Jeremy Atherton Lin’s “Gay Bar” (Little, Brown & Co.)Part memoir and part anthropological exploration, Jeremy Atherton Lin’s “Gay Bar” takes readers on a grand, cross-continental adventure through the gay bars that have shaped his life.As these institutions continue to close at alarming rates, Atherton Lin vividly reflects on his own experiences visiting gay bars from the early 1990s up to today.
At the same time, he examines the vast influence they have had on broader queer life and culture, as well as their storied histories as places of refuge for so many.