![]() Atlanta highlights discrimination, coalition and community. Boston is about urban renewal, gentrification and class conflicts. Hilderbrand uses different cities across the country to highlight historic aspects of the scene. “It's also the place that many of the political debates and a lot of the political organizing historically has happened, whether it's attention to gentrification and class, or whether it's attention to racism and sexism and transphobia, the gay bar is actually one of the sites where the community has looked because it is the most visible space for queer public life.” "They give a form and a space and a structure for the gay and lesbian community to express themselves, to find other people,” he says. ![]() Hilderbrand’s research and writing treats gay bars as important sites for LGBTQ+ communities. … We see political organizing happening in the center of the country in many ways earlier, or more impactfully, than sometimes in coastal cities.” “In 1966, Kansas City was the host of the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations,” he says, partly “because the bar scene was considered to be more liberal than most other cities in the Midwest. ![]() Duke University Press Hilderbrand's book "The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America,1960 and After" published in November 2023.
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