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Pittsburgh Dyke and Trans March, Revisited

With it being Pride Month and all, I started to wonder about the state of the Dyke March this year.  And that got me thinking about what is now called the Pittsburgh's Dyke and Trans March, a topic I...

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Gay Bars for Grownups?

This is a slightly different topic than what I usually post on. It's not on a lost place for women per se, but a place that is seemingly no longer defined as limited to men and women or adults in...

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Lost Womyn's Spaces of Northampton, Massachusetts

This is a wonderfully researched posting by Kaymarion Raymond at From Wicked to Wedded. THE PEAK OF LESBIAN ENTERPRISEPosted on April 16, 2019 by Kaymarion RaymondAn unprecedented number of Lesbian...

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Lilly's Music and Social House

Lilly's Music and Social HouseLocation: 2321 Arsenal Street, St. Louis, Missouri, USAOpened: July 2015Closed: May 2016From out in stl:Excerpt from interview with Kristin Goodman: Can you tell me about...

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Bum Bum Bar

Bum Bum BarLocation: 63-14 Roosevelt Ave., Queens, New York, USAOpened: Early 1990sClosed: Late 2018From the Jackson Heights Post:Bum Bum Bar, Roosevelt Avenue Lesbian Bar, Closes After More Than 2...

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Harvard University Women's Organizations

Harvard University Women's OrganizationsFor background, see this article: Harvard Cracks Down on All-Male Clubs. But It’s Women’s Groups That Have Vanished, by Sarah Brown. Women at Harvard protested...

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Church of the New Ideal

WallaseyChurch of the New IdealLocation: Wallasey, Cheshire, EnglandOpened: March 1914Closed: Before end of World War I (1918)I found this news item while reading a newspaper from April 1914: There's...

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Hershee Bar

Hershee BarThe closing of Hershee BarLocation: 1083 W 37th Street, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Opened: 1983Closed: 2018From the Virginian-Pilot:"We're losing our home": The last lesbian bar in Hampton Roads...

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Women's Beer Forum

Women's Beer ForumWomen's Beer ForumLocation: Los Angeles, California, USAOpened: 2011Closed: 2018It's true. The boys are even afraid of you sharing a brew with your gal pals. God only knows what...

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Stouffer's Ladies Restaurant

Stouffer's Ladies RestaurantLocation: 4 North Court Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USAOpened/Closed: c. 1916Here's an ad for a ladies restaurant that appeared in the Harrisburg Daily Independent,...

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Mr. M. M'Ginley's Ladies Restaurant

Mr. M. M'Ginley's Ladies' RestaurantLocation: Fifth Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USAOpened/Closed: c. 1858I wasn't even trying to do research on ladies restaurants when I happened to stumble...

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Page Three

Buddy Kent and friends at Page Three(Lesbian Herstory Archives)Page ThreeLocation: Greenwich Village, New YorkOpened: 1940s?Closed: 1965Martin Duberman identifies Page Three as "one of the few lesbian...

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Bon Ton Cafe Ladies Cafe

Bon Ton Cafe Ladies CafeLocation: Jackson, Mississippi, USAOpened/Closed: c. 1917Here's an ad for a ladies cafe in Jackson, Mississippi from October 1917. Needless to say, all the usual caveats about...

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Redz

The former Redz --2218 East First StreetRedzLocation: 2218 East First Street, Los Angeles, California, USAOpen: Late 1950sClosed: 2015From the Los Angeles Conservancy: Located in Boyle Heights, Redz is...

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The Martinique

The MartiniqueLocation: Salem Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, USAOpened: Early 1970sClosed: Early 1990sFrom Daytonology:This being Dayton building demolition rears its ugly head in any story, and it does here,...

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Que Sera

Que SeraEllen Ward, (left) the first openly gay woman to be elected to the Signal Hill City Council,stands behind the bar at The Que Sera with the establishment's current owner Ilse Benz. Ward used to...

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G Spot

G SpotG SpotLocation: 2031 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, Florida, USAOpen: 2017Closed: 2018Sadly, this place didn't last more than a year. From South Florida Gay News: Lesbian Bar Closes Down in Wilton...

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Serene Bar

Serene BarLocation: Schwiebusser Str. 2, 10965 Berlin, GermanyOpened: ?Closed: 2015According to DJ Ena Lind, in a 2017 article called "Berlin's Lesbian Party Scene is Changing":The last lesbian bar in...

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Kimball Ladies Cafe

Kimball Ladies CafeLocation: Perry Street, Davenport, Iowa, USAOpened/Closed: c. July 1910Not going to go into a big analysis here. Just a pleasant ad for a ladies cafe from the Quad City Times...

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Oxwood Inn

Oxwood InnOxford InnLocation: Oxnard Avenue, Van Nuys, CaliforniaOpened: 1972Closed: 2017Notice that this became a "queer catch-all bar" in its later years, so wasn't technically a lesbian bar at all...

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