Raisg the Bar: A Brief History of Gay Bars – World Queerstory

Contents:

• A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY BARGAY BAR
• 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
• HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR
• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• RAISG THE BAR: A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY BARS
• HOW GAY BARS HAVE BEEN A BUILDG BLOCK OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNY

A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

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DEFINITIONS FOR GAY BARGAY BAR

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

He wears T-shirts and ball ps wh his favore team logo, and lik guys who are "non-scene, " unls the scene is a gay sports team. Celebry Example: This is such a specific type don't really exists the world at large, but the Platonic ial of a circu boy is DJ Brett HenrichsenGay-Listers.

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HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR

He drs eher the most current prissy fashns or like a homo versn of Terry Richardson, big glass, flannels, and jeans that looks so thrown together that took him hours to put together. You're more likely to fd them at a gallery openg or mol party, but every so often they'll be at a gay bar to b elbows, and other parts, wh the other homos. The drag queens are not only the urt jters of the gay muny, drsg up like clowns for our entertament, but they are also a bridge to the straight world.

As much as gay men appreciate the queens for their looks, w, and sha, straight people love a drag show even more than the queers do. 0 / 0 votGay barA gay bar is a drkg tablishment that ters to an exclively or predomantly lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) clientele; the term gay is ed as a broadly clive ncept for LGBT muni.

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Gay Bar b memoir, history and cricism; 's a difficult book to p down, but that's what mak so readable and so endlsly fascatg. 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.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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. He's ambivalent about the velopment, wrg, "I had to nsir whether gay bars promised a sense of belongg then lured to a trap.

RAISG THE BAR: A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY BARS

In a gay bar, am I penned to mory stat, swallowg drks that nourish my opprsn — have gay bars kept me my place? 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. 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.

HOW GAY BARS HAVE BEEN A BUILDG BLOCK OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNY

" 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.