13 June 2013

Dickson gets a gay bar

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GLBTIQ mag Same Same has the news that Dickson is getting a bagel cafe and gay bar.

Because this is 2013 after all.

Barcode is not just a place for people to come and party the night away – the venue will pull a double duty for daytime relaxing too. It’s a café by day and a lounge and bar at night.

This Friday night the bar welcomes you at 2/26 Challis Street in Dickson, and on Saturday Cafe Code Bagel + Juice Bar will open its doors and promises the best breakfast in town with the perfect hangover from an awesome party with bacon, eggs, French toast, almond croissants and much more.

After night falls, the new bar’s open seven days for various weekly events. Monday’s a Wine Bar, Tuesday’s Ladies Night, Wednesday there’s games including Trivia and Bingo, Thursday will be showcase live music, there’s clubbing with DJs and shows on Fridays and Saturdays, and Sunday is drag talent night.

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BimboGeek said :

Well this is nice given that Cube really hasn’t been a gay bar for a few years, if indeed it ever was. Generally it’s just where people have in mind when they say, “let’s go to Civic!” or, “What is still open?”

You sure it isn’t a gay bar? Considering when you walk in it says “Welcome to the gay bar”

They advertise LGBT events;

http://www.cubenightclub.com.au/

So not really a gay bar, maybe a gay night club?

Performing maintenance work at the Meridian Club certainly widened this olde farte’s education. 🙂

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd4:15 pm 14 Jun 13

Postalgeek said :

Grimm said :

Postalgeek said :

So I take it you frequent the public toilets at black mountain during the dark hours often in order to confirm this stereotype, given all the gay bars in close proximity.

Hyuk hyuk.
Didn’t see some genius trotting that one out at all.
It’s called common knowledge. Perverts have apparently gone there for anonymous bumming for years and years.

So tell me, where are you going with whining about public toilets within a kilometer radius of a gay bar and then using one not within cooee of a gay bar as an example? What point are you trying to prove?

More importantly, why would people travel from the gay bar to a dirty public toilet for “anonymous bumming” when they could just stay at the gay bar and get bummed there?

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd4:12 pm 14 Jun 13

Grimm said :

johnboy said :

Grimm gives Mr Gillespie a go for being the worst human being in Canberra.

Yeah, and it doesn’t happen at all. I’m making it up and there’s no truth behind the stereotype….
The public toilets at black mountain peninsula during the dark hours are a testament to this.

Source?

OR

Why are you spending so much time in public toilets?

Grimm said :

LOOK AT ME I’M A HOMOPHOBE LOOK AT ME

*sigh* whateverdude

HiddenDragon3:07 pm 14 Jun 13

johnboy said :

Pretty sure Black Mountain hasn’t been a beat since they started closing the gates some years ago.

But even if it were how is this hurting you?

Or they could leave the gates open and install parking meters and a bar (both charging airport prices) – could be a nice little earner for our cash-strapped Government.

Grimm said :

Postalgeek said :

So I take it you frequent the public toilets at black mountain during the dark hours often in order to confirm this stereotype, given all the gay bars in close proximity.

Hyuk hyuk.
Didn’t see some genius trotting that one out at all.
It’s called common knowledge. Perverts have apparently gone there for anonymous bumming for years and years.

So tell me, where are you going with whining about public toilets within a kilometer radius of a gay bar and then using one not within cooee of a gay bar as an example? What point are you trying to prove?

SmileOnTrial1:28 pm 14 Jun 13

Anonymous Bumming on Broke Black Mountain. Hehe

Perverts have apparently gone there for anonymous bumming for years and years.

Wasn’t Anonymous Bumming a character in “Little Dorrit.”

johnboy said :

Pretty sure Black Mountain hasn’t been a beat since they started closing the gates some years ago.

But even if it were how is this hurting you?

Because it’s a public facility?
People may want to use it for it’s intended purpose.
Using public toilets for sex is revolting and inconsiderate.

But hey, don’t let the fact that the term “beat” came about because this kind of behavior is common get in the way.

LOL JB. That was the exact song that came to mind when I read the short text OP decription. Great minds think alike.

Postalgeek said :

So I take it you frequent the public toilets at black mountain during the dark hours often in order to confirm this stereotype, given all the gay bars in close proximity.

Hyuk hyuk.
Didn’t see some genius trotting that one out at all.
It’s called common knowledge. Perverts have apparently gone there for anonymous bumming for years and years.

Pretty sure Black Mountain hasn’t been a beat since they started closing the gates some years ago.

But even if it were how is this hurting you?

Grimm said :

johnboy said :

Grimm gives Mr Gillespie a go for being the worst human being in Canberra.

Yeah, and it doesn’t happen at all. I’m making it up and there’s no truth behind the stereotype….
The public toilets at black mountain peninsula during the dark hours are a testament to this.

So I take it you frequent the public toilets at black mountain during the dark hours often in order to confirm this stereotype, given all the gay bars in close proximity.

johnboy said :

Grimm gives Mr Gillespie a go for being the worst human being in Canberra.

Yeah, and it doesn’t happen at all. I’m making it up and there’s no truth behind the stereotype….
The public toilets at black mountain peninsula during the dark hours are a testament to this.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd12:07 pm 14 Jun 13

devils_advocate said :

poetix said :

Grimm said :

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

What a truly awful comment. Love the way you ran ‘each’ and ‘other’ together. Very vivid imagination you have there.

Pfft. The AIDS isn’t even all that scary any more what with all the drugs and stuff.

The real risk is getting internetcanceraids from reading posts by ‘tards on the internet. What prophylactic can I wear to protect me from that?

Sadly the only protection is to unplug your interwebs.

Until we get a license to use the Internet it’s just going to keep filling with morons and biggots and pos moron bigots.

devils_advocate11:20 am 14 Jun 13

poetix said :

Grimm said :

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

What a truly awful comment. Love the way you ran ‘each’ and ‘other’ together. Very vivid imagination you have there.

Pfft. The AIDS isn’t even all that scary any more what with all the drugs and stuff.

The real risk is getting internetcanceraids from reading posts by ‘tards on the internet. What prophylactic can I wear to protect me from that?

HiddenDragon11:02 am 14 Jun 13

grunge_hippy said :

I’m glad you prefaced this story with one of the catchiest damn songs ever. Cos if you didn’t, I was going to.

I’ve got something to put in you,
I’ve got something to put in you,
I’ve got something to put in you,
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Wow!

This rendition might be more to the liking of some Rioters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kD1YUtA5o

Grimm said :

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

So the plan, then, is to try and get a gay bar within a kilometre of every public toilet so we can keep the homophobes pissing in their pants far into the future.

Well this is nice given that Cube really hasn’t been a gay bar for a few years, if indeed it ever was. Generally it’s just where people have in mind when they say, “let’s go to Civic!” or, “What is still open?”

I can just picture Mr G and Grimm walking hand in hand carrying matching plastic bags,how quaint 🙂

arescarti42 said :

Is it just the bar that is gay, or is it a gay bagel cafe as well?

You should see how they serve the bagels in the gay bar. Now I know why they have a hole in the centre.

Grimm said :

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

What a truly awful comment. Love the way you ran ‘each’ and ‘other’ together. Very vivid imagination you have there.

Grimm gives Mr Gillespie a go for being the worst human being in Canberra.

grunge_hippy8:42 pm 13 Jun 13

I’m glad you prefaced this story with one of the catchiest damn songs ever. Cos if you didn’t, I was going to.

I’ve got something to put in you,
I’ve got something to put in you,
I’ve got something to put in you,
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Wow!

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

Another likely venue for a RiotACT out of the Eagle’s Nest day, given it operates as a cafe. (Sorry, I have forgotten what you are calling the reviews.)

Wasnt Heaven (?) a gay club in the 1990s?

Where is this new place – is this where Trinity is/was?

New place is where Hostage has been dying a death.

Where the good turkish place was for many years.

Mike Bessenger3:06 pm 13 Jun 13

Aren’t all the bars in Dickson gay.

eyeLikeCarrots2:05 pm 13 Jun 13

arescarti42 said :

Is it just the bar that is gay, or is it a gay bagel cafe as well?

Can I go there if i just want to get bagels and some schmear?

Because of course, “Men SSCCHHMMEEAARRR”

detached_dingleberry2:04 pm 13 Jun 13

arescarti42 said :

Is it just the bar that is gay, or is it a gay bagel cafe as well?

Can I go there if i just want to get bagels and some schmear?

Should be alright. ‘Bagel’ + ‘Juice’ Bar – sounds legit enough to me!

Pro tip: bagel with smoked sausage goes down a treat. You should find out if it’s on their menu.

HiddenDragon1:26 pm 13 Jun 13

neanderthalsis said :

Is there some link between homosexuality and bagels that we haven’t been informed of?

Almost certainly not, although consuming something described on the menu as a bagel may help patrons to forget that they’re are in Dickson and to fantasise, even if only for a moment, or two, that they dwell in Chelsea or Manhattan, or even the more cosmopolitan bits of Sydney or Melbourne.

Is it just the bar that is gay, or is it a gay bagel cafe as well?

Can I go there if i just want to get bagels and some schmear?

“drag talent night”

To quote Lisa Simpson, “I recognize all three of those words but that statement doesn’t make any sense.”

neanderthalsis12:51 pm 13 Jun 13

Is there some link between homosexuality and bagels that we haven’t been informed of?

R. Slicker said :

A return to Dickson. After the Ainslie Hotel kicked out the gays and went straight in 1980 the old Dickson Pub (The Dikko) became Canberra’s gay bar. After that in 1983 it was The Manhattan in Civic Walk until 1989 then Roxus near Civic Bus Interchange which was driven out of business in early 1991 after homophobic vandals broke in, daubed the words “Fags” “AIDS” and “Die” on the walls and completely trashed and flooded the place.

Canberra hasn’t had a gay venue since Hush Lounge in Phillip closed in 2011.

What about Cube?

thebrownstreak6912:38 pm 13 Jun 13

onDicks?

thefunmachine69 said :

SHOULD BE CALLED “DICKS-ON!”

“Scissors @ Dicks-on” would be more equitable.

What is with the censoring of “Nuclear War” in that video clip?

I thinks its the old owners of Hush lounge. The place looks good, appears they have invested some coin and colour into a location that has died many deaths. Anything to give hard punching Rao a run for his money.

thefunmachine6910:58 am 13 Jun 13

SHOULD BE CALLED “DICKS-ON!”

A return to Dickson. After the Ainslie Hotel kicked out the gays and went straight in 1980 the old Dickson Pub (The Dikko) became Canberra’s gay bar. After that in 1983 it was The Manhattan in Civic Walk until 1989 then Roxus near Civic Bus Interchange which was driven out of business in early 1991 after homophobic vandals broke in, daubed the words “Fags” “AIDS” and “Die” on the walls and completely trashed and flooded the place.

Canberra hasn’t had a gay venue since Hush Lounge in Phillip closed in 2011.

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