Tag: lesbian bars
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Gay bar writings
Since 2015 I have been researching and 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…
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The impact of lesbian bar ownership on USA lesbian bar geographies: all-gender/straight-integrated LGBTQ places by design
One longstanding explanation for the scarcity of lesbian bars in the United States is the lack of women’s ownership of durable spaces. This study interviewed 15 women owners of lesbian and LGBTQ bars to understand how they conceptualize the queer social spaces they control. Whether they owned a lesbian bar in a big city with…
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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…
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Interview: ‘A place for us’: Oklahoma home to 3 of 21 lesbian bars in U.S.
An interview with David Bartle of NonDoc about one of only two cities in North America with three lesbian bars: Oklahoma City!
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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: There are roughly two dozen lesbian bars in the United States. The ones that are left are evolving to survive
Interview with Alicia Wallace of CNN Business
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Interview: How America’s Last Lesbian Bars Survived the Pandemic
Interview with Kriston Capps of Bloomberg City Lab
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Interview: 21 lesbian bars remain in America. Owners share why they must be protected
Interview with Joshua Barajas and colleagues at PBS Newshour https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/21-lesbian-bars-remain-in-the-america-owners-share-why-they-must-be-protected
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Interview: Slammers, one of 15 lesbian bars left in U.S., weathers pandemic, cultural shifts in Columbus
An Interview with Erica Thompson of The Columbus Dispatch
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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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