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Contents:
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS
- CHASG ‘PHANTOMS OF THE PAST’: 8 GAY AND LBIAN BAR ARCHIVISTS ON PRERVG LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE HISTORY
- MOVG TO LGBT CHIGO, ILLOIS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
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Sie la Croix didn’t set out to be one of the prolific ctodians of gay bar history Chigo.
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For six years, the Brish-born la Croix published weekly 1, 000-word lumns documentg the Wdy Cy’s gay nightlife scene for lol paper. Turng barfli’ memori of the cy’s shuttered gay and lbian bars to publishable reports posed challeng, and la Croix often found himself tryg to rencile nflictg ntributns.
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“It’s been a strange time to try to do this rearch, ” says Lus Hilrbrand, a profsor of film and media studi at the Universy of California-Irve who is workg on a book about gay bar history. For Pri Month, VePair terviewed eight gay and lbian bar archivers around the untry about the challeng and urgency they’re currently facg documentg Ameri’s gay and lbian bars while they still n.
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“I don’t know if there’s gog to be, 30 years om now, a tegory that we ll gay bar or the lbian bar, ” m Frank Perez, thor and -founr and print of the LGBT+ Archiv Project of Louisiana. After a brief uptick the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, the total number of gay and lbian bars the Uned Stat crted around 2, 000 lotns, acrdg to rearch published by Oberl associate profsor of soclogy Greggor Mattson based on listgs the Damron Guis, a proment LGBTQ+ nightlife guibook seri published annually throughout the back half of the 20th century.
The soclogist’s figur dite the untry has lost 45 percent of gay and lbian waterg hol sce 1977 — and those were only the lotns well tablished enough to be xed the first place. ”There has ed been a cle, the cle has been acceleratg, ” Mattson, who operat the Twter handle @WhoNeedsGayBars, tells VePair.
The panmic has only exacerbated the factors, puttg btal fancial prsure on already beleaguered gay and lbian bars across the untry. Whenever a gay or lbian bar’s uncerta future turns to a certa mise, the clock starts tickg to pture rmatn about before disappears to the ether. For gay and lbian bars that closed the distant, Facebook-ee past, no such nostalgia flurry is forthg.
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And given that gay and lbian bars were at their statistil height four s ago, those patrons are, by flt, gettg on years.
Between fadg memori, patrons passg away, and the ongog threat of closure, pturg stori om Ameri’s gay and lbian bars is ted, tail-oriented work.
“The biggt obstacle is gettg the rmatn about the bars, gettg the teractns, gettg people to say, ‘Yeah, I lived D Mo, Iowa 1968 and there was this bar there, and here’s the rmatn, ’” says Art Smh, the amatr archivist behd, a gay and lbian bar logo xg project. “A lot of the [gay and lbian bars] that Damron listed … those ci have grown and veloped sce then, ” agre Dr. Amanda Regan, a -project director of Mappg The Gay Guis, a project to digize every published edn of Damron’s Addrs Books.