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Contents:
- 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
- GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR
- THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
- GAY BARS NEAR ME
'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
Author Jeremy Atherton L wr of the history of gay bars, as their existence is threatened by the populary of datg apps and risg property sts, and reflects on their prence his life. * how the gay bar *
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Atherton L's book starts off a crowd room a gay bar where he's gone cisg wh his partner, whom he refers to throughout the book wh the Leonard Cohen-spired nickname Famo Blue Raat. That kd of gay bar — all kds of gay bars, really — are danger of closg, Atherton L wr, due to the populary of datg apps and risg property sts.
GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR
An cisive history of London, LA and San Francis rells the sights, sounds and distctive smells of gay life om the 1990s to today * how the gay bar *
He's ambivalent about the velopment, wrg, "I had to nsir whether gay bars promised a sense of belongg then lured to a trap.
In a gay bar, am I penned to mory stat, swallowg drks that nourish my opprsn — have gay bars kept me my place?
" The prospect of losg gay bars leads him to reflect on their prence his life.
THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
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He wr betifully about his llege days Los Angel, where he went to his first one, though he n't rell the name, wryly notg, "Of urse I n't remember my first gay bar — I was dnk. " 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.
GAY BARS NEAR ME
The bt gay bars Philalphia ter to everyone om sports fans and leather daddi to dance floor queens. * how the gay bar *
Throughout the book, Atherton L scrib the gay bars that he equented, and his scriptns of the tablishments are endlsly evotive. " Atherton L explor topics like archecture and urban geography, as they relate to gay bars, betifully; he wr wh a real knowledge that's more than jt tellectual dilettantism. About the changg looks of bars before the turn of the century, he observ, "A new type of gay bar began to appear London's Soho the neti — airy, glossy, ntental.
The gay bars were born that way. They were nceived specifilly to take gay men's money. " Along the way, Atherton L dips to other topics related to the gay muny: the appropriatn of gay culture by straight people, mic, drkg, and the valu of the younger generatn of LGBTQ people.
Gay Bar is a book that's beyond imprsive, and Atherton L's wrg is both extremely telligent and rehgly unpretent. And while succeeds on many levels, perhaps the most remarkable one is Atherton L's nstant qutng of himself, and the realizatns of how he's changed sce he walked to his first gay bar years ago: "Maybe, I thought, I'm a dis ball. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.