In honor of Pri Month, take a ep dive to 200+ years of gay bar history and how they paved the way for the LGBTQ rights movement.
Contents:
- GAY BARS AREN’T DISAPPEARG; THEY’RE CHANGG
- THE HISTORY OF HOW GAY BARS BEME THE BATTLEGROUND FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
- DO WE STILL NEED GAY BARS? THIS AUTHOR’S BOOK TACKL WHY THEY’RE DYG — AND WHY WE SHOULDN’T LET THEM
GAY BARS AREN’T DISAPPEARG; THEY’RE CHANGG
Why Not Cafe And Bar is one of the top gay bars Budapt also offerg sweepg views onto the Danube River. * why not gay bar *
Why Not is a gay-iendly bar downtown Budapt wh panoramic vistas, overlookg the Danube, the Liberty Bridge, and the historic Gellért Hotel.
Although open late every day of the week, try to arrive at a reasonable hour on Fridays as many people move on to see the midnight show at Alterego, Budapt's inic gay club. Why don't Fayetteville have a gay bar? There was a moment readg Greggor Mattson’s book, Who Needs Gay Bars?, where I found myself beg credibly fensive.
THE HISTORY OF HOW GAY BARS BEME THE BATTLEGROUND FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
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. 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.
DO WE STILL NEED GAY BARS? THIS AUTHOR’S BOOK TACKL WHY THEY’RE DYG — AND WHY WE SHOULDN’T LET THEM
“There is no one answer to the qutn ‘Who needs gay bars?
’ 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.