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Then again, maybe I’m just being cautious and everyone else is going to pile in. And those kinds of bars, the ones able to reopen in the first place, may face challenges in getting everything right, to allow for a sense of abandon and bonhomie, and make it feel effortless. But I’m never one to cancel the mainstream spot for the basic gays. So there’ll be that kind of stuff - the roving, illicit, peripheral parties. Of course, there was rave, and scuzzy rock-and-roll queer nights started happening in New York, as you know. Smooth bartenders, smooth bar fixtures, everything low-risk and wipe-clean. One thing my book addresses is how nightlife took a while to recover from the height of the AIDS crisis how that slick, contagion-free aesthetic took over by the ’90s. I’m old enough that the thought of being cheek by jowl is kind of terrifying. I think for the young, that’s a possibility. When we fully come out of lockdown, do you predict a wild sense of abandon in gay nightlife? I have a feeling that the urge for spontaneity will kick back in now that we’ve had nothing but screens. And humor - and changing your mind about somebody. That’s not about being a size queen, I’m talking about the tease. Today, with everyone looking at Grindr on their phones, is the sexual urgency at bars completely gone? And then up through writing the book, up to the pandemic, I continued to go out for the frisson, for the feeling there could be trouble in store. So you put it exactly right - the possibility of sex, if not actually having any. This was the ’90s and a lot of us were terrified of disease.
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A long bar faces a pizza oven dispensing mouth-watering pies to munch on while watching the game. For me, though, the sexy stuff took some time, because when I first went out - and I was taken out, you know, identified and taken along - it was more to see and be seen. at Eighth Ave., NYC 21 Visit their Facebook Page Boxers Chelsea A big gay sports bar outfitted with flat-screens broadcasting all manner of games, multiple counters, pool tables and a smoking patio out back. But the sex was an important motivation, not just for going to bars, but writing the book. I know some people are mad at me for writing from that angle–like they’d rather I’d written about searching for an alternative family, not a hot daddy.