The History of How Gay Bars Beme the Battleground for LGBTQ+ Rights

Contents:

• BEER IS SO GAY
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
• THE HISTORY OF HOW GAY BARS BEME THE BATTLEGROUND FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE

BEER IS SO GAY

Ask what mak a gay bar gay and the answers will vary. 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.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Instead, buyers will state clearly that they want a Gay Beer.

A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME

Gay Beer was created by Jon Moore and Jason Pazmo, bs partners and boyiends, 2017. 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.

THE HISTORY OF HOW GAY BARS BEME THE BATTLEGROUND FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

But of urse, had to be gay.

IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE

Consumptn of Gay Beer, they cid, would be herently tied to supportg the queer muny. 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.