Gay Bar, Friends, Joy, and Embarrassment?By: Terri Schlichenmeyer*/Special to TRT—The stool over by the window is all yours.Might be because you’ve spent a lot of time there.
It’s the right height, you can easily watch the door from there, and the bartender knows your favorites, so why not? As in the new book “Gay Bar” by Jeremy Atherton Lin, it’s one of the best places to be.Long before it was legal for him to go there, Jeremy Atherton Lin, like most teenage boys, imagined going to the bar — though in his case, Lin imagined what it was like in a gay bar.
Ironically, he says, “I can’t remember my first.”As someone with a foot in each of two continents, he does have favorites, places that are now closed, re-named, or been moved.