Slythe

Gay bars in Cebu are known to be mostly strip clubs with young men called go-go boys dancing provocatively to win the hearts of their audience.  Macho dancer is a more popular term for a go-go boy in the Philippines. They are mostly young with muscular or toned bodies and attractive. The handsome lads of the crop of macho dancers get the most wow from the audience while those who manage to impress have the bodies or the "asset". But there is irony in having these strip clubs known as gay bars in the Philippines, especially in Cebu. A gay bar should be a hangout place for gays, not for supposedly gay yet straight dancers who cater to gay and women clientele for a night or a "short-time". It is mostly seen as a male-whore club than a place for hook-ups.  With the relabeling of gay bars in Cebu into male entertainment clubs, the public would now have an idea what kind of club they want to go for hook-ups. Because really, desperate old gay men go to gay bar...

It's surprising to have a blog that features gay bars in Cebu. I have come to like it for it is filled with information and the blog is well-written too. And impressed, I am. It is just that when it comes to gay bars in Cebu, the real gay bars have become scarce. They are now transformed into male entertainment bars catered to women clientele, especially Koreans. I remember back in 2006 when I visited Tarzan with my cousin. We might have been classified gay because we entered a gay bar. But the thing that surprised me though was that women outnumbered the guys in the audience. And mostly those who were male in the audience were just curious and just tagged along with their circle of friends. And another thing that is surprising was that female Koreans numbered in half in the total audience population. Gay bars in Cebu are now labeled as male entertainment bars. They thrive because of the female Korean clientele. And that leaves me with one question: where are the gays? The ...