Wh many LGBTQ bars and safe spac closg after COVID-19, wrer John Garry qutns the future of gay bars and LGBTQ safe spac.
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUTNG (LGBTQ) YOUTH
- SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE (PERVERSE MORNI: A SERI EDED BY JACK HALBERSTAM AND LISA LOWE) PAPERBACK – DECEMBER 4, 2013
- SAFE SPAC: GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC HIGH SCHOOLS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUTNG (LGBTQ) YOUTH
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He was 40, gay and had been left by his partner, ” says Sheth. ”Umang Sheth, Founr, Huggg Club of IndiaAt 50, Sheth is a ntent wrer and founr of Gay Bombay, a support group for the LGBT muny that he pneered 25 years ago. Ameri’s gay bar graveyard has amassed a soberg amount of headston the past year.
The immediate e of the aths might be COVID-19, but gay bars were on life support before the panmic began. Acrdg to soclogist Greggor Mattson, 37 percent of US gay bars closed between 2007 and 2019.
Sometime between the birth of datg apps, marriage equaly, and gayborhood gentrifitn, tradnal gay bars beme sential. What will bee of the gay bar?
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The menu at a gay bar is the tip of an iceberg — only shows a portn of what’s served si. In the recently released cultural history and memoir, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Jeremy Atherton L wr, “a gay bar, will be said, affords refuge.
SAFE SPAC: GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC HIGH SCHOOLS
Wner, 2014 Lambda Lerary Award LGBT Studi Sce the 1970s, a key goal of lbian and gay activists has been protectn agast street vlence, peci... * gay safe space *
Whether ’s Stonewall or the Stud, gay bars have been nsired LGBTQ “safe spac” — a term scholar and activist Moira Kenney attribut to the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the late 1960s, route police raids meant gay bar patrons uld be threatened wh f, jail time, and possibly job loss or social annihilatn if outed by thori. In 1973, an anti-gay arsonist set fire to a New Orleans gay lounge and killed 32 people.
Even as a momentary refuge om the outsi world, gay bars ntuoly fail queer people. The Philalphia Commissn on Human Relatns released a 2016 report statg that “LGBTQ people of lor, women and transgenr people often feel unwele and unsafe Gayborhood spac. ” In 2019, a gay Chigo tablishment, ironilly named Progrs Bar, momentarily banned rap mic — a policy quickly cried as anti-Black.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay safe space *
Haddad, who has cerebral palsy and a walker, reunted his isolatg gural experience at a gay bar: “…the first thg I enuntered was a stairse.
Then there’s the ma em on the gay bar menu: alhol.
It would be difficult for those unr 21 or alg wh addictn to ll a gay bar their go-to safe space. Even the labels “gay bar” and “lbian bar” reveal a level of excln. A need for safe space gave birth to the gay bar, but as LGBTQ muni exame what “safe” means 2021, ’s time for the old stutns to adapt.
SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE
The 30-year-old jot jos a new le of LGBTQ spots choosg to eva the gay-lbian bary for the clive “queer” label. For some old-school gay bars, “safe” is synonymo wh “faiar.
Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, which proudly markets self as the last gay bar San Francis’s Tenrlo, raised over $100, 000 on GoFundMe to keep om closg this past year. But prervg gay bars amber don’t acknowledge how the stutns fail queer people wh tersectg, margalized inti.
That’s why LGBTQ people around the untry have scrapped the gay bar favor of nightlife spac they build om scratch. The progrsive parti regnize that a space isn’t fed by an addrs an expensive gayborhood but by the people who hab . But gay bars weren’t created jt to serve as safe spac.