There’s a pinball machine, a pool table, TVs playing sports games, and a massive back patio to soak up the endless summer rays. On a regular, non-Pride day, the Raven is more subdued, catering to an older crowd that drinks beers with names like Moose Drool. “They’re always in their underwear,” says Embley. As to be expected, people, and things, slip. Audience members would bid to slather up the contestants, who would then go at it in a blow-up kiddie pool. As explained by local Lon Embley, it starts as a powder, mixed with water, and is not in fact used for machinery, but “for artificially inseminating cattle, and things like that.”Ī massive amount of this viscous solution was used a few years ago at the northernmost gay bar in the US, during a charity Pride Week wrestling event. One, The Raven, is the reason I know what farm-grade lube is. There are only two gay bars in Anchorage, Alaska-population, just under 300,000.
