Chasg 'Phantoms of the Past': 8 Gay and Lbian Bar Archivists on Prervg LGBTQ+ Nightlife History | VePair

Contents:

• CHASG ‘PHANTOMS OF THE PAST’: 8 GAY AND LBIAN BAR ARCHIVISTS ON PRERVG LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE HISTORY
• 'GAY BARCHIV' DOCUMENTS HISTORIC GAY BARS AS LGBTQ+ SAFE HAVENS THROUGHOUT THE U.S.
• LGBTQ MEMORABILIA DIGNER HONORS DEFUNCT FLORIDA GAY BARS
• CELEBRATG THE HISTORY OF LGBTQ SAFE SPAC: ART SMH AND GAY BARCHIV
• THE PLEASURE AND PA OF GAY BARS
• WHY OUR HISTORI WH GAY BARS MATTER — AND WHAT THEIR FUTURE MIGHT LOOK LIKE AFTER THE PANMIC
• GAY 90’S: MNEAPOLIS’ MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY BAR

CHASG ‘PHANTOMS OF THE PAST’: 8 GAY AND LBIAN BAR ARCHIVISTS ON PRERVG LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE HISTORY

For Pri Month, VePair terviewed eight gay and lbian bar archivers around the untry about the challeng and urgency they’re currently facg documentg Ameri’s gay and lbian bars while they still n. After a brief uptick the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, the total number of gay and lbian bars the Uned Stat crted around 2, 000 lotns, acrdg to rearch published by Oberl associate profsor of soclogy Greggor Mattson based on listgs the Damron Guis, a proment LGBTQ+ nightlife guibook seri published annually throughout the back half of the 20th century. “The biggt obstacle is gettg the rmatn about the bars, gettg the teractns, gettg people to say, ‘Yeah, I lived D Mo, Iowa 1968 and there was this bar there, and here’s the rmatn, ’” says Art Smh, the amatr archivist behd, a gay and lbian bar logo xg project.

“We’re talkg about years when people were prtg unrground publitns that may some s [have] only lasted a year or two, and certaly were never snned or archived onle, ” says Smh, who himself ran a gay nightlife publitn Atlanta for a few years the ‘80s.

To nduct rearch for his upg book, Hilrbrand has relied on the Universy of Southern California’s ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv, the largt reposory of LBGTQ+ materials the world, as well as viss to smaller, regnal archivg projects and historil societi across the untry. When to gay and lbian bar archivg, another more emotnally ght barrier looms: The people who own the materials that would help them pat a fuller picture of Ameri’s LGBTQ+ nightlife landspe of yore aren’t always forthg wh them. “In archivg our history, one of the biggt challeng is the bar owners, ” says Perez, who addn to his tourg and archival work, has thored a half-dozen books about New Orleans, cludg a history about the cy’s — some say the untry’s — olst gay bar, Cafe Lafte Exile.

'GAY BARCHIV' DOCUMENTS HISTORIC GAY BARS AS LGBTQ+ SAFE HAVENS THROUGHOUT THE U.S.

” In his work wh the LGBT+ Archiv Project of Louisiana, Perez has ntemplated the strategy of askg owners at New Orleans’ still-open gay bars to sign letters of tent to earmark their fil for archivg if or when they close.

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LGBTQ MEMORABILIA DIGNER HONORS DEFUNCT FLORIDA GAY BARS

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He went on, “The gay bars were the plac where the meetgs were held, where people met each other to jo hands a mon e, where drag queens and lol performers did fundraisers to raise money for anizatns. But Stonewall is the one that really got the foc, and started to really get the msage natnally, that we need to fight for our rights… All of those plac that I mentned were gay safe havens, gay bars or gay f that allowed to meet and to discs topics, and to plan protts or march, or whatever we were gog do.

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CELEBRATG THE HISTORY OF LGBTQ SAFE SPAC: ART SMH AND GAY BARCHIV

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THE PLEASURE AND PA OF GAY BARS

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