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MONDAY Thank you Dallas BARTENDERS IN UNDERWEAR for your support! $1 Beer & $1 Well TUESDAY 2·4·TUESDAY Amateur Male Strip-off, $2 Well, $2 Frozen Drinks All Night plus Dart League A T D E Male Dancers 5 pm- Closing Everyday Open 12noon-2am Daily Happy Hour 12noon-l0 pm , Coming January 16 Mr. Dallas USA It's Always Summer Gay-Vacationing in That Paradise BY MARK DEATON ell, you've finally decided that Don just become an international ambassador. W Ho, Gilligan and the highest-rated of Since most beach holidays start at the all the Brady Bunch episodes must know beach, choosing the appropriate accom- something that the inborn gay gene isn't modations is crucial. Not too close to the telling you. You're ignoring the inbred calls beach - you must be able to make a of South Beach, Key West, Provincetown grand entrance - but not so far away that and even Mykonos, and have decided that you need a cab to manage it. The Sheraton America's Polynesian Paradise is where Moana Surfrider is it, a hotel so deluxe that you're going to warm your cold Texas the lobby market is a Hermes boutique. bones this winter. Break out the paper Now for those of us living in the real world, drink umbrellas, plastic flower leis and silly anything with the word "Outrigger" in front grass skirts; you're going to winter in the of it will suffice. This is a chain of hotels so hotbed of the gay and lesbian marriage prevalent that it makes Kroger look like a rights fight, you've just booked an all- mom-and-pop operation. Finally, you're so expense-paid vacation to Hawaii! Actually, gay that what you really want is economy you're really in for a good time, but please with charm, cleanliness and a condom on read on so you'll know that ordering poi for the pillow. Try the Hotel Honolulu; it's the pupus is not what you want and why that only gay/lesbian-owned hotel on Oahu roast pig looks much better in the luau (chief of the Hawaiian islands). Each room brochure that it will on your paper plate. has its own theme (Norma Jean, Bette Davis, the Bamboo Room) plus a continu- ing journal every guest can add to. With this kind of reading, you might not need the bars after all. So now the sun's going down and you've just begun to notice that paradise seems to have a large population of Japanese gangs that use fashion as a weapon. One more Versace shirt paired with blue-and-orange polka-dot shorts and you'll be knocked unconscious. Time for Happy Hour. The most infamous of all Honolulu nightspots is First things first. The name of the beach Hula's Bar and Lei Stand. Built around a where all the homosexuals tend to hang ficus tree 100 feet tall, Hula's is the central out really is "Queen's Beach." The full meeting point before and after dinner or name is Queen Kapiolani's Surfing Beach, late at night. When Hamburger Mary's but the locals prefer their own spin. This is closed two years ago, Hula's just swal- a great meeting space and intro to the lowed it whole and expanded. Hula's is a worldwide drawing power of Hawaii. Con- great place to meet the locals, be they venient snack bars and restrooms are islanders, West Coast transplants or mili- close by. Hunky and hunk-ette pro volley- tary boys just off the boat. The locals love bailers are 100 feet away. People from Aus- Hula's because the endless parade of tralia to Austria can be met on this beach, tourists is like a buffet line that changes and with a small request like "Would you nightly ("Look, Joe, that New Zealand Kiwi smear this on my back(side) ... 7," you've is fresh ... "). PAGE 16 TWT DECEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 12 1996 A couple other bars deserve mention. Sunset Beach to the north. Cocky young Michelangelo's and Windows, both in daredevils strut around on the sands, ride Eaton Square, are quieter and sometimes monster waves and oocaslonally need have an older clientele. Punani's (they mouth-to-mouth from the lifeguard bf one's want you to snicker at the name) is where you can watch a boy do the hula without having to suffer while Harold and Madge On the island of tell you about their 25th anniversary. After the dancing stops at Hula's and elsewhere Kauai, the beaches at 2 a.m., remember that they're still going hard at Fusion till 4 a.m., full bar and every- are all your own, thing. The humpy strip show there ain't hospitality is bad, and if you make it to 4 a.m. you can call your friends back in Texas just as gracious and gays they're off to work and remind them that you're in Hawaii and they aren't. run the best Back out in the sun, you've rented a car to go check out the other beaches. Dia- questhouses. mond Head is where everyone supposedly cavorts in the buff; well, naturalists, catch a dreams. plane to another island because the There are a lot of different sides to wildlife here is limited mostly to pretty birds Hawaii and if you want the true Polynesia, and a mongoose or two (and there are no a trip to an outer island is the only way to snakes in Hawaii because of those Riki- go.