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bettenboujee 's review for:
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
by Jeremy Atherton Lin
I initially wasn't sure why I didn't like what is Atherton Lin's personal recounting of his experience with gay bars, but I have to agree with other reviewers who say that the book fundamentally lacks substance. The anecdotes we see in the book are almost entirely focused on sex (this is not an anti-sex review), without any other consideration of what make gay bars a part of the queer community. While Atherton Lin is biracial, it's also a heavily white, cishet male experience aside from a mention or two of race. I would probably be less critical of how narrow the book's vision is were it not for the more introspective subtitle "Why We Went Out," to which the answer here is, to cruise for sex. This may have worked better as a straight memoir, rather than a mix of memoir and history.