{"id":98964,"date":"2019-06-25T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/25\/living-joyously-is-a-radical-act-why-americas-gay-bars-still-matter\/"},"modified":"2019-06-25T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:44:33","slug":"living-joyously-is-a-radical-act-why-americas-gay-bars-still-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98964","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Living joyously is a radical act&#039;: why America&#039;s gay bars still matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years after Stonewall, and with Trump trying to roll back LGBTQ rights, Dominic Rushe visits three gay bars in different states \u2013 and finds them as vibrant and vital as everThe gay bar is in trouble. Fifty years after the Stonewall Inn in New York became the symbol for a new wave of gay activism, the three horsemen of the gay bar apocalypse \u2013 gentrification, assimilation and technology \u2013 have hollowed out their numbers.Rising rents have shuttered gay bars; more straight venues are \u201caccepting\u201d of gay patrons; and dating is something people now do with their phones. Even the term \u201cgay bar\u201d looks a little tired as the LGBTQ community finally comes to terms with its many rainbow stripes. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/jun\/25\/america-gay-bars-stonewall-at-50-pride-lgbtq\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Living joyously is a radical act&#039;: why America&#039;s gay bars still matter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years after Stonewall, and with Trump trying to roll back LGBTQ rights, Dominic Rushe visits three gay bars in different states \u2013 and finds them as vibrant and vital as everThe gay bar is in trouble. Fifty years after the Stonewall Inn in New York became the symbol for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}