Where have all the gay bars gone?

In a half-century, Rochester’s gay bars went from secret and forbidden to “out” and everywhere to almost nowhere.Pamela Barres still remembers the freedom she felt walking into Rosie’s wearing lipstick and that red wig. Back then, Barres was a middle-aged married man with children and a job at Kodak by day, and a covert “cross-dresser” by night eager for acceptance of her authentic self.…