Gay bars are closing, but queer nightlife is still thriving

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Gay bars are closing, but queer nightlife is still thriving
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The shuttering of gay bars has sparked a revolution through evolution in club nights where everyone can feel welcome

From left, Venus X, Ty Moss and Kenni Javon dancing in the D.J. booth at 3 Dollar Bill in New York, Nov. 18, 2018.is a professor of sociology and the Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the new bookthis year with the theme of “Infinite Horizons.” More than just words, the phrase is an invitation to look beyond the immediate view toward the limitless potential of LGBTQ+ lives.

In London, a global capital of finance and culture, the number of gay bars declined by 58 per cent in the first two decades of the 2000s, falling in number from 125 to just 53 remaining venues. This decline is part of a much bigger pattern. In the United States, 41 per cent of gay bars closed during the same period. Germans call the crisis “, once described as “one of the most inclusive nightclubs in Toronto,” closed in 2020 after 14 years on Church Street.

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