Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Gay clubs'

The gay sauna played a central role in the battle for gay liberation in Sydney during the latter part of the twentieth century. This thesis examines the conjunction of social and political forces which contributed to the acceptance of the gay sauna by Sydney???s civic society. Two questions reveal this process: 1. How was an illegal and clandestine place for homosexuals, perceived as a threat to the moral standards of Sydney, transformed into an institutional entity, legally recognised as ???crucial???, and important within particular environs of this city? 2. How did the evolving public domain of gay saunas contribute to the development of gay culture in Sydney by fostering the opportunities for individual and collective expression of homosexual practices? This study is contextualised within international and Australian studies of the sexualisation of urban spaces???such as Michel Foucault???s, Manuel Castells??? and Lawrence Knopp???s???and the role of the built environment in the development of sexual identity and sexual practices???such as Gayle Rubin???s, John Ricco???s, and Joel Brodsky???s. The first part of the thesis is an empirical analysis of development applications for gay saunas in Sydney between 1967 and 2000 which reveals the play of forces within state and local government, legislative processes, the homosexual community and broader civic stakeholders through which the gay sauna achieved acceptance in Sydney???s civic society. Two principal research approaches???documentary research and twenty in-depth interviews???were used in this first part. The second part of the thesis is an ethnography that uses twenty-nine in-depth interviews to provided a unique insight into the evolving public domain of Sydney???s gay saunas and how they fostered the experiences of gay men, allowing gay men to develop individual and collective sexual identities and practices. This exploration of the interplay of built form, sexuality, civic governance, social identity and social action provide a sociological contribution which will also be of interest to gay studies, anthropology, architecture, geography and planning. Essential to an experience of the thesis is a concurrent reading of the Special Enclosures???a schematic chronology of Sydney gay saunas, plans of Sydney and architectural plans of its saunas.

To ensure an educational opportunity for every child that passes through Americaâ s schoolhouse doors, it is imperative that non-heterosexual studentsâ educational needs are not ignored in the educational milieu (Zirkel, 2006). In the last decade or so, the desire of non-heterosexual students to organize Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs on high school campuses have been met with angst by school leaders (Duncan & Rogers, 2008). Despite the passage of the Equal Access Act (EAA) in 1984, school leaders have often denied non-heterosexual students the right to establish GSA clubs on campus, consequently resulting in these students utilizing the judicial system as the venue to assert their rights under the law (Essex, 2005). As it is imperative that educational leaders understand the legal rights of all students under their care, and make informed decisions in order to avoid costly litigation, this research focused on analyzing the Equal Access Act of 1984, federal case law, legal commentary, and historical documents, in order to track the developments of non-heterosexual studentsâ ability to utilize the EAA to establish GSA clubs in the public schools in the United States. The study employed a traditional legal research methodology as described by Alder (1993) and Russo (1993), relying on electronic data bases and traditional legal finding tools to carry out the research. From the resulting legislation, case law, scholarly commentary, and other relevant documents reviewed and analyzed, an accurate historical perspective on the EAA as it relates to the formation of GSA clubs was constructed. In addition, the significant themes that arose from the findings were synthesized in order to offer guidance to educational leaders and policymakers when facing requests from students to establish GSA clubs on school property. Recommendations for school leaders when considering such requests from students to form GSA clubs under the EAA are provided.
Ed. D.

School reform efforts, such as those to form high school gay-straight alliance clubs (GSAs), are often met with resistance by school personnel and local community members. Using a sample of newspaper articles related to school reform GSA controversies in two Southern states (N=83) drawn from an initial sampling frame of GSA controversies receiving newspaper coverage between January 2006 and August 2011 (N=631), I use narrative analysis-- including a discourse coalitions approach--to identify common themes of resistance in the narration of characters, plot, setting, and morals which GSA members and allies must overcome to successfully form GSAs. Substantively, I locate four major narration strategies in my analysis of the stories used to support or oppose GSAs: 1) character construction strategies that make positive or negative claims about stakeholders including school personnel, the GSA club, and its members, 2) counter narration strategies which attempt to portray the GSA as promoting sexual activity, 3) counter narration strategies which seek to oppose the GSA based on an idea that a GSA club and its members will recruit other students to become gay or lesbian, and 4) setting- talk narratives based on notions of `small town' or Christian morality to show why or why not a GSA is wanted or needed. Methodologically, I locate one major finding for future scholars of narratives: the demarcation of setting-talk in narratives which story the setting as implicitly containing the morals of the story. In my particular cases, setting-talk implicates acceptable religious or moral boundary expectations of the local citizenry. Overall, this thesis serves as a call for scholars to examine narratives in education and social movement research while informing researchers and educators of common resistance themes in GSA formation.

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Realiza la instalación de un sistema de tuberías para abastecer de gas natural al “Lima Golf Club – Club House”, a fin de obtener un suministro continuo de dicho combustible debido a que el GLP se transporta de forma virtual por medio de camiones cisternas en cambio el gas natural se transporta por medio de tuberías subterráneas hasta el mismo centro de consumo. El estudio e instalación de la red interna del gas natural a este club es en base a la necesidad del cliente “Lima Golf Club” de contar con un suministro continúo sin estar sujeto a un contrato por tiempos determinados por la empresa suministradora de GLP.
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Studying the isotopic composition of fluids trapped in mantle xenoliths opens avenues to understand the origin and cycling of volatiles in the Earth’s upper mantle. In this PhD dissertation, new and in most cases the very first data regarding the isotopic (noble gases and CO2) characterization of the lithospheric mantle portions of three different geodynamic environments are presented: (i) Central and NW Mexico, a continental setting dominated by extension; (ii) the Transmexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB) a subduction setting, and (iii) the Canary Islands, particularly El Hierro and Lanzarote, two oceanic islands formed by mantle plume-derived intraplate volcanism. In total 32 peridotites (including spinel lherzolites, spinel harzburgites, 1 pyroxenite and 1 dunite) and four arc lavas (from the TMVB) were investigated. To characterize the isotopic signature of the Mexican lithospheric mantle, the present work was focused on the analysis of fluid inclusions entrapped in mantle xenoliths found in pyroclastic deposits of the Ventura Espiritu Santo Volcanic Field (VESVF), the Durango Volcanic Field (DVF), the San Quintin Volcanic Field (SQVF) (three Quaternary monogenetic volcanic fields formed in the Basin and Range extensional province). Fluid inclusions in olivine phenocrysts found in arc lavas from the Sierra Chichinautzin Volcanic Field (SCN) (a Quaternary monogenetic field located in the Transmexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB)) were also analyzed. According to the petrographic analysis, all xenoliths exhibit similar mineralogy (Ol> Opx> Cpx >> Sp). The VESVF xenoliths, in particular, bring textural evidence of interstitial glass veins bearing dendritic trails of secondary melt and fluid inclusions related to pervasive mantle metasomatism driven by carbonate-rich silicate melts. Inclusions are composed of silicate glass ± CO2 ± Mg-Ca carbonates ± pyrite as indicated by Raman microspectroscopy. Excluding samples possibly affected by secondary processes, the averages Rc/Ra ratios (3He/4He ratios corrected for atmospheric contamination) measured in Mexican localities are within the MORB-like range: VESVF = 7.39 ± 0.14 Ra (1SD, n = 30), DVF= 8.39 ± 0.24 Ra (1SD, n = 10), SQVF = 7.43 ± 0.19 Ra (1SD, n = 1) and SCN lavas = 7.24 ± 0.33 Ra (1SD, n = 4). This noble gas similarity between the VESVF and SCN samples supports the existence of a homogeneous mantle in central Mexico. The 3He/4He signatures observed in xenoliths suggest that (i) either the mantle He budget was scarcely modified by the Farallon plate subduction, and/or (ii) that any (large) crustal contribution was masked by a later metasomatism/refertilization episode, possibly driven by the upwelling mantle from the asthenosphere and the subsequent Basin and Range extension. The association between glass veins and fluid inclusions in VESVF xenoliths revealed that the metasomatism/ refertilization was driven by a silicate-rich melt which is consistent with a calculated helium residence time in the VESVF mantle (20 to 60 Ma) that overlaps the timing of the above geodynamic events. It is proposed that, after the refertilization event (e.g., over the last ~20 Ma), the lithospheric mantle has evolved in a steady-state, becoming slightly more radiogenic. The relative proximity between the DVF and the VESVF suggests a similar process should have happened beneath Durango, and that the difference in 3He/4He ratios with the VESVF is likely to be associated with different ages of mantle refertilization and He residence times (more recent for the DVF mantle; 4 to 10Ma). The Ar and Ne systematics reflect a mixing between MORB-like upper mantle and atmosphere-derived fluids. The mantle beneath the SQVF and the DVF seems to be more impacted by the interaction with atmospheric fluids, as proved by a systematic decrease in 40Ar/36Ar and 4He/20Ne ratios from central (VESVF) to western Mexico (DVF, SQVF) It is proposed that these atmospheric components were likely air-derived fluids recycled by the Farallon plate subduction. 3He fluxes (0.027 - 0.080 mol/g), 4He production rates (340 - 1000 mol/yr), and mantle CO2 fluxes (3.93 x 107 mol/yr to 1.18 x 108 mol/yr) were also estimated using the helium isotopic values measured in VESVF mantle xenoliths. Finally, DVF and VESVF nodules exhibit CO2/3He ratios comparable to those of the upper mantle (from 3.38 x 108 to 3.82 x 109) but more positive δ13C values (between -1.0 and -4.0‰), supporting the involvement of a recycled crustal carbonate component likely inherited by the Farallon plate subduction. Conversely, the SCN samples exhibit δ13C values within the MORB range (comparable to other values previously reported in fluid inclusions and fumaroles from Popocatépetl, Colima and Ceboruco volcanoes) and unlike the mantle beneath VESVF-DVF, indicate a negligible mantle contamination by subduction-related crustal carbon. The Canary Islands, in the central-eastern Atlantic, are among the most enigmatic Oceanic Island provinces on Earth, as the mantle source feeding their volcanism is spatially heterogeneous and with a multiplicity of involved components. Multi-isotope whole-rock studies have long revealed the presence of a recycled oceanic crust/lithosphere in the mantle. However, noble gas systematics have been more challenging to interpret, and carbon isotope data have remained sparse and incomplete. Our very first fluid inclusion data for El Hierro and Lanzarote nodules indicate carbon isotopic compositions of CO2 (δ13C) range from –2.38 to –1.23‰ in pyroxenes and from –0.19 to +0.96‰ in olivines. These unusually positive δ13C values, well above the typical upper mantle range (–8‰<–4‰), prove, for the first time, the presence of a regional recycled crustal carbon component in mantle beneath the Canary Islands. We interpret this 13C-rich component as inherited from a mantle metasomatism event(s) driven by fluids carrying carbon from subducted altered oceanic crust (AOC) and/or oceanic lithosphere (OL). Regarding noble gas isotopes, El Hierro xenoliths identify a depleted mantle source with MORB-like He signature. The average Rc/Ra ratio (3He/4He normalized to air ratio and corrected for atmospheric contamination) of 7.45±0.26 Ra (2SD, n = 14) overall indicates a marginal role played by past subduction events in modifying the local mantle He budget. Instead, Lanzarote xenoliths point to a more radiogenic mantle with an average of 5.97±0.44 Ra (2SD, n = 13) which we interpret as reflecting the involvement of an EM component. When put in the context of previous 3He/4He measurements in fluid inclusions and surface gases along the Canary archipelago, these results confirm an overall west-to-east decrease of Rc/Ra ratios (from El Hierro to Lanzarote), which may reflect a combination of i) increasing contributions of the African continental lithosphere, ii) the addition of radiogenic 4He during magma migration in the oceanic crust (whose thickness increases eastward) and/or iii) magma ageing. Finally, as proposed for Mexico, the involvement of depleted mantle-like fluids, variably admixed with air-derived components (possibly recycled via paleo-subduction event(s)), is corroborated by Ne-Ar isotopic compositions.

Ce mémoire documente l’émergence d’une sous-culture gaie masculine dans la région montréalaise entre 1860 et 1910 et s’intéresse aux discours et à la répression envers les hommes ayant des comportements homosexuels ou d’inversion de genre. Par l’analyse de sources journalistiques, judiciaires et juridiques, il déconstruit une série de préjugés, notamment à l’égard des sources, présumées pauvres; du discours public sur les comportements homosexuels, supposé inexistant; et des hommes qui avaient ces comportements, que plusieurs imaginent invisibles et isolés les uns des autres. Il montre au contraire que des archives variées révèlent une vie « gaie » et le déploiement d’une opinion publique à son égard. Ainsi, l’analyse d’un important corpus d’articles de journaux et une étude de cas portant sur deux des plus anciens clubs homosexuels connus au Québec, démantelés en 1892 et en 1908, confirment l’existence de réseaux de sociabilités « gaies » dans la région montréalaise, dès le XIXe siècle. Ce faisant, il dévoile l’existence de pratiques caractéristiques des sous-cultures gaies telles que l’usage d’un vocabulaire spécifique ou l’adoption de manières efféminées par certains hommes que l’on qualifierait aujourd’hui d’homosexuels.
This essay explores the emergence of a gay male subculture in the Montreal area between 1860 and 1910, and studies social perceptions and repression towards men having “homosexual” and gender inversion behaviours. Analysing journalistic, judicial and legal documents, this thesis deconstructs several prejudices: about primary sources, presumed rare; about public discourse on same-sex acts, presumed nonexistent; about men perpetrating those acts, imagined invisible and isolated from each other. A case study on two of the oldest same-sex clubs presently recognized in Quebec, both dismantled during police operations in 1892 and 1908, combined with the reading of a considerable corpus of press articles, confirms the existence of gay sociability networks in Montreal area, as early as the nineteenth century, as well as the development of a public opinion on the subject of same-sex acts. Thereby, it underlines the existence of practices observed in gay sub-cultures, such as the use of a specific vocabulary or display of effeminate manners, by men who would be called today homosexuals.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
This is a photo-documentary study of two themes found within the literature on fabulous appearances: the gay nightclub patron and the club DJ. This study used a large Midwestern gay nightclub as the field setting. Fabulousness involves the way patrons costume themselves in order to communicate status within the setting. This study revealed that participants in the setting utilize three different types of self-presentation. These types embody desirable characteristics and ideas of attractiveness that revolve around power, establishing a normalized “gay” identity, and using surreal based characteristics to achieve their goal of being noticed. The DJs served as informal organizers through their appearances and performances. Analysis of the DJ role found that DJs provide visual cues for other participants in the setting on how to act, dance, dress, and behave. This study is the first in depth examination of the role of the DJ and the communicative processes between the DJ and dancers in gay nightclubs.

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國立臺灣師範大學
健康促進與衛生教育學系
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The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of prevention education using LGBT community health centers (LGBT center) as the platform. The theory of reasoned action and self-efficacy theory were adopted to explore the factors that influence the use of club drug among gay and bisexual men. The prevention program adopted principles of value clarification method and included refusal skills for illicit drugs. The immediate and delayed effect concerning intention, attitude, and self-efficacy of club drug use were evaluated. This study adopted non-equivalent experiment control group design. The study population was the visitor and their peer of 4 LGBT centers who is above 18 years old. One center was selected as experiment group where a 40-minute value clarification of club drug prevention program was conducted. There was not intervention in the control group. Participants were recruited using responder driven sampling. The pre-test was conducted during Sep. to Nov. 2013 with 99 and 235 effective sample in the experiment and control group respectively. The post-test was conducted during Mar. to Jun. 2014 with 127 and 266 effective samples in each group. The post-post-test was conducted during Aug. to Oct. 2014 with 133 and 247 effective samples in each group. The study result showed that the attitude, subjective norm and self-efficacy explained 58% of the variance of intention. The self-efficacy was the most powerful predictor of intention, following was the attitude. The external variable had little impact on the model. The most important source of subjective norm came from their families. There was not significant change of intention in both groups among pre-test, post-test and post-post-test. Among the secondary criterion, in the experiment group, odd of holding positive attitude increased significantly in post-post-test comparing with that in the pre-test. The result showed that this program inspired the peer to possess positive attitude about rejecting the use of club drug. Adopting value clarification in regular club drug prevention education is recommended.

This qualitative practitioner research study examined a ninth-grade young adult (YA) queer book club curriculum and culturally relevant pedagogy. Students read two out of nine queer-themed YA novels paired with a collection of nonfiction and media on topics that ranged from rethinking gender norms in society to historical issues that impact people with intersectional queer identities. The author collaboratively designed, planned, and taught the 6-week unit at the center of the study, Disrupting Dominant Narratives and Queer Book Clubs, using a critical queer pedagogy framework. The findings illuminated the ways in which pedagogy that nurtures and prizes student voice, critical reading, discussion, and humanizing classroom discourse work to situate students as empathic critical readers and writers of the world. The findings suggest that analyzing queer- themed literature moves students to build empathy, disrupts oppression, and humanizes people of all identities, thus empowering youth as producers and consumers of knowledge that facilitates their growth and supports queer and questioning youth. In addition, students found common experiences as teenagers with the queer characters across the novels, therby affirming the decision to use exclusively YA fiction for the book club and serving to aid in disrupting dominant discourses about queer youth. The study concludes with a suggestion for seven implications for practice and a call for further research that aims to advance culturally relevant queer pedagogy.

A thesis submitted to the School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts In Applied Language Education and Literacy Studies , Johannesburg 2016
Using English as a medium of instruction or the Language of Learning and Teaching (LoLT) can be a very difficult task especially if the children do not speak the language and are multilingual. It affects reading, writing and oral language skills. This study seeks to examine the impact of exposing underperforming grade 8 and 9 learners of English to a Literacy Club. The study is a follow up of the study that was done in 2013. The main difference between the current study and the previous study is that, participants in the first study were already readers and volunteered to join the Literacy Club. Although school rules were relaxed, only English was used to discuss the read texts. In the current study, because I was working with weak readers, learners who have been identified as at risk of failing and had all been invited to join the Literacy Club as a form of language enrichment programme, the participants will be allowed to use all the linguistic skills at their disposal for both discussion of texts and reflecting in their journals. This is based on the premise that being multilingual should not be viewed as a barrier but a resource for learning. Underpinned by the socio-cultural approach to learning and drawing intensively from different theoretical views of language learning and learning to read, a case of 16 learners in grade 8 and 9 participated in this study. The study adopted a qualitative approach where a number of methods were used for the purposes of data collection. The study discovered that Literacy Clubs are a good vehicle to impart reading skills as they motivate learners to read. Literacy Clubs also have a positive impact on attainment in language tests. The study also discovered that allowing learners to use all the linguistic repertoires available to them boosts their confidence to talk about the literature they have read and improves the quality of their discussions. The study recommended that reading should be allocated time within normal school hours for each grade, children should be given an opportunity to write reading journals which should be marked and commented on by the teacher to encourage free writing and develop writing skills, the context of the school should be considered when deciding on the language policy to adopt and lastly but most importantly, translanguaging should be seriously considered as a pedagogical tool when teaching a second language.
MT 2018

This study acknowledges that historical antipathies towards gay men have marginalised their theatrical representation in the past. However, over the last century a change has occurred in the social location of gay men in Canada (from being marginalised to being included). Given these changes, questions arise as to whether staged representations of gay men are still marginalised today. Given antipathies towards homosexuality and homophobia may contribute to the how theatres determine the riskiness of productions, my investigation sought a correlation between financial risk in theatrical production and the marginalisation of gay representations on stage. Furthermore, given that gay sex itself, and its representation on stage, have been theorised as loci of antipathies to gayness, I investigate the relationship between the visibility and overtness of gay sex in a given play and the production of that play’s proximity to the mainstream. The study located four plays from across the spectrum of production conditions (from high to low financial risk) in BC. Analysis of these four plays shows general trends, not only in the plays’ constructions but also in the material conditions of their productions that indicate that gay representations become more overt, visible and sexually explicit when less financial risk was at stake. Various factors are identified – including the development of the script, the producing theatre, venue, and promotion of the production – that shape gay representation. The analysis reveals that historical theatrical practices, that have had the effect of marginalizing the representations of gays in the past, are still in place. These practices appear more prevalent the higher the financial risk of the production.
The author would like to sincerely thank Ann Wilson, Ric Knowles, Matthew Hayday, Alan Shepard, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Michael Lewis MacLennan, Conrad Alexandrowicz, Chris Grignard, Edward Roy, Brad Fraser, Cole J. Alvis, Jonathan Seinan, David Oiye, Clinton Walker, Sean Cummings, Darrin Hagin, and Chris Galatchian.
SSHRC, The Heather McCallum Scholarship, Lambda Prize for achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gendered studies.

Title: Service Quality GAP Model - Holmes Place Premium Club Anděl Goal: The aim of this thesis is using service quality GAP model to analyse the causes of the gaps in the process of providing services that Holmes Place Premium Club Anděl offers to its clients. Based on these analyses to make specific recommendations on how to minimize these gaps and improve the quality of services provided. Methods: Service quality GAP model was used as a method for the thesis. The gaps were analysed using a questionnaire survey among the management and employees, personal interviews with the management team and own observations. Results: The results of the analyses are presented by classification crosses, tables and graphs. Based on the analyses there are offered certain suggestions on how to eliminate eventual deficiencies, and thus improve the quality of services provided. The results revealed major shortcomings in the gap 4 (fulfilment of marketing promises marketing communications), and prioritizing the importance of sales at the expense of service quality. Keywords: fitness and wellness, services, sports services, service quality, service quality GAP model, Holmes Place Premium Club Anděl Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

L’objectif de ce mémoire est de comprendre l’influence du genre sur le rapport de force entre les danseurs nus et leur clientèle féminine et masculine. Depuis les années 1960, les bars de danseuses nues abondent à Montréal. De nombreuses recherches ont été menées à ce sujet, mais très peu concernent directement leurs homologues masculins, les bars de danseurs nus pour hommes et pour femmes. Notre mémoire analyse la relation de pouvoir entre les danseurs nus et leur clientèle féminine et masculine au 281 et au Stock bar. S’appuyant sur la littérature des bars de danseuSEs nuEs, nous étudions les quatre dimensions de la relation de pouvoir : l’influence des lieux sur les interactions, la liaison physique et sexuelle, l’échange marchand ainsi que le lien émotif. Pour répondre à notre question de recherche, nous avons effectué plusieurs séances d’observation non-dévoilée au 281 et au Stock bar. Afin d’analyser les données que nous avons recueillies, nous utilisons les théories de Judith Butler et la sociologie goffmanienne. Le concept de phallus de Butler nous permet de repérer qui domine en « ayant » le phallus et qui est dominé en « étant » le phallus. Nous concluons que les femmes sont, à quelques exceptions près, toujours celles qui « sont » le phallus pour les hommes danseurs et animateurs qui le « possèdent ». La structuration des soirées, établie selon le modèle hétérosexuel binaire prépondérant, rend très difficile pour elles de s’en emparer. En ce qui concerne le rapport entre les hommes danseurs et clients dans un contexte homosexuel, ce sont les danseurs qui « sont » le phallus pour les hommes clients qui l’« ont ». Leur relation est très similaire à celle que nous pouvons observer dans les bars de danseuses nues entre ces dernières et leur clientèle masculine. « Être » le phallus signifie que les danseuSEs nuEs ont le pouvoir de reconnaître ou non le phallus à l’homme client afin qu’il puisse (ou non) matérialiser son pouvoir masculin en subvenant à leurs besoins et en étant désirable à leurs yeux. Dans tous les cas, les danseurs nus font un travail émotionnel différent selon le genre des clientEs, rehaussant le statut social des hommes et diminuant celui des femmes.
Since the 1960s, there has been a glut of female strippers’ clubs in Montreal. Numerous researches have been written on the subject, but only few of them are about their masculine counterparts, male strippers’ clubs for men and women. Our thesis questions the power relation between male nude dancers and their female and male patrons at 281 and Stock bar. Using male and female strippers’ clubs literature, we study the four dimensions of their power relation: the physical and organizational space’s influence, the physical and sexual connection, the monetary exchange and the emotional link. Our objective is to understand the gender influence on this power relation between male strippers and their female and male patrons. To answer our research question, we have made several under cover observation sessions at 281 and Stock bar. In order to analyse our data, we use Judith Butler’s theories and goffmanian sociology. Butler’s phallus concept enables us to see who is dominating by “having” the phallus and who is dominated by “being” the phallus. We conclude that women are always, with a few exceptions, the ones “being” the phallus for the male strippers and masters of ceremony who “have” it. The Ladies’ night’s structure, set according to the predominant heterosexual binary model, makes it very difficult for them to seize it. As regards of male strippers’ and patrons’ connection in a homosexual context, strippers “are” the phallus for the patrons that “have” it. Their relationship is very similar to the one observed in female strippers’ clubs. “Being” the phallus means that female and male dancers have the power to acknowledge or ignore the male patron’s phallus possession, which will enable or undermine his masculine power to provide economically for their material needs and to be desirable in their eyes. In all cases, male strippers enact a different emotional labor according to patrons’ gender, by enhancing men’s social status and decreasing women’s.