Year: 2022

• April 29, 2022

  New data: gay bars and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.

  This report is currently undergoing peer review but the preprint with data table is freely available at SocArxiv. Abstract: “What was the impact on gay bars of COVID-19 public closure orders? Gay bars were already quite vulnerable, retaining only 63.4% of their business listings from 2007 to 2019. Historic data from printed business guides were […]
• April 13, 2022

  Chapter: The changing role of gay bars in American LGBTQ+ life

  In Introducing the New Sexuality Studies 4th Edition, released June 2022. “Gay bars are iconic in part because they are the most common and accessible LGBTQ+ places, but they are in decline. About one third of gay bars closed in the 2010s, but new ones continued to open to serve their communities as one of […]
• April 3, 2022

  Interview: Fox Market is Vermont’s 1st LGBTQ+ bar in 15 years. What took so long?

  Erin Petenko interviewed me for a piece about Vermont’s newest LGBTQ+ bar-cum-grocery store, the first of that kind I’ve ever heard of, and for which I apparently said something about “skipping through the maple trees.”
• March 3, 2022

  Interview: Cleveland’s gay bars fought to survive the pandemic. Will patrons return?

  Peter Kusnic interviewed me for a very comprehensive look at the challenges facing Cleveland’s gay bars as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on.