Ryan’s Reviews > Gay Bar: Why We Went Out > Status Update
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“I had to consider whether gay bars promised a sense of belonging then lured us into a trap. In a gay bar, am I penned into minority status, swallowing drinks that nourish my oppression—have gay bars kept me in my place?”
— Oct 03, 2022 03:43AM
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"RuPaul is very entrepreneurial. The success of Drag Race has given a lift to gay bars in cities globally because performances by former contestants draw big crowds."
— Oct 05, 2022 12:30PM
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“What exactly is the queer appeal of Keanu Reeves?’ Its author took his answer in the form of an observation by one of Keanu’s directors: he seems aloof and noncommittal, as if always heading off on a bus.”
— Oct 05, 2022 01:11AM
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“Sylvester was an icon of a neighborhood in which he was otherwise an outcast. He could have represented the fairy that each of those boys had the potential to be, or may have once been."
— Oct 04, 2022 11:27AM
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"The only time she was inside the RVT, Princess Diana went there explicitly to be an anonymous homosexual."
— Oct 04, 2022 12:34AM
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“Gay bars are sites of genuine artifice. We go out to be real, which in gay argot can mean fake it."
— Oct 03, 2022 01:12PM
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"Gay is an identity of longing, and there is a wistfulness to beholding it in the form of a building, like how the sight of a theater stirs the imagination."
— Oct 03, 2022 01:09PM
