The Last American Gay Bar | show | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Six-episode docuseries explores the history and decline of gay bars in America as LGBTQ+ acceptance grows, questioning i | dHNfMVBXdjhjeHpzTVE

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00:00A blazing saddle. I'm like, what is this, some country bar?

00:05Had huge bars on the windows.

00:08Lo and behold, I was sitting next to the owner.

00:10He was a character. He was a Vietnam vet.

00:13June 25th, 1949, I popped out and said,

00:17hello, it's showtime.

00:20It wasn't like he was dressed to the nines,

00:22because he owned a gay bar.

00:24Nope, work boots, work shirt, Bob.

00:27Being a bar owner is being a showman,

00:29wrangling brothers or something.

00:31I hadn't really met any gay people.

00:33I said, oh, I'm Gary. And he said, oh, glad to meet you.

00:35He says, now what's your real name?

00:38I'd never heard the word gay.

00:40Straight people didn't want to know about us.

00:42We were in the closet, which is where they wanted us.

00:45I'd lived through war, and I'd seen it all.

00:48And then I'd get out going, oh, thank God,

00:51now I'm in the land of free, the home of the brave.

00:54No more war.

00:56Then AIDS starts, and it was a worse war

01:00than an actual shooting war.

01:04I was just told I had AIDS.

01:06My first thought is, okay, I'll be gone in a year.

01:10This was 1986.

01:12It got really, really sad.

01:15We all had a need to help our brothers.

01:18AIDS left a big hole in the community.

01:21They fear that young people don't understand

01:23that we still need to fight.

01:25Stories matter.

01:27Everybody's story matters.

01:30Bob was like dad to, like, 90% of this crowd.

01:34My community stands first. I'm second.

01:40I will fight for my community until the day I die.

01:44We will talk and speak the truth.

01:46We hold a sense of purpose.

01:50And I think that's where the gay bar is still kind of important.

01:53I never wanted to be some living legend.

01:56Just trying to be one of the guys, you know?

02:01I walked up to the bartender and I said,

02:03this one of them queer bars?

02:05And everybody shot up.

02:07And he said, yeah, it's a gay bar.

02:09And I said, thank God, Mary, I'm home.

The Last American Gay Bar | show | 2024 | Official Trailer

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