With my NLGJA crew at a gay bar in Chicago – not my first time in a gay bar One of my colleagues at Instinct Magazine began a chat about gay bars and the discussion eventually turned to the first time we ever went to a gay bar. Several of us wrote down our memories of that ever-so-fateful day in our lives when we crossed over into fully-formed gays. Most of the guys remember their ‘first times’ as an upbeat, positive time in their journey. Mind you, I’m the eldest on the Instinct staff, so my virgin excursion into the deep waters of gay watering holes occurred in a somewhat different time.
