Really? Is that 10 percent actually straight? 'I've talked to some of those guys, and they are,' said Rosenberg, who in his professional life used to work for Starbucks corporate and long before that was a vocalist at a dinner theater in Aspen, Colorado. 'It's actually 10 percent straight, 25 percent bi, and 65 percent gay.' 'I ask every now and then,' the club's founder, Paul Rosenberg, 60, told me. But on June 11 at Gallery Erato, 165 men showed up to celebrate the club's 14th anniversary.īecause of the club's strict rules-no oral sex, no anal sex, nothing going inside anyone's anything-all kinds of guys show up, not just gay guys. The very first meet-up was in a suite at the Silver Cloud Hotel on Capitol Hill, and only five men showed up. We were all going to Rain City Jacks, a men's jack-off club that has been gathering in various spaces throughout Seattle since 2005.
Right before we got to a shop selling Seahawks and Sounders jerseys, all three of them ducked into a nondescript brick building with Gallery Erato written on the window. The other pedestrians on the sidewalk included a cute bearded guy in slacks and leather shoes, a bald guy in a green T-shirt, and a hipster in all black. On a Tuesday evening earlier this month, I was walking down First Avenue South in Pioneer Square, in the direction of the stadiums.
