The History of How Gay Bars Beme the Battleground for LGBTQ+ Rights

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 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?

THE HISTORY OF HOW GAY BARS BEME THE BATTLEGROUND FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

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. Gay bar patrons want entertament, he says — drag shows, TV watch parti, activi.

DO WE STILL NEED GAY BARS? THIS AUTHOR’S BOOK TACKL WHY THEY’RE DYG — AND WHY WE SHOULDN’T LET THEM

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? ’ 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.