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Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Drunk History, or I Just Wanna Hear a Good Beat -- Acknowledgments: I Feel Love/Can't Get You Out of My Head -- Color Plates -- Introduction: We Were Never Being Boring -- Part I: Cultures -- 1. Nights in Black Leather: Inventing a Bar Culture in Chicago -- Interlude 1. Triangle Lounge in Denver -- 2. Show Me Love: Female Impersonation and Drag in Kansas City -- Interlude 2. Safe Spaces in Detroit -- Part II: Politics -- 3. Somewhere There's a Place for Us: Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Class Conflicts in Boston -- Interlude 3. Seattle Counseling Service -- 4. Midtown Goddam: Discrimination, Coalition, and Community in Atlanta -- Interlude 4. Gay Switchboard in Philadelphia -- Part III: Institutions -- 5. Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Legends of Sex and Dancing in New York -- Interlude 5. The Saloon in Minneapolis -- 6. Proud Mary's: An Institution in Houston -- Interlude 6. The Main Club in Superior, WI -- Part IV: Reinventions -- 7. Further Tales of the City: Queer Parties in Post-disco San Francisco -- Interlude 7. The Casa Nova in Somerset County, PA -- 8. Donde Todo es Diferente: Queer Latinx Nightlife in Los Angeles / Researched and Written with Dan Bustillo -- Interlude 8. Mable Peabody's Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair in Denton, TX -- Epilogue: After Hours. Pulse in Orlando -- Appendix 1. Selected Bars and Clubs -- Appendix 2. LGBTQ+ Periodical Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars in the United States, demonstrating the central roles that bars have played in queer public life across the country.