U.S. adults timate that nearly one four Amerins (23.6%) are gay or lbian. Gallup has prevly found that Amerins have greatly overtimated the U.S. gay populatn.
Contents:
- THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
- THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
- AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
Wh many LGBTQ bars and safe spac closg after COVID-19, wrer John Garry qutns the future of gay bars and LGBTQ safe spac. * percentage of gay bars *
Bounce closed 2017, and hundreds of other gay bars have shut down, too. A group is planng a lbian and queer “clubhoe” Los Angel, and an “old-school gay girl” Norfolk plans to reopen the lbian bar she found four s ago.
THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
Disver all facts and statistics on Homosexualy (gays and lbians) the U.S. on ! * percentage of gay bars *
Pike and McDaniel know openg a bar durg a panmic may be risky, but they say they’ve learned one thg om years of visg and workg other queer tablishments: If they want to survive, they first have to build a better and more clive than a barThe gay bar was long the ma, and sometim only, space where queer people uld gather.
AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
A few opened quietly the early 1930s, then after World War II, hundreds more began servg gay men and women.
About 200 of those tered to, like Hershee Bar Norfolk, opened when their stat had laws that prohibed bar owners om employg gay people or creatg gatherg spots for them. She mentored foster children whose parents had kicked them out, and every Thanksgivg, she threw a dner for people whose fai didn’t accept 1987, Norfolk had four or five gay bars, and the number natnwi peaked at more than 1, 700.
Many stayed open through the 1990s, but the early 2000s, hundreds of gay bars started to close.