Ryan’s Reviews > Gay Bar: Why We Went Out > Status Update

"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."

“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.”

“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."

"The only time she was inside the RVT, Princess Diana went there explicitly to be an anonymous homosexual."

"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."

“gay identity is a paradox of freedom and containment.”

“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?”