Tag: gay bars
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Interview: The number of gay bars has dwindled. A new generation plans to bring them back
An interview with Casey Parks of the Washington Post
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Interview: James Bond walks into a gay bar. But should he?
An interview with Matt Lavietes for NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-life-and-style/james-bond-walks-gay-bar-rcna3115
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Interview: Gay Barchives Ep. #45
Honored to be included in Art Smith’s fantastic series on gay bars gone by, Gay Barchives. Our conversation included The City Nightclub (Portland, Oregon); Tracks (Washington, D.C.), The Garden of Allah (Seattle, Washington); and still-going-strong bars like The White Horse (Oakland, California) and DTM (Helsinki, Finland).
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NPR conversation: Why Gay Bars Matter
On August 16th I was a guest on KERA’s program Think with Krys Boyd to discuss “Why Gay Bars Matter,” along with reporter Miguel Perez.
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Interview: Chasing ‘Phantoms of the Past’: 8 Gay and Lesbian Bar Archivists on Preserving LGBTQ+ Nightlife History
Interview with Dave Infante for VinePair
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Interview: COVID Didn’t Kill the Gay Scene. But It May Change It
Interview with Alex Reimer of The Daily Beast
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Chapter: Update to “Style and the Value of Gay Nightlife: Homonormative Placemaking in San Francisco”
I updated my 2015 piece in Urban Studies for Christopher T. Connor and Daniel Okamura’s edited volume, The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle. “Reductionist conceptions of gay nightlife and the neighbourhoods they anchor have obscured their diversity amid claims of gentrification or displacement. The divergent trajectories of San Francisco’s three gay bar districts…
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Gay bar book project update
(updated Feb 17, 2018) Here’s what we think we know: Gay bars are disappearing and everybody already knows why. Gentrification is pushing them out of the neighborhoods they made hip, LGBT social acceptance has liberated their patrons to visit any venue they choose, and social media dating has eliminated their social function. Gay bars thus…
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Gay bars in the Pacific Northwest
Home for the holidays, time for a few more interviews. Some summary stats calculated from the Damron Guides (regular caveats apply): The Portland area has the same number bar in 2017 than it did in 1997, meaning the city has bucked the national trend of losing 24% of its gay bars (there was one more…
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Centering Provincial Gay Bars
I’m giving this presentation at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference. It’s below. By the way, I don’t mean anything bad by the word provincial. I grew up provincial and I again live in the provinces, and I like it that way! The abstract is as follows: Our understandings of changes in gay bars are…
Greggor Mattson 