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Author Lin, Jeremy Atherton, author.

Title Gay bar : why we went out / Jeremy Lin Atherton.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
©2021

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.766 LIN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description ix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-303).
Contents The dark walks -- The factory -- The Adelphi -- The windows -- The neighbors -- The apprentice -- The borders.
Summary "Strobing lights and dark rooms, drag queens on counters, first kisses, last call; the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression. Now they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: Could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it? In prose as exuberant as a hit of poppers and dazzling as a disco ball, the author embarks on a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life, with each club, pub and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history. Gay Bar time-travels from Hollywood nights in the 1970s to a warren of cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s; from chichi bars in the wake of AIDS to today's fluid queer spaces; through glory holes, into Crisco-slicked dungeons and down San Francisco alleys. Atherton Lin charts police raids and riots, posing and passing out--and a chance encounter one restless night that would change his life forever. The journey that emerges is an inquiry into the link between place and identity, inviting us to go beyond Stonewall and enter the underground"--adapted from book jacket.
Subject Lin, Jeremy Atherton.
Homosexuality -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
Homosexuality -- England -- London -- History -- 21st century.
Homosexuality -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Homosexuality -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
Homosexuality -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
Homosexuality -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 21st century.
Gay bars -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
Gay bars -- England -- London -- History -- 21st century.
Gay bars -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Gay bars -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
Gay bars -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
Gay bars -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 21st century.
Gay bars. (OCoLC)fst00939063
Homosexuality. (OCoLC)fst00959755
California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540
California -- San Francisco. (OCoLC)fst01204481
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
LGBTQ+ bars.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Personal narratives.
ISBN 9780316458733 (hardcover)
0316458732 (hardcover)
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