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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. 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.

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Gay bars are not a monolh. But the state of the gay bar has bee a prsg ncern.

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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.

But even light of all the threats, gay bars are figurg out how to fill hol muny needs, how to pete wh apps and apathy, how to balance muny tradns wh more clive valu. And what’s more, the “gay bar” as exists popular imagatn — an exclive space by and for eher gay men or women — has never reprented what gay bars actually are. “Gay bars are not dyg, they’re evolvg.

CHAPTER 12 GAY BARS WERE NEVER SAFE SPAC

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Eater: A big pot you keep g back to is the nebulo ncept of a gay bar.

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After all the terviews, are you any closer to beg able to fe what a “gay bar” is? So n a fe be a gay bar? Or if a nightclub has a gay night at least once a week, then I’m willg to say that’s a place where queer culture flourish.

My favore gay bar Cleveland closed, and I was really stunned at the reactn.

Bee some of the lol LGBTQ+ folks were like, “Yeah, we don’t need gay bars anymore.

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” I regnized that the were maly cis whe gay men who are middle class or above. When I went lookg, I wanted to know, is [the closg of gay bars] part of a trend? So then I set out to make a database g the Damron guis and to fd out, were gay bars gog away?

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And then I wanted to know om people who’ve been volved wh gay bars over the last 20 or so years, what have they seen? Nobody had talked to gay bar owners.

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In the book you wre that certa kds of gay bars, like lbian bars or more “cisy” gay bars, are closg at a faster clip than other typ. What sort of gay bars do you see thrivg right now? You mentned that a lot of people have been sayg that they personally don’t need gay bars anymore bee they feel wele anywhere.

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What do you make of that tensn and the issu that arise wh what we expect out of gay bars vers what they n reasonably offer? Ltle ci will end up wh a gay film ftival anized out of the bar. When someone says they don’t need gay bars, jt puts me a thoughtful mood.

Is , “I don’t need gay bars my middle age, but I might as a retiree, ” or is , “I don’t need gay bars now that I’m a mted partnership, but I might if I were sgle”? I don’t know that needg gay bars is an on-off swch for the rt of your life, and so ’s important to me that the bars that n serve all of be open for when we need them.

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