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Contents:
- 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
- HISTORIC GAY BAR SIGNATED AS NEW YORK CY LANDMARK
- 'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR
- NYC HONORS HISTORIC GAY BAR WH LANDMARK STAT
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
Author Jeremy Atherton L wr of the history of gay bars, as their existence is threatened by the populary of datg apps and risg property sts, and reflects on their prence his life. * gay bar status *
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A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
* gay bar status *
Atherton L's book starts off a crowd room a gay bar where he's gone cisg wh his partner, whom he refers to throughout the book wh the Leonard Cohen-spired nickname Famo Blue Raat.
ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
That kd of gay bar — all kds of gay bars, really — are danger of closg, Atherton L wr, due to the populary of datg apps and risg property sts. He's ambivalent about the velopment, wrg, "I had to nsir whether gay bars promised a sense of belongg then lured to a trap. In a gay bar, am I penned to mory stat, swallowg drks that nourish my opprsn — have gay bars kept me my place?
" The prospect of losg gay bars leads him to reflect on their prence his life.
HISTORIC GAY BAR SIGNATED AS NEW YORK CY LANDMARK
He wr betifully about his llege days Los Angel, where he went to his first one, though he n't rell the name, wryly notg, "Of urse I n't remember my first gay bar — I was dnk.
'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR
" He's also spired to dig to the past: "Enough time has passed that gay bars, once a surge, have bee monumental their own way.
NYC HONORS HISTORIC GAY BAR WH LANDMARK STAT
" That history clus the famo 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn New York, but Atherton L also div to other, lser-known bars, cludg on that endured police raids meant to put gay people their place. Throughout the book, Atherton L scrib the gay bars that he equented, and his scriptns of the tablishments are endlsly evotive.
" Atherton L explor topics like archecture and urban geography, as they relate to gay bars, betifully; he wr wh a real knowledge that's more than jt tellectual dilettantism. About the changg looks of bars before the turn of the century, he observ, "A new type of gay bar began to appear London's Soho the neti — airy, glossy, ntental.
THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
The gay bars were born that way.