[PJ-Comix]

They go with their gay friends for the show-like entertainment. I know some young people in Austin -- University crowd -- who go to these places with gay friends, but they themselves are not gay.

What entertainment? I just don't see non-gay folks hanging out with gays at gay bars for the "entertainment." (And I'm frightened to ask what that "entertainment" might be.)

[My back yard]

I don't know. What I'm talking about could be totally wrong. I could be calling it 'gay bar' when it is not. The places I'm talking about are like the bar in the movie 'The Birdcage' or what ever it was. Shows like men dressed up as Barbra Striesand singing 'People'.

[HairOfTheDog]

Relax. If it had been fewer years since you were young, and if you weren't so uptight, you might have found yourself in one of those bars yourself. I've been in one. A while back, the gay bar in town was pretty popular for everyone, straight and gay alike. It was a wild place, and a very entertaining spectacle, if you aren't the type to collapse speaking in tongues if the cute girl you just saw at the bar turned out to be a man on second glance. It was a riot! One that loses its appeal after one has seen it a few times, but a definate carnival at first.