Gay Bar California

Having a conversation with a friend about how he attracts gay guys rather than women, which reminds me of my gay/lesbo encounter in California. I was freshly out of school, green and naive. Living in Silicon valley is so much like living in another huge university campus, everyone is nice and friendly. The weather is like virtue reality, I had blue sky and sunshine every day.

James was our HR manager, taking part in the sinking boat because I had to join at least 2 or 3 farewell lunch/drink/dinner every week. That was the dotcom boom, everyone is leaving to become a multimillionaire. I was not touched (only too happy to have a job from the cold and dead Toronto job market) and thought, well, if people kept leaving in this rate, I would become a director in no time. James was a friendly chap, I think he likes me because of my naiveness and purity. He is out of closet gay, he was holding back and didn't tell me whereabout his hangout is. A couple months later, he gave in.

James is flameboyant, stylish, not entirely girlish (you can feel the manhood in him). I was very suprised to find out his secret hiding, which was a seedy, rundown community pub in the quiet end in Mountain View on El Camino. I thought he would hang out in those posh, snobish and seemingly sophisticated (but at the end of day, we are just 5 year old and are too scared not to look sophisticated) places. And, most of all, it is a Karaoke bar, and everyone there is gay, from the bartendar to the Karaoke man, they are all down to earth and friendly. I love the place right away.

Not really being hit on by lesbians, just one woman old enough to be my mom (but have the boyish hairdo and stocky body build) was making a pass to me. The Karaoke crowd loved me, we sang and dance together (because i was not afraid of making fool of myself by singing and backup dancing for others). Ha, those were the good old times.