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Anyone spurred on to read this by the subtitle “Why We Went Out�� may find themselves feeling slightly mislead (as I was) that this book doesn’t contain some kind of overarching social history or examination of the reasons why bars have and continue to mean so much to our group.

I nevertheless enjoyed running around the world from gay bar to gay bar with the narrator and his boyfriend “Famous��, and by the end landed on finding the overall uneventful and anecdotal nature of this story to be part of its charm. Travelling and experiencing queer spaces, their individual quirks, the shine and grime, meeting the people that live within them, is a favourite thing of mine to do - and it’s clear Atherton Lin feels the same way.