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"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

While gay bars have bee a bean for many the muny and tend to domate nversatns regardg gathergs, we hear far ls about other typ of plac to e together. We're jt for the morng gays. "When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said.

Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat.

For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy. For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage.

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Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends. Buyg Target’s ugly attempts at rabow fashn is a crime agast gay humany. I’ve met and worked wh so many gay, bisexual, lbian, trans and nonbary baristas that givg my ffee orr to someone wh aggrsively heterosexual vib jt feels downright strange.

As Alim Kheraj wrote GQ, “Essentially, iced ffee has bee a queer avatar, and a way for gay people to signpost themselv agast the uniformy of heterosexualy.

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