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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hilderbrand, Lucas, 1975- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Description:	xxv, 435 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Gay bars -- United States -- History. Nineteen sixties. Gay bars Nineteen sixties United States -- History -- 1961-1969. United States History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13317333

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Varying Form of Title:	Histories and cultures of gay bars in America, 1960 and after
ISBN:	9781478024958 147802495X 9781478020301 147802030X 9781478027287
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Hilderbrand, Lucas, 1975- Bars are ours Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478027287

Table of Contents:

Drunk History, or I Just Wanna Hear a Good Beat
I've Got Friends in Low Places/Can't Get You Out of My Head
We Were Never Being Boring
Cultures
Nights in Black Leather: Inventing a Bar Culture in Chicago
Triangle Lounge in Denver
Show Me Love: Female Impersonation and Drag in Kansas City
Safe Spaces in Detroit
Politics
Somewhere There's a Place for Us: Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Class Conflicts in Boston
Seattle Counseling Service
Midtown Goddam: Discrimination, Coalition, and Community in Atlanta
Gay Switchboard in Philadelphia
Institutions
Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Legends of Sex and Dancing in New York
The Saloon in Minneapolis
Proud Mary's: An Institution in Houston
The Main Club in Superior, WI
Reinventions
Further Tales of the City: Queer Parties in Post-Disco San Francisco
Casa Nova in Somerset County, PA
Donde Todo es Diferente: Queer Latinx Nightlife in Los Angeles, researched and written with Dan Bustillo
Mable Peabody's Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair in Denton, TX
Pulse in Orlando
Selected Bars and Clubs Referenced.

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