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Bars and the Queer Economy, 2017, by Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchel

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Writing about queer bars and drag culture in the 1972 classic Mother Camp, Esther Newton observed that queer communities had “an economics but no economy.” In this exhibit, Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchell address the economics of gay bars for the early "closeted" LGBT community. Published originally by OutHistory in 2017.

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