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Select a location and bookmark it today. Let us pull back the curtain for this column. I got something to say. Cue the orchestra and Darth Vader breathing. I guess you can blame it on Generation X for not being faithful to just the gay gay. After all, we fought our whole lives for equality and fairness.

Why not go drink at any bar we want? These gender benders and anarchist of identity labels and compartmental boxes rebel against tradition — even when it comes to partying. Times have changed. In the past, the gay bar was a community center, a safe space to be who you are, a place to find friends, hook-up and black possibly fall in love.

Now we got Grindr, Growlr, Tinder, Adam4Adam, Scruff or we got trendy, chic, shiny new clubs every month asking us to celebrate, drink, dance and party. LGBT people are no longer a guarantee to gay clubs and bars. Even in queen cities, historic gay dance clubs and bars are closing. The truth is that LGBT people are going anywhere and everywhere to spend money — and party these days.

Some call it mainstreaming of gay culture. Others call it assimilation. And then there are many who call it acceptance. And, drag queens, like us, have become the Stormtroopers. According to the Census, there are now one million people in the City of Charlotte Mecklenburg County and Charlotte Pride brokein attendance last year.

But most gay clubs and bars are still bar over the same LGBT patrons with their drag shows and drink specials weekly. That is not the answer. But I do know the Power of the Force seems to be in drag. Drag is the bridge builder between queer culture and straight culture.