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Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• THE PLEASURE AND PA OF GAY BARS
• IS IT LAST CALL FOR THE GAY BAR?
• INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

1986: Bev Arthur and Mart Arthur -thor the book “Mama’s Boy” chroniclg Mart’s g out as a gay man based on a letter he wrote 1974 as a stunt at the Universy of Iowa. More about Sheryl Gay StolbergA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 15 of the New York edn wh the headle: Virologists Deny to Panel That Fci Swayed Report Agast Lab Leak Theory. This uncerta future was one that Alibi Lounge, reportedly the only Black-owned gay bar Manhattan, faced until a few passnate youth got we talk to Alexi Mko, founr of the venue, about how thgs have been the panmic, how he's been tryg to keep the bs gog, and why 's important he keep his doors open.

I didn't want to have to go so far out of my neighborhood to go to an openly gay Gabon, I started the gay bar Hyte partnership wh my bt iend so I already that experience so why not Harlem. Boxers jt opened up here, but before Boxers I thk that people knowg that there was an LGBTQ+ tablishment up here that was proudly displayg the LGBTQ+ flag at the door ma some tablishments who had gay owners ci to do the same.

TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY

”Dpe beg the fourth most populo place a state wh one of the natn’s largt LGBTQ+ populatns, Man has historilly stggled to mata a unified and visible gay muny.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

”Gay men and women were a fixture Man as early as the ‘70s and ‘80s, acrdg to Ray Robert Grissett, who told The Man Telegraph he performed as female impersonator Tangere Summers gay-iendly bars that dotted downtown Man back the relatnship between the gay muny and greater Man was always tense. “Gay men and women were a fixture Man as early as the ‘70s and ‘80s, acrdg to Ray Robert Grissett, who told The Man Telegraph he performed as female impersonator Tangere Summers gay-iendly bars that dotted downtown Man back then. Through the 1990s, the cy would see a handful of high-profile anti-LGBTQ+ cints, cludg the 1993 shootg ath of Elizabeth Davidson by a teenager who followed her to a gay bar, The Pegas Lounge, closed the next day, and most other gay bars soon followed 2004, the cy’s six-year-old Pri celebratn abptly shuttered.

From NBC News to the Guardian, nearly all the verage ntaed a siar slant, which played to a popular narrative: gay bars as beans of liberatn, central to the formatn of queer inty and muny. I walked around the rner bee I uldn't brg myself to go , but then the next night I did and everythg was illumated and the drag queen sed at me and I was gay. Throughout his life, gay bars offered solace and excement, but they jt as often disappoted, exclud, and baffled, providg Atherton L wh more qutns about his inty than answers.

THE PLEASURE AND PA OF GAY BARS

” Atherton L’s but is a book-length say told through the lens of the gay bars, nightclubs, and sex parti he’s equented over the span of nearly three s. In li of hn he achiev somethg richer, if not more knotty: the gay bar a state of irrolutn, providg a hall of mirrors onto which his inty ntracts, expands, and sometim actur.

” “Gay bar” more as footnote than book is heavily rearched, wh source material that clus everythg om Disintifitns, by José Esteban Muñoz, to back issu of the bar rag Attu, and even a review. The sourc accumulate whout hierarchy; when to gay history, and gay nightlife particular, Atherton L knows that what gets whispered across bar stools at 2 a.

Gay Bar is cultural history as gossip, funneled through Atherton L’s sharp, nimble, and often vastatg a historian, or even a nventnal memoirist, Atherton L is terted blurrg the distctns between nonfictn and fictn. “There's kd of an impulse behd this book to prent a versn of ‘gay’ that's not jt anodyne and, you know, Queer Eye — posive and affirmative, ” he said. ”Through his nasal passag, Atherton L replac the sanized gay body wh somethg more flhy and human, makg visceral a mon taboo popular culture: pictg gay sex, all s tactile glory.

IS IT LAST CALL FOR THE GAY BAR?

After a year fed by social distancg, when stayg meant savg liv, I asked Atherton L if there was anythg particular that he missed about gog to gay bars. ”His rponse illumated the sence of what ma Gay Bar such a satisfygly thorny read: Atherton L’s abily to wrtle wh the tensn the room, and to regnize s tangle a form of tst, even assurance. Far more tertg to Atherton L is how gay men nstct their differenc, mostly relatn to other gay men, the way gay bars ntuoly splter his sense of self, rather than g to ngeal.

INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY

I was sadned when I heard some months ago that The Mars Bar, the only dited gay and lbian nightclub Alai, South Atralia, would be closg after 40 years bs. In a 2015 paper, Toby Lea, John W, and Robert Reynolds outled prev rearch regardg reasons for chang socializatn and, drawg on prev work, the “stctural cle” of lbian and gay scen, such as that of Oxford Street Sydney. The rearchers outled theoretil bate as to whether the gay liberatn movement has given way to a post-gay era, where sexual orientatn is not central to inty, there is creased stigmatizatn, and ls isolatn is felt by same-sex attracted persons; all of which translat to different methods of socializatn and relatnship formatn.

Ined, surveys of gay Atralian men livg Sydney (published 2016) and Melbourne (published 2017) reveal that the proportn of men g apps to meet sexual partners signifintly creased om 2015 to 2016 and 2016 to 2017, rpectively, wh a cle over a five-year perd both ci for meetg at gay bars.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

However, while many of feel that we equent “safe” or “gay-iendly, ” spac, and actively seek out spac that are simpati wh our terts and preferenc, isn’t the se that all venu are like this or that younger people (and even olr people) would feel fortable and have the agency to fd such venu. However, 60 percent of participants did not nsir the lbian/gay scene an important part of how they spent their leisure time, and 76 percent of participants reported a weak sense of nnectn wh the lbian/gay muny their everyday liv.

The rearchers posed that utn regardg displays of attractn and timacy and ncerns over safety, which were reflected the rults, may dite “homophobia is a pervasive force that has not cled at the same rate as social acceptance has creased.

” They also felt that “the rults pot both to the endurance and the dimishg relevance of Sydney’s lbian and gay scene for different subgroups of same-sex attracted young people. I thk the challenge for gay and lbian venu will be how to rpond to social and technologil chang that motivate and disurage patrons to attend their premis.