'It's good to experience something different.' 'I go to straight bars all the time and help them pick up girls, so why not?' said Davis, 24. The four heterosexual pals accompanying Jon Davis of Gahanna didn't mind the change of scenery last Saturday night at Union Bar + Food, an upscale Short North lounge that draws a predominantly gay crowd in the evening. 'They don't necessarily care about going to a gay bar as much as going to a bar with their friends.' 'I think we're seeing the post-Ellen (DeGeneres) generation: They've been growing up in a community that's always been mixed to some degree,' said Chris Hayes, editor in chief of Outlook Weekly, a Columbus gay newspaper.
