Who Needs Gay Bars?

Who Needs Gay Bars?

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2023-05-30

Type: BOOK

Gay. Men,. and. Straight. Black. Folks. Don't. Come. Club. Xclusive. HATTIESBURG,. MISSISSIPPI. While many lesbian-owned bars have no trouble attracting men, Club Xclusive struggles to attract customers beyond its core patronage of ...


Gay Bar

Gay Bar

Publisher: Granta Books

Published: 2021-02-11

Type: BOOK

The policy was commonplace at other clubs and also imposed upon transgender people, drag queens and other 'freaks' — with whom, in the words of one club owner speaking anonymously, 'gay people are loath to be reminded that they are ...


Summary of Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar

Summary of Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar

Publisher: Everest Media LLC

Published: 2022-07-16T22:59:00Z

Type: BOOK

#1 I first went to a gay bar in Los Angeles in 1992, when I was in college. I was first driven to Probe by my roommate, Tim, who was a skater in trousers so wide you couldn't see his feet. #2 The Black Party was a gay club in Los ...


Gay and Lesbian

Gay and Lesbian

Publisher: New Africa Books

Published: 2005

Type: BOOK

The 1970s , too , was the decade in which gay clubs took root . The most celebrated club of the time was the Dungeon in Johannesburg , which attracted females as well as males , and which survived well into the 1990s .


Gay Bar

Gay Bar

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2010-10-07

Type: BOOK

It wasn't any easier to be gay in L.A. in those days than it would have been in Amarillo, Texas, or South Bend, Indiana.” If only this woman could have been a regular at Helen Branson's bar on Melrose Avenue, ...


Lesbian and Gay Memphis

Lesbian and Gay Memphis

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1997

Type: BOOK

According to a retrospective article published in Gaze , " bars and clubs popular with Black Gays included the Flamingo Club and Club Handy on Hernando Street and the U - Bar . Of these , the Flamingo Club was considered the ' hottest .


The Trials of Being a Black Gay Man

The Trials of Being a Black Gay Man

Publisher: Ben Rose

Published: 2010-01-16

Type: BOOK

The guys were extremely open with their identities as gay black men; well a large majority of them were, and there were numerous gay black clubs to go too compared to the one gay black club in Dallas. There was a club open almost every ...


Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies

Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Type: BOOK

gay, gay to straight, or mixed to straight or gay exclusively, but this is difficult because of the period of transition (see Lyman and Scott 1970: 92–3): Barbara's had been not just a go-go bar but a famous one until it was bought by a ...


Brown and Gay in LA

Brown and Gay in LA

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2023-09-05

Type: BOOK

When Arnel started going to gay clubs, Rage was the only club in WeHo he went to for years because that was where he felt most comfortable. “At Rage, it was perfect because it was a group of people that, in a sense, were like me,” he ...


Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain

Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Type: BOOK

Sex Pistol Paul Cook explained that the early Punks 'were mainly a crowd that had been going to gay clubs – ex-soul-boys and girls, ex-Roxy Music fans, ex-David Bowie and glam rock types, anyone who wasn't a college student'.79Gay News ...