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gay bar noun a bar catering to a homosexual clientele US- At that time it was a gay bar – that means a bar where homosexuals go – and he could do us a lot of good or a lot of harm. — San Francisco News, p. 13, 14 October 1953
- I own a homosexual bar. In the nomenclature of the homosexual, it is called a Gay Bar. — Helen P. Branson, Gay Bar, p. 23, 1957
- In that shadowed world of dim bars characterized by nervous gestures, furtive looks, masked loneliness – the World of the Gay Bars[.] — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 197, 1963
- — Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (Johns Committee), Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, 1964: “Glossary of homosexual terms and deviate acts”
- A man who spends long evenings in a “gay bar” hoping to “cruise” what he knows is going to be a one-night stand cannot fulfill his office functions the next morning. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 59, 1965
- This is one reason why the gay bars flourishing all over the United States attract even the more respectable deviates. — Joe David Brown, Sex in the ‘60s, p. 69, 1968
- She had entered a gay bar and taken a seat beside him. — Angelo d’Arcangelo, The Homosexual Handbook, p. 21, 1968
- When we first “came out” we spent many happy and exciting times in gay bars from one coast to the other. — Screw, p. 8, 24 November 1969
- — New York Times, p. 1, 24 August 1972
- “A few years ago,” says Herb, “it became chic to go to gay bars to see us – like socialites going to Harlem in the 20s.” — Washington Post, p. M9, 13 January 1980
- Going to a gay bar, having a gay roommate off-base, marching in a gay parade, that’s associational behavior. That is not against the policy. — Washington Times, p. A19, 21 February 2000
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