Year: 2023

• June 4, 2023

  Gay bar writings

  Since 2015 I have been writing on the role of gay bars in urban processes including gentrification, LGBTQ+ community development, and social inequality. This forms the basis of my forthcoming book with Redwood Press, Who Needs Gay Bars? It is based on interviews with more than 130 gay bar owners and managers, site visits to…
• June 2, 2023

  Washington Post

  From a piece I wrote for The Washington Post’s Made by History column: “Gay bars are disappearing. Their past holds keys to their future.” Gay bars are often assumed to be relatively common places by, and exclusively for, LGBTQ+ people, but that is a mid-20th-century invention. Today, as debates continue to surface about the need…