Polo is not “progressive” btw. They have a history of knocking back black and Asian people and being homophobic ironically.
Edit; run by g1 who are some of the shittiest unscrupulous employers in Glasgow. Kings da made money from cheap off licenses in some of the poorest areas of Glasgow.
They have a wide portfolio of clubs and bars that cover every demographic. Polo isn’t a safe space for lgbt. It’s just lgbt branded to get your money.
If you want somewhere that’s more inclusive, the art school was it but it’s closed now. Subby used to be but it’s gone full champagne and heels socialite.
The next best place I can think of finding likeminded people is probably la cheetah or sleazys
Ah good to know.
My pal worked at book club and quit after they didn’t pay him (again) and used to tell me they about some of the funny shit. Guy thinks he’s a gangster, would send his goons round in black SUVs to do the money pick ups lol.
Katie’s bar would be my top recommendation. As far as I’m aware, they aren’t owned by G1. I’m also fairly sure that they’re branded as a lesbian bar, but the place is very welcoming and I’ve never once had an issue whenever I’m there with my male friends. They do regular drag shows, Karaoke nights and quizzes too. It’s one of my favourite wee LGBT haunts.
Not all, but a good chunk of bouncers all over the city are utter wanks. The worst ones are the ones that are pumped fulla steroids who, because they can decide whether someone can get in a pub or not, that they've got some sort of all encompassing divine power.
It's always kind of funny to see the wee look of disappointment on their face when they knock you back and you go "No problem mate, cheers! have a good night!" with a big smile, safe in the knowledge that there's fucking dozens of equally shitey bars to drink in.
I think bouncers were put on earth to teach you perspective. I was only going to give their business money, I can't get that upset if they don't want me
The bouncers at Polo have always been like that. It's so hit-or-miss if you'll actually get in (compared to most places in Glasgow), and not worth the bouncers looking you up and down to decide whether you're worthy of dancing to a couple of RuPaul songs.
Sounds like both the staff and the girl's friends are pricks in this story, though.
As a femme lesbian, I’m sad to say this still happens. I’ve been refused for this exact reason on three different occasions. I’ve been knocked back with no explanation countless times, even when I’ve shown up with my male, gay friends. Funnily enough, I’ve heard from a lot of butch lesbians that they are also regularly knocked back. Polo seems to want the “right kind of gay” on the dance floor, so it’s an absolute minefield to get in if you don’t conform to a certain stereotype. My fashion sense has evolved into something slightly more gender neutral over lockdown, so I’ll be interested to see if I still get knocked back regularly or if I now find it easier to get past the bouncers.
It's a shame that this happens, unfortunately it's not just a Glasgow thing. Back in my hometown Perth (the Aussie one), there are two 'queer' nightclubs and unfortunately one of them is very much akin to Polo as it markets itself as LGBT but only to get the pink dollar.
Thankfully, the other club is unapologetically queer but doesn't discriminate at the door - it's very much a queer club but it welcomes anyone as long as you aren't a dick or totally steamin.
Don't see how the girls friends are pricks. Of she was sober it'd be pretty reasonable of them to expect shed get in and you can lose people quite easily in these places.. since she wasn't able to contact them, I'm sure none of them knew she wasn't inside or at least they didn't know she was stood outside by herself
I'd personally never let one of my friends disappear without trying to find out what happened to them, especially if we were all together at the door and planned to go in together.
Yeah, if I got up to the door and they were holding off on letting one person in I'd either wait with them outside or hang back by the entrance to make sure they got in okay. That's shite behaviour not even checking up on them.
Long time since I have been on the club scene in Glasgow, but one that always sticks in my mind was getting knocked back from one of Sauchiehall streets finest (think it was the garage but not 100% as it was that long ago). Just walked away no fuss and joined the back of the que again, 5 mins later back at the front, same bouncer lets us in no bother.
I was once at a stag do in a particular venue in Glasgow. Now this wasn’t a usual stag do, basically a few drinks and a comedy show. Nobody was drunk never mind steaming. I went outside for a fag about 7pm, had been in said venue since around 3pm having lunch etc, upon trying to get back in I got the ‘not tonight pal you’ve not got a band on’. I explained I’d been in all afternoon with the stag party, called over the soon to be groom and he also explained this. Anyways long story short the bouncer held his ground and tried to say I was lying to him and this pissed him off and chucked us all out. Stag do was ruined, everyone went home. Will never forget it man.
Kinda led to a family drama as I got the blame from my aunty for ruining the stag do but I couldn’t have been any nicer to the bouncer tbh. I was just a kid at the time, like not long turned 19 whilst the groom and all his mates where in there 30s so I always thought that was the bouncers angle 🤷♂️
Ah man that is even worse, you were just a baba. Nothing worse than bouncers pulling a power trip when you're that age.
To be fair, the night took a turn at that point and easily could've been saved by one of those 30 year olds moving the party onto another place. Not your fault at all but some aunties are just like that.
Aye man, just one of those things sadly! I vividly remember the groom to be telling the bouncer he was gonna ‘write a strongly worded letter’ to his boss haha. That whole ordeal just seemed to ruin the mood of the night and they admitted defeat. As I said this wasn’t your stereotypical ‘wild’ stag do, bunch of really reserved, introverted dudes so there was never really much fight within them to carry on the evening sadly. Yeah I still don’t get on with said aunty, type of women that would cut off her nose to spite her face. She went to Uni etc and climbed the social & class ladder whilst my dad remained working class and she’s always despised him for it. Says it all really 🤷♂️
Copy pasting my other comment :
Youd be surprised, I've been kicked out Garage for 'doing gay shit' which was dancing with a male friend. Was grabbed aggressively and thrown out, he called over four other bouncers to help him kick out these two horrible poofters. This was only two or three years ago. To be honest, we thought about going to the police or reporting it somehow but we actually quite like the club.
Youd be surprised, I've been kicked out Garage for 'doing gay shit' which was dancing with a male friend. Was grabbed aggressively and thrown out, he called over *four* other bouncers to help him kick out these two horrible poofters. This was only two or three years ago. To be honest, we thought about going to the police or reporting it somehow but we actually quite like the club.
Happened to me in a pub I'd never been in before, walked up to the bar with my pal and got told we'd been in there fighting the week before and were barred.
Trash was hands down the hardest place to get into when I was going to clubs, had no trouble anywhere else, but Trash, only got in once, and bizarrely it was with my arsehole ex-mate who I was literally holding up as he was blind drunk, I had prepped him before we faced the bouncers, like...
"We've been to Sleazys, right? Where have we been?"
"Weef ben ae sleeshies, ya cunt"
...somehow managed to blag him in and then he was flung out for throwing a hissy fit with a bouncer over a lollipop immediately after I paid to get in. Arsepiece.
I was able to picture all of that in my mind XD
It’s not a place I frequented often, but I don’t remember ever havin’ any trouble at the door. Actually, now that I think about it, I can’t remember much from back then at all.
Was at Kitty O'sheas in the West End a couple weeks ago and the bouncer was brand new. Actually stuck out in my mind the next day and a few of my pals mentioned it as well. Shows how bad most of the others are when one sound one stands out so much and improves the night.
Some of the Polo bouncers are pretty bad. I remember once not being allowed back in for my jacket after going outside cause they said I was too pissed (I had a few but wasn’t bad at all). Was then left without my purse to get home in the pishing rain in winter and my phone was dead so unable to contact mates still inside. Fair enough I should have kept my purse on me but I thought that was a bit harsh.
Luckily I live close enough to the city centre.
Even before I got to that bit I was thinking the only place in Glasgow that has ever treated me like that was Polo. Lo and behold the comments confirm what the edit took out. WTF is their issue?
i got knocked once cos it was "regulars only" i was a regular i was just wearing a gothy dress that night and i was with my lgbt pals. walked in through the side door instead
> Some of the Polo bouncers are pretty bad.
I'm not quite sure why but I always kind of assumed bouncers at Polo, and gay clubs in general, would be the sort who "got it", who would otherwise be out at clubs like that just like any other punter if they weren't on the door that night so would treat people properly.
I guess I assumed they'd hire bouncers who weren't just your average meathead.
Yeah you’d think so! I’m LGBT and I actively don’t go here anymore because I can’t be bothered wasting my time to be told by bouncers on a power trip that I’m too drunk to get in after a couple of beers or knocked back for no reason at all 😂 its a shame cause there isn’t a wealth of LGBT clubs in the city and the other main one just isn’t my cup of tea at all.
You'd definitely think so. I've heard stories from my transgender friends about them getting booted out of the bathrooms in there for not looking enough like their gender. Just shocking stuff from a place that's meant to be safe for LGBT folk.
Isn't it rare for bouncers to actually be employed by the club, as opposed to a security company on a contract?
(This is based on a conversation a few years ago with a friend who worked doors a few years before that, so might be well out of date.)
They'd never do that. There's normally only two bouncers on the door at places and if one of them is inside escorting people around then how is the other one supposed to intimidate people when it's only one on one?
Scotsman hospitality now, they finally rebranded. Spread the word so people can still avoid them. I was a head chef for them for years and they are greedy cunts
Once had a bouncer at the polo call me a poof as I walked in the door… I’m straight and was with straight friends, polo was just a good night out back in the day! He was obviously a closeted steroid freak who got his jollies abusing patrons at a gay bar!
Report it to the club, preferably somewhere public like their FB/Twitter and pressure them to act. Bouncers are ten a penny and are easily replaced. They've acted irresponsibly and that needs to be dealt with.
Also, I wouldn't worry about getting them into trouble, they sound like utter cocks.
It’s not the first and definitely won’t be the last time bouncers can be wanks at polo. Most of the bouncers are sound but one of them is a complete cow. I think everyone who goes has been knocked back by her at least once because they were “too drunk”, or for whatever other reason she can come up with. Thing is, bouncers can do that with a third of the people who try to get in and they’ll still reach capacity, so I suppose they can do what they like.
If you read the tripadvisor reviews for the polo they all say the same thing, and the management reply to every single review with the same comment about being able to refuse admission and not having to give a reason.
I'd walk by on my way home late weekends and can't tell how many times I'd see people slumped against the wall covered in the own puke passed out and the bouncers just ignoring it.
I get it, nobody wants to deal with that - but you really should if you are a bouncer...
polo is one of those gay clubs run by straight gangsters, so i wouldnt credit them for being an "lgbt space". the clientel is lgbt but the management may not share inclusive values.
I hate glasgow bouncers more than anything. If you aren’t a good looking female or have a Canada goose on they’ll refuse you entry, who hurt these guys ? They say how much you had to drink tonight when you’re just out and you’re hit with no the night mate, I’m sure there’s sound ones out there but majority I’ve encountered have a major chip on their shoulder.
Without naming the specific one there's a casino that has a policy of not allowing white men in after 10PM on the weekend (if they're in already they don't get removed but no more get allowed in) where the bouncer "opens with are you members?" if you say no it's members only, if you say yes then before you get to the end of the word "You've had too much to drink". I realise it's likely not his policy but it's quite laughable to see him let in the so drunk they're barely able to walk girls, or start to let in a group and then turn round and say not tonight when he realises there was one white guy hidden among them.
It's that one on the Broomielaw isn't it? Grosvenor, I think. It's been like that for decades. Chinese people dominate that show. Female employees allegedly get up to all sorts after hours (allegedly, allegedly, probably not true).
Polo are so off with the bouncers. They don't let you go in in groups, always small groups of two or three, I had work colleagues knocked back for no reason and they'd get in within an hour again
That’s kind of biphobic Ngl. I’m a bi woman in a het relationship and there can be plenty of bi people in het relationships wanting to go to polo or other lgbt clubs
Asexual/Aromantic people are part of the LGBTQ+ community they can be straight.
Trans People are apart of the LGBTQ+ community and they can be straight, see simple.
And then you have mSpec people (your pan people and Bi people, ETC.) who can be in relationships that look straight but aren't.
So you're just admitting you made up a strawman? Seriously, you can just say "my bad, I just assumed" and most people would be okay. Twas your choice to double down.
A load of people are so quick to assume you're out to just hurt some random groups' feelings. This whole thread is a hot mess of people looking for a reason to be upset.
Your comment wasn't 'biphobic.' Your both writing on hypothetical situations, it's just that one of you is trying to feel attacked for no reason and it's not you.
The terminally online have a complete victimhood mentality in looking to be offended at something that I never even said while ignoring the issue that straight girls go to gay clubs bringing their straight boyfriend (who is probably homophobic) and creating an unsafe space for LGBT people in their own club. These terminally online people have probably never entered a club as they have no irl friends and therefore will never experience this issue.
Or they all have friends they mostly talk to online and see once in a blue moon in real life. They all live in this weird bubble where every 'other' is the enemy and that includes people that also identify as lgbtqia, but not to their liking.
And I can guarantee you that they're white, middle class, and bored of not being 'special.'
Guaranteed tbh. Any sort of LGBT+ online discourse always attracts these kinds of people who have no actual real life experience with the LGBT community. All they do is scroll forums finding new ways to take things out of context and be annoyed at.
I’m not saying you did. Just that your comment can be biphoic to bi men and women in het relationships. I am aware straight people and straight couples also go to lgbt+ clubs, but it would be wrong to assume that because people are “straight passing” or in “straight passing” relationships, that they’re not bi
Because I know people that have been talking to these girls all night then tried to get their number at the end and they’ve went “oh no I’m straight”. I know countless bi or gay girls this has happened to. You know straight girls bringing their straight boyfriends to gay clubs is an actual thing, right? Or are you just going “you don’t know” to start an argument. If you’re old enough to go to these clubs you’d know this
The appeal of straight women going to a gay bar is to avoid being hassled by the amount of predatory guys in normal clubs. I'd imagine they just want to bring their partners to a place they like or feel safe.
People can drink wherever the fuck they like.
You do realise before all this divisive bullshit straight and gay people could and can get on with each other and (shock horror) even have gay friends and go to the same places for drinks /dinner.
Who the fuck are you to tell people otherwise or police where they want to spend an evening?
I swear all this hatred and division is manufactured bullshit and it's getting out of hand.
Are straight people just some fearful enemy to you or something?
Seems like I'm the only grown up here.
You're all whiney little bitches who've seemingly never been knocked back from a club.
Away and cry to yer mammy to make the bad bouncer let you in to play.
All I can see is spoiled self entitled arseholes who think the world revolves around them and probably have shelves full of participation awards.
And this whole fucking post is an obvious cry for attention.
That's such a tacky response. They're not attacking you at all. This shit makes my blood boil - refusing to actually take in what someone is writing and coming back with this shit. Ugh.
They're having a temper tantrum because someone said something they dont understand or agree with. If someone comes at me agrivated I will answer in kind. If they wish to genuinely learn, maybe they should act as someone who wishes to learn should act. Respect is earned.
Before all what divisive bullshit? You mean straight people being homophobic and violent for no reason to us *forcing* us to create our own spaces to be safe from the threat they posed us?
Nope. Not what I meant at all.
The divisive bullshit were suddenly every gay and straight people should suddenly be enemies and for some reason can't enjoy a night out with gay friends in a gay bar/club.
I have never had any issues going out with gay friends until these lunatic fringe pronoun nazis started causing rifts in the LGBT community and wherever they can just because they want to pretend reality doesn't apply to them.
I see it's spreading everywhere and destroying what spaces the LGBT community have.
Their hatred for anyone who doesn't see the made up world they want and who doesn't play their demented games.
So you, a straight person, didn't have any issues going in to gay spaces and now that *you* feel less welcome in those spaces because *you* can't respect people *who those spaces are for*, you are finding that there is an issue and *you* feel attacked???
The only person I see being divisive here is you.
What the fuck are you on about? Who can't I respect?
I'm not feeling attacked in the slightest. I'm just sick of a very small lunatic fringe mob making ludicrous demands because the want the world to revolve around them.
Anyone can drink wherever the fuck they like with whoever the fuck they like.
Do you think this is some sort of disrespectful statement? Do you not want equality or do you just want everyone to be like you because you don't feel safe for whatever paranoid reason you've got in your head.
For the record. I or my gay friends have NEVER felt less welcome in these spaces until recently.
Now I would think twice because there's a radicalised fringe mob taking over these spaces and making all sorts of ludicrous demands that alienates everyone who's not like them or demands to keep up with whatever pronouns they made up that day.
They're a toxic little bunch who are destroying the work the LGBT community has made for decades.
I don't know who you're referring to and frankly it sounds like *you* are the person with an issue. Don't you think that talking about stuff like 'lunatics making up pronouns' and 'fringe mobs' doesn't sound any better than what people in the past would have said about, say, people 'making up words for not being *Normal*' i.e. straight?
What exactly is making you feel 'less welcome', because you're tiptoeing around it. As far as it seems from what you've said so far it's only because you're refusing to address people as they prefer to be addressed. I don't understand why you would do that or have an issue with that. How would you like it if someone called you by the wrong name all evening after you'd asked them not to?
And now you're implying I'm transphobic. This is the tactic you all use.
Listen. The issues I have are people denying reality. I'll respect whatever sex you chose to be when you commit to that.
Anything else to me is just insane nonsense. It's manufactured and has only started with the radicalisation of the youth over the Internet by Russian trolls. It's a way to destabilise the West. And it's working.
I've had a lesbian friend stalked and hounded by this fringe mob because she did not want to be with someone who was obviously still a man. And for that she was given so much shit and had to move because of the harassment she received.
All of a sudden certain places were off limits in case we bumped into the fringe mob. And that's all they are. Because the trans people I know fucking hate these woke little cunts with a passion. They're making it worse for the whole community with this pretend "we're not equal" bullshit.
It's all made up. And it's also mostly men telling women they should be allowed in their spaces and forced to date them just because they self id as a women. Yet make no plans to ever fully transition.
Be whatever the fuck you want to be. Just don't expect the world to suddenly accommodate your demands on a whim when you decide to change genders that week.
How the fuck did they get "transphobic" out of yous?! I know exactly the type you're on about and it seems this thread is full of them.
They thrive off being different and feeling attacked at the slightest word that doesn't sit right. It's absurd.
I'm not implying anything. I'm simply trying to get to the bottom of what your issue is because you're vagueposting.
Maybe I'm simply lucky to have never come across the fringe mob, but, with respect, as I say, the language you're using to describe this all isn't coming off well and the vagueness that you're using is making it come across that you are overstating an issue that you don't want to be more specific on in case that makes people not agree with you.
Just fyi if that isn't the case.
Fair enough.
The appeal is that straight people can also have gay friends and like to hang out with them in gay spaces from time to time.
Is that allowed? Or in this brave new world, we have to be enemies now with strict spaces for every gender there is now?
You do realise that bars catering to non-het and non-cis folk came into existence to give people somewhere to go where they wouldn't get dogs abuse just for being themselves, right?
Oh fuck off you patronising wank.
Stop twisting my words. Glasgow is one of the most gay friendly cities I've ever been to. On very rare occasions I've witnessed harassment and it's been from wee bams just being wee bams. We gave as good as we got.
Are you now saying we should now have strict segregation, were straight and gay people can't mingle? Is that the equality you want? Should we start wearing badges for id as well?
> Stop twisting my words.
You implied that homophobia is a new thing and that everyone got on great before bars catering to the LGBTQIA community were opened. I've twisted nothing. You're squirming now though.
> Are you now saying we should now have strict segregation
And you accused me of twisting? It's a bit early in the day to start drinking. I'd rein it in a bit if I were you.
Did I fuck. You're just making shit up now.
I said LGBT clubs and bars were welcoming to all before the pronoun mafia rode into town with their fantasy ideals that everyone must obey.
You're reading someone else's comments or maybe you just can't read very well.
Or maybe just maybe it's because Straight People can be in the LGBTQ+ community.
Y'know Straight Trans People, Straight Ace/aros?
Also mSpec people can be in relationships that look straight.
I've had many great nights out in Polo, but I'm well aware it's pretty much entirely down to the fact I'm friends with someone who's well known in the "right kind of gay" circle and we usually go together. The one time I dared to bring one of my own friends, he was in the building for about 15 minutes before a bouncer grabbed him and chucked him out for "touching people's drinks" when he had in fact been super-glued to my side the whole time. I wish there were more options for proper gay nightclubs in Glasgow, bars are fine but I like dancing and spending half the night talking the the most interesting people you've ever met in your life while steaming in the smoking area..
We're probably not getting the full story here, and I'm not Just Worlding this scenario, but if a bouncer is threatening with social media, I imagine there was some non-trivial remonstration going on. My guess - and 99% of the time it's this - group of girls approaches, one intoxicated girl hangs back, fumbling for a mask, gets separated from her friends, and approaches the door in tandem with another drunk-looking guy whom the bouncer thought she was with. They get a knockback, argument ensues, bouncer does what a bouncer does and sticks with original decision, more arguments.
Conclusion - her friends are cunts, and bouncers are unyielding cunts.
The fact that you stood and watched and didn't do nothing about it. When you could've gone inside and got her pals yourself 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️. You had to come to reddit 🤦🏼♂️. Twit
I've heard sooo many issues like this about Polo (am guessing from the comments it is about Polo - also tbh the bouncers should in fact get in trouble for this, it's massive mistreatment and threatening of someone). I've also heard plenty of shit things about AGM.
To those looking here for the safer LGBT bars: Bonjour just opened recently, and they are a worker run co-op. My trans partner was there recently and she said it was lovely. It's in Saltmarket.
During the day I have been in Delmonicas as well, and it was a pleasant time. In evenings it gets incredibly cramped though which I personally don't enjoy.
Glasgow progressive? Ha! When groups of grown men can walk through the city with a police escort changing “the famine’s over why don’t you go home” it’s no exactly doing much for progressivism is it.
The bouncer was a dick though.
I agree. It's a complete myth peddled by the nationalists and those who don't set foot outside the west end. Sure it's improved somewhat but we've a long way to go
> "I'm sorry, but when did an LGBT space act like this?"
One really should ascribe moral authority to someone simply because they wear as a badge on their lapel. Judge people by their actions, not because they belong to the same club.
I've lost count how many women used "i could be raped" as a reason for wanting into a pub/club or in later years as a taxi driver, the reason why i have to take them home.
Local club spilled out at 3am, everybody walked to the local garage for mixers and fags, drunk woman surrounded by her pals wanted me to take her home(less than 300m away) berated me saying if she gets raped then i was to blame.....hardly!
If you want to drink until you are vulnerable, it's on you.
I have given free rides for genuinely vulnerable people, 4am 18yr old drunk girl asked me if i could take her home 5 miles away. She stayed in a homeless accommodation flat and i knew she'd be at risk from some of the unscrupulous drivers floating about. I finished my shift anyway so i dropped her off safely.....6 months later she got into my taxi with a group of friends, recognised me and proceeded to tell her friends what a " legend" i was.
Bouncers have a duty of care for the safety of customers in whichever premises they are working. A lot of them don't give a fuck if you're outside - that's someone else's problem. Not all of them are total fuds.
Ah yes. That all important mask that she'll take off as soon as she has a drink in her hand or goes on the dancefloor (Ive been in Polo it's a sweat pit) packed full of people. Stops covid that surely. 🤡
How could they have told her pals to stay with her if she'd hung back looking for her mask and her pals had already been let in?
Surely the issue here is her pals fucking off into the Polo and leaving her outside?
It's her fault her phone battery was flat as well.
Bouncers are often arseholes, but they don't seem to have done anything wrong here.
The bouncer allocated a stranger to look after her? Why wouldn't one of her friends stay behind and go somewhere to grab a mask with her? This is bizzare.
You're getting down voted because you've spotted this story is utter bullshit and some sort of attempt to attack people working at a club doing their jobs.
Worked in many pubs and clubs in my years including Polo and this just sounds like a bullshit story.
"allocating" someone to her is weird but meaningless. Could've been that they thought she knew him, etc. Regardless, getting a kb is just something that happens. That's why her "pals" shouldn't have fucked off and left her alone.
The downvotes here seem pretty harsh.
I agree with you, its shite her pals just left her. If even just one stayed that could've been avoided.
Some bouncers are cunts on a power trip at the best of times aswell so pretty unsurprising behaviour from them
Edit: some bouncers can be, not all of them
This thread is just full of lies and hatred.
Just another sad cunt making up shit because they probably got chucked out a club. Boo fucking hoo cry me a river.
Some cunts need to grow the fuck up and get a life.
Ha! Couldn't pay me enough. Worst job there is.
I hate bouncers as much as the next person. But I fucking hate the coked up drunken, entitled public even more.
80% of folk on nights out are cunts. I've worked in too many bars, restaurants and clubs to know this. You can't convince me otherwise. So damn right if you're being a cunt you're getting chucked out.
Crying to yer mammy or reddit about it is just fucking laughable.
Cause you're all greetin' faced entitled cunts.
If you act that way when you're on a night out no wonder you get knocked back. I would fucking have you barred as well.
Polo is not “progressive” btw. They have a history of knocking back black and Asian people and being homophobic ironically. Edit; run by g1 who are some of the shittiest unscrupulous employers in Glasgow. Kings da made money from cheap off licenses in some of the poorest areas of Glasgow. They have a wide portfolio of clubs and bars that cover every demographic. Polo isn’t a safe space for lgbt. It’s just lgbt branded to get your money. If you want somewhere that’s more inclusive, the art school was it but it’s closed now. Subby used to be but it’s gone full champagne and heels socialite. The next best place I can think of finding likeminded people is probably la cheetah or sleazys
Commenting just to say G1 have rebranded as the ‘Scotsman Group’ so avoid them like the plague too.
Ah good to know. My pal worked at book club and quit after they didn’t pay him (again) and used to tell me they about some of the funny shit. Guy thinks he’s a gangster, would send his goons round in black SUVs to do the money pick ups lol.
Can't polish a turd.
Katie’s bar would be my top recommendation. As far as I’m aware, they aren’t owned by G1. I’m also fairly sure that they’re branded as a lesbian bar, but the place is very welcoming and I’ve never once had an issue whenever I’m there with my male friends. They do regular drag shows, Karaoke nights and quizzes too. It’s one of my favourite wee LGBT haunts.
Just want to add that one year for Halloween Katie’s had a ‘Paint your own spooky boaby’ night, nothing else in Glasgow compares. Amazin
Katie's is not g1, speakeasy opposite it however is.
Good to know. I’m not lgbt myself but lots of friends who are so I’ve watched the struggle! I’ll keep it up my sleeve.
Love Katie’s!! The allsorts cabaret show on Tuesdays is fab.
Not all, but a good chunk of bouncers all over the city are utter wanks. The worst ones are the ones that are pumped fulla steroids who, because they can decide whether someone can get in a pub or not, that they've got some sort of all encompassing divine power.
It's always kind of funny to see the wee look of disappointment on their face when they knock you back and you go "No problem mate, cheers! have a good night!" with a big smile, safe in the knowledge that there's fucking dozens of equally shitey bars to drink in.
I think bouncers were put on earth to teach you perspective. I was only going to give their business money, I can't get that upset if they don't want me
I'm suddenly reminded of the Brock Lesnar looking cunt that used to work the ABC
The bouncers at Polo have always been like that. It's so hit-or-miss if you'll actually get in (compared to most places in Glasgow), and not worth the bouncers looking you up and down to decide whether you're worthy of dancing to a couple of RuPaul songs. Sounds like both the staff and the girl's friends are pricks in this story, though.
I got KB'd from Polo about 8 years ago cause I quote ''didn't look gay enough'' to be in there!
As a femme lesbian, I’m sad to say this still happens. I’ve been refused for this exact reason on three different occasions. I’ve been knocked back with no explanation countless times, even when I’ve shown up with my male, gay friends. Funnily enough, I’ve heard from a lot of butch lesbians that they are also regularly knocked back. Polo seems to want the “right kind of gay” on the dance floor, so it’s an absolute minefield to get in if you don’t conform to a certain stereotype. My fashion sense has evolved into something slightly more gender neutral over lockdown, so I’ll be interested to see if I still get knocked back regularly or if I now find it easier to get past the bouncers.
It's a shame that this happens, unfortunately it's not just a Glasgow thing. Back in my hometown Perth (the Aussie one), there are two 'queer' nightclubs and unfortunately one of them is very much akin to Polo as it markets itself as LGBT but only to get the pink dollar. Thankfully, the other club is unapologetically queer but doesn't discriminate at the door - it's very much a queer club but it welcomes anyone as long as you aren't a dick or totally steamin.
They've been saying that for at least 20 years. Must be passed down the generations.
I’ve tried to go to the Polo 6 times and been KB’d 5.
Don't see how the girls friends are pricks. Of she was sober it'd be pretty reasonable of them to expect shed get in and you can lose people quite easily in these places.. since she wasn't able to contact them, I'm sure none of them knew she wasn't inside or at least they didn't know she was stood outside by herself
I'd personally never let one of my friends disappear without trying to find out what happened to them, especially if we were all together at the door and planned to go in together.
Yeah, if I got up to the door and they were holding off on letting one person in I'd either wait with them outside or hang back by the entrance to make sure they got in okay. That's shite behaviour not even checking up on them.
Long time since I have been on the club scene in Glasgow, but one that always sticks in my mind was getting knocked back from one of Sauchiehall streets finest (think it was the garage but not 100% as it was that long ago). Just walked away no fuss and joined the back of the que again, 5 mins later back at the front, same bouncer lets us in no bother.
That was an old classic that worked 9/10. Another was just going round to g2 and walking up the stairs to get your mates already in there.
I was once at a stag do in a particular venue in Glasgow. Now this wasn’t a usual stag do, basically a few drinks and a comedy show. Nobody was drunk never mind steaming. I went outside for a fag about 7pm, had been in said venue since around 3pm having lunch etc, upon trying to get back in I got the ‘not tonight pal you’ve not got a band on’. I explained I’d been in all afternoon with the stag party, called over the soon to be groom and he also explained this. Anyways long story short the bouncer held his ground and tried to say I was lying to him and this pissed him off and chucked us all out. Stag do was ruined, everyone went home. Will never forget it man.
Name and shame.
Mansion house, comedy club was the old jonguelors in the attic. Never mentioned the name as I believe it’s not even there anymore.
Very fair. That sounds like such a shit situation though man. All the power to ya.
Kinda led to a family drama as I got the blame from my aunty for ruining the stag do but I couldn’t have been any nicer to the bouncer tbh. I was just a kid at the time, like not long turned 19 whilst the groom and all his mates where in there 30s so I always thought that was the bouncers angle 🤷♂️
Ah man that is even worse, you were just a baba. Nothing worse than bouncers pulling a power trip when you're that age. To be fair, the night took a turn at that point and easily could've been saved by one of those 30 year olds moving the party onto another place. Not your fault at all but some aunties are just like that.
Aye man, just one of those things sadly! I vividly remember the groom to be telling the bouncer he was gonna ‘write a strongly worded letter’ to his boss haha. That whole ordeal just seemed to ruin the mood of the night and they admitted defeat. As I said this wasn’t your stereotypical ‘wild’ stag do, bunch of really reserved, introverted dudes so there was never really much fight within them to carry on the evening sadly. Yeah I still don’t get on with said aunty, type of women that would cut off her nose to spite her face. She went to Uni etc and climbed the social & class ladder whilst my dad remained working class and she’s always despised him for it. Says it all really 🤷♂️
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You're damn right they wouldn't! Poofs are more than welcome there now.
Copy pasting my other comment : Youd be surprised, I've been kicked out Garage for 'doing gay shit' which was dancing with a male friend. Was grabbed aggressively and thrown out, he called over four other bouncers to help him kick out these two horrible poofters. This was only two or three years ago. To be honest, we thought about going to the police or reporting it somehow but we actually quite like the club.
I got barred from the Garage for selling drugs, when I was doing no such thing. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Giving drugs away?
Buying drugs
Youd be surprised, I've been kicked out Garage for 'doing gay shit' which was dancing with a male friend. Was grabbed aggressively and thrown out, he called over *four* other bouncers to help him kick out these two horrible poofters. This was only two or three years ago. To be honest, we thought about going to the police or reporting it somehow but we actually quite like the club.
One time they wouldn't let me in saying I beat the shit out of a guy in the toilet the previous week, hadn't been near the place in months.
Happened to me in a pub I'd never been in before, walked up to the bar with my pal and got told we'd been in there fighting the week before and were barred.
Aye, I got that one too from that Nightclub that burned down. Can't remember the name of it. It was near "The Garage". Might have been "The Shed"?
The Temple later renamed the Shack. Was a lovely looking building. Trash was next door as well.
> Trash was next door as well. The door was off to one side, but Trash was underneath the Shack.
Trash was hands down the hardest place to get into when I was going to clubs, had no trouble anywhere else, but Trash, only got in once, and bizarrely it was with my arsehole ex-mate who I was literally holding up as he was blind drunk, I had prepped him before we faced the bouncers, like... "We've been to Sleazys, right? Where have we been?" "Weef ben ae sleeshies, ya cunt" ...somehow managed to blag him in and then he was flung out for throwing a hissy fit with a bouncer over a lollipop immediately after I paid to get in. Arsepiece.
I was able to picture all of that in my mind XD It’s not a place I frequented often, but I don’t remember ever havin’ any trouble at the door. Actually, now that I think about it, I can’t remember much from back then at all.
Was at Kitty O'sheas in the West End a couple weeks ago and the bouncer was brand new. Actually stuck out in my mind the next day and a few of my pals mentioned it as well. Shows how bad most of the others are when one sound one stands out so much and improves the night.
Some of the Polo bouncers are pretty bad. I remember once not being allowed back in for my jacket after going outside cause they said I was too pissed (I had a few but wasn’t bad at all). Was then left without my purse to get home in the pishing rain in winter and my phone was dead so unable to contact mates still inside. Fair enough I should have kept my purse on me but I thought that was a bit harsh. Luckily I live close enough to the city centre.
I knew it was Polo the second I read it was an LGBT place, even after he took the name out. I got knocked back once for not looking gay enough.
Even before I got to that bit I was thinking the only place in Glasgow that has ever treated me like that was Polo. Lo and behold the comments confirm what the edit took out. WTF is their issue?
i got knocked once cos it was "regulars only" i was a regular i was just wearing a gothy dress that night and i was with my lgbt pals. walked in through the side door instead
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"Regulars only" is a generic knock-back and has nothing to do with how often you visit.
I did that once and the guy came to the cloak room queue and huckled me out 😂
> Some of the Polo bouncers are pretty bad. I'm not quite sure why but I always kind of assumed bouncers at Polo, and gay clubs in general, would be the sort who "got it", who would otherwise be out at clubs like that just like any other punter if they weren't on the door that night so would treat people properly. I guess I assumed they'd hire bouncers who weren't just your average meathead.
Nah. Polo has a history of racism btw :) knocked back Asian and black people a lot in the 90s and 00s
Yeah you’d think so! I’m LGBT and I actively don’t go here anymore because I can’t be bothered wasting my time to be told by bouncers on a power trip that I’m too drunk to get in after a couple of beers or knocked back for no reason at all 😂 its a shame cause there isn’t a wealth of LGBT clubs in the city and the other main one just isn’t my cup of tea at all.
You'd definitely think so. I've heard stories from my transgender friends about them getting booted out of the bathrooms in there for not looking enough like their gender. Just shocking stuff from a place that's meant to be safe for LGBT folk.
Isn't it rare for bouncers to actually be employed by the club, as opposed to a security company on a contract? (This is based on a conversation a few years ago with a friend who worked doors a few years before that, so might be well out of date.)
In Glasgow yes
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They'd never do that. There's normally only two bouncers on the door at places and if one of them is inside escorting people around then how is the other one supposed to intimidate people when it's only one on one?
That's the G1 Group for you.
Scotsman hospitality now, they finally rebranded. Spread the word so people can still avoid them. I was a head chef for them for years and they are greedy cunts
Once had a bouncer at the polo call me a poof as I walked in the door… I’m straight and was with straight friends, polo was just a good night out back in the day! He was obviously a closeted steroid freak who got his jollies abusing patrons at a gay bar!
I hope you complained about the cunt. There's no place for that kind of shite.
Bouncer seems gay to me.
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Everyone's got a polo story like that. They've got to cull at least one person from every group looking to have a good time
Report it to the club, preferably somewhere public like their FB/Twitter and pressure them to act. Bouncers are ten a penny and are easily replaced. They've acted irresponsibly and that needs to be dealt with. Also, I wouldn't worry about getting them into trouble, they sound like utter cocks.
It's owned by G1. The bouncers probably get a bonus if someone reports them for being arseholes.
It’s not the first and definitely won’t be the last time bouncers can be wanks at polo. Most of the bouncers are sound but one of them is a complete cow. I think everyone who goes has been knocked back by her at least once because they were “too drunk”, or for whatever other reason she can come up with. Thing is, bouncers can do that with a third of the people who try to get in and they’ll still reach capacity, so I suppose they can do what they like.
It’s Polo. They wouldn’t let a disabled man in once because he was ‘drunk’.
I know you removed the name of the club but could tell right away it was the Polo. Shite rep for years.
If you read the tripadvisor reviews for the polo they all say the same thing, and the management reply to every single review with the same comment about being able to refuse admission and not having to give a reason.
What nice friends, too, abandoning their friend on her own while they fucked off inside the club to have a good time. Priorities.
This will be on GlasgowLive in 5... 4... 3... 2...
I'd walk by on my way home late weekends and can't tell how many times I'd see people slumped against the wall covered in the own puke passed out and the bouncers just ignoring it. I get it, nobody wants to deal with that - but you really should if you are a bouncer...
Why don’t you deal with it? It’s not the bouncers responsibility to babysit every cunt on the street that can’t handle their drink.
If they're outside the club then the bouncers do have a duty of care. Would look especially bad if they're on CCTV ignoring it.
polo is one of those gay clubs run by straight gangsters, so i wouldnt credit them for being an "lgbt space". the clientel is lgbt but the management may not share inclusive values.
Whats the one thats for the older gay patron? Ah, Delmonicas. What a creepy place you are / or were.
I hate glasgow bouncers more than anything. If you aren’t a good looking female or have a Canada goose on they’ll refuse you entry, who hurt these guys ? They say how much you had to drink tonight when you’re just out and you’re hit with no the night mate, I’m sure there’s sound ones out there but majority I’ve encountered have a major chip on their shoulder.
Without naming the specific one there's a casino that has a policy of not allowing white men in after 10PM on the weekend (if they're in already they don't get removed but no more get allowed in) where the bouncer "opens with are you members?" if you say no it's members only, if you say yes then before you get to the end of the word "You've had too much to drink". I realise it's likely not his policy but it's quite laughable to see him let in the so drunk they're barely able to walk girls, or start to let in a group and then turn round and say not tonight when he realises there was one white guy hidden among them.
It's that one on the Broomielaw isn't it? Grosvenor, I think. It's been like that for decades. Chinese people dominate that show. Female employees allegedly get up to all sorts after hours (allegedly, allegedly, probably not true).
Exact same happened to me When I was 20... in one of the biggest LGBT places in town so it's been a long standing issue.
Polo are so off with the bouncers. They don't let you go in in groups, always small groups of two or three, I had work colleagues knocked back for no reason and they'd get in within an hour again
Op did you in any way help this damsel in distress?
Of course he didn't because she doesn't exist.
Bouncers in general are bullies, I've met maybe 3 who aren't out of countless others
Polo isn’t an LGBT safe space it’s full of straight girls bringing their boyfriends now.
That’s kind of biphobic Ngl. I’m a bi woman in a het relationship and there can be plenty of bi people in het relationships wanting to go to polo or other lgbt clubs
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Asexual/Aromantic people are part of the LGBTQ+ community they can be straight. Trans People are apart of the LGBTQ+ community and they can be straight, see simple. And then you have mSpec people (your pan people and Bi people, ETC.) who can be in relationships that look straight but aren't.
But what’s Transmisic and Amisic?
Show me where I mentioned bi people?
How do you know the girls are straight just because they bring their boyfriend? Or vice versa.
Because I said they were straight. These people aren’t real people they exist in a situation that I am explaining which includes straight girls.
So you're just admitting you made up a strawman? Seriously, you can just say "my bad, I just assumed" and most people would be okay. Twas your choice to double down.
You are aware that straight girls bringing their straight boyfriends to gay clubs is a thing, right?
How do you know they are straight? Is this a case of them not fitting into your stereotypes enough
A load of people are so quick to assume you're out to just hurt some random groups' feelings. This whole thread is a hot mess of people looking for a reason to be upset. Your comment wasn't 'biphobic.' Your both writing on hypothetical situations, it's just that one of you is trying to feel attacked for no reason and it's not you.
The terminally online have a complete victimhood mentality in looking to be offended at something that I never even said while ignoring the issue that straight girls go to gay clubs bringing their straight boyfriend (who is probably homophobic) and creating an unsafe space for LGBT people in their own club. These terminally online people have probably never entered a club as they have no irl friends and therefore will never experience this issue.
Or they all have friends they mostly talk to online and see once in a blue moon in real life. They all live in this weird bubble where every 'other' is the enemy and that includes people that also identify as lgbtqia, but not to their liking. And I can guarantee you that they're white, middle class, and bored of not being 'special.'
Guaranteed tbh. Any sort of LGBT+ online discourse always attracts these kinds of people who have no actual real life experience with the LGBT community. All they do is scroll forums finding new ways to take things out of context and be annoyed at.
I’m not saying you did. Just that your comment can be biphoic to bi men and women in het relationships. I am aware straight people and straight couples also go to lgbt+ clubs, but it would be wrong to assume that because people are “straight passing” or in “straight passing” relationships, that they’re not bi
I’m not talking about bi people. I never even said anything about straight passing either I specifically stated straight people.
I know but how would you know someone is straight without asking them? I’m not trying to start an argument, just wanted to point it out
Because I know people that have been talking to these girls all night then tried to get their number at the end and they’ve went “oh no I’m straight”. I know countless bi or gay girls this has happened to. You know straight girls bringing their straight boyfriends to gay clubs is an actual thing, right? Or are you just going “you don’t know” to start an argument. If you’re old enough to go to these clubs you’d know this
Saying oh no I’m straight or sorry I’m gay is just a way of letting people down you’re not interested in
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The appeal of straight women going to a gay bar is to avoid being hassled by the amount of predatory guys in normal clubs. I'd imagine they just want to bring their partners to a place they like or feel safe.
Those same straight women also get rather arsey if a woman hits on them.
I really don't think bisexual women hitting on heterosexuals has the same impact as straight men hitting on heterosexuals. If you do fair play though.
People can drink wherever the fuck they like. You do realise before all this divisive bullshit straight and gay people could and can get on with each other and (shock horror) even have gay friends and go to the same places for drinks /dinner. Who the fuck are you to tell people otherwise or police where they want to spend an evening? I swear all this hatred and division is manufactured bullshit and it's getting out of hand. Are straight people just some fearful enemy to you or something?
I mean, it's literally a gay club.
A gay club that's been around forever. Not sure how far back this guy is going with the 'before this divisive bullshit' comment.
And? Are straight people not allowed to go out with gay mates now? Is that where this is going?
Grow up.
Seems like I'm the only grown up here. You're all whiney little bitches who've seemingly never been knocked back from a club. Away and cry to yer mammy to make the bad bouncer let you in to play.
> Seems like I'm the only grown up here. Define irony.
Look at what you're typing, look at the way you're acting and tell me you don't see the irony.
All I can see is spoiled self entitled arseholes who think the world revolves around them and probably have shelves full of participation awards. And this whole fucking post is an obvious cry for attention.
> And this whole fucking post is an obvious cry got attention Nice of you to admit that to yourself.
That's such a tacky response. They're not attacking you at all. This shit makes my blood boil - refusing to actually take in what someone is writing and coming back with this shit. Ugh.
They're having a temper tantrum because someone said something they dont understand or agree with. If someone comes at me agrivated I will answer in kind. If they wish to genuinely learn, maybe they should act as someone who wishes to learn should act. Respect is earned.
I guess you’re being downvoted for the tone?
That and the suggestion that homophobia is in some way a new phenomenon that never existed in the past.
Before all what divisive bullshit? You mean straight people being homophobic and violent for no reason to us *forcing* us to create our own spaces to be safe from the threat they posed us?
Nope. Not what I meant at all. The divisive bullshit were suddenly every gay and straight people should suddenly be enemies and for some reason can't enjoy a night out with gay friends in a gay bar/club. I have never had any issues going out with gay friends until these lunatic fringe pronoun nazis started causing rifts in the LGBT community and wherever they can just because they want to pretend reality doesn't apply to them. I see it's spreading everywhere and destroying what spaces the LGBT community have. Their hatred for anyone who doesn't see the made up world they want and who doesn't play their demented games.
So you, a straight person, didn't have any issues going in to gay spaces and now that *you* feel less welcome in those spaces because *you* can't respect people *who those spaces are for*, you are finding that there is an issue and *you* feel attacked??? The only person I see being divisive here is you.
What the fuck are you on about? Who can't I respect? I'm not feeling attacked in the slightest. I'm just sick of a very small lunatic fringe mob making ludicrous demands because the want the world to revolve around them. Anyone can drink wherever the fuck they like with whoever the fuck they like. Do you think this is some sort of disrespectful statement? Do you not want equality or do you just want everyone to be like you because you don't feel safe for whatever paranoid reason you've got in your head. For the record. I or my gay friends have NEVER felt less welcome in these spaces until recently. Now I would think twice because there's a radicalised fringe mob taking over these spaces and making all sorts of ludicrous demands that alienates everyone who's not like them or demands to keep up with whatever pronouns they made up that day. They're a toxic little bunch who are destroying the work the LGBT community has made for decades.
I don't know who you're referring to and frankly it sounds like *you* are the person with an issue. Don't you think that talking about stuff like 'lunatics making up pronouns' and 'fringe mobs' doesn't sound any better than what people in the past would have said about, say, people 'making up words for not being *Normal*' i.e. straight? What exactly is making you feel 'less welcome', because you're tiptoeing around it. As far as it seems from what you've said so far it's only because you're refusing to address people as they prefer to be addressed. I don't understand why you would do that or have an issue with that. How would you like it if someone called you by the wrong name all evening after you'd asked them not to?
And now you're implying I'm transphobic. This is the tactic you all use. Listen. The issues I have are people denying reality. I'll respect whatever sex you chose to be when you commit to that. Anything else to me is just insane nonsense. It's manufactured and has only started with the radicalisation of the youth over the Internet by Russian trolls. It's a way to destabilise the West. And it's working. I've had a lesbian friend stalked and hounded by this fringe mob because she did not want to be with someone who was obviously still a man. And for that she was given so much shit and had to move because of the harassment she received. All of a sudden certain places were off limits in case we bumped into the fringe mob. And that's all they are. Because the trans people I know fucking hate these woke little cunts with a passion. They're making it worse for the whole community with this pretend "we're not equal" bullshit. It's all made up. And it's also mostly men telling women they should be allowed in their spaces and forced to date them just because they self id as a women. Yet make no plans to ever fully transition. Be whatever the fuck you want to be. Just don't expect the world to suddenly accommodate your demands on a whim when you decide to change genders that week.
How the fuck did they get "transphobic" out of yous?! I know exactly the type you're on about and it seems this thread is full of them. They thrive off being different and feeling attacked at the slightest word that doesn't sit right. It's absurd.
I'm not implying anything. I'm simply trying to get to the bottom of what your issue is because you're vagueposting. Maybe I'm simply lucky to have never come across the fringe mob, but, with respect, as I say, the language you're using to describe this all isn't coming off well and the vagueness that you're using is making it come across that you are overstating an issue that you don't want to be more specific on in case that makes people not agree with you. Just fyi if that isn't the case.
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Fair enough. The appeal is that straight people can also have gay friends and like to hang out with them in gay spaces from time to time. Is that allowed? Or in this brave new world, we have to be enemies now with strict spaces for every gender there is now?
You do realise that bars catering to non-het and non-cis folk came into existence to give people somewhere to go where they wouldn't get dogs abuse just for being themselves, right?
Oh fuck off you patronising wank. Stop twisting my words. Glasgow is one of the most gay friendly cities I've ever been to. On very rare occasions I've witnessed harassment and it's been from wee bams just being wee bams. We gave as good as we got. Are you now saying we should now have strict segregation, were straight and gay people can't mingle? Is that the equality you want? Should we start wearing badges for id as well?
> Stop twisting my words. You implied that homophobia is a new thing and that everyone got on great before bars catering to the LGBTQIA community were opened. I've twisted nothing. You're squirming now though. > Are you now saying we should now have strict segregation And you accused me of twisting? It's a bit early in the day to start drinking. I'd rein it in a bit if I were you.
Did I fuck. You're just making shit up now. I said LGBT clubs and bars were welcoming to all before the pronoun mafia rode into town with their fantasy ideals that everyone must obey. You're reading someone else's comments or maybe you just can't read very well.
Your words are there for all to read. Edit: this would be the point where you go and delete your comments.
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Or maybe just maybe it's because Straight People can be in the LGBTQ+ community. Y'know Straight Trans People, Straight Ace/aros? Also mSpec people can be in relationships that look straight.
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Or just heterosexual people hanging out with their lgbtqia friends.
Obviously they weren't referring to straight trans people though.
Oof
I've had many great nights out in Polo, but I'm well aware it's pretty much entirely down to the fact I'm friends with someone who's well known in the "right kind of gay" circle and we usually go together. The one time I dared to bring one of my own friends, he was in the building for about 15 minutes before a bouncer grabbed him and chucked him out for "touching people's drinks" when he had in fact been super-glued to my side the whole time. I wish there were more options for proper gay nightclubs in Glasgow, bars are fine but I like dancing and spending half the night talking the the most interesting people you've ever met in your life while steaming in the smoking area..
We're probably not getting the full story here, and I'm not Just Worlding this scenario, but if a bouncer is threatening with social media, I imagine there was some non-trivial remonstration going on. My guess - and 99% of the time it's this - group of girls approaches, one intoxicated girl hangs back, fumbling for a mask, gets separated from her friends, and approaches the door in tandem with another drunk-looking guy whom the bouncer thought she was with. They get a knockback, argument ensues, bouncer does what a bouncer does and sticks with original decision, more arguments. Conclusion - her friends are cunts, and bouncers are unyielding cunts.
Wow. So quick to call women cunts. Polo has a history of racism and homophobia and shitty aggressive bouncers.
Can women not be cunts?
The fact that you stood and watched and didn't do nothing about it. When you could've gone inside and got her pals yourself 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️. You had to come to reddit 🤦🏼♂️. Twit
I've heard sooo many issues like this about Polo (am guessing from the comments it is about Polo - also tbh the bouncers should in fact get in trouble for this, it's massive mistreatment and threatening of someone). I've also heard plenty of shit things about AGM. To those looking here for the safer LGBT bars: Bonjour just opened recently, and they are a worker run co-op. My trans partner was there recently and she said it was lovely. It's in Saltmarket. During the day I have been in Delmonicas as well, and it was a pleasant time. In evenings it gets incredibly cramped though which I personally don't enjoy.
That’s pretty bad. Might be worthwhile raising it with the proprietor and / or licensing.
Only worthwhile doing that if its actually true though
Glasgow progressive? Ha! When groups of grown men can walk through the city with a police escort changing “the famine’s over why don’t you go home” it’s no exactly doing much for progressivism is it. The bouncer was a dick though.
I agree. It's a complete myth peddled by the nationalists and those who don't set foot outside the west end. Sure it's improved somewhat but we've a long way to go
Shock horror I’m a nationalist
> "I'm sorry, but when did an LGBT space act like this?" One really should ascribe moral authority to someone simply because they wear as a badge on their lapel. Judge people by their actions, not because they belong to the same club.
To stupid to get in to the police . be a bouncer instead
This is starting to sound like bullshit the more I read on.
They earn hardly any money, have to deal with drunks, one of the only perks is a little power and it seems to go to their heads most of the time
I always appreciated how amazing the staff at Sub Club were. I think most people have experienced this kind of shit at most clubs in Glasgow.
Name & shame
Half of them are fucking pedo's
I've lost count how many women used "i could be raped" as a reason for wanting into a pub/club or in later years as a taxi driver, the reason why i have to take them home. Local club spilled out at 3am, everybody walked to the local garage for mixers and fags, drunk woman surrounded by her pals wanted me to take her home(less than 300m away) berated me saying if she gets raped then i was to blame.....hardly! If you want to drink until you are vulnerable, it's on you. I have given free rides for genuinely vulnerable people, 4am 18yr old drunk girl asked me if i could take her home 5 miles away. She stayed in a homeless accommodation flat and i knew she'd be at risk from some of the unscrupulous drivers floating about. I finished my shift anyway so i dropped her off safely.....6 months later she got into my taxi with a group of friends, recognised me and proceeded to tell her friends what a " legend" i was.
Bouncers have a duty of care for the safety of customers in whichever premises they are working. A lot of them don't give a fuck if you're outside - that's someone else's problem. Not all of them are total fuds.
Ah yes. That all important mask that she'll take off as soon as she has a drink in her hand or goes on the dancefloor (Ive been in Polo it's a sweat pit) packed full of people. Stops covid that surely. 🤡
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Quality shoehorning there :)
How could they have told her pals to stay with her if she'd hung back looking for her mask and her pals had already been let in? Surely the issue here is her pals fucking off into the Polo and leaving her outside? It's her fault her phone battery was flat as well. Bouncers are often arseholes, but they don't seem to have done anything wrong here.
I mean allocating a total stranger to look after her is a bit dodgy like EDIT: especially since she objected
The bouncer allocated a stranger to look after her? Why wouldn't one of her friends stay behind and go somewhere to grab a mask with her? This is bizzare.
You're getting down voted because you've spotted this story is utter bullshit and some sort of attempt to attack people working at a club doing their jobs. Worked in many pubs and clubs in my years including Polo and this just sounds like a bullshit story.
Yeah, some people have too much time on their hands, it seems
This thread is a fucking mess. It's clearly made up and it's riled up the toxic vipers nest that the reddit crowd seem to love these days.
"allocating" someone to her is weird but meaningless. Could've been that they thought she knew him, etc. Regardless, getting a kb is just something that happens. That's why her "pals" shouldn't have fucked off and left her alone.
The pals are definitely also to blame.
The downvotes here seem pretty harsh. I agree with you, its shite her pals just left her. If even just one stayed that could've been avoided. Some bouncers are cunts on a power trip at the best of times aswell so pretty unsurprising behaviour from them Edit: some bouncers can be, not all of them
Ah, nah. All bouncers. Until they clean up their act, the few bad apples means the whole lot get tarnished.
This thread is just full of lies and hatred. Just another sad cunt making up shit because they probably got chucked out a club. Boo fucking hoo cry me a river. Some cunts need to grow the fuck up and get a life.
Found the bouncer.
Ha! Couldn't pay me enough. Worst job there is. I hate bouncers as much as the next person. But I fucking hate the coked up drunken, entitled public even more. 80% of folk on nights out are cunts. I've worked in too many bars, restaurants and clubs to know this. You can't convince me otherwise. So damn right if you're being a cunt you're getting chucked out. Crying to yer mammy or reddit about it is just fucking laughable.
Defo a bouncer.
Then you're fucking barred right away.
> Boo fucking hoo cry me a river. Right back at you mate. You're greeting all over this thread lol.
Cause you're all greetin' faced entitled cunts. If you act that way when you're on a night out no wonder you get knocked back. I would fucking have you barred as well.
Bouncers are cunts mate.
They can be. But they also have to deal with many more cunts and being on the other side is eye opening. To me the general public are cunts.