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Amin Ghaziani

Amin Ghaziani

Amin Ghaziani is Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is the author or editor of six books, including most recently Long Live Queer Nightlife, published by Princeton University Press. This work examines forms of underground queer nightlife that have emerged in the context of large-scale closures of gay bars around the world. Ghaziani is an active public intellectual who has contributed to conversations in The New Yorker, The Nation, American Prospect, and Time magazines, as well The Guardian, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He can be reached at amin.ghaziani@ubc.ca and on X at @Amin_Ghaziani.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 9June 27, 2024<June 27, 2024

Emplaced Bars and Episodic Events: Reflections on Nightlife Forms

Amin Ghaziani
Amin Ghaziani argues that the closure of gay bars disrupted the field of nightlife and encouraged the visibility of other forms of fellowship called “club nights.” Ghaziani calls for conceptual plurality in how we think about nightlife forms and proposes a strategy for studying episodic and event-based scenes.

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