Far From Making Their Last Calls, LGBTQ+ Bars Evolve to Imagine a New World | News Channel 3-12

Far from making their last calls, LGBTQ+ bars evolve to imagine a new world | News Channel 3-12

Artiom Photo // Shutterstock Far from making their last calls, LGBTQ+ bars evolve to imagine a new world Greggor Mattson put about 10,000 miles on his car during his long, winding pilgrimage to 300 LGBTQ+ bars across 39 states. Mattson, the chair of sociology at Oberlin College and Conservatory, embarked on this journey to research why LGBTQ+ bars all over the U.S. were closing, but the story ended up being more complicated—and hopeful—than that…

Far from making their last calls, LGBTQ+ bars evolve to imagine a new world

Stacker analyzed archives and studies and conducted interviews to find out how LGBTQ+ bars are evolving to meet the needs of queer communities today.