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Lin, Jeremy Atherton

Lin, Jeremy Atherton

Cary Regional
Duraleigh Road Community
Leesville Community
North Regional
Richard B. Harrison Community
Southeast Regional

Adult Non-Fiction

Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Duraleigh Road - Adult Non-Fiction
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Remote Storage - Adult Non-Fiction
Richard B Harrison - Adult Non-Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction

"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, with each club, pub, and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history. In prose as exuberant as a hit of poppers and dazzling as a disco ball, he 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 aftermath of AIDS to today's fluid queer spaces; through glory holes, into Crisco-slicked dungeons and down San Francisco alleys. He 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 a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity--a tale of liberation, but one that invites us to go beyond the simplified Stonewall mythology and enter lesser-known battlefields in the struggle to carve out a territory. Elegiac, randy, and sparkling with wry wit, Gay Bar is at once a serious critical inquiry, a love story and an epic night out to remember."--Provided by publisher.

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

306.76 LIN

Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
Duraleigh Road Community
Leesville Community
North Regional
Richard B. Harrison Community
Southeast Regional

9780316458733

2021

Little, Brown and Company

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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 -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century
Gay bars -- 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
Homosexuality -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century
Homosexuality -- England -- London -- History -- 21st century
Lin, Jeremy Atherton

Gay bar : why we went out

Gay bar : why we went out / Jeremy Lin Atherton

Gay bar

why we went out

Gay bars
History
Homosexuality
Lin, Jeremy Atherton