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Contents:
- THE GAYS AND TENNIS, PART 154 -- US OPEN, BISH!
- THE PLEASURE AND PA OF GAY BARS
- FOR THE LOVE OF GAY BARS
- GAY IENDLY? - SOCHI FOM
THE GAYS AND TENNIS, PART 154 -- US OPEN, BISH!
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In 2017, the wrer Jeremy Atherton L noticed a spate of media verage mourng gay bars London, more than half of which had closed wh the last . From NBC News to the Guardian, nearly all the verage ntaed a siar slant, which played to a popular narrative: gay bars as beans of liberatn, central to the formatn of queer inty and muny.
“Gog to your first gay bar — I feel like 's told wh so much agency, ” Atherton L told me over the phone, om London recently. I walked around the rner bee I uldn't brg myself to go , but then the next night I did and everythg was illumated and the drag queen sed at me and I was gay.
THE PLEASURE AND PA OF GAY BARS
The social spac are s of both pleasure and isolatn <i><a href="; target="_blank">Gay Bar: Why We Went Out</a></i>, a new book by Jeremy Atherton L. * gossip gay bar *
Throughout his life, gay bars offered solace and excement, but they jt as often disappoted, exclud, and baffled, providg Atherton L wh more qutns about his inty than answers. The popular story about the gay bar, seemed, centered a domant flavor of gay man: cis, whe, nventnally mascule. Or as he wr Gay Bar: Why We Went Out: “It was beg apparent that beg homo did not amount to beg the same: I clearly was not like other gays.
” Atherton L’s but is a book-length say told through the lens of the gay bars, nightclubs, and sex parti he’s equented over the span of nearly three s. In li of hn he achiev somethg richer, if not more knotty: the gay bar a state of irrolutn, providg a hall of mirrors onto which his inty ntracts, expands, and sometim actur. Through grapplg wh the gay bars extctn, Atherton L, 46, ultimately ponrs the extctn of gay inty.
The word gay was toned like a joke or an elegy. “In gay bars, if such a thg is possible, my self-awarens and sense of ease amplify ncurrently, ” he wr. In gay bars, I have been each of the thgs.
FOR THE LOVE OF GAY BARS
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” Atherton L creds Jamie wh troducg him to “place wrg, ” a genre to which Gay Bar belongs. ”Dpe s tle, Gay Bar was not tend as a five cultural history, but rather, “the story of what the gay bar meant to me, ” Atherton L said.
” The tle was meant to feel small, he said, like lyrics om the Frank Ocean song “Good Guy”: “Here’s to the gay bar you took me to.
GAY IENDLY? - SOCHI FOM
After readg Jeremy Atherton L's "Gay Bar: Why We Went Out," the "dirty versn" of queer bar history, I revised the refuge of gay bars then and now. * gossip gay bar *
” “Gay bar” more as footnote than book is heavily rearched, wh source material that clus everythg om Disintifitns, by José Esteban Muñoz, to back issu of the bar rag Attu, and even a review. The sourc accumulate whout hierarchy; when to gay history, and gay nightlife particular, Atherton L knows that what gets whispered across bar stools at 2 a.
N be jt as valuable as the documents he culled om the Gay and Lbian Archiv.
Gay Bar is cultural history as gossip, funneled through Atherton L’s sharp, nimble, and often vastatg a historian, or even a nventnal memoirist, Atherton L is terted blurrg the distctns between nonfictn and fictn. In a book about gay bars, that tensn — between real and fake — is baked to the walls. “Gay bars are s of genue artifice, ” he wr.