#gay-bars

#gay-bars

This idea of 'a gay bar' was really a function of a time in the 1970s when it was the only public space for queer people. It was very codified with either men's bars and women's bars as separate spaces, and there weren't very many transgender bars.

When I bought in [to the bar] during COVID, every gay bar was doing horribly. Every bar, every restaurant, every business, and I came in during COVID...