Mile high low: Denver's only lesbian bar closing
Blush & Blu will have its last night of business on Saturday, owner Jody Bouffard recently announced. "The world has shifted and so have we."
October 03 2024 10:39 AM
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Blush & Blu will have its last night of business on Saturday, owner Jody Bouffard recently announced. "The world has shifted and so have we."
Pop your lesbian bar cherry with this updated list of remaining lesbian bars.
Lesbian bars are quickly and sadly becoming a thing of the past.
There are still some holdouts where queer women gather.
This weekend during Los Angeles’ annual Pride festival the city of West Hollywood, and the greater Los Angeles area, bid farewell to The Palms, its last lesbian bar (that we are aware of). For nearly half a century many a thirsty lesbian, including the likes of Ellen DeGeneres and Melissa Etheridge, wet her whistle at the hole-in-the-wall at 8572 Santa Monica Blvd.
The Egyptian Club, Portland's only lesbian bar, will close its doors for good October 9 due to financial difficulties. Owner Kim Davis expressed her dismay, telling the newspaper Just Out, "I don't want to do this, I really don't. [Running this club is] the biggest thing I've ever done in my life and the coolest."
Philadelphia's oldest — and only remaining — lesbian bar announced it was going out of business on its Facebook page Monday.
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The bar owner plans to take members of her city council and mayor to court over the blocking of her permit.
A women's softball team in Memphis, Tenn., was barred from a church league because its coach is a lesbian. Hmm.
Jana Jacobson told The Commercial Appeal newspaper that officials at Bellevue Baptist Church rejected her "deviant" lifestyle, therefore making her team ineligible to compete. The team was seeking opportunities to play more games and noticed that Bellevue had a league that did not require teams to be affiliated with the church. She was called into an additional meeting after registering, paying an entry fee, and attending an organizational meeting.
The Normandie Room, one of West Hollywood’s landmark lesbian bars, has become the latest victim of the recession and will close its doors for good 'around the end of July, beginning of August,' owner Jason Shokrian said.
After almost a half-century serving the lesbian community in the LGBT-filled West Hollywood neighborhood, The Palms will close up shop Sunday, June 9, after celebrating one last Pride weekend, reports WeHoVille.
The lesbian bar is dying all over America, but these holdouts deserve applause and patronage.
After almost a half-century serving the lesbian community in the LGBT-filled West Hollywood neighborhood, management at The Palms Bar announced via Facebook that the owners will close up shop in the coming months.
A lot of people came out and built community at these bars.
Orange is the New Black is the latest original series scheduled to debut (in its entirety) for instant streaming on Netflix on July 11. Based on the memoir of Piper Kerman's year spent in prison, the series stars Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, a psuedo-straightlaced suburbanite who suddenly finds her world turned upside down when she lands in prison for carrying a suitcase full of drugs, one time, ten years ago, for her dealer of an ex-girlfriend.
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