A wider, if exceedingly fragile, social acceptance of queer people has reduced the need for separate-and safer-spaces. Gentrification might have closed as many gay bars as Grindr. And he gives us the culprits: dating and hook-up apps have become for many the preferred way of finding love-or at least a good fuck. The Bars Are Ours by Lucas Hilderbrand, an academic history of the gay bar, gives us the stats: half of all gay bars in the United States closed between 20. Yet according to a spate of recent books, their time might be coming to an end, and with them that heady mixture of hope and disappointment that seems to be the house cocktail of every gay bar that has ever existed. Gay bars, they give us the best of times, they give us the worst of times. He told me he had done the costumes for Madonna’s last tour and asked me if I wanted to go back to his apartment to see them. After not very long at all, a man with greasy curly hair sat down beside me. So there was nothing else for it: I walked into a bar called The George in Dublin and ordered myself a Diet Coke. This was a time before smart phones, before I had access to the internet at home, and while I had heard that LGBT support groups existed in some high schools, they definitely didn’t exist in mine. The first time I met someone who was gay, or rather, who I knew was gay-a crucial distinction -was in a gay bar.
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