| Abstrakt: |
This paper examines how queer space is constructed at a gay bar in the San Francisco East Bay. Based on a two year ethnography conducted at the bar, this research utilizes theories of the body and the history of sexuality to explore how queer space, identity, and community are inextricably involved in the development of each other. Interactions with bar goers and observations of weekly events demonstrate the liberatory power of queer space and the development of queer social norms, but also the inherent fragility of a space that is vulnerable to straight interlopers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
