An cisive history of London, LA and San Francis rells the sights, sounds and distctive smells of gay life om the 1990s to today
Contents:
- GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR
- RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD
- CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- THE DEATH OF THE GAY BAR
GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR
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When promoter Simon Hobart lnched Popstarz 1995, offered a radil alternative to other, posier gay club nights.
‘It was two fgers to the big gay clubs at the time, which were all playg techno and hard hoe. London had other gay die clubs before Popstarz, but they were more trospective. East London’s epic pansexual party Sk the Pk has a very different vibe, but ptur some of the Popstarz spir the way posns self as a edgier and more welg rival to the mastream gay scene.
As Popstarz grew and beme part of London’s gay nightlife tablishment, foced on hong s mic offerg and bookg bigname performers such as Goldapp, Scissor Sisters and Mika. On Irish televisn news, the headl rmed the natn that Panti Bliss, a brilliantly articulate mpaigner, had arrived at Dubl Castle, as ed she gay was all the rage jt then. Leo Varadkar, mister for health, soon to be taoiseach, had announced that he was gay, as did a former mister om the other ma party, as did a well-known TV news journalist.
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That day would not have been surprisg had all the bishops of Ireland arrived their fery to let know that they, too, wanted to jo our Gay Bar, a brilliantly wrten and cisive acunt of gay life Los Angel, San Francis and London, Jeremy Atherton L quot the cric Ben Walters on gay history that is “agile om fear and fettg, too often wrten whispers and saved scraps”. I imaged a walk that two men of my generatn – I me to Dubl 1972 – might do to revis the gay plac that have gone, such as The Gym, a sna jt a stone’s throw om Dubl Castle, or Ingno, another sna, much favoured by prits.
Photograph: Clodagh Kilyne/Getty ImagThe arrival of the big, loud gay venu Dubl me at the same time as other eedoms.
CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
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In Barcelona 1975, when Fran died, there was not a sgle bar that was clearly signated as gay the cy.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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” In gay bars, he beme someone on whom nothg was lost. “Gays, ” he wr, “n relax a gay bar, people will say, but I went out for the tensn the room. ”His book is also hnted by the dotted le the gay story, the gaps the narrative.
THE DEATH OF THE GAY BAR
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He wr about a DJ his 40s lled B Statn John who “played ecstatic sets of arne dis … He was there to bear wns, to ttify, g rare tracks om what he lled ‘the goln age of gay’, the perd between Stonewall and Aids. We were nsc the discs on the turntable may have e om the llectns of ceased gay men.
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”But the ghosts his book are also those who created gay San Francis self, where there were 18 gay bars 1964 and “an timated hundred and eighteen wh a ”. Atherton L registers the nostalgia that me wh all this change, quotg Fouult: “I actually liked the scene before gay liberatn, when everythg was more vert.