Revival of the athetics of the 1890s (or "Gay Neti"), mon om the late 60s to late 70s. Common signifiers: Use of ferns as door r, staed glass, fake Tiffany lamps, e of brass and gold accents wh medium-staed oak woods, "old timey" elaborately-rated letterg & woodwork. Var cultural ksch om the era is also mon, eg. Vville, early film, tras, 'novelty ventns' (Mr. Magorium's Wonr Emporium vib) Color scheme: Brown, orange, and old gold, often wh proment maroon and light lime green accents. Proment signers: Herb Lubal.
Contents:
- "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
- WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
- BT OF CHIGO 2009: BT GAY COFFEE SHOP
- WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
GQ vtigat the reasons why a simple iced ffee—a drk for all seasons, when you thk about —is so gay. * gay coffee shop aesthetic *
We're jt for the morng gays.
"When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said.
WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
GQ vtigat the reasons why a simple iced ffee—a drk for all seasons, when you thk about —is so gay. * gay coffee shop aesthetic *
Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat. For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy.
For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage. Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends.
BT OF CHIGO 2009: BT GAY COFFEE SHOP
It’s a move forward, but also backward: Coffee has a long history of fuelg unofficial queer spac, om mid-century ffee shops and ders that hosted gay, lbian, and trans muni to funky, lived- ’90s f. Very few bs, outsi of the thng ranks of gay bars and downright endangered LGBT bookstor, label themselv as queer-centric.
There are ffee shops wh gay or queer owners, and often they tend to draw a siar clientele — there have been a handful of tim I’ve walked to a random ffee shop and disvered, to my light, that was full of queer people like me. There were too many people for to feel like a hoe party, but was also a far cry om the scene at many gay bars, where patrons tend to arrive — and clter — wh iends they already know, or foc on pursug romantic partners.
WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
It’s obv, people rpond: He’s gay.
But none of that matters, after all; what was clear to the rner of the Inter known as Gay Twter, and to the se Gay Star News, was that this man was jt exercisg his rights—nay, his duty—as a gay man to drk iced ffee. Iced ffee, you see, is gay culture [ed.