Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places

Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet . . .



Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Ma...