"We went to bars for sexual desire, for a thirst for connection and to dissolve ourselves within the group"

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A cultural, historical, and personal journey through emblematic spaces that have been disappearing in the United States and the United Kingdom: gay bars. Capitán Swing has published [in Spanish] Gay Bar. Fragments of those parties , the book with which essayist Jeremy Atherton Lin (1974) reflects on these venues, their utopias and taboos; the feeling of euphoria, disinhibition, and sexual freedom that breathed there, and the need (or not) for them to still exist. We interview him via Zoom on the occasion of International LGTBIQ+ Pride Day.