Gay Bar: Why We Went Out - Hardcover

Atherton Lin, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783785810 ISBN 13: 9781783785810

Publisher: Granta Books, 2021

Synopsis

'Brilliantly written and incisive' Colm Tóibín 'An absolute tour de force' Maggie Nelson From leather parties in the Castro to Gay Liberation Front touch-ins; from disco at Studio One to dark rooms in Vauxhall railway arches, the gay bar has long been a place of joy, solidarity and sexual expression. But around the world, gay bars are closing. In the wake of this cultural demolition, Jeremy Atherton Lin rediscovers the party boys and renegades who lived and loved in these spaces. Gay Bar is a sparkling, richly individual history of enclaves in London, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is also the story of the author s own experiences as a mixed-race gay man, and the transatlantic romance that began one restless night in Soho. Expansive, vivacious, curious, celebratory, Gay Bar asks: where shall we go tonight?

About this title

About the Author

Jeremy Atherton Lin is an Asian-American essayist based in East Sussex, England. He has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, the Yale Review, the Guardian, the Face, the White Review and GQ Style. His first book, Gay Bar (2021), received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.

From the Back Cover

From leather parties in the Castro to Gay Liberation Front touch-ins; from disco at Studio One to dark rooms in Vauxhall railway arches, the gay bar has long been a place of joy, solidarity and sexual expression. But around the world, gay bars are closing. In the wake of this cultural demolition, Jeremy Atherton Lin rediscovers the party boys and renegades who lived and loved in these spaces.

Gay Bar is a sparkling, richly individual history of gay enclaves. It is also the story of the author’s own experiences as a mixed-race gay man, and the transatlantic romance that began one restless night in Soho. Expansive, vivacious, curious, celebratory, Gay Bar asks: where shall we go tonight?

Edition details

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783785810
• ISBN 13: 9781783785810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320