Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Book by Jeremy Atherton Lin
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out is a 2021 creative nonfiction book by essayist Jeremy Atherton Lin published by Little, Brown in North America and Granta in the United Kingdom. It is a response to LGBT venue closures [1][2][3] written in the idiom of cultural memoir.[4][5]
First edition | |
| Author | Jeremy Atherton Lin |
|---|---|
| Genre | Creative Nonfiction |
Publication date | 2021 |
Gay Bar was listed among the Times Critics' Top Books of the Year in The New York Times.[6] It received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.[7] It was shortlisted for the Randy Shilts Award.[8] In French translation, it won the 2024 Prix du Roman Gay Discovery.[9][10]
Atherton Lin created a show for NTS Radio based on the book.[11]
