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Contents:
- IOWA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
- CHASG ‘PHANTOMS OF THE PAST’: 8 GAY AND LBIAN BAR ARCHIVISTS ON PRERVG LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE HISTORY
IOWA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
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CHASG ‘PHANTOMS OF THE PAST’: 8 GAY AND LBIAN BAR ARCHIVISTS ON PRERVG LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE HISTORY
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Turng barfli’ memori of the cy’s shuttered gay and lbian bars to publishable reports posed challeng, and la Croix often found himself tryg to rencile nflictg ntributns.
The mob may have relquished Chigo’s gay and lbian bars om the vise-like grip tablished on those bs (and their New York Cy unterparts, too) durg Prohibn. “It’s been a strange time to try to do this rearch, ” says Lus Hilrbrand, a profsor of film and media studi at the Universy of California-Irve who is workg on a book about gay bar history.
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For Pri Month, VePair terviewed eight gay and lbian bar archivers around the untry about the challeng and urgency they’re currently facg documentg Ameri’s gay and lbian bars while they still n. “I don’t know if there’s gog to be, 30 years om now, a tegory that we ll gay bar or the lbian bar, ” m Frank Perez, thor and -founr and print of the LGBT+ Archiv Project of Louisiana.
After a brief uptick the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, the total number of gay and lbian bars the Uned Stat crted around 2, 000 lotns, acrdg to rearch published by Oberl associate profsor of soclogy Greggor Mattson based on listgs the Damron Guis, a proment LGBTQ+ nightlife guibook seri published annually throughout the back half of the 20th century.
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The soclogist’s figur dite the untry has lost 45 percent of gay and lbian waterg hol sce 1977 — and those were only the lotns well tablished enough to be xed the first place.
”There has ed been a cle, the cle has been acceleratg, ” Mattson, who operat the Twter handle @WhoNeedsGayBars, tells VePair.
The panmic has only exacerbated the factors, puttg btal fancial prsure on already beleaguered gay and lbian bars across the untry. Whenever a gay or lbian bar’s uncerta future turns to a certa mise, the clock starts tickg to pture rmatn about before disappears to the ether. For gay and lbian bars that closed the distant, Facebook-ee past, no such nostalgia flurry is forthg.