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This series is also available as an e-book for your Kindle. Download it now. Running a bar is a tough business in the best of circumstances. Overhead is high, customers fickle, and staff transient. Between andthe number of drinking establishments in the United States fell by Census Bureau. Gay bars have an even tougher road to profitability.

Damronwhich has been keeping track of gay bars sinceshowed a 12 percent drop in their number between andfrom 1, LGBT bars and clubs to 1, Can a bar make money when it's asking 90 percent of the population to stay away?

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Until somewhat recently, the answer to that question was yes. Gay people were so desperate for a place to gather that they would patronize just about any bar that permitted their gay, no matter how grudgingly. Operating costs were kept in check because gay bars could be situated in out-of-the-way places and required little by way of interior decoration.

Indeed, an unglamorous address and a lack of frills often added to a bar's frisson. InBrandon Judell wrote about the then-popular backroom bars—that is, bars where gay men would go to have sex—for gay magazine Blueboy. Before backroom bars, men were being erotic with each other in trucks and alleys, on deserted hills, and in warehouses.

Amidst all those glorious, sweaty entwinings, there was always the risk of being hurt by someone or something. Have a jukebox. It will take very low overhead to supply all that dangerous eroticism of the old hangouts, and the profit will be huge and quickly gathered. The contemporary bar owners I talked with did not describe their profits as "huge and quickly gathered.

He says the profits are "enough to live on but no more. Running a very small bar [Pony's maximum capacity is ] is not what you'd want to get into to make a lot of money. To make a lot of money, you need a much larger bar where you can get huge volumes. Bars catering to lesbians face even greater business challenges, which joe why there are so few of them.

Many "gay bars," especially outside the major urban centers, attract both male and female customers, but in big bars, far more bars cater to gay male patrons than to lesbians. According to the bar listings in the edition of the Gayellow Pages San Francisco has one lesbian bar, 24 indicating a mostly gay male clientele, and seven drawing both gay men and lesbians; Atlanta has two lesbian bars, 12 for gay men, and eight mixed; Manhattan has two lesbian, 28 for men, and 13 mixed; and Seattle has one lesbian, four for gay men, and six mixed.

Lesbians' nesting instincts mean they hit the bars less frequently than gay men. When they find one, I don't see them for two years. Then all of a sudden they're out—you know, when they break up. You see them every single week at every single party until they find the next [girlfriend], and then they disappear, and the pattern continues.