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Contents:

• GAY-OWNED BS
• THERAPY, ONE OF NEW YORK’S MOST POPULAR GAY BARS, WAS A HOME FOR QUEER EXCELLENCE
• GAY BAR STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
• AWARD WNG GAY BAR STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE GAY BAR
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE

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GAY BAR STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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

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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE GAY BAR

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GAY PARTI & EVENTS

“Gay Bar” danc on the edge of that third space between fictn and nonfictn, a space often rerved for poetry. Atherton L himself is renred only relatn to the bars he walks through; you’ll fd yourself hard-prsed at the end to say where he was born or how many siblgs he has (and you won’t re) Atherton L has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-que range for discsg gay sex. Like any good gay bar, this book has a bouncer, and his name is is Atherton L’s first book, but benefs om his extensive experience as an sayist and an edor of Failed Stat, a journal about plac.

“Gay Bar” is well crafted (which is pecially pleasg nsirg this is a memoir about stctur), wh a strong thorial hand that mak the rear feel refully shepherd through the text, even as Atherton L jumps s and ntents. When he discs an important 1966 prott at the historic Greenwich Village gay bar Juli’, he c a New York Tim article to talk about the “tr of activists” volved — not realizg that the article left out a fourth man, Randy Wicker (the only one still alive, cintally enough) a half page later, though, Atherton L warns that spe the activist claim that gay bars “should be kept open to facilate knowledge passg between generatns, ” he himself had never really received gay wisdom “on a barstool.

” This book is not about history, the subject you study, but history, that thg you have wh that guy by the jebox whose name you n’t the fal chapter of “Gay Bar, ” Atherton L grappl wh gog to a new generatn of bars, created by very different forc, meetg very different needs. Jeremy Atherton L discs his award wng book Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, which trac the cultural history of the gay bar, om pubs, to darkrooms, to dive more Blueprt For Livg via the ABC Listen app or wherever you get your podsts.

'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE

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