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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/nyregion/12roxy.html
below is a quote (the best part) from the article above ...
sounds like the stereotypical gay men to me ...
>>Joe Panetta, 36, who had driven to the city from Newburgh, where he is studying for a master’s degree in education, said: “This place has molded me. The people here are doctors, lawyers, professionals. The people I met aren’t the stereotypical gay men that I used to see on TV.”
Mr. Blair said that when he started Saturday nights at the Roxy, “we were just coming out of the dark ages of AIDS, and there was a real move away from the sort of pageantry of clubs and drag queens and that whole thing where the clubs threw glitter on the people.”
He went on: “This was the emergence of the Chelsea era, and the Chelsea Boy look. Everyone worked out really hard. And they all worked on the same body parts.”
Mr. Blair, who had owned gay health clubs, explained the coding system that he and his business partners devised for the Roxy’s loyalty cards and mailing lists. “We rated everybody on a scale from 1 to 4 based on how they looked,” he said. They kept the rankings in a database, so that for certain events they could direct their invitations to a specific mix of loyal customers and trophy guests.
“We gave out very few 1s - that’s the worst-looking, or for straight people,” he said. “Then, most people got 2s; if they’re pretty, they got a 3. Four is for people we have to let in free - either they’re really hot or they’re a friend of mine or somehow important in the club community.”
He explained that 3s were actually more desirable guests than 4s. “A 3 is a cutie that pays,” he said.
below is a quote (the best part) from the article above ...
sounds like the stereotypical gay men to me ...
>>Joe Panetta, 36, who had driven to the city from Newburgh, where he is studying for a master’s degree in education, said: “This place has molded me. The people here are doctors, lawyers, professionals. The people I met aren’t the stereotypical gay men that I used to see on TV.”
Mr. Blair said that when he started Saturday nights at the Roxy, “we were just coming out of the dark ages of AIDS, and there was a real move away from the sort of pageantry of clubs and drag queens and that whole thing where the clubs threw glitter on the people.”
He went on: “This was the emergence of the Chelsea era, and the Chelsea Boy look. Everyone worked out really hard. And they all worked on the same body parts.”
Mr. Blair, who had owned gay health clubs, explained the coding system that he and his business partners devised for the Roxy’s loyalty cards and mailing lists. “We rated everybody on a scale from 1 to 4 based on how they looked,” he said. They kept the rankings in a database, so that for certain events they could direct their invitations to a specific mix of loyal customers and trophy guests.
“We gave out very few 1s - that’s the worst-looking, or for straight people,” he said. “Then, most people got 2s; if they’re pretty, they got a 3. Four is for people we have to let in free - either they’re really hot or they’re a friend of mine or somehow important in the club community.”
He explained that 3s were actually more desirable guests than 4s. “A 3 is a cutie that pays,” he said.