- New York Times reviewed, Homosexuality, history, Gay men, Gays, biography
"Strobing lights and dark rooms, drag queens on counters, first kisses, last call; the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression. Now they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: Could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it?
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Nostalgic, prestige, meticulous and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Jeremy Atherton Lin
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books, Little Brown & Company, Granta Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316458740
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American essayist known for writing about gay culture and alienation.
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