I drew this series in December 1988/January, 1989.
I had met my spouse in September ’85. We agreed to be monogamous for the first year of our relationship, but after that we opened things up with 3 rules: 1) Safe sex, 2) No friends or mutual friends, 3) No one more than 3 times. This last one proved unnecessary; casual hook-ups rarely repeated more than twice; it was like, “Is this going anywhere? No? Well, have a nice life”. I would average two nights out a week; my favorite bars were the One Way and The Gauntlet II (in Silverlake), and the Spike (in West Hollywood).
My spouse preferred bars for straight Hispanics. He’d play pool with them until closing (2 AM) then continue the drinking out back, hopefully resulting in his getting to give the straight guys blow jobs. His motto was, “The difference between a gay Hispanic and a straight Hispanic is three beers”.
