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      <image:caption>"Spend a Knight in a Warm Mouth"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ironically, the drag showplace of the South</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pinball machine at Fun Hog Ranch, Las Vegas. Photo by author</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Painting of Judy and Liza as Madonna and Child by Darren Cathcart, as seen at Camp bar in St Paul. The painting has been lost. Photo by Brad K. Jacobson.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trick card for Larry's in Los Angeles, 1970s</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My gay mind reeled at this line-up at the Copa in Ft Lauderdale, 1983</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The first Gay Men's Health Crisis benefit, hosted at the Paradise Garage, 1982</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Great long-form reporting on gay male social dynamics at bars: Charles Reich and James Roediger, “Beneath the Bar Facades: A Look at Why We Don’t ‘Connect’,” The Advocate, May 4, 1977, 37-41.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A popular postcard called "We're Not in Kansas anymore." 1990s</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of Mary's many iconic ads, for the gay bar institution of Houston</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gay bars sustained the gay press through advertising.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Great Wall of Los Angeles mural by Judith Baca, 1974-84. Photo by author</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Portrait of Paradise Garage DJ Larry Levan by Keith Haring for birthday party invitation. This version could not be authenticated by the Haring estate. Posted without permission.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A cover of the Spanish-language Los Angeles gay magazine De Ambiente</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Casa Nova in Somerset County, PA was protested by Anabaptists and the KKK for years on end in the late 1990s</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trick card for Tiffany's in Detroit. 1970s</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Translates as faggotry is love. Marrakech Saloon, Mexico City. Photo by author.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Restroom mural at SinFin Cantina, Guadalajara. Photo by author.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Inside Jewel's Catch One. Photo by author</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Horny Bull, "America's Finest 'Chicken' Bar," Tampa, 1971</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Red Room, Houston, 1972</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Knight Out, Jacksonville, 1972</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When the "Nothing" burned out in the sign, people started referring to it as "the Special" San Francisco</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1979 March on Washington, sponsored by poppers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1982 Sleaze Ball at the Lost and Found, Washington DC. "Attire: as little as possible"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"You are? I'm semi-attracted to you, too!"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chubby Chaser Night at the New Flight in Chicago, 1978</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Music at The Bushes, Chicago, 1981</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blanche's in North Hollywood, presumably named after Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Handball Express (San Francisco) theme sex party with the come-on "Are you sick enough for HOSPITAL" in 1981--the same year as the first reporting on the emergent AIDS epidemic</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Disco boots over the dancefloor at Charlie's in Denver. Photo by author.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The exterior of Mable Peabody's Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair in Denton, TX in 2017. Photo by author.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shirley Temple ad for the Gold Coast, Chicago</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Glitter and be gay at Le Cafe" in Las Vegas. Matchbook.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Have a Gay Day" trick card, interior of Le Cafe matchbook.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The EndUp, San Francisco, 1974</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Interior neon sign, 19 Bar, Minneapolis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An ad for The Other Side, a Hollywood chicken bar, 1975. (Though it gets the wording of the joke wrong: Why did the chicken cross the road?)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Painting by Snowflake (book cover artist), 1989, on view at the Omaha Mining Company bar. Snowflake was influenced by a number of different painting styles and movements.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"You don't have to be gay ... but it helps." Detail of a painting by Snowflake (book cover artist), 1988, on view at the Omaha Mining Company bar</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Drummer magazine cover photo, shot in front of the remains of Chuck Arnett's 1962 mural for the Tool Box in San Francisco; the bar had already been demolished, and this painting was publicly visible. The mural was famously featured in Life magazine's 1964 expose on "Homosexuality in America."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Keith Haring's hand-painted suit for Madonna's debut of "Like a Virgin" at the Paradise Garage, 1984. On view in the exhibition Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, 2023. Photo by author.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Meeting of two queens in a recurring dance night</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Bars Are Ours</image:title>
      <image:caption>"Ya know what I miss? "oh, Mary this" and "Oh, Mary that." That's what I miss! Comic by Gerard P. Donelan for The Advocate, repritned in Drawing the Gay Experience (1987)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Le Fire Trap" ... The first appropriately named gay bar. Comic by Charles Ortleb and Ricahrd Fiala from Christopher Street, reprinted in Relax! This Book is Only a Phase You're Going Through (1978)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Akbar Manifesto, 1996 (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, my home bar)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The original version of Scott Swoveland's Mary's mural, visible 1997-2006</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>7-inch/45rpm single of Juan Gabriel's "El Noa Noa," the source for the title of the Los Angeles chapter. Found in Guanajuato record shop.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mexican edition of Lime's "Babe, We're Gonna Love Tonight" 12-inch single. The track was popular at Circus Disco. Found in Mexico City record shop.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Flyer for The Box, Page Hodel's dance party, San Francisco, 1988</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Flyer for closing night of The Box, Page Hodel's dance party, San Francisco, 1999</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Backstreet Atlanta ad in After Dark magazine, Nov 1976</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>2008 historical landmark marker for 1967 Black Cat raid and protest in Silver Lake, Los Angeles</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Colony Bar, Kansas City. Ad in the gay press, late 1960s. Note the use of "drag" instead of "female impersonation" and the social emphasis on "Your Friends" and "the gay community."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Leather teddy, made by Bob Jansen of the Main Club, Superior WI, 2011</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Mine Shaft Dress Code, New York, on display at the Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Max in Omaha, the self-proclaimed best gay dance club in America, 2023</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Villa Fontana, aka "the Vile Fountain," was the self-proclaimed oldest gay bar in America, circa 1975. Ad in The Advocate.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tracks dance club in Washington, DC proclaimed itself Washington's "most politically correct" venue to party during the 1993 March on Washington. Ad in The Washington Blade.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gay music as played at The Bushes, Chicago, 1991.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ejection card. The Gangway, San Francisco. ONE Archives subject files.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Bars Are Ours</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Lost and Found dance club in Washington DC declares that disco isn't extinct, circa 1988. Ad in The Washington Blade.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chubby Chaser night at the New Flight, Chicago, 1978</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Bars Are Ours</image:title>
      <image:caption>Video dating as an alternative to cruising the bars. Club Alternative. Ad in The Advocate, 1977.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cathode Ray, a mid-1980s video bar in Ft. Lauderdale. Ad in The Advocate.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Bars Are Ours</image:title>
      <image:caption>This ad for The Club, "A Man's Bar," in Los Angeles appeared on the back cover of the early gay travel guide The Lavender Baedecker, 1963. By this time, motorcycle club/leather bars were a recognizable type of venue with distinct iconography and codes of masculinity.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This 1965 ad for the Golden Cask reflects insider knowledge: readers were assumed to already know who Michelle was and where the bar was located. Michelle was a drag hostess on the scene, who had a decades-long career. She celebrated a 20th anniversary as hostess in 1975 and was still emceeing in 1985. Ad in Vector, August 1965.</image:caption>
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