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BOOK
Title Gay bar : why we went out / Jeremy Atherton Lin
Imprint New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021
©2021

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  306.76 engelska    DUE 24-04-16  ---
Edition First edition
Descript ix, 306 pages illustrations 22 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-303)
"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
1900-talet
2000-talet
Hbtqi-personer
Hbtqi-barer
Förenta staterna -- Kalifornien
Storbritannien -- London
Personliga berättelser
Classmark 306.766
Ohjh
ISBN/ISSN 9780316458733 (hardcover)
0316458732 (hardcover)
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