What’s That Smell?: Lucas Hilderbrand’s “The Bars Are Ours” Offers an Enticing Whiff of American Gay Bar Histories
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What’s That Smell?: Lucas Hilderbrand’s “The Bars Are Ours” Offers an Enticing Whiff of American Gay Bar Histories

In Lucas Hilderbrand’s The Bars Are Ours; Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, the pictures, a collection of bar flyers, ads, photographs, gay press headlines, and various ephemera culled from fifteen years of research, are worth as much as—if not more than—the text. “Lick your way through the summer,” beckons … Continue reading