Tucker Lieberman
1 min readSep 8, 2024

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In 2017, when I married a Colombian man in Bogotá, some of his gay friends insisted we go to Theatron to celebrate. My husband and I can tolerate loud music for only about an hour, and we don't really dance or drink, so we haven't been back there just as a matter of personal preference for how to spend our evenings — but it was an unforgettable experience. Your story brings it all back. We stood in a long line outside the building, paid around 50 mil pesos, and then it was like gay dance Disneyworld with more themed rooms than we could keep track of. We ended up in a men-only room on an upper level. (I didn't recall that there was a women-only room, as we wouldn't have been looking for it nor attempted to enter.)

I wonder what happened to Moza and Mozo?

Entirely separately: Once or twice, in Bogotá, we've been asked by male strangers (who see us as men too): "¿Quieres chicas?" I suppose they were, at best, some young women's managers or promoters — or perhaps something worse. I'm not surprised that people who asked you this question, phrased this way, brought you to a sleazy strip club. I guess it's just the directness of the question, "Do you want," followed by "girls" as the product or object. That verb, querer, could also mean "Do you like girls?", but not in this context.

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com

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