EVENTS: Author Lucas Hildebrand Discusses His New Book, The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After (December 5)
When: December 5
Where: Zoom and Facebook
Time: 6:30 p.m. EST
Virtual via Zoom and FaceBook Live
Registration required:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kcI9GBaiR0CF4nZ4e8Tz1A#/registration
Conversation Series Hosted by Stonewall National Museum, Archives and Library
Author Lucas Hilderbrand’s new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960, will be released on November 21 and at 6:30pm EST on December 5, 2023, Hilderbrand will be live on Zoom and Facebook to discuss and answer questions.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kcI9GBaiR0CF4nZ4e8Tz1A#/registration
For the better part of a century, gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community. In The Bars Are Ours, Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars, showing how they served as the medium for queer communities, politics, and cultures. Hilderbrand cruises from leather in Chicago and drag in Kansas City to activism against gentrification in Boston and racial discrimination in Atlanta and beyond; from New York City to Houston and San Francisco, with Latinx venues in Los Angeles and additional stops in Denver, Detroit, Seattle, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Orlando, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Texas, Hildebrand artfully demonstrates the intoxicating, even world-making roles that bars have played in queer public life across the country.
Lucas Hilderbrand is the author of the books The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After (2023), Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic (2013) and Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright (2009) as well as numerous essays and articles. Hilderbrand is also Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of California Irvine. His classes include The History of Cinema B: The Studio Era and C: The Contemporary Era, Queer Studies, Sex on Screen and Media and Environment. Hilderbrand earned his MA and PhD from New York University, his BA from the University of Minnesota and lives in Los Angeles with his partner Ernesto and dog Bowie.