The Advote talks to Jonathan Srfe about his role as a gay law clerk on TNT’s “Raisg the Bar”

Contents:

• RAISG THE BAR: A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY BARS
• THE GREATT GAY BAR STRAIGHT TV HISTORY
• RAISG THE BARDISCREPANCITRACK 4 ON THE AWAKENG PRODUCED BYMATTHEW AMELUNG20181 VIEWER6 CONTRIBUTORSRAISG THE BAR LYRICSBACK UP BACK UP, I'M JT SWCHG MY CRAFT UPIF YOU A'T GOT NO SUBSTANCE 'S A MT THAT YOU GET PASSED UP, (BYE)PACK UP PACK UP, I GOTTA TELL YOU THAT YOUR MATH SUCKSRAPP' ABOUT THAT SH YOU DO NOT HAVE DON'T ADD UPSTOP , I'M NOT NCERNED ABOUT YOUR PROFI'M GOG TO H THE BOOTH TELL THE TTH, GIVE 'EM SOMETHG TO ROCK WHI'M PENNG OUR STORY, THE BEGNG OF GLORYIF YOU FEEL LIKE I FEEL PUT YOUR HANDS UP TO THE CEILGAND WNS THE REALTWE ARE WHO WE AREWE WILL LIVE THROUGH THE SRSAND WE'LL E BACK STRONGER THAN BEFOREJT REMEMBER ONE THGWE ARE WHO WE AREAND THIS IS ME HOMIE LIKE OR NOTSO NO MATTER WHAT TAK I'M A FIGHT FOR MY SPOTI GRASPED THE SENCE OF RAP AND I'M TAKG FARYO IT REALLY A'T HARD SPOT ME YOU N WATCH ME I'M JT RAISG THE BARD TO THE I SC REPAN C TO THE IES NO QUTNBLSED WH THE TELLECT, WRECK TILL WE GET RPECTDTED TO BE THE BT, BUT NEVER THE LSSOME PEOPLE THK I'M CRAZY AND JT WON'T LASTWELL I WOULD RATHER WALK DOWN THAT PSYCHOPATHSO PLEASE EXCE THIS TSN BUT I CHOOSE BLISSI'M JT A NUISANCE ABG MY KUNG FU GRIPYOU GOTTA HOLD ON TO HOPE EVEN IF THEY PLAYOUR DREAMS ARE YOUR DREAMS THERE'S NO REASON TO CHANGEI'M JT SAYGYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEWE ARE WHO WE AREWE WILL LIVE THROUGH THE SRSAND WE'LL E BACK STRONGER THAN BEFOREJT REMEMBER ONE THGWE ARE WHO WE AREAND THIS IS ME HOMIE LIKE OR NOTSO NO MATTER WHAT TAK I'M A FIGHT FOR MY SPOTI GRASPED THE SENCE OF RAP AND I'M TAKG FARYO IT REALLY A'T HARD SPOT ME YOU N WATCH ME I'M JT RAISG THE BARTHE POSSIBILI WILL HNT YOUIF YOU DO NOT LIFT THE WEIGHT WILL PULL YOU UNRTHE NEGATIVY WILL TNT YOUIF YOU DO NOT LIFT THE WEIGHT WILL PULL YOU UNRYOU KEEP YOUR MONS HIDN EP SIBUT IF YOU DO NOT STRIVE TO RISE WILLPULL YOU UNRAND I KNOW SUCKS AND YOU SEEM TO BE STUCKBUT AT THE MOMENT YOU GIVE UPIT WILL PULL YOU UNRNOT UP TO YOU TO CI MY FATEIT'S MY FUTURE THAT'S WHAT'S AT STAKEI AM LUCID FOR HEAVEN'S SAKEBUT WE'RE HUMANS WE MAKE MISTAKSO WHETHER YOU'RE BI, GAY OR STRAIGHTA PERSON OF ANY RACERELIGN OR ANY FAHA VICTIM OF ANY HATELET THEM KNOW THAT WE WILL NOT BREAKWE ARE WHO WE AREWE WILL LIVE THROUGH THE SRSAND WE'LL E BACK STRONGER THAN BEFOREJT REMEMBER ONE THGWE ARE WHO WE AREAND THIS IS ME HOMIE LIKE OR NOTSO NO MATTER WHAT TAK I'M A FIGHT FOR MY SPOTI GRASPED THE SENCE OF RAP AND I'M TAKG FARYO IT REALLY A'T HARD SPOT ME YOU N WATCH ME I'M JT RAISG THE BAREMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• THE ADVOTE TALKS TO JONATHAN SRFE ABOUT HIS ROLE AS A GAY LAW CLERK ON TNT’S “RAISG THE BAR”

RAISG THE BAR: A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY BARS

Chanc are pretty good, if you’re an LGBTQIA+ person you’ve been to a gay bar. Even if you’re jt someone who lov an LGBTQIA+ person, there’s still a good chance you’ve been to a gay bar. I’m not sayg you’re dog queerns wrong if you haven’t been to a gay bar, I’m jt sayg ’s a pretty mon shared experience.

THE GREATT GAY BAR STRAIGHT TV HISTORY

But I’m not here to weigh the pros and ns of gay bars — we n all do that on Twter (and we do) — I jt want to talk briefly about the history of gay bars, talk a teeny b about some of the first on to exist, and some of the olst on that we still have today. Gay bars were not, at least ially, all that different om molly ho and, terms of their purpose, still aren’t.

To separate molly ho om gay bars, we have to kd of look at the history of bars themselv. So, to separate molly ho om gay bars — and I’m not gog to claim this is the official fn, ’s jt what I’m workg wh here — I’m gog to fe gay bars as legimate, legal bs foced entirely (or almost entirely) on the sale of alhol to queer ctomers. And so gay bars began to pop up — the first, as far as we n tell was Cann, France (where homosexualy had been crimalized sce 1791.

Meanwhile, Berl had also bee a hotspot of gay and lbian nightlife by 1900, thanks largely to the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee‘s prence there, though a lot of the specific rerds about the spots were lost thanks to the Nazis. Wh weeks of the Nazi party takg power Germany 1933, fourteen gay and lbian nightclubs were closed, cludg an ternatnally renowned drag bar lled Eldorado. The other issue for gay bars at the begng of the 20th century was Prohibn.

RAISG THE BARDISCREPANCITRACK 4 ON THE AWAKENG PRODUCED BYMATTHEW AMELUNG20181 VIEWER6 CONTRIBUTORSRAISG THE BAR LYRICSBACK UP BACK UP, I'M JT SWCHG MY CRAFT UPIF YOU A'T GOT NO SUBSTANCE 'S A MT THAT YOU GET PASSED UP, (BYE)PACK UP PACK UP, I GOTTA TELL YOU THAT YOUR MATH SUCKSRAPP' ABOUT THAT SH YOU DO NOT HAVE DON'T ADD UPSTOP , I'M NOT NCERNED ABOUT YOUR PROFI'M GOG TO H THE BOOTH TELL THE TTH, GIVE 'EM SOMETHG TO ROCK WHI'M PENNG OUR STORY, THE BEGNG OF GLORYIF YOU FEEL LIKE I FEEL PUT YOUR HANDS UP TO THE CEILGAND WNS THE REALTWE ARE WHO WE AREWE WILL LIVE THROUGH THE SRSAND WE'LL E BACK STRONGER THAN BEFOREJT REMEMBER ONE THGWE ARE WHO WE AREAND THIS IS ME HOMIE LIKE OR NOTSO NO MATTER WHAT TAK I'M A FIGHT FOR MY SPOTI GRASPED THE SENCE OF RAP AND I'M TAKG FARYO IT REALLY A'T HARD SPOT ME YOU N WATCH ME I'M JT RAISG THE BARD TO THE I SC REPAN C TO THE IES NO QUTNBLSED WH THE TELLECT, WRECK TILL WE GET RPECTDTED TO BE THE BT, BUT NEVER THE LSSOME PEOPLE THK I'M CRAZY AND JT WON'T LASTWELL I WOULD RATHER WALK DOWN THAT PSYCHOPATHSO PLEASE EXCE THIS TSN BUT I CHOOSE BLISSI'M JT A NUISANCE ABG MY KUNG FU GRIPYOU GOTTA HOLD ON TO HOPE EVEN IF THEY PLAYOUR DREAMS ARE YOUR DREAMS THERE'S NO REASON TO CHANGEI'M JT SAYGYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEWE ARE WHO WE AREWE WILL LIVE THROUGH THE SRSAND WE'LL E BACK STRONGER THAN BEFOREJT REMEMBER ONE THGWE ARE WHO WE AREAND THIS IS ME HOMIE LIKE OR NOTSO NO MATTER WHAT TAK I'M A FIGHT FOR MY SPOTI GRASPED THE SENCE OF RAP AND I'M TAKG FARYO IT REALLY A'T HARD SPOT ME YOU N WATCH ME I'M JT RAISG THE BARTHE POSSIBILI WILL HNT YOUIF YOU DO NOT LIFT THE WEIGHT WILL PULL YOU UNRTHE NEGATIVY WILL TNT YOUIF YOU DO NOT LIFT THE WEIGHT WILL PULL YOU UNRYOU KEEP YOUR MONS HIDN EP SIBUT IF YOU DO NOT STRIVE TO RISE WILLPULL YOU UNRAND I KNOW SUCKS AND YOU SEEM TO BE STUCKBUT AT THE MOMENT YOU GIVE UPIT WILL PULL YOU UNRNOT UP TO YOU TO CI MY FATEIT'S MY FUTURE THAT'S WHAT'S AT STAKEI AM LUCID FOR HEAVEN'S SAKEBUT WE'RE HUMANS WE MAKE MISTAKSO WHETHER YOU'RE BI, GAY OR STRAIGHTA PERSON OF ANY RACERELIGN OR ANY FAHA VICTIM OF ANY HATELET THEM KNOW THAT WE WILL NOT BREAKWE ARE WHO WE AREWE WILL LIVE THROUGH THE SRSAND WE'LL E BACK STRONGER THAN BEFOREJT REMEMBER ONE THGWE ARE WHO WE AREAND THIS IS ME HOMIE LIKE OR NOTSO NO MATTER WHAT TAK I'M A FIGHT FOR MY SPOTI GRASPED THE SENCE OF RAP AND I'M TAKG FARYO IT REALLY A'T HARD SPOT ME YOU N WATCH ME I'M JT RAISG THE BAREMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

But the most lastg effect of Prohibn, at least for gay bars the USA, was that alhol sal beme part of the world of anized crime. Even after Prohibn end the USA, most gay bars were n by the mafia for the next few s. Over the early s of the 20th century, gay nightlife spread throughout Wtern culture.

It might be the first gay bar the Uned first rerd mentn of the then-popular Amsterdam gay club The Empire was 1911, but seems to have already been tablished several years prr.

The Cave of the Goln Calf, found 1912, was the first “official” gay bar England, though went bankpt and closed 1914.

THE ADVOTE TALKS TO JONATHAN SRFE ABOUT HIS ROLE AS A GAY LAW CLERK ON TNT’S “RAISG THE BAR”

Still, ma a reputatn for s wild parti and fluenced a lot of gay bars ’s Hangout New York Cy was one of the first, if not the first, lbian bar the Uned Stat, openg 1925 and closg at the end of 1926 due to police raids. )Social reforms brought about by Print Lázaro Cárnas of Mexi brought about the creatn of roughly a dozen gay bars Mexi after he me to office 1934, cludg El Triunfo and El Ái Mexi Cy.

All of Mexi Cy’s gay bars were closed 1959 and even though there are gay bars the cy now, none of the origal on first gay bar South Ai opened the Carlton Hotel Johannburg the late 1940’s — terg to wealthy whe gay men.

However, some of the bars, such as the Butterfly Bar (now the Skyle) began to tegrate the mid-1980’ Amerin occupatn of Japan followg World War II brought gay bars to the untry — New Sazae opened Tokyo durg this perd, 1966, and is still open the 1970’s, a lot of clubs Sgapore began havg gay nights but no actual gay bars opened until the lbian bar Crodile Rock opened the 1980’s. It is still open, and is the olst gay bar that untry. If you want to experience some history for yourself, here’s some of the olst gay bars still around today:.