Gay neighborhoods, like all neighborhoods, are in a state of continual change. Caution must be exercised, however, in inferring rates of bar closure from bar listings. The largest change in bar types, those serving gay men and women together, became the largest single category between 19. The listings at greatest risk receive little attention: Between 20, when all bar listings declined by 36.6 percent, lesbian bar listings shed 51.6 percent, cruisy men’s bar listings declined by 59.3 percent, and listings for bars serving people of color declined by 59.3 percent. An additional 14.4 percent of bar listings disappeared in from 2017 to 2019. They showed their largest five-year decline between 20, losing 18.6 percent. Trends in gay bar listings support perceptions of recent gay bar decline. This visualization depicts changes in gay bar listings from the only national guidebook of LGBT places, published annually between 19 and again (and finally) in 2019. Widespread alarm over gay bar closures in the United States has occurred in a vacuum of data.
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