In his new memoir, “Gay Bar,” Jeremy Atherton L documents his personal history and the history of queer inty by explorg gay bars around the world.
Contents:
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
- LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
- A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
- 13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- GAY BAR MOUNTA BROOK
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
* the brook gay bar *
Once upon a time, Wtport had both a gay bar and a strip club. The gay bar was The Brook.
LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
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The gay bar outlasted them all. It’s a ramshackle old buildg — sry, almost — and whatever is erected there will be much more profable than a gay bar. At 71 years old, the Cedar Brook has been lled the olst ntually operatg gay bar the Uned Stat.
A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
For 7 s, every gay boy growg up Wtport has told the same story. Knowg there was a gay bar right down the street created both tremendo excement (there are people like me!
Wonrg who — and what — lurked behd those ramshackle walls nsumed gay teenagers. “This is a gay bar.
13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY
But was hard to sta a gay club suburban Fairfield County the 2000s.
Soon will no longer have a gay bar, eher. And some other place, somewhere, will say wh pri: “We’re the olst ntually operatg gay bar Ameri. June is Gay Pri Month.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
Which means ’s a great time to look back — wh pri — on the s when our ltle suburb was home to a gay bar. And not jt any gay bar.
But the olst ntually operatg gay bar the untry. The Brook — aka as the Brook Cafe, and the Cedar Brook — was said to be the olst ntually operatg gay bar Ameri, when closed 6 years ago.
GAY BAR MOUNTA BROOK
(Want to know more about Wtport’s gay bar? When “the Brook” closed last June — after 71 years — was the olst ntually operatg gay bar Ameri.
And a few years om now, newers will thk we’re kiddg when we say that right there — across om Walgreens, jt down om the der — Wtport once boasted one of the most historic gay bars the untry.