The disappearance — and reimagination — of the gay bar

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Gay bars are often a fixture of queer nightlife and can help foster a sense of community. Yet across the country, gay bars have shuttered at an alarming pace, down around 45% between 2002 and 2023. But queer nightlife isn’t disappearing — it may just be evolving. We’ll hear more. But first: Interest rates are staying where they are, so where do we go from here?

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0:00.0	My name is Lee Hawkins. I've been a journalist for over 25 years. On my new
0:08.8	podcast, What Happened in Alabama, I get answers to some of the hardest questions about how things
0:15.4	came to be for many black Americans and the truth that must come before any reconciliation can
0:21.6	happen. I investigate my family history, my upbringing in
0:26.2	Minnesota and my father's painful nightmares about growing up in Alabama. What happened
0:32.1	in Alabama is a new series confronting the cycles of trauma for myself,
0:37.0	my family, and for many black Americans.
0:40.0	Listen now. Interest rates are staying put for now, so where do we go from here?
0:56.0	From Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Benashore, in for David Brancaccio.
1:00.0	Later today, we will learn how inflation at the wholesale level is doing.
1:04.5	Yesterday we learned from the labor department that inflation at the general level, the retail
1:08.7	level, had mercifully slowed down in May.
1:12.0	And just a couple hours after that the Federal Reserve announced
1:14.8	its holding interest rates steady for now. The marketplace is Nancy
1:19.2	Marshall Gensler was at Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference yesterday and joins us now live with details.
1:24.7	Hi Nancy.
1:25.7	Hey good morning.
1:27.2	So the Fed left interest rates unchanged.
1:29.2	No big surprise there.
1:30.7	What can we expect for the rest of this year?
1:33.0	Well, I got some hints from a survey.
1:35.0	The Fed released yesterday, the members of the FOMC, the Federal Open Market Committee,
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