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Pandemic exacerbated lesbian bar closures Today, there are only 15 left in the country

Pandemic exacerbated lesbian bar closures Today, there are only 15 left in the country
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The Death of the Gay Bar

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out Jeremy Atherton Lin My favorite bar in San Francisco, Twin Peaks Tavern, is in danger of closing. Known as the glass coffin, for both its large plate glass windows and its older clientele, it was the first bar I went to when I moved to the West Coast in 2013 as a bright-eyed PhD student. Its Tiffany lampshades and cozy interior welcomed me in. Plopping myself onto one of its cushioned benches and looking out on Castro Street, I remember feeling overwhelmingly at home and embedded in queer history. In a world in which queer people are ever more accepted and rigid identity categories make less and less sense, what is the purpose of gay bars? Do we still need them?

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LGBTQ community works to save the New Jalisco Bar in DTLA

Print Among the things endangered by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the New Jalisco Bar in downtown Los Angeles. As my colleague Andrea Castillo notes in her Column One story from Monday, the New Jalisco Bar is more than just a watering hole. It has been a lifeline for the city’s Latinx LGBTQ community since the early 2000s. After nearly a year of being closed, New Jalisco is on the brink of disappearing. New Jalisco wasn’t always an LGBTQ space. When Maria Rosa Garcia, the current owner, first started working there in 1992, it was a billiards bar called the Jalisco Inn. By the time the Score, the only gay bar in downtown L.A.,

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From Soul Food to Drag Queens Delivering Hot Dogs, LGBTQ Bars Are Finding Creative Ways to Stay Afloat

Photograph by Molly Adams The bartenders at A League of Her Own (Aloho), a bar for lesbian and queer folks in Washington, D.C., are trained to chat up newcomers and make them feel at home. That s the case with most watering holes, but at Aloho, it s a little different. When a new patron comes alone to the bar, bartenders also offer to introduce them to one of Aloho s dozen or so regulars. It s a way to create community and make the bar s queer patrons feel like they have a safe space something that can be hard to find for any marginalized population.

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