In this week’s stallment of ¡Hola Papi!, John Pl Brammer addrs that funny thg we ll “gay culture.”
Contents:
- GAY BARS AREN’T DISAPPEARG; THEY’RE CHANGG
- DO YOU WANNA FUNK WH ME?: A BEGNER’S GUI TO GAY NIGHTCLUBS
- THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG
GAY BARS AREN’T DISAPPEARG; THEY’RE CHANGG
There are some plac -- like the backrooms of gay bars -- that should rema exclive, Alexanr Chev wr. * i don't like gay clubs *
heckhomo. To be sure, I love the LGBTQ+ muny and I have received much support wh , but I don’t go to gay bars, clubs, pri paras etc.
There was a moment readg Greggor Mattson’s book, Who Needs Gay Bars?, where I found myself beg credibly fensive. One of the 130 gay bar owners he terviewed is bemoang how his ctomers are no longer ntent to hang wh iends and nverse over a few drks.
DO YOU WANNA FUNK WH ME?: A BEGNER’S GUI TO GAY NIGHTCLUBS
Gay bar patrons want entertament, he says — drag shows, TV watch parti, activi.
The differenc are sort of the pot of Mattson’s book, a chronicle of gay bars 39 stat across the untry and throughout Amerin history.
“There is no one answer to the qutn ‘Who needs gay bars?
THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG
’ bee there is no one ‘who, ’ no one set of ‘needs, ’ and no one kd of ‘gay bar, ’” wr Mattson, a soclogy profsor at Oberl.
There are strip clubs and dive bars and f and cktail bars servg both gay and straight people. Gay bars are not a monolh.
But the state of the gay bar has bee a prsg ncern. Mattson wr that 50 percent of the untry’s gay bars closed between 2012 and 2021, and that the difficulti have not been evenly felt.