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Vermont has a new generatn of bar owners who are refg what means to be a “gay bar, ” cludg Bab Bar Bethel, shown on Friday, April 1. Where did the gay bars go?

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Greggor Mattson, a profsor at Oberl College who studi LGBTQ+ culture, said his rearch has found as many as 37% of gay bars shut down across the untry between 2007 and 2019. Bee gay people n go to Olive Garn and hold hands.

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That starts wh the name: The term “gay bar” has fallen out of favor somewhat, replaced by “queer bar” or other terms that enpass a wi spectm of genr inty and sexualy. The shiftg dynamics wh the LGBTQ+ muny was one challenge Robert Toms faced when he ran 135 Pearl, the gay bar Burlgton that closed 2006.

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When Toms bought the bar, not only tered to the gay muny, but also held “women’s nights” for lbians and other LGBTQ+ women to ngregate and dance. In one cint the early 2000s, a gay man acsted a trans man g the men’s room, sayg, “You’re not supposed to be here. Years later, 2017, a Wooski bar owner ran to accatns of transphobia when he announced he would rebrand his bar Oak45 as a gay bar.

“Vermont is a very different place right now 2022, pendg on where you live, for a cis lbian-, gay- or bi-intified person than is for a trans person, ” they said. (He noted Fox Market may be the first “gay grocery store” he’s heard of.

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