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The bars are ours : histories and cultures of gay bars in America, 1960 and after / Lucas Hilderbrand.

by Hilderbrand, Lucas, 1975- author.

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Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Gay bars -- United States -- History.

Nineteen sixties.

United States -- History -- 1961-1969.

9781478024958 (paperback)

147802495X (paperback)

xxv, 435 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

"Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before gay liberation until after their assumed obsolescence. In The Bars Are Ours Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars, showing how they served as the medium for queer communities, politics, and cultures. Hilderbrand cruises from leather in Chicago and drag in Kansas City to activism against gentrification in Boston and racial discrimination in Atlanta; from New York City's bathhouses, sex clubs, and discos and Houston's legendary bar Mary's to the alternative scenes that reimagined queer nightlife in San Francisco and Latinx venues in Los Angeles. The Bars Are Ours explores these local sites--with additional stops in Denver, Detroit, Seattle, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Orlando, as well as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Texas--to demonstrate the intoxicating, even world making roles that bars have played in queer public life across the country"--Provided by publisher.

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