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Presentation of the book GAY BAR
Thursday, May 25 at o'clock 19 Jeremy Atherton Lin presents Gay Bar to the Monk a Rome.
He intervenes Peter Turano.
Event in collaboration with ArciGay Roma.
Refuge, stage, space for meetings, solidarity, sexual expression: The gay bar has long been the place where a community without rights and representation, excluded from the center of the scene and of the cities, could gather, experience belonging, truly exist.. Today, one by one, those places are disappearing, closed down or transformed into something more innocuous (and certainly more marketable). We can see this as a good sign, proof that there's no longer any reason to hide; but, without denying the value of what we've gained, is it possible to also speak about what we're losing?
Moving between political analysis, historical reconstruction, personal anecdotes and a fair dose of gossip, Jeremy Atherton Lin leads us on a transatlantic tour of the places that have marked his life and the history of the LGBTQ community., a community that is perhaps more fragmented and less inclusive than it would like to portray itself. Gay Bar could simply be a refined (and necessary) exploration of the connection between place and identity, were it not for the fact that it marks the arrival of a remarkable author onto the literary scene. In prose as dazzling as a disco ball or as melancholy as the dawn that accompanies a homecoming, Atherton Lin has written one of those rare books that are both cultured reading and guilty pleasure: a disturbing erotic memoir, an adventurous romance, a poetic analysis of desire that discriminates between genres and orientations and welcomes anyone who has experience or nostalgia for nights out, bodies and gazes, music and lights, the stories we sometimes experience simply for the pleasure of being able to tell them later. "There are nights that have an audible beat, and we dance.".