{"id":9381,"date":"2017-05-28T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T08:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2017-06-26T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T08:36:22","slug":"2017-06-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-06-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering Identity, Promoting Community: The Gay Bar in American History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Prof. Nancy C. Unger<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>June 11, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more than one hundred years, gay clubs and bars have served as sanctuaries and party-spots and hook-up sites. They\u2019ve been the secular centers of community and education. But also of violence and persecution that ultimately led to great advancements in pride, rights, and freedoms. This richly illustrated talk by Santa Clara University history professor Nancy C. Unger highlights the history of a long and colorful American tradition in the LGBTQ community: the gay bar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ungerheadshot5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7897\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ungerheadshot5-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ungerheadshot5-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ungerheadshot5-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ungerheadshot5-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ungerheadshot5-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ungerheadshot5-1024x819-250x200.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/223040848\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/223040848\">Humanist Community Forum (2017-06-11): Fostering Identity, Promoting Community: The Gay Bar in American History<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RSVP on Meetup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/240334260\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/240334260\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on Facebook: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See videos of our past Forums:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Nancy C. Unger June 11, 2017 For more than one hundred years, gay clubs and bars have served as sanctuaries and party-spots and hook-up sites. They\u2019ve been the secular centers of community and education. But also of violence and persecution that ultimately led to great advancements in pride, rights, and freedoms. This richly illustrated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-06-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fostering Identity, Promoting Community: The Gay Bar in American History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9452,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/9452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}