Gay Bar: Why We Went Out - Jeremy Atherton Lin

One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021 An indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration. "Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force." (Maggie Nelson) "Beautiful...Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing gay sex." -New York Times Book Review Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression--whatever your scene, whoever you're seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it? In Gay Bar, the author embarks upon a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life,
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