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

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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Jeremy Atherton L.

"We go out to get some, " wr Jeremy Atherton L his new book, Gay Bar.

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GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR

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" He's also spired to dig to the past: "Enough time has passed that gay bars, once a surge, have bee monumental their own way. " That history clus the famo 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn New York, but Atherton L also div to other, lser-known bars, cludg on that endured police raids meant to put gay people their place.

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