Gay Ibiza 2017?

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Tonys

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What's happening on Gay side this summer? No More Matinee NOR Supermartxe that used to Be very Gay nights.. IS Glitterbox The new Gay night or some other?
 
They are slowly pushing the gay side out of ibiza to make more room for the rich Arab tourists they want..I believe the Arabs dont like Gays..So I blame the people of Dubai again for this..
 
Tonys said:
OK. I'd appreciate a lot, If I could have some proper answers.
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Hola Tony ,

They are much less gay party in Ibiza for a few years already , beginning of 2000's every big club had at least one gay party , I'm not an expert on that but i think that the best way is to spend the day in es cavallet where I think it s still the gay beach of the island and see where the people are going out ! But to be honest big gay party in the famous club are something from the past ..
 
Glitterbox is certainly not a gay night, the opposite if anything. The crowd last year was like a sleazy high street disco, with guys more interested in groping girls than the music. Hated it.

My take on it is the majority of people who used to attend clubs were far more liberal, it was more underground and where nonconformists, deviants and rebels all mixed together no matter what sexual orientation. People felt safe and it was a space to be who you wanted to be, without being pointed at or filmed. It was our world and our little secret.

These days Ibiza is a sanitised version of what it used to be, marketed as the thing you have to do for the mainstream. The people that visit are far less liberal and are more interested in filming what is happening around them rather than taking part. Things aren't as loving and carefree anymore, with the champagne and patsy crowd making things more volatile. I believe that this is the reason nights aren't as mixed as they previously were.

I ran a night last year where we had a couple of 6ft drag queens on the door and I remember hearing a couple of people saying 'I didn't think it was that type of night!' In my early clubbing days, most clubs I went to classed themselves as mixed. Sadly no more, but trying to change that with my club Queens.
 
Dirk Bigler said:
Glitterbox is certainly not a gay night, the opposite if anything. The crowd last year was like a sleazy high street disco, with guys more interested in groping girls than the music. Hated it.

My take on it is the majority of people who used to attend clubs were far more liberal, it was more underground and where nonconformists, deviants and rebels all mixed together no matter what sexual orientation. People felt safe and it was a space to be who you wanted to be, without being pointed at or filmed. It was our world and our little secret.

These days Ibiza is a sanitised version of what it used to be, marketed as the thing you have to do for the mainstream. The people that visit are far less liberal and are more interested in filming what is happening around them rather than taking part. Things aren't as loving and carefree anymore, with the champagne and patsy crowd making things more volatile. I believe that this is the reason nights aren't as mixed as they previously were.

I ran a night last year where we had a couple of 6ft drag queens on the door and I remember hearing a couple of people saying 'I didn't think it was that type of night!' In my early clubbing days, most clubs I went to classed themselves as mixed. Sadly no more, but trying to change that with my club Queens.
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Nail on Head
 
Harvey gets a good mixed straight/gay crowd as do the likes of Futureboogie, Ray Mang, Felix Dickinson, Horsemeat whenever they're on the island. a lot of people will naturally migrate to those low-key, one-off events where there is guaranteed fun music and camp energy over some boring bloke-heavy lawler snoozeathon. the music scene has had to self-segregate unfortunately. the influx of dickheads has sadly made that necessary. the days when everyone could gather as one underneath a flightpath are dead - unless the clientele changes. but the boring bloke brigade are in the ascendancy and I can't see it improving any time soon...
 
Amp and Deck said:
Harvey gets a good mixed straight/gay crowd as do the likes of Futureboogie, Ray Mang, Felix Dickinson, Horsemeat whenever they're on the island. a lot of people will naturally migrate to those low-key, one-off events where there is guaranteed fun music and camp energy over some boring bloke-heavy lawler snoozeathon. the music scene has had to self-segregate unfortunately. the influx of dickheads has sadly made that necessary. the days when everyone could gather as one underneath a flightpath are dead - unless the clientele changes. but the boring bloke brigade are in the ascendancy and I can't see it improving any time soon...
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I no longer think Ibiza is seen as a 'gay destination' to a lot of gay guys. I am not really a great example, as personally I have also preferred mixed scenes, but I know many guys that will now take other destinations over Ibiza. Some feel that it is less safe and liberal as it once was, some feel the parties just become too straight. i.e. as the saying goes, you get the gays, then then girls, and them the boys chasing the girls. I think a lot of parties went this way.
 
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