Part memoir, part history, this book gives us an intimate look at gay bars and gay culture. It speaks about the importance of gay bars, but also the problems that they perpetuated.  Melancholic and I can only describe the writing as erotic but in an incredibly nonsexual way. It speaks to the feelings of missing out. Like the best days happened before you were born or maybe they never even existed at all. Oftentimes queer history has been erased, or heavily whitewashed. Jeremy Atherton Lin breathes new life into history and shows us that queer life continues everywhere, and I’ll drink to that.