Disver all facts and statistics on Homosexualy (gays and lbians) the U.S. on !
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.
THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
* percentage of gay bars *
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. 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.
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.
AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
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. Those servg lbians and people of lor were h all gay bar listgs cled by 37 percent between 2007 and 2019, the number of queer bars servg people of lor cled by 59 percent, and bars for lbians cled by 52 percent, Mattson Francis lost the Lexgton Club, and Rubyu Jungle shut s doors New Orleans.
Still, Mattson has found two prevailg factors — the rise of datg apps and a growg acceptance of gay people. “Gay bars were never jt hookup plac, but they were plac to meet other LGBTQ+ people, and now that you n meet them om your bedroom or while you’re wag for the b, that has taken away some of gay bars’ monopoly on beg the place where you fd other LGBTQ+ folks, ” he bars are also no longer the only place some queer people, pecially Whe and cisgenr men, feel safe.