Left Bank Books prents thor and profsor Greggor Mattson, who will discs the book that Samantha Allen says mak "you want to pull up a stool and stay a while." "Who Needs Gay Bars?" our store on Augt 24th at 6 p.m.
Contents:
- GAY NEW YORKERS SHARE ACUNTS SIAR TO ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
- LBB PRENTS: GREGGOR MATTSON - WHO NEEDS GAY BARS?
- BOOK SHOPS - LEFT BANK BOOKS
- THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
- THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
- ‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN
- BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS ARE DWDLG. CAN THEY SURVIVE COVID?
GAY NEW YORKERS SHARE ACUNTS SIAR TO ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
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LBB PRENTS: GREGGOR MATTSON - WHO NEEDS GAY BARS?
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Beyond that, rampant gentrifitn big ci has phed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip.
Jarred by the closg of his favore lol waterg hole Cleveland, Oh, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the untry to pat a much more plex picture of the cultural signifince of the spac, si "big four" gay ci, but also beyond them.
Loosely rmed by the Damron Gui, the so-lled "Green Book" of gay travel, Mattson logged 10, 000 on the road to all rners of the Uned Stat. His statns are sometim thrivg, sometim stgglg, but all offerg timate views of the wi range of gay experience Ameri: POC, whe, trans, cis; past, prent, and future. "A fun, thoughtful, and nuanced examatn of the past, prent, and future rol of the 'gay bar' as the mand for and enomics of queer muny space wildly flux.
THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
New York (also known as the Big Apple) offers an amazg choice, whether be gay bars, dance clubs or simply shoppg. 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.
‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN
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. 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. “I thk this is highly uneven, ” Mattson said, “but for gay, Whe, middle-class people like myself, any bar feels like a gay bar if you show up wh six iends.
BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS ARE DWDLG. CAN THEY SURVIVE COVID?
For some bar owners, Mattson found, that’s jt enomics, but for a new generatn, “lbian” and “gay” don’t pture their full and fluid inti.