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Contents:

• GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L REVIEW – A LURID, LERARY NIGHT OUT
• A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
• BT GAY CLUBS NEW ORLEANS
• THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
• BT GAY CLUBS FORT MYERS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
• IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE

GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L REVIEW – A LURID, LERARY NIGHT OUT

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We intified bs the gay bars tegory, then ranked those spots g a number of factors cludg the total volume and ratgs of reviews between January 1, 2016 and April 28, 2021. “I went out to bars, ” clar Jeremy Atherton L late this florid, lurid, powerfully bray memoir of gay gallivantg, “to be lerary. Unearthg history all of the plac, L treats gay bars as archiv of munal memory.

Luckily, his worst misadventure happened when a vulpe lad he brought home om a bar “proceed to rip apart my Amerin Apparel T-shirt om the V-neck” this brand-nsc anecdote reveals, gay inty is a sartorial and existential mefield: before you go out, you have to ci what to wear, which will terme who you tend to be that eveng.

A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME

He valu the bars as arenas of egalarianism, even if the would-be skheads he enunters East End hangouts are often guilty of “homosexual chinery”, passg for hooligans bee they like the wardrobe; a crique of the post-dtrial enomy, he blam nsumer culture for refg inty as a mody and -optg gay men as “experts leisure and athetics”, prized bee they have sh to spend on ippery. Dpe his mercurial temperament, L’s aim is nobly humane: he urg habués of the bars to look beyond the stereotyp that dify gay sire and “to see one another as multidimensnal begs”. Gay Bar exemplifi the multidimensnaly L admir: ’s at once erotilly gamey and tellectually playful, bg soft porn wh social theory, semen wh semtics.

“Beg homo, ” as L smartly puts , “did not amount to beg the same. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton L is published by Granta (£16.

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History, as is lived, is a reelg spiral of flight and return; the erative reawakeng of new selv faiar plac; a never-endg terrogatn of our own nfed and nfg motiv; a msy slather of dots on a graph where the center n be plotted only Atherton L’s betiful, lyril memoir, “Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, ” cloaks this lived history that learned history, examg an objective subject — gay bars — to create a highly subjective object: a book about his life, flensed down to jt the bs that ma past the chapter foc on one particular gay bar (jumpg om London to Los Angel to San Francis and back), s history and s place the trajectory of Atherton L’s life. As Atherton L remds , “disassociatn is a gay rual as much as any other.

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“Gay Bar” danc on the edge of that third space between fictn and nonfictn, a space often rerved for poetry. Atherton L himself is renred only relatn to the bars he walks through; you’ll fd yourself hard-prsed at the end to say where he was born or how many siblgs he has (and you won’t re) Atherton L has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-que range for discsg gay sex.

Like any good gay bar, this book has a bouncer, and his name is is Atherton L’s first book, but benefs om his extensive experience as an sayist and an edor of Failed Stat, a journal about plac. “Gay Bar” is well crafted (which is pecially pleasg nsirg this is a memoir about stctur), wh a strong thorial hand that mak the rear feel refully shepherd through the text, even as Atherton L jumps s and ntents. When he discs an important 1966 prott at the historic Greenwich Village gay bar Juli’, he c a New York Tim article to talk about the “tr of activists” volved — not realizg that the article left out a fourth man, Randy Wicker (the only one still alive, cintally enough) a half page later, though, Atherton L warns that spe the activist claim that gay bars “should be kept open to facilate knowledge passg between generatns, ” he himself had never really received gay wisdom “on a barstool.

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” This book is not about history, the subject you study, but history, that thg you have wh that guy by the jebox whose name you n’t the fal chapter of “Gay Bar, ” Atherton L grappl wh gog to a new generatn of bars, created by very different forc, meetg very different needs. Bt Gay Clubs New Orleans.

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Remend for Gay Clubs bee: Bourbon Pub and Para is the place to be for amazg stum on Mardi Gras day.