How Queer Spaces Gave Me Superpowers

by Sydney BrownstoneFIND YOUR PACK: Queer spaces save queer lives.RACHEL ROBINSON
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, there's a bar called the Metropolitan. I don't know how long it's been around—but for as long as I've been around, it's been gay.
In 2012, the editors at a now-defunct alternative magazine assigned me, a very green 21-year-old, to write a piece about the Metropolitan. At that time, the neighborhood was changing and the new neighbors didn't like the bar's backyard garden. They didn't