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An timate Netflix documentary trac s history.</div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP dDDxdb lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck lead-asset--width-grid" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi hgDTU lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="A woman and a man stg on a grey uch" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kJoQGV ptn ContentHearLeadAssetCaptn-hPWmSN kxFwqE"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd cDlTYw iXWezO ptn__text">As proprietors of Circ of Books, Karen and Barry Mason found themselv at the center of Los Angel' queer muny. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd iggRJP fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of Netflix</span></div></div></figure></div></div></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN gVjmSM article-body__ntent"><div class="ActnBarWrapperContent-lasBkU cAHp"><div class="ActnBarWrapperComponent-cjwxLS bEeSLb"><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh bnoUoi viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU hqsiKz bookmark large-screen"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kYEynM gkccfO">Save</span></button></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh gEnp viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU cyZIvv bookmark mobile"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kYEynM gkccfO">Save</span></button></div></div></div><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa jcsZmt body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><span class="lead--text-llout">Long before the</span> ter ma easier than ever for people to fd like-md folks, gay bookstor were metropolan statns where an eager (or utly cur) dividual uld disver their sexual inty—and meet others like them. Los Angel’ famo Circ of Books was a queer stutn, wh two lotns that served the muny for more than three s durg a perd that saw LGBTQ visibily surge and move to the mastream. Of urse, “bookstore” is a slightly more rpectable term for what Circ of Books actually was; while did sell LGBTQ lerature, the bulk of s ventory volved sex, makg proprietors Karen and Barry Mason two of the biggt distributors of gay porn the untry.</p><p class="paywall">But while the Masons were at the center of LA’s queer muny, they were hardly out and proud about their work their private liv. 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The film is stuffed wh many threads, possibly too many nsirg s brief 92-mute n time. But starts wh the Masons’ troductn to the world of pornography, when Barry started distributg var magaz published by Htler founr Larry Flynt. His relatnship wh the Wt Hollywood store Book Circ rulted the Masons’ buyg the property the early ’80s, rebrandg by cuttg the sign half and rearrangg the words. (To paraphrase Karen Mason, the chopped-up sign is a metaphor for how their bs operated: figurg out how to move product quicker and cheaper.) Wh bs boomg the gayborhood, the Masons expand their enterprise the ls ostentat Silver Lake neighborhood—jt up Sunset Boulevard om the Black Cat, where pre-Stonewall monstratns took place 1967 after the gay bar was raid by the police.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">The rise of the Masons’ most empire cid wh both the burgeong AIDS crisis and the moral panic agast pornography led by Reagan Republins and the Christian right, which led to Barry Mason beg nvicted on obsceny charg (a flimsy se that amounted to him beg ma an example the middle of a culture war). The Masons aren’t picted as First Amendment hero (even if the film begs by revealg Karen’s early days as a journalist, wh her seemgly cintal foc on ee speech issu around pornography), but rather as everyday bs owners who provid a particularly transgrsive ventory. Karen’s abily to partmentalize her work om her own inty is pecially fascatg as we watch her attend a tra show dited to sex toys one scene, only to learn she stggled to e to terms wh her gay son another. Her relig life as a member of the Los Angel Jewish muny was direct odds wh her profsnal experience—orrg bulk shipments of DVDs, dildos, and poppers to sell to her mostly gay male ctomers—wh the two sis kept as separate as possible.</p><p class="paywall">An evable element of the documentary is that the Masons’ Circ of Books ultimately failed—and you don’t have to live Los Angel to know why the shop shutters by the end of the documentary. The gay bookstore, as an stutn, was threatened by two cultural shifts. One is obv: the ter. Pornography is readily available om the fort of your home, and ’s <em>ee</em>; there’s no need to awkwardly shuffle to a store to buy , your head lowered to avoid eye ntact wh a shier as you fork over sh exchange for a DVD.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">The other shift is the broar mastream acceptance of the LGBTQ muny, which cid wh the ter’s rise. After marriage equaly me the US 2015 and the assiatn of queer people began takg place, sexual exprsn beme ls taboo. Gay men no longer have to hang around the alley behd a porn shop to fd sexual partners—and not jt bee of hookup apps like Grdr. Queer people are still margalized, for certa, but they are no longer pletely the shadows, the mundane parts of their liv no longer illic. You n see no better evince of this than the newt eratn of the Wt Hollywood Circ of Books, which <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reopened and rebrand as Chi Chi Lae’s Circ</a>, now a hybrid sex shop and art gallery that speaks to the gentrifitn of gay culture. 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It’s an event that uld save cema—right before implos.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY iQEKph summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH cExbzu byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name">Angela Watercutter</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff hymcSS summary-em summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm dTFXCW" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="TikTok’s Berbere Fad Is About More Than ‘Nature’s Ozempic’" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ hEVeCr summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">TikTok’s Berbere Fad Is About More Than ‘Nature’s Ozempic’</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">Berbere went viral as a weight loss wonr pill. 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the gayborhood karen

Y, I know Bud and Marilyn's isn't a gay bar. Y, was totally worth the wa for to open. And, y, you need to go there…like, now.

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'GO THE F*** HOME!': WOMAN REPEATEDLY SCREAMS BLOODY MURR, DROPS F-BOMBS ON ANTI-ABORTN STREET PREACHER SEATTLE 'GAYBORHOOD'

Rapid social change and Midtown Village velopment are encroachg on the Gayborhood, Philalphia’s longtime LGBTQ mec. * the gayborhood karen *

Of urse, “bookstore” is a slightly more rpectable term for what Circ of Books actually was; while did sell LGBTQ lerature, the bulk of s ventory volved sex, makg proprietors Karen and Barry Mason two of the biggt distributors of gay porn the while the Masons were at the center of LA’s queer muny, they were hardly out and proud about their work their private liv. Directed by the Masons’ dghter Rachel, Circ of Books, executive produced by Ryan Murphy, works bt as a love letter to her parents, two surprisgly passnate figur the gay muny who wouldn’t have been so nnected if they weren’t sellg porn and sex toys to their clientele. ) Wh bs boomg the gayborhood, the Masons expand their enterprise the ls ostentat Silver Lake neighborhood—jt up Sunset Boulevard om the Black Cat, where pre-Stonewall monstratns took place 1967 after the gay bar was raid by the rise of the Masons’ most empire cid wh both the burgeong AIDS crisis and the moral panic agast pornography led by Reagan Republins and the Christian right, which led to Barry Mason beg nvicted on obsceny charg (a flimsy se that amounted to him beg ma an example the middle of a culture war).

Her relig life as a member of the Los Angel Jewish muny was direct odds wh her profsnal experience—orrg bulk shipments of DVDs, dildos, and poppers to sell to her mostly gay male ctomers—wh the two sis kept as separate as evable element of the documentary is that the Masons’ Circ of Books ultimately failed—and you don’t have to live Los Angel to know why the shop shutters by the end of the documentary. “There go the neighborhood, ” I thought as the last illn I had of this part of the cy as an clive yet uniquely gay space dissolved before my the past few years, the “ath of the Gayborhood” — a phrase once uttered mock horror whenever a favore hangout changed hands or a well-known stutn screwed up — has taken on an air of evabily.

We saw this the polil arena 2018, when two openly gay black ndidat, Mallm Kenyatta and Alex Deerg, peted for a state Hoe seat the 181st District — a sectn of North Philalphia that’s both geographilly and enomilly distant om the Gayborhood. Cywi, LGBTQ visibily is siarly creasg the cultural realm: Large-sle LGBTQ-themed events have moved beyond the tradnal Pri weekend June and Outft October, and many former Gayborhood event producers and performers are bookg venu throughout the cy. To mastream attentn, members of Philly’s LGBTQ muny are reflectg — some wistfully, some crilly — on what the Gayborhood means today, and wonrg whether there’s really anythg left to be lost by venturg outsi the neighborhood’s now-fadg rabow-pated crosswalks.

THERE GO THE GAYBORHOOD?

Gayborhood: Wh Anna Schlegel, Drew H. Nixon, Chris Fowler, Andrew Kudla. REVRY's first origal seri, "Gayborhood" is a full-length mock-realy seri set Chigo's LGBTQ neighborhood. Usg satire and over-the-top humor, "Gayborhood" provis an irreverent mentary on the current state of realy TV and queer culture - all seen through the lens of a wacky and outrageo band of iends livg this vibrant neighborhood. Narcissistic drag queens, sex addicts, "fish out of water" Midwt gay folk, and - of urse - everyone's favore, love-starved, gal pal all make up the Gayborhood." data-id="ma * the gayborhood karen *

”In the wake of extensive civil rights work by LGBTQ activists around the untry the 1970s and durg the AIDS epimic the 1980s, the openly gay character of the neighborhood was firmly entrenched by the time Cy Paper edor and lumnist David Warner scribed an Outft celebratn as “a betiful day the gayborhood” the early 1990s. By 1999, the term Warner had ed was appearg on maps, and veloper tert soon stoked a rapid revalizatn that would turn the area om a llectn of bars and niche bs to a hot spot filled wh high-end rtrants and stutns played their own large rol the Gayborhood’s growth. The Gayborhood stopped beg a neighborhood which the most margalized uld fd and be themselv and started to feel more like a tourist attractn for cultural this time, two natnal movements — Black Liv Matter, spearhead by queer black women, and the fight for marriage equaly, upheld by the Supreme Court 2015 — awakened my social nscns.

THERE GO THE GAYBORHOOD

In the send half of the twentieth century, the Center Cy Gayborhood formed the vicy of Loct and Thirteenth Streets. * the gayborhood karen *

By then, I was a young journalist verg the muny, and I began to notice ownership and learship dispari at Gayborhood spac, which were led predomantly by cisgenr whe men spe the notable role that people of lor across the genr spectm played shapg the area’s had, of urse, seen this before I did.

The offensive vio and the unverg of several cints of racial profilg and discrimatn at Gayborhood bars and nonprofs prompted LGBTQ activist groups to boytt and prott the stutns, which turn prompted addnal bs and learship the past year, I’ve felt that fdg thentic and tentnal LGBTQ experienc outsi of the Gayborhood was a necsy, but one that’s been easier than I expected.

”“We have to face the fact that queers create great and impactful culture and muni, and that non-queers then want to participate and even steal that culture, ” says Chris Bartlett, executive director of the William Way LGBT Communy Center and a longtime Gayborhood rint. Dpe s semi-sensatnalist subtle—“Philalphia’s homosexuals lead a strange twilight life outsi the law and outsi of society”— the story steered away om the lurid and foced stead on the problems of gay people Philalphia and the burgeong gay polil scene.

MIDTOWN VILLAGE & THE GAYBORHOOD

Gayborhoods aren't dyg but have shifted to cultural archipelagos: a seri of queer islands, nnected by sexualy and genr. * the gayborhood karen *

Ghaziani f as gayborhood as havg four fg featur: It's a geographil center of LGBTQ people (cludg queer tourists), has a high nsy of LGBTQ rints, 's a mercial center of bs terg to the queer and trans muny, and 's a cultural ncentratn of power. The were radil muni, home to tergeneratnal bath ho, butch femme bars, and s of the early 2000s, crics began to lament the supposed loss of the neighborhoods, cg "late-stage gentrifitn, the global circulatn of pal, chang the flow of migratn, liberalizg attus toward homosexualy, social acceptance and assiatn, and the normalizatn of geo-d mobile apps (which have altered how plac facilate social and sexual nnectns), " Ghaziani crics weren't entirely wrong. Ghaziani attribut this unique clterg to multiple factors: Lbians may feel more accepted ral areas, where female masculy isn't as tightly policed as male femy; lbians have ls pal than gay men (women, cludg queer women, ntue to make ls than men) and therefore may not be able to afford urban neighborhoods; lbians are statistilly more likely to have children (and therefore different hog requirements).

GAYBORHOOD

The Gayborhood st and crew creds, cludg actors, actrs, directors, wrers and more. * the gayborhood karen *

Unlike historil gayborhoods, which tend to be whe, digal gayborhoods are often more open to diversy, givg room for trans and POC queers to ers are nnectg a neighborhood whout tradnal gay tablishments, they n nohels create a "gayborhood" onle or create "pop-up" physil gayborhoods.

GAYBORHOODS AREN'T AD. IN FACT, THERE ARE MORE OF THEM THAN YOU THK.

* the gayborhood karen *

Usg Facebook's events planner, they n plan a trans-centered party at a lol straight bar or hold a LGBTQ health fair at a nearby field, thereby temporarily transformg the spac to "gayborhood" 's how Ghaziani scrib :"You n queer any given space by loggg on to see see any queers near you. Posned right smack the middle of the Gayborhood, right at the tersectn of the rabow crosswalks, the rtrant is, by far, much more sual, much more fun, than some of the other Valerie and Marcie tablishments (Barbuzzo, Ltle Nonna’s), yet still packed a total punch.

Gut Edor (s): Alex Bterman17 and Daniel Baldw Hs1817Department of Archecture and Dign, Aled State Universy of New York, New York, USA 18Department of Urban and Regnal Planng, Universy at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA AbstractUrbanists have veloped an extensive set of proposns about why gay neighborhoods form, how they change, shifts their signifince, and their spatial exprsns. Keywords: Urban sexuali, Technology, Gay neighborhoods, LGBTQ+ safe spacIntroductn: Gayborhood StudiThe associatn between sexualy and the cy is as tablished experientially as is affirmed the amy—om sexologil unts of sexual practic to thick ethnographic scriptns of the moral regns of urban sexual worlds (Ksey et al. Scholars ask why gayborhoods first formed (Castells and Murphy 1982; Knopp 1997; Lewis 2013), how they have changed over time (Kanai and Kenttamaa-Squir 2015; Rhbrook 2002; Stryker and Van Bkirk 1996), their cultural signifince for queer people (Doan and Higgs 2011; Greene 2014; Orne 2017), why they appeal to heterosexuals (Brodyn and Ghaziani 2018; Ghaziani 2019d), and their diverse spatial exprsns ( Brown-Saraco 2018; Ghaziani 2019a; Whtemore and Smart 2016).

Some rearchers show that people e technology creatively to image new spac away om the gayborhood (Wu and Ward 2017), while others argue that apps reproduce equali (Conner 2018) than origs, anizatns, and technology, rearchers who work a fourth stream of gayborhood studi document mographic chang (Moral 2018; Sprg 2013) and nsir their effects on muny-buildg and placemakg efforts ( Brown-Saraco 2011; Casey 2004; Ghaziani and Stillwagon 2018; Rennger 2019).

I ATE AT THE GAYBORHOOD’S NEWT RTRANT, BUD AND MARILYN’S, LAST NIGHT

At the end of the day livg a gayborhood is jt more fun, not to mentn -- as a lot of gays and lbians who bought the Village, South Beach, the Castro and Chelsea s ago n attt to -- a good real tate vtment. * the gayborhood karen *

Cens tracts, real tate ads, bs and non-prof listgs, llective memori, revenu, nighttime enomy, pop-ups, cultural archipelagosAlthough scholars have produced nsirable knowledge about gayborhoods, a key oversight remas: what do the gayborhood mean for the people who actually live ? I draw on more than six hundred natnal media reports about the gayborhood across several s of verage, particularly stori which a journalist terviewed lol rints, to intify six major reasons why queer people say they live a gay district and what about appeals to them. ”8 Rints like the pend on the streets of gayborhoods, which are often shield om the heterosexual gaze, to nnect wh each four s later and across the untry, people still appreciate the streets of gayborhoods for their sexual workg opportuni.

Co-sponsored 2019 by the Chigo Black Social Culture Map, the Morn Dance Mic Archivg Foundatn, and the Center on Halsted, the event clud muny archivg on se, oral histori, and panel discsns that celebrated nightlife’s queer roots, reflected on the signifince of public events like Black Pri, and explored the importance of inic spots and “anchor stutns” (Ghaziani 2014a: 383) the gayborhood.

WHY GAYBORHOODS MATTER: THE STREET EMPIRICS OF URBAN SEXUALI

The Gayborhood trope as ed popular culture. A Cast Full of Gay real life. It's the part of a major cy where s LGBT+ muny eher liv or … * the gayborhood karen *

” Rints found her msage pellg and voted by a marg of more than 2-to-1 a referendum to repeal a law that protected gay men and lbians om discrimatn employment, hog, and public acmodatn (Ghaziani 2008: 33) Florida fight unleashed protts across the untry, many of which were anized gay neighborhoods. ”26 The prott theme found s way to the first natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights another well-known example, the San Francis queer muny uned when Dan Whe assassated supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor Gee Masne on November 27, 1978. ”28 A wrer for the San Francis Chronicle add that mobilizatn gay districts helped to lower fectn rat: “When AIDS fally was intified, whe middle-class gays mobilized powerfully, and over time their efforts drove down fectn rat San Francis’s Castro district.

THE GAYBORHOOD ISN'T DEAD: WHERE GAYS AND LBIANS ARE MOVG NEXT

Wrg for the Washgton Post, Pla Span remarked on group’s name, logo, and activi:They uld have lled themselv somethg more prosaic, neighborhood anti-crime patrols beg nothg new, after all…But gay activism, New York-style, requir a certa ironic panache…The Pk Panthers tle, wh s echo both of ‘60s policizatn and silver-screen mp, won swift approval.

THE GAYBORHOOD IS COMG CLEAN

Coupl, Inc., a Los Angel-based anizatn fightg for legal regnn of gay partners, anized The Weddg, a ceremony that celebrated queer relatnships and mand that their partnerships receive equal legal regnn as married heterosexuals (Ghaziani 2008). Rega Quattrochi, the former director of the New York Cy AIDS Rource Center, argu that gayborhoods have always promoted the celebratn of queer cultur: “Even as recently as the early and mid-1980s, I thk the Village was symbolic of a sort of celebratn of gay culture.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* THE GAYBORHOOD KAREN

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An timate Netflix documentary trac s history.</div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP dDDxdb lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck lead-asset--width-grid" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi hgDTU lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="A woman and a man stg on a grey uch" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kJoQGV ptn ContentHearLeadAssetCaptn-hPWmSN kxFwqE"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd cDlTYw iXWezO ptn__text">As proprietors of Circ of Books, Karen and Barry Mason found themselv at the center of Los Angel' queer muny. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd iggRJP fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of Netflix</span></div></div></figure></div></div></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN gVjmSM article-body__ntent"><div class="ActnBarWrapperContent-lasBkU cAHp"><div class="ActnBarWrapperComponent-cjwxLS bEeSLb"><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh bnoUoi viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU hqsiKz bookmark large-screen"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kYEynM gkccfO">Save</span></button></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh gEnp viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU cyZIvv bookmark mobile"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kYEynM gkccfO">Save</span></button></div></div></div><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa jcsZmt body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><span class="lead--text-llout">Long before the</span> ter ma easier than ever for people to fd like-md folks, gay bookstor were metropolan statns where an eager (or utly cur) dividual uld disver their sexual inty—and meet others like them. Los Angel’ famo Circ of Books was a queer stutn, wh two lotns that served the muny for more than three s durg a perd that saw LGBTQ visibily surge and move to the mastream. Of urse, “bookstore” is a slightly more rpectable term for what Circ of Books actually was; while did sell LGBTQ lerature, the bulk of s ventory volved sex, makg proprietors Karen and Barry Mason two of the biggt distributors of gay porn the untry.</p><p class="paywall">But while the Masons were at the center of LA’s queer muny, they were hardly out and proud about their work their private liv. Now the subjects of the Netflix documentary <em>Circ of Books</em>, the former owners of the eponymo store open up about their unlikely double liv as straight-laced, all-Amerin small bs owners who jt happened to n a mom-and-pop porn shop—the kd of small bs that’s been peril for years, and is facg an <a href=">even more bleak future</a> the wake of Covid-19 closur.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn ftdwXT llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><asi class="Sibar-pgAgH kJWjjR" data-ttid="SibarEmbed"><p type="sibar:headg" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SibarHeadg-dEwoAP iUEiRd erHVoa biGqkR paywall" aria-level="2" role="headg">Related Stori</p><div data-ttid="SibarArticleRelatedListItem" class="RelatedListItem-gClwMZ jnSmXl"><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff iiWb summary-em summary-em--has-borr summary-em--article summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-si-by-si summary-em--layout-posn-image-left 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The film is stuffed wh many threads, possibly too many nsirg s brief 92-mute n time. But starts wh the Masons’ troductn to the world of pornography, when Barry started distributg var magaz published by Htler founr Larry Flynt. His relatnship wh the Wt Hollywood store Book Circ rulted the Masons’ buyg the property the early ’80s, rebrandg by cuttg the sign half and rearrangg the words. (To paraphrase Karen Mason, the chopped-up sign is a metaphor for how their bs operated: figurg out how to move product quicker and cheaper.) Wh bs boomg the gayborhood, the Masons expand their enterprise the ls ostentat Silver Lake neighborhood—jt up Sunset Boulevard om the Black Cat, where pre-Stonewall monstratns took place 1967 after the gay bar was raid by the police.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">The rise of the Masons’ most empire cid wh both the burgeong AIDS crisis and the moral panic agast pornography led by Reagan Republins and the Christian right, which led to Barry Mason beg nvicted on obsceny charg (a flimsy se that amounted to him beg ma an example the middle of a culture war). The Masons aren’t picted as First Amendment hero (even if the film begs by revealg Karen’s early days as a journalist, wh her seemgly cintal foc on ee speech issu around pornography), but rather as everyday bs owners who provid a particularly transgrsive ventory. Karen’s abily to partmentalize her work om her own inty is pecially fascatg as we watch her attend a tra show dited to sex toys one scene, only to learn she stggled to e to terms wh her gay son another. Her relig life as a member of the Los Angel Jewish muny was direct odds wh her profsnal experience—orrg bulk shipments of DVDs, dildos, and poppers to sell to her mostly gay male ctomers—wh the two sis kept as separate as possible.</p><p class="paywall">An evable element of the documentary is that the Masons’ Circ of Books ultimately failed—and you don’t have to live Los Angel to know why the shop shutters by the end of the documentary. The gay bookstore, as an stutn, was threatened by two cultural shifts. One is obv: the ter. Pornography is readily available om the fort of your home, and ’s <em>ee</em>; there’s no need to awkwardly shuffle to a store to buy , your head lowered to avoid eye ntact wh a shier as you fork over sh exchange for a DVD.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">The other shift is the broar mastream acceptance of the LGBTQ muny, which cid wh the ter’s rise. After marriage equaly me the US 2015 and the assiatn of queer people began takg place, sexual exprsn beme ls taboo. Gay men no longer have to hang around the alley behd a porn shop to fd sexual partners—and not jt bee of hookup apps like Grdr. Queer people are still margalized, for certa, but they are no longer pletely the shadows, the mundane parts of their liv no longer illic. You n see no better evince of this than the newt eratn of the Wt Hollywood Circ of Books, which <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reopened and rebrand as Chi Chi Lae’s Circ</a>, now a hybrid sex shop and art gallery that speaks to the gentrifitn of gay culture. 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summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH cExbzu byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name">Matt Kamen</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff hymcSS summary-em summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm dTFXCW" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The 26 Bt Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ hEVeCr summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The 26 Bt Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">From <em>I'm a Virgo</em> to <em>Good Omens 2,</em> the are our picks for what you should be watchg on the streamer. </div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY iQEKph summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH cExbzu byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name">Matt Kamen</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff hymcSS summary-em summary-em--GALLERY summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm dTFXCW" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO 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class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The 17 Bt Gam on PlayStatn Pl</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">What are you playg next? From <em>Slay the Spire</em> to <em>Humany</em>, Sony’s subscriptn service has so many great optns for your PS5 or PS4.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY iQEKph summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH cExbzu byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name">Reece Rogers</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm dTFXCW ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" data-no-id="3l4avi"></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff hymcSS summary-em summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm dTFXCW" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="‘Barbenheimer’ Signals the Start of Hollywood’s Apolypse" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ hEVeCr summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">‘Barbenheimer’ Signals the Start of Hollywood’s Apolypse</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">This weekend, two of the most anticipated movi of the year, <em>Barbie</em> and <em>Oppenheimer</em>, h theaters. It’s an event that uld save cema—right before implos.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY iQEKph summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH cExbzu byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name">Angela Watercutter</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff hymcSS summary-em summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm dTFXCW" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="TikTok’s Berbere Fad Is About More Than ‘Nature’s Ozempic’" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ hEVeCr summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">TikTok’s Berbere Fad Is About More Than ‘Nature’s Ozempic’</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">Berbere went viral as a weight loss wonr pill. Its succs on social media shows how broken the supplement dtry is.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY iQEKph summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH cExbzu byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name">Kate Knibbs</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff hymcSS summary-em summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm dTFXCW" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Cril Role Lays Out the Next Era Tabletop Gam and Live-Actn Role-Play" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ hEVeCr summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed"><em>Cril Role</em> Lays Out the Next Era Tabletop Gam and Live-Actn Role-Play</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">The creators that ma the origal live-play Dungeons and Dragons show a blockbter are back to share s magic and brg s platform to new and diverse creators.</div><div 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summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ hEVeCr summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">12 Mt-Play Gam on Xbox Game Pass</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">Microsoft’s subscriptn service clus a bounty of fun gam for nsole and PC, om <em>Exoprimal</em> to <em>The Bookwalker: Thief of Tal</em>.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY iQEKph summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" 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