thanks for the thoughtful article
i’m a cishet white guy who doesn’t see himself in the piece at all, but i know people *like* those you describe, and here’s what i *do* see at the heart of the story you’re telling -
we keep hearing about the shortage of “third spaces” today
seems to me this bar really wanted to be a third space for its target audience, and the trouble is that you’re dealing with an target demographic marginalized in multiple ways - economically (western mass being cheaper than eastern mass), socially, and in many cases apparently with respect to being able-bodiedness
the farther you go out on the bell curve in either direction on these categories, the less cohesion you’re going to find, and the more you have people finding affinity in shared negative factors rather than building community around shared positive factors - the target demographic here is a confederacy of people who share a broadly defined umbrella of “queer” but belong to very different categories otherwise
within this plurality of folks, no one category has the critical mass to support the intended third space, so it’s inherently unstable and financially risky at best
the cracks in the uneasy community are just waiting for somebody to exacerbate them, however accidentally
it’s easy for people to say “what ridiculous weirdos” but the real story here is humans trying desperately to build community to the extent they can and running into real structural obstacles in doing so
even if i can’t directly relate to the particulars, i can empathize with the broad strokes - on a macro level, these are real problems that manifest for a swath of people right now
i appreciate your work - thank you
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