I immediately assumed that the majority of the remaining lesbian-owned bars were in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, minus A League of Her Own in Washington D.C. When I first learned this fact from my friend Byrdie O’Connor, the producer of the Lesbian Bar Project, there was an unspoken, I know.
Had we digressed in some capacity? Was this some conservative-won plight to eliminate our spaces? A decline of this stature was unsettling and dumbfounding. There are currently twenty-one lesbian-owned bars in the United States in 2021, down from nearly 200 that existed in the late 80s. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.
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