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The Lesbian Bar Project is a campaign created by Erica Rose and Elina Street to "celebrate, support, and preserve the remaining lesbian bars in the US." The project launched on October 28, 2020 with a PSA video narrated by Lea DeLaria that announced a 30-day fundraising campaign to support what were thought to be the last 15 lesbian bars left in the country, many of which were financially ...
Lesbian bars predate feminist spaces such as bookstores [1] and coffeehouses, [2] [3] [4] and contemporary LGBT services such as community centers and health care centers. While few lesbian-specific bars exist today, lesbian bars have long been sites of refuge, validation, community, and resistance for women whose sexual orientations are considered "deviant" or non-normative. [5]
Still, despite the importance that these spaces held and still hold for queer people, the number of gay bars has been declining nationwide, especially after being hit hard by the pandemic ...
"The most famous lesbian bar in all of Tokyo, maybe in one of the most famous in the world" [16] [17] [better source needed] [10] Roxie's: Shanghai China 2014 June 2024 First lesbian bar in Shanghai [18] [10] [19] Virus: Hong Kong China 1997 Hong Kong's first lesbian bar and as of 2020 one of only two remaining from as many as nine in the early ...
In the spring of 2020, around the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, an NBC News analysis found there were only about 16 lesbian bars left in the U.S., down from a high of around 200 in the 1980s ...
From Brooklyn to Oklahoma City, a dozen new venues owned by queer women have opened their doors since 2020.
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Moby Dyke is a 2023 book by Krista Burton that documents America's remaining lesbian bars and tries to identify the sources of the industry's decline amid a growing proportion of the population identifying as LGBTQ+. [1] Burton visited each of the twenty bars profiled in the book at least twice. [2] [3] [4]