Vegas

Recently I went to Vegas with the BF. We had a good time playing tourist, going to shows and visiting a couple of gay bars at night. When we went out we met some of the nicest people and had a good time. I haven't been to Vegas in a number of years and hadn't really experienced the gay scene when I was last there, so this was kind of my first experience of gay Vegas.

For all Vegas' reputation of sin, it's gay scene is quite tame. We went to two of the seemingly roughest bars (Buffaly and Hog Heaven) and even these seemed almost like pretty-boy bars. They certainly weren't anything like leather bars in DC, but then, perhaps out west "leather" seems more mainstream.

The other thing that struck me was that several, different locals that I met at different times made the same comment to me. That is, that so many of the people living in Vegas work in the casinos to some capacity and are in fear of the random and not-so-random drug checks. The locals seem to think that this has a huge dampening effect on Vegas' scene.