The Shine Nightclub (25 May 2010)

The Shine Nightclub rocks! As a nightclub located in the heart of Hamilton city, Shine Nightclub serves the local gay community by offering them a modern, clean and safe party space.

I always think gay bars are mysterious places. I think they have their own way of practice, their own way of decorating. In other words, gay’s bars formed their own circle. But after benign to the Shine Nightclub, I found gay bar is just like a normal club. In fact, straight people also go to a gay bar; they come for the atmosphere, the music and the drinks. Moreover, no one can tell who is gay unless someone intentionally expose herself/himself and self-identified as gay.



But take a second thought, if there are really no differences between gays guys going to a straight bar and gay guys going to bar, why gay bars bother? I suggested it has something to with the pride/shame binary.
According to one of my research (2007) pride/shame politics have affects and are lived though gendered and sexualized bodies and spaces. This applies to gendered and sexualized spaces like gay bars and affected. Gay bodies in gay bar suffering from identity defining and identity is erasing. On one hand, they are happy and pride to find their own spaces where people are alike here and at the time they also feel shame because being gay will transform their identities and excluded them from normal people.