Gay bar dad

By Jeremy Atherton Lin. This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to dad on or around May 31, This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control. He has reviewed fiction for the Guardian and the Washington Bar.

His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio. Learn more about this author. Accept Reject. Open the full-size image. Page Count pages. Publisher Back Bay Books. ISBN But in gay centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar?

How have they shaped him? And could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it? In Gay Bar, the author embarks upon a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life, with each club, pub, and dive revealing gay to be a palimpsest of queer history. He charts police raids and riots, posing and passing out—and a chance bar one restless night that would change his life forever.

The journey that emerges is a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity—a tale of liberation, but one that invites us to go beyond the simplified Stonewall mythology and enter lesser-known battlefields in the struggle to carve out a territory. Elegiac, randy, and sparkling with wry wit, Gay Bar is at once a serious critical inquiry, a love story and an epic night out to remember.

Each observation is sharp and phrased beautifully; Atherton Lin wastes no words, and the ones he chooses are dad considered. Throughout there is a feeling of simultaneity, of queer lives and histories moving in parallel, of nightlife as a site of pleasure, play and resistance…How movingly he replicates it here, with his wide, strobing intellect, enlivening skepticism, rascally allure.

Atherton Lin writes as though he himself is a sign of the times. With gusto and a sense of abandon he describes his own hunger for excitement, with scenes that are gloriously locked in the present moment. Come for the history lesson, stay for the party. Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.

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With keen original insight, he celebrates the gay bar as a site of ribald, sensuous, and urgent resistance. A must-read for all. A super-exciting debut and an important document of queer lives.