26 November 2007

Cube - it ain't really for homos any more...

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On Saturday night, I went to a trivia night for bit bent (a local gay group for under 25’s – I’m older than under 25 (I turned 34 today, in fact), but, well, they invited us oldsters as well).

Tables got drinks vouchers valid for Cube, that night only, as complimentary “thanks for showing up” prizes. So went along with a friend. Yes, he’s male, yes, I’m male, any comments about that will be resolutely ignored…

[ED (Kramer) – the following story is rated M – recommended for mature audiences. Please keep any homophobic comments to yourself (unless they are really funny)]

We got there early enough that one of the couchy-nook areas was free – the couchy-nooks are sorta high couches which feel more like, well, beds. So sat in one of them with friend. And proceeded to smooch for a bit. And cuddle. And fondle above the waist. For about two hours (we did break to buy drinks occasionally, to hit the loos, to wave our arms around in a vague approximation of dancing, etc).

Obviously our smooching was getting a bit too exciting for someone (possibly because our shirts did come off, and, well, I’m not exactly, slim, lithe or back-hair-less) because I ended up getting most of a glass of ice thrown over me, and a security goon saying “OUT. NOW.” By the time I’d reassembled myself and was ready to go, we got a second security goon.

I wasn’t particularly given to argue, seeing as, well, this is Cube. They knife people there…

Anyway, went back to my place, and proceeded to special-cuddle far more in various ways that are none of your damn business.

But on the plus side, I can now say I’ve achieved one of my main goals – to get kicked out of a nightclub for lewd behaviour before I turn thirty-four…

Yes, I’m aware that in public places, certain levels of decorum are expected. HOWEVER, if you’re going to offer something that pretty much resembles a bed, in a club that’s theoretically gay-aimed, you’re going to expect a certain amount of lusty behaviour.

And now, fully opening myself up for a “eewww, gays are wrong and evil and shouldn’t be allowed near our children, there could have been five year olds watching” reaction in the comments…

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“you were in a club
you had ya shirt off
your 34
your not slim (your words)
you got back hair
you were kissing/fondling a DUDE. “

… and you got thrown out by a chick…

I’m sorry, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Um, actually, the security goon was a woman. A very, um, tough looking woman. Chances of her having a boyfriend are possibly remote (although I might be generalising by her spiky haircut and her job as a security guard)…

Reason why I didn’t mention the security guard may have been that stating I was intimidated by a woman may make me look bad. In retrospect, the rest of my story probably wasn’t doing me any favours either, so what the hey…

Actually, I know the boyfriend of the guy I was snogging reasonably well. So, just to confirm – nope, very unlikely.

In case anybody cares (and 53 comments suggests someone might…), I made it back to Cube last night (only my third visit this year…). Possibly I’d confused security through the cunning ruse of getting a number one hair and beard trim Saturday morning.

Anyway, I can report that there was a reasonable amount of shirtlessness both inside the club and outside it. I can’t report on the level of groping going on in the corners of the room, due to my journalistic principles being overwhelmed by my desire not to look like a pervert.

Unfortunately the bloke you were groping was actually the security goon’s boyfriend. No wonder he was pissed off.

You’re all missing what’s really happening here.

Don’t feed the trolls!

^ No. They said somebody called them who was given a fake number.

haha… thats funny. No really… it is. You just admitted that you scared some chick/guy enough to give you a fake number, hehe.

And remember that a ‘random’ number is likely to be a real number – and haven’t we all had a call from some hopeful who happens to have been given our number as a bum steer/avoidance in a nightclub the night before? Happened to me about a week ago.

..oh… au contraire ..

🙂 Point proven ?

el ......VNBerlinaV87:35 am 28 Nov 07

Gold!

[The number was the ‘Rejection Line’]

Liar ….

My number is 0419 *** ***. Feel free to give me a call anytime… I’ll prove to you how good I really am.

[ED – Posting phone numbers – ever your own – is not something we encourage on Riot. If it’s real you are asking for trouble, if it isn’t you are causing trouble for the poor person whose number it really is]

1) Bundaberg ridden Queenslanders have a habit of taking their shirts off just prior to getting their heads kicked in by the person twice their size that they decide to pick a fight with.

Coincidence ?

2) Bedroom door. Certain things are tolerated behind it, that are not considered normal on the other side. Perhaps with a little introspection you might learn to distinguish the difference, but given your gayness, I’m not holding high hopes.

schmerica_, we’ll see .. whats your number ?

I’ve see girls and guys actually getting it on at Mooseheads countless times…

As long as your actions were M rated I can’t really see the harm in it. In fact, I see it all the time in clubs. Stay away from me and don’t take it too far and I don’t care.

Cube promotes itself as a gay club, therefore any ‘gay-like’ behaviour should be more accepted there than anywhere else. Gay guys seem to like to take their shirts off… so therefore the ‘shirts coming off’ shouldn’t have even been an issue. I would say that your behaviour may have been slightly offensive, even for a gay bar. Congrats on getting thrown out though. Saw two chicks get thrown out of a niteclub about 2 weeks ago for fighting… funny stuff.

Me? I’m a good girl. I do no wrong.

You should get kicked out of the inernet for writing that trash to! ol myjournal.com azz SMH The real question is did you learn your lesson?

James-T-Kirk3:22 pm 27 Nov 07

Astrojax – Hmmm yep, sorry – forgot that the perp is in this forum.

So, Mr screaming drunk, shirtless, gay dude, What are your goals for the future…

V twin venom3:01 pm 27 Nov 07

Your antics at the Club are the same as your post……nothing but self indulgent pompous flagilation. DILLIGAFF

ok quick recap here…

you were in a club
you had ya shirt off
your 34
your not slim (your words)
you got back hair
you were kissing/fondling a DUDE.

WTF did ya expect??

> Pun intended?

Hehe..no, although I did have a quiet giggle once I’d posted it.

james t kirk wrote: “I wonder what his other goals are? …”

umm, ‘his’? third person? ‘he’ wrote this and replies are thus ‘to him’… why won’t you speak directly to him?

yawn

there is nothing tackier than two people getting all lusty in public, regardless of sexual orientation.

for someone to throw ice at you, really you must have been over the top.

It just sounds like you were pissed and annoying, and I suspect we’re not hearing everything you did because shirts-off on a gay dancefloor is standard. The more interesting aspect of this incident is the fact it illustrates there are no good after-hours clubs in Civic. Everyone who doesn’t want to get their head stomped at Moosheads is forced to go to Cube – which is crap anyway. We need more diversity in Civic bars and clubs!

“in a club that’s theoretically gay-aimed, you’re going to expect a certain amount of lusty behaviour.”

why ?

sick f-ck.

happy birthday! 🙂

James-T-Kirk12:14 pm 27 Nov 07

“I’ve achieved one of my main goals – to get kicked out of a nightclub for lewd behaviour before I turn thirty-four…”

Actually – that says it all….. I wonder what his other goals are? Will they improve humanity?

Jeez some of your comprehension skills are absolutely shocking.

If you re-read the original post, there were drinks vouchers for Cube on the tables at the Trivia Night, and the OP went to Cube AFTER the event had happened…

I have to agree with the OP, if they’re going to promote themselves as a gay club they’ve got to be more tolerant towards gay behaviours.. especially if they’re telling people that don’t like it to fuck off.

James-T-Kirk12:12 pm 27 Nov 07

VY – 1) Couldn’t resist the boobies comment…
2) I fully agree – most of my friends and acquaintances who are gay are *so* over the top – trying to rub our noses in their gayness – I actually don’t care what they do behind closed doors, but sometimes, I am very uncomfortable in their antics. I suspect that they believe they deserve special treatment.

Sorry guys (‘n gals) – If you like the same gender that’s fine, just don’t expect me to give a rats arse.

andf VY – I *really* don’t want to have to visualise their panties….

Now – where was I – Boobies – Mmmmm.

Typsy McStaggers12:11 pm 27 Nov 07

I hope you’ve received the amount of attention you were after by posting this bizarre story sepi, although it seems to me no amount of attention will be enough for you. There was absolutely no point in letting everyone know you got laid by a younger partner at the end of the night, nor was there a point in going in to detail of your canoodling. Obvious and pointless attention-getting, regardless of gender preference. Perhaps you just got kicked out due to your physique. Thanks for wasting 5 minutes of my life.

“sod off”

Pun intended?

At least you got in simbo…a friend & I were refused entry into that club ’cause my friend has dreadlocks. I used to like the place too…now they can sod off.

But the issue, J-T-K, is that it WASN’T a man and a woman. As such, special treatment was expected. When said special treatment wasn’t received, said party got their panties in a bunch…

Oh, FWIW, I like boobies too!

James-T-Kirk11:19 am 27 Nov 07

Gods ‘Other’ fruit – Well worth squeezing

James-T-Kirk11:19 am 27 Nov 07

“I’d be kind of creeped out if 35 year old women showed up at a U25 event and started groping\being groped ‘above the belt’ on a table,”

Mmmmm — Boobies…..

Why do this at a trivia night?
I’d be kind of creeped out if 35 year old women showed up at a U25 event and started groping\being groped ‘above the belt’ on a table, even if they were stopping occasionally to buy themselves\everyone drinks.
Moreso if by their own admission they were “not exactly slim, lithe, or back-hairless”.

Ok, lets workshop this a bit. You were getting your kit off and getting randy at a Trivia Night hosted by a youth group. This night was hosted as part of the SpringOUT gay and lesbian festival which is a community, arts and equality focused event. Possibly, just possibly your behaviour was not appropriate for that particular night at Cube? Seriously, I have been to Cube many times, most nights they don’t care if you dance shirtless on a tabletop. But sometimes, a bit of restraint is called for.

“Wasn’t squeezing the fruit the reason this guy got thrown out…?”

🙂

“…or Woolies for squeezing the fruit…”

Wasn’t squeezing the fruit the reason this guy got thrown out…?

If you want to get your gear off, a nightclub is not the right place to do it: why not head down to the public toilets at Yarramundi Reach instead??? 🙂

Anyone can get thrown out of a nightclub – real people get thrown out of countries, windows, the Labor Party, Boy Scouts/Girl Guides or Woolies for squeezing the fruit!

it’s like any other club, you do something wrong, you get kicked out. As for the guy on the mic saying its a gay bar, and if you don’t like it f off, he’s probably had to deal with a lot of idiots who go there an complain that it’s a gay bar.

Snahons_scv6_berlina9:05 am 27 Nov 07

Cube – its a night club – get over it…

el ......VNBerlinaV88:48 am 27 Nov 07

Hey, it was nothing personal simbo. If you’re happy to start name calling (‘judgemental knobheads’) this early in the piece I won’t bother reading anything from you further.

Wow, someone got kicked out of a nightclub. I’m with the other V8 man on this – who really gives a crap?

Gee – maybe they want us to acknowledge that they exist?

barking toad7:44 am 27 Nov 07

A fat hairy gay bloke getting kicked out of a gay club for, well, being gay? Who’d have thunk it.

I’m with the V8 man – who gives a flying?

What is it about some gay people who feel they have to shove their gayness in our face – “look at me, I’m the only gay in the village”.

@BigDave: actually, that’s not what being gay is all about. Apparently “liking people of the same sex as you” is what it’s all about. Who knew?

Now this is where I get really confused.

I’ve been there recently with a bit of a troupe for my girlfriend’s friend’s birthday and over the PA comes this bloke’s voice “This is a gay club, if you don’t like it then fuck off!”. With the club harbouring an attitude like that, I felt like leaving straight away but hung around as it was a friend’s birthday…

So can someone tell me… which clientèle are they actually aiming for?

I think the point is that Simbo has, through years of experience, a certain view of what is normal behaviour in a gay bar.

And Cube no longer seems to be filling that role, which is its prerogative, but an interesting decision for a venue which has to date successfully marketed itself as a gay bar.

Isn’t that what being gay is all about though? They want to be treated the same as anyone else, but expect special treatment at the same time. Kind of hypocritical really isn’t it?

Sounds like this whole experience has left a bad taste in your mouth simbo….

a lot of people are usually there topless, so you’re not telling us the full story here. Plus I agree with “You”‘s comments, you expect to be treated te same as eeryone else, but your own club just treated you the same and you want to be treated differently. Which is it, to be treated the same or differently?

You want to be treated the same as everyone else, and yet you expect to get special treatment when getting naked in a nightclub?

Okay….

The only time I’ve been there (a couple of years ago, dragged by a friend’s girlfriend) there were tons of guys with their shirts off, dancing in their short-shorts all over the place…

I’m more interested as to how this is considered relevant or newsworthy to Canberra.

Well, I was asked to post it by an ex-admin of this site. So he obviously thought it was worth it. I debated whether it was worth the hassle of getting e-mail after e-mail worth of replies from judgemental knobheads, and, thought, nah, they won’t be that bad. Ah, well, more fool me.

Also – you’ll find hetero couples getting the same treatment in other clubs. Wow.

With the greatest of respect, VN, there’s a diference between what happens when a bloke takes his shirt off and a girl takes her shirt off. THere are probably sites on the web that can show you the difference, if you’re that interested…

Traitorsgate9:37 pm 26 Nov 07

Clearly you and your partner weren’t trying hard enough if it took 2hrs of fooling about for the Bouncers to escort you to the door.

All jokes aside, whether a club is Gay or Straight two people getting up close and intimate shouldn’t be an issue for management or patrons, its a Night Club afterall not a church.

what is it about a supposedly ‘gay’ club that makes you think that getting mostly naked is acceptable behaviour? Snogging is one thing, it happens often enough in any other club between guys and girls, but i think its fair enough that anyone gets kicked out for going that far regardless of if the couches resemble beds.

get a room!

el ......VNBerlinaV89:31 pm 26 Nov 07

And now, fully opening myself up for a “eewww, gays are wrong and evil and shouldn’t be allowed near our children, there could have been five year olds watching” reaction in the comments…

I’m more interested as to how this is considered relevant or newsworthy to Canberra.

Also – you’ll find hetero couples getting the same treatment in other clubs. Wow.

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