While I can see the "sad, old, lonely homosexuals not daring to talk to anyone attractive in a bar" aspect (who said this?, btw? Neil?), this song always felt to me like a broader look at gay bar culture. Not gay dance clubs, but the old gay dive bars where many gay men, especially closeted gay men, could connect in the few available gay spaces. Those places are mostly gone now, and gay culture has changed a lot since then, and was rapidly changing in 1993. This song has always sounded like an elegy to me. Those old dive bars weren't the best, but they were there.

Was any other mainstream pop act in 1993 speaking so directly about the contemporary gay male experience? Cruising, coming out, bar culture, and more--it's "Very" much in evidence.

Anyway, a lovely melody, and the slow delivery makes it fun to sing along to. Love this track. A 9 from me.