Mattson Greggor
Oberlin College & Conservatory, Oberlin, OH, USA.
Socius. 2023 Jun 16;9:23780231231181902. doi: 10.1177/23780231231181902. eCollection 2023 Jan-Dec.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic marked a dramatic change in the gendered composition of gay bars and a slowing rate of overall decline. Trends are drawn from historic data from printed business guides supplemented with two national censuses of online business listings for LGBTQ+ bars. An online census shows a rebound from a nadir of 730 gay bars in spring 2021 to 803 in 2023. Bars serving mostly or only cisgender men plummeted in their share from 44.6 percent of all gay bars to only 24.2 percent. Bars serving men's kink communities also declined, from 8.5 percent to 6.6 percent of all gay bars. Bars serving men and women together increased from 44.2 percent to 65.6 percent of all gay bars. Lesbian bars nearly doubled from 15 to 29 establishments to 3.6 percent of the total. Bars serving people of color experienced a small decline in their share from 2019 to 2023.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行标志着同性恋酒吧的性别构成发生了巨大变化，整体衰退速度放缓。趋势来自印刷版商业指南中的历史数据，并辅以两次全国性的LGBTQ+酒吧在线商业名录普查。一次在线普查显示，同性恋酒吧数量从2021年春季的最低点730家反弹至2023年的803家。主要或仅为顺性别男性服务的酒吧在所有同性恋酒吧中的占比从44.6%骤降至仅24.2%。为男性性癖群体服务的酒吧也有所减少，从所有同性恋酒吧的8.5%降至6.6%。男女共同服务的酒吧在所有同性恋酒吧中的占比从44.2%增至65.6%。女同性恋酒吧数量从15家增至29家，几乎翻倍，占总数的3.6%。2019年至2023年，为有色人种服务的酒吧占比略有下降。
