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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out 2021
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out is a 2021 creative nonfiction book written by essayist Jeremy Atherton Lin and published in North America by Little, Brown and in the United Kingdom by Granta. The work responds to LGBT venue closures through the lens of cultural memoir. The New York Times included Gay Bar on its list of Critics' Top Books of the Year in 2021. It earned the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and was shortlisted for the Randy Shilts Award. A French translation of the book received the 2024 Prix du Roman Gay Discovery. Atherton Lin adapted the book into a show for NTS Radio.
