Guerilla Gay Bar, My favorite gay community activism, has a great article in the New York Times.
Organizers send out save-the-date e-mail messages and announce the location one day before an event to catch the site and its patrons off guard. Sometimes there is a parting of the sea, with all the gay men on one side and the straight patrons on the other. Sometimes the patrons look annoyed; sometimes they offer warm welcomes.
“They’re very welcome here,” said Sarah Stebbings, a bartender at Cock ’n Bull Pub, a British bar in Santa Monica, which was invaded by the group last January. “They packed the place out.”
Jorge Castillo, 36, an arts professor, said that the guerrilla concept is not for everyone. Mr. Castillo said it challenges gay men who suffer from “heterophobia.”
“A lot of gay guys are scared” to get out of their comfort zone, he said. “They think people are going to judge them.”
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