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

Book overview Description Editorial Reviews Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds.

The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, 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 Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside big four' gay cities, but also beyond them.