The Official San Anton Gui to Gay Bars
Contents:
- BEER IS SO GAY
- VIRGINIA’S PREMIER GAY NIGHT CLUB
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
- GAY BARS SAN ANTON
- 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
BEER IS SO GAY
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What you’ll rarely hear, though, is that a gay bar is a gay bar bee of the drks. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are among the emergg group of beer producers that are centerg queer inty and queer muny, whether by highlightg queer brewers, donatg some profs to queer chari, or creatg queer third spac — munal spac distct om home and work — at a time when they’re disappearg.
Instead, buyers will state clearly that they want a Gay Beer. Gay Beer was created by Jon Moore and Jason Pazmo, bs partners and boyiends, 2017.
VIRGINIA’S PREMIER GAY NIGHT CLUB
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The pair were spired while drkg at Juli’, a historic gay bar New York Cy that was the se of early “sip-” protts, where gay men would drk at bars that refed to serve homosexuals. Together, they were tryg to figure out why there wasn’t already a beer posned more for queer people, which led Moore and Pazmo to realize that gay beer was a project they uld take on themselv themselv.
But of urse, had to be gay. Consumptn of Gay Beer, they cid, would be herently tied to supportg the queer muny.
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
They began llg Gay Beer while velopg the product and jt stuck. Growg up, they’d both heard “gay” ed as an sult or to scribe somethg pejoratively, so llg their beer Gay Beer was also a reclamatn. Moore and Pazmo note that “gay” also means “happy, ” a nnotatn hasn’t really held s, but still gets ed as a cheeky way to eli the haters.
GAY BARS SAN ANTON
(Big Gay Ice Cream has ed the same tactic.
'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
“A lot of bars are not wantg to say they’re lbian bars, they’re wantg to say they’re queer bars — but a lot of gay male bars keep sayg they’re gay male bars, ” she says. From a sign standpot, Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg all wanted to reference the cultur they grew om. For Moore and Pazmo, that meant an “Amerina whout the Amerin flag” sign, somethg that reflected the athetics of Juli’ Bar, and the gay men of the ’60s who participated the “sip ” protts.