He staggers to a place called "The Gilded Lily" and thinks "Well, this looks like a nice clean place.
He heads to what appears to be a young person's bar which is full of vicious bikers who beat him up. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - Fat Freddy goes home to Cleveland and stops for a drink in what he realizes is "a honky bar", inadvertently angers the blue-collar clientele, and gets booted out.It is not a typo, it is a revelation, and if you missed it you need to wait until the end of the issue to get the full story. Being a long-distance shot in a comic book, with hand-drawn lettering instead of typed, there is not a lot of detail to be made out about the restaurant, and the name almost seems to be drawn as an afterthought: Maloney's Bar & Girl. In the beginning of the "Half a Life" arc of Gotham Central, almost a full issue before the reveal, Brian Selker ( Private Detective) is following Renee Montoya to a restaurant called "Maloney's," taking intrusive pictures for a lawsuit that is about to be leveled against her.
On the other hand, the trope can be frequently parodied by so obviously being Where Everybody Knows Your Flame that it makes the surprised patron look stupid. The bar can often at the point of the reveal suddenly become a lot more obvious, with visual cues only actually appearing when the director wants us to see them. At one end of the scale it can be completely inconspicuous until someone points out that there are only male patrons and a few of them are holding hands. The bar itself can vary in terms of its queerness. Sometimes Manfred will have the conspicuous homosexual elements pointed out to him but automatically imagines it to all be part of manly bonding. It normally only happens to the character most likely to freak out about it, sometimes they'll actually be accompanied by someone who does get it quicker than them or even lead them there who provides a foil for the few moments before they catch on. He has walked into a bar or club ignorant of its nature and slowly realises that it's a gay bar.