Feeling unsafe in a public washroom? Humber College has the solution! Just ignore how you're feeling and hope for the best.

Strangely enough, I've had several issues at a gay night club, one of which was in the female bathroom. The nightclub venue hosts a different club night each day of the week. I think a maximum of two of these nights the nightclub hosts 'gay' nights, the rest of the week the venue hosts straight club nights. (The club night I attended was Popstarz at La Scala, Kings Cross, London, several years ago.) Basically, the incidents involved a member of bar staff, presumably straight, and whom I assume were straight friends of the bar staff. I think it is likely that the straight bar staff tipped off their straight friends that the Popstarz club night had plenty of women, either lesbians or straight girls accompanying gale male friends. I think many women attending gay club nights, with predominantly gay clubbers, let their guard down, thinking that they will not get bothered by gay men, unsuspecting that there are still straight opportunists in the crowd. It was not unheard of for a gay guy to go in the ladies toilet with a female friend, perhaps to gossip or do drugs, I'm not sure. There was always quite a queue for the toilets. On one occasion I went in a cubicle, only to find myself followed by a guy in a bartenders uniform who shut the door, took out a spliff which he proceeded to light, whilst gesturing at the toilet and telling me 'go ahead'! Obviously I ran out, and to be fair although that was completely disrespectful, I don't think he had any motive other than smoking his spliff in secret. There was also an experience of being harassed by a big burly bloke on the dance floor. Like I said, I'm sure the straight bar staff tipped off their mates that there were women with their guard down at the gay club night, because they wouldn't be expecting straight guys with wandering hands. The issue is one of women letting their guard down because they have been conditioned to think that men are not out of place or a danger in female only spaces, and castigated for being silly if they are suspicious. I think women generally consider gay males to be safe males. In these scenarios, the men behaving objectionably were straight males in the context of a gay club night, they used the fact that the majority of men in attendance were gay as cover behaving inappropriately. If it was a straight nightclub, I automatically would have objected to men in the female toilets. Sorry for rambling, just about to go to bed!

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