![]() In the above scene, which takes place in 1962, Ada goes (reluctantly) with her gay friend Twig to The Hornet’s Nest, one of several bars in Charlotte to “serve as ad hoc gathering spaces for the gay community,” according to Charlotte historian Josh Burford.īefore there were LGBT community centers, conferences, high school and college associations, bookstores, and choruses, bars served an important function in the lives of queer people. The plot of my new novel, The Ada Decades, covers seventy years in the lives of LGBT people in Charlotte, N.C. “I reckon they’ll be as scared to see me as I am to see them,” Cam replied. “And what if you run into someone from school?” Ada had asked. The place seemed seedy, dangerous, with an entrance down a dark flight of stairs. Both women and men frequented it, and Cam had accompanied Auggie and Twig there many times, against Ada’s advice. It wasn’t a homosexual club so much as a place where gay people gathered while the management turned a blind eye. Twig drove her to The Hornet’s Nest, a bar in the basement of an old hotel in town.
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