan likes it.

Sounds like Basic Plumbing issues to me. Sugar ain't so sweet after all...

if only there was something else to do tonight...

Too bad Comeback has become heavily infiltrated by the folks we were trying to avoid: mid-thirties mainstream gays from Manray.

Dear Dan,

Is it every alright to call Sugar, this one straight up Pike, Fagbar if we homo-friendly, you know, the ones who will be drinking beer in the corner and wiggling like they it and who will go back to their straight friends and gush-them-up on Sugar by referring to it as a fagbar?

Or is that a honorfic reserved only for card-carrying Family to use with the Brothers and the Sisters?

WARNING - non-queers calling ME a faggot will get either spit on, maced or punched, depending on the context. how idiotic for straight guys to assume they have 'that right'

The straight guys at the Stranger call me faggot all the time. Please come mace them.

Sorry, FITS. I should have said: Yes, yes—go to Comeback. Unless you're an old fag, it seems. Thank God I'm still 34.

Is the use of "faggot" or "fag" like the use of "nigger" or "nigga?" That is to say, circumspectly...?

Here's what Google has to say on the etymology of "faggot": faggot (1)
1279, "bundle of twigs bound up," from O.Fr. fagot "bundle of sticks," from It. faggotto, dim. of V.L. *facus, from L. fascis "bundle of wood" (see fasces). Esp. used for burning heretics (a sense attested from 1555), so that phrase fire and faggot was used to mean "punishment of a heretic." Heretics who recanted were required to wear an embroidered figure of a faggot on their sleeve, as an emblem and reminder of what they deserved.

faggot (2)
"male homosexual," 1914, Amer.Eng. slang (shortened form fag is from 1921), probably from earlier contemptuous term for "woman" (1591), especially an old and unpleasant one, in reference to faggot (1) "bundle of sticks," as something awkward that has to be carried (cf. baggage). It was used in this sense in 20c. by D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, among others. It may also be reinforced by Yiddish faygele "homosexual," lit. "little bird." It also may have roots in Brit. public school slang fag "a junior who does certain duties for a senior" (1785), with suggestions of "catamite," from fag (v.). This was also used as a verb.

In this (ahem) light, I think the term is best left to faggots themselves.

So alright then, all you gay-friendly straights, SLOG has spoken.

Let that bar next door to the ol' Comet, the one with the sign reading: "SUGAR" forever be known as: "That new bar next to the Comet that is SO GAY that even Dan Savage calls it Fagbar."

Kind'a the way we refer to Manray as “that place with the really gay name.� Not to be confused with the Honeyhole, which is “that place with the really lesbian sounding name�.