BU LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series: ‘Dyke Bars Never Last’: Gentrification, Critical Nostalgia and the Commemoration of Lost Dyke Bars

Featuring Japonica Brown-Saracino, Professor and Chair of Sociology Drawing on data from a four-city ethnography, the talk explores why we remember and mourn dyke bars today, as well as why commemorators who are too young to have attended dyke bars nonetheless engage in commemorative efforts. It demonstrates how contemporary LBQT+ activists grapple with the legacy of identity politics that they inherit, and how they rely on dyke bar commemoration to regenerate community rather than to reestablish bars.