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Why are there no gay bars in Ballard?
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No pent up demand. Different style.
Not enough barhopper gays live there to form a base of regulars. Gay Ballardinis tend to be somewhat quieter (all coupled up, or house-proud with mortgages) and lots are content to just pop up to the Hill when it's time for a focusedly gay night out. Of the nightlife-lovin single gays who live in Ballard, most are part of the live music more than anything else, but do find gays a-plenty just like them at shows.
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How come you're not also asking why there are no gay bars in the U District or Northgate or Georgetown or Rainier or almost every neighborhood other than Capitol Hill?
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The gays living in Ballard are too old and decrepit to make it to a bar...or, too hip and jaded to bother with anything as old school as a gay bar; they're all hanging at the regular bars.
Nutshell:GayOldies too old/GayHipsters too hip
You would think WEST Seattle WOULD have a gay bar since half of West Seattle is queer, but I think it's because all the gays in W.S. are married, or pretending to be, and they like to be able to sneak over to Capitol Hill to swing/cheat on their husbears.
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Cuz Ballard is where vaguely trendy white people go to make babies. It's all comfortably middle-class "punk rock moms" and tattoo dads and shit. Plus the frat/sorority crowd for drinking purposes. All white, all straight, all doing pretty okay economically, and all psyched to start buying onesies. Not exactly ground zero for happening gay nightlife.
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When I lived there in the mid 90's there weren't any gays, except for me and few others. I can't imagine there being a huge amount of gay people there now.
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duh, because the gays all know the "wanna be gays" (and the fat chicks) will inhabit every inch of it like the original PONY. yet, ballard has the smoke shop which really should be a gay bar since it seems so - uh, gay.
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Um, probably cause they're all near Capitol Hill.
Look, it's like the restaurant trade - you co-locate in destination areas because people can show up and try to get in your restaurant and if you're full go to the one next door - same with bars - people don't tend to go to Ballard for gay events or gay bars so there aren't any there (that I have heard of).
If a substantial number of gay events and gay population starts living there, gay bars will start to crop up.
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There are plenty of gays in Ballard, and it'd be great if we had somewhere to hang out that was like King's minus the douchebags. Until then, it seems our best option for not trekking out to the Hill is Changes in Wallingford.
So why isn't there a gay bar in West Seattle anymore?
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You may want to consider what makes a bar a "gay bar". Is it a sign on the door? Usually not. Maybe gays in Ballard just haven't congregated to any single bar, and no bar owners have put out a "gay friendly" vibe.
It's also possible that Ballard is just filled with old people and 30ish heteros.
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I thought all the hipsters moved to Ballard to get away from the Gay People?
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Ballard is like Belltown now, only older. So the douche guys are like low 40s, and gold diggers in their early 30s. The nightlife is terrible until around midnight, when the bars clear out (old people gotta get their sleeeeeeep!) and the old time regulars come out of the smoke shop.
Trust me, you don't want a gay bar there.
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