#oldschoolgaybar

The night before leaving San Antonio, I realized I had been completely surrounded by hordes of Straight people for many days and needed to find some of my Queer folks! And while, that didn’t happen, I did find my Gays! Which is close enough!
I Googled a list of “Gay Bars”, which showed me the rough boundaries of the Gayborhood in San Antonio. And after getting tasty curry bbq, I walked towards it.
This was the first place on my list, and I immediately thought it was well and completely abandoned and closed down. So abandoned in fact, I thought it looked like a fantastic ruin of a gay bar. So I spent about 15 minutes just circling the place taking photos!
It wasn’t until I got to the parking lot side (I approached from the rear) - (settle down now!) that I saw the trucks and thought maybe it was actually open for business after all!
And after wondering exactly how bad and dangerous an idea it might be to go inside, I just opened the door and did it!
And was immediately rewarded by the most delightfully old school, and warmly welcoming, neighborhood gay bar!
Just a few folks sitting around a central square bar. And jukebox playing great 80s/90s music!
The whole bar joked around easily and I joyfully settled in to the banter! I had a lovely and wide ranging conversation with a local seated near me, which was easily the longest conversation I’d had all week, and very, very nice.
If you’re ever in San Antonio and need some good old fashioned Gay Bar atmosphere, in a chill neighborhood bar type place, I cannot more strongly recommend a visit to the Cobalt Club! And say hi to Jordan the bartender for me!

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(at Cobalt Club)
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