List of lesbian bars

{{short description|none}} This is a list of notable [[Lesbian bar|lesbian bars]] worldwide, including early prototypes and modern more inclusive spaces. {{See also|List of LGBT bars|Lesbian Bar Project}} <!-- Listed by continent, and by alphabetical order. -->

== Africa == {{Expand section|date=June 2023}} {| class="wikitable sortable" !Bar !City !Country !Year opened !Year closed !Notes |- |Beaulah Bar |Cape Town |South Africa | |closed |Originally founded as a lesbian bar, until it became a mixed crowd later<ref>{{Cite web |title=Beaulah bar, Cape Town |url=http://www.gayout.com/10-bars-clubs/121-beaulah-bar?town=cape-town |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=GayOut.com |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bradley |first1=Liz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9HN1DuqFL8C&pg=PA99 |title=Cape Town: Winelands and the Garden Route |last2=Bradley |first2=John |last3=Vidar |first3=Jon |last4=Fine |first4=Victoria |date=May 2011 |publisher=Modern Overland |isbn=978-1-60987-122-2 |pages=99 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gay & Lesbian Clubs in Cape Town |url=https://www.frommers.com/destinations/cape-town/nightlife/gay--lesbian-clubs |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=Frommer's}}</ref> |- |Duchess Lounge |Cape Town |South Africa |2024 | |Social media page references "sapphics and the queer community" but widely marketed as a lesbian bar<ref>{{Cite web |title=UPDATED: Hot new restaurants & experiences |url=https://www.capetownmagazine.com/new |access-date=2025-10-14 |website=capetownmagazine.com}} </ref> |}

== Asia == {| class="wikitable sortable" !Bar !City !Country !Year opened !Year closed !Notes |- |[[Amazona (bar)|Amazona]] |Tel Aviv |Israel | |2020 |Only lesbian bar in the city<ref>{{cite magazine |date=November 3, 2016 |title=Amazona Bar |url=https://www.timeout.com/israel/nightlife/amazona-bar |url-status=live |magazine=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415080512/https://www.timeout.com/israel/nightlife/amazona-bar |archive-date=15 April 2023 |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=June 5, 2019 |title=Best Gay Bars in Tel Aviv |url=https://www.touristisrael.com/best-gay-bars-in-tel-aviv/26326/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415080513/https://www.touristisrael.com/best-gay-bars-in-tel-aviv/26326/ |archive-date=15 April 2023 |access-date=15 April 2023 |website=Tourist Israel}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 16, 2023 |title=Gay Tel Aviv, Israel |url=https://queerintheworld.com/gay-tel-aviv-travel-guide/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415081541/https://queerintheworld.com/gay-tel-aviv-travel-guide/ |archive-date=15 April 2023 |access-date=15 April 2023 |website=Queer In The World}}</ref> |- |[[Bigudi Club]] |Istanbul |Turkey |2008 | |First lesbian bar in Istanbul<ref>{{Cite book |last=Poole |first=Ralph J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-qKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |title=Queer Turkey: Transnational Poetics of Desire |date=2022-06-30 |publisher=transcript Verlag |isbn=978-3-8394-5060-4 |pages=42 |language=en |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210208/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-qKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |archive-date=2023-04-17 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Troisi |first=Dayna |date=2022-12-13 |title=Experience Bigudi, Turkey's Iconic Queer Venue |url=https://gomag.com/article/experience-bigudi-turkeys-iconic-queer-venue/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414200528/https://gomag.com/article/experience-bigudi-turkeys-iconic-queer-venue/ |archive-date=2023-04-14 |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=GO Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Griot Yabangee">{{cite web |last1=Griot |first1=Paz |date=21 January 2017 |title=15 LGBT Friendly Spaces in Istanbul |url=https://yabangee.com/15-lgbt-friendly-spaces/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013101517/https://yabangee.com/15-lgbt-friendly-spaces/ |archive-date=13 October 2022 |access-date=May 28, 2021 |website=[[Yabangee]]}}</ref><ref name="Ten Eyck Everyqueer">{{cite web |last1=Ten Eyck |first1=Meg |date=30 May 2019 |title=A Rapidly Shrinking List of All the Lesbian Bars Left Worldwide |url=https://everyqueer.com/all-lesbian-bars-left-worldwide/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012160606/https://everyqueer.com/all-lesbian-bars-left-worldwide/ |archive-date=12 October 2022 |access-date=May 28, 2021 |website=[[Everyqueer]]}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2" |[[Coup d'Etat (bar)|Coup d'Etat]] | rowspan="2" |Beirut | rowspan="2" |Lebanon |2006 |2007 | rowspan="2" |The Middle East's first "openly" lesbian bar<ref name="Zoepf Observer">{{cite news |last1=Zoepf |first1=Katharine |date=August 17, 2007 |title=What happened to Gay Beirut? |publisher=[[The New York Observer|Observer]] |url=https://observer.com/2007/08/what-happened-to-gay-beirut/ |url-status=live |access-date=May 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013101945/https://observer.com/2007/08/what-happened-to-gay-beirut/ |archive-date=October 13, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Murphy AirBnB">{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Tim |date=August 16, 2018 |title=Being LGBTQ in Beirut |publisher=[[AirBnBMagazine]] |url=https://medium.com/airbnbmag/being-lgbtq-in-beirut-e8d854a857ed |url-status=live |access-date=May 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013225914/https://medium.com/airbnbmag/being-lgbtq-in-beirut-e8d854a857ed |archive-date=October 13, 2022}}</ref> Closed in 2007 and opened again in 2018. |- |2018 | |- |[[Lesbos (bar)|Lesbos]] |Seoul |Korea |1996 | |Lesbos ({{Korean|레스보스}}), located in the [[Sinchon]] area of Seoul was opened in 1996 and is the first lesbian bar in South Korea.<ref>{{cite news |author1=김수진 |date=June 4, 2003 |title=Spread Of Homosexual Cafes And Bars On The Rise In Modern Korean Society |work=Ewha Voice |publisher=[[Ewha Womans University]] |url=https://evoice.ewha.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=218 |access-date=3 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=January 5, 2003 |title=Out of the Closet and Glad of It |work=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]] |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2003/01/05/features/Out-of-the-Closet-and-Glad-of-It/1894273.html}}</ref> |- |[[L'Paradise]] |Hong Kong |China |2000s (early) | |One of two remaining lesbian bars in Hong Kong as of 2020<ref name="South China Morning Post-2020">{{Cite web |date=2020-01-19 |title=Hong Kong's vanishing lesbian bars and what it means for gay scene |url=https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/3046509/hong-kongs-lesbian-bars-are-vanishing-lgbt-people |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200120165308/https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/3046509/hong-kongs-lesbian-bars-are-vanishing-lgbt-people |archive-date=20 January 2020 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref> |- |[[Goldfinger (bar)|Goldfinger]] |Tokyo |Japan |2000s (early) | |"The most famous lesbian bar in all of Tokyo, maybe in one of the most famous in the world"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vlisides |first=Victoria |date=2019-01-30 |title=5 Shinjuku Ni-chome Nightlife Spots LGBT Women Will Love |url=https://travel.gaijinpot.com/5-shinjuku-ni-chome-nightlife-spots-lgbt-women-will-love/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016014648/https://travel.gaijinpot.com/5-shinjuku-ni-chome-nightlife-spots-lgbt-women-will-love/ |archive-date=2022-10-16 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=GaijinPot Travel |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=5 January 2020 |title=Lesbian Bar Hopping in Japan: Tokyo & Osaka |url=https://www.modernfamilytravels.com/blog/lesbian-bar-hopping-japan-tokyo-osaka |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012160502/https://www.modernfamilytravels.com/blog/lesbian-bar-hopping-japan-tokyo-osaka |archive-date=2022-10-12 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Modern family travels |language=en-US}}</ref>{{BSN|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]). Both seem pretty bloggy.|date=April 2023}}<ref name="Ten Eyck Everyqueer" /> |- |[[Roxie's (bar)|Roxie's]] |Shanghai |China |2014 |June 2024 |First lesbian bar in Shanghai<ref>{{Cite web |last=Costigan |first=Johanna |date=2019-03-17 |title=Meet the queer women organizers of Shanghai's LGBTQ community |url=https://nuvoices.com/2019/03/17/meet-the-queer-women-organizers-of-shanghais-lgbtq-community/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014060427/https://nuvoices.com/2019/03/17/meet-the-queer-women-organizers-of-shanghais-lgbtq-community/ |archive-date=2022-10-14 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=[[Nuvoices]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Ten Eyck Everyqueer" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-06-25 |title=Shanghai's lesbian bar Roxie closes down |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/25/farewell-to-lesbian-bar-the-roxie-in-shanghai-as-it-closes-down_6675641_4.html |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=en}}</ref> |- |[[Virus (bar)|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 2000s<ref name="South China Morning Post-2020" /> |}

== Australia == {{Expand section|date=June 2023}} {| class="wikitable sortable" !Bar !City !Country !Year opened !Year closed !Notes |- |Ching-a-lings |[[Darlinghurst]], New South Wales |Australia |2009 | |Lesbian and nonbinary bar<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ching-a-lings |url=https://www.timeout.com/sydney/bars/ching-a-lings |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210925185305/https://www.timeout.com/sydney/bars/ching-a-lings |archive-date=2021-09-25 |access-date= |work=Time Out Sydney |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Olding |first=Rachel |date=November 10, 2009 |title=Ching-a-lings |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/ching-a-lings-20091111-gdtsot.html |access-date= |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |language=en}}</ref> |}

== Europe == {| class="wikitable sortable" !Bar !City !Country !Year opened !Year closed !Notes |- |[[Cafébar Marianne]] |Berlin |Germany |2008 | |Also known as Mariannenbar.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Marianne, Berlin |url=http://www.gayout.com/21/3426?town=berlin |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210139/https://www.gayout.com/21/3426?town=berlin |archive-date=2023-04-17 |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=GayOut |language=en-gb}}</ref> |- |[[Candy Bar, Soho|Candy Bar]] |London |England |1996 |2014 |<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 June 2012 |title=Candy Bar |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/music-nightlife/candy-bar-1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417091711/https://www.timeout.com/london/music-nightlife/candy-bar-1 |archive-date=2023-04-17 |access-date=2023-04-14 |publisher=Time Out}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news |last=Margolis |first=Eleanor |date=27 October 2013 |title=Lesbians mourn as Soho's Candy Bar announces it will close |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/oct/27/lesbians-soho-candy-bar-close-london |url-status=live |access-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413172045/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/oct/27/lesbians-soho-candy-bar-close-london |archive-date=13 April 2023}}</ref> |- |[[Chez Moune]] |Paris |France |1936 | |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-06 |title=A lire : Chez Moune, chic lesbien et lutte des classes |url=https://www.barbieturix.com/2019/11/06/a-lire-chez-moune-chic-lesbien-et-lutte-des-classes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413174505/https://www.barbieturix.com/2019/11/06/a-lire-chez-moune-chic-lesbien-et-lutte-des-classes/ |archive-date=2023-04-13 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=[[Barbieturix]] |language=fr-FR}}</ref>{{BSN|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=April 2023}} |- |[[Damenklub Violetta]] |Berlin |Germany |{{Circa|1926}} |1933 |<ref name="Sam">{{cite web |last1=Sam |title=The Future We Lost in the Fire |url=https://www.autostraddle.com/the-future-we-lost-in-the-fire/ |access-date=May 29, 2023 |website=Autostraddle.com |date=9 March 2020 }}</ref><ref name="Koblitz">{{cite web |last1=Koblitz |first1=Katja |title=Schoneberg was so Lesbian in the Weimar Republic |url=https://www.place2be.berlin/en/discover-berlin/schöneberg-was-so-lesbian-in-the-weimar-republic/ |access-date=May 29, 2023 |website=Place2beBerlin}}</ref> |- |[[Daniel's]] |Barcelona |Spain |1975 |closed |One of the first [[Lesbians in Francoist Spain|lesbian bars in Spain]] and one of the first LGBTQ bars in Barcelona<ref>{{Cite web |last=Simón |first=Ana Iris |date=2019-12-03 |title=Fui una lesbiana adolescente durante el final del franquismo |url=https://www.vice.com/es/article/fui-una-lesbiana-adolescente-durante-el-final-del-franquismo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231202436/https://www.vice.com/es/article/8xwzqz/fui-una-lesbiana-adolescente-durante-el-final-del-franquismo |archive-date=2019-12-31 |access-date=2020-05-06 |website=Vice |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-11 |title="No somos machos, pero somos muchas" {{!}} Barcelona Metròpolis {{!}} Ayuntamiento de Barcelona |url=https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/es/contenidos/no-somos-machos-pero-somos-muchas |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422174601/https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/es/contenidos/no-somos-machos-pero-somos-muchas |archive-date=2019-04-22 |access-date=2019-04-22 |website=Barcelona Metropolis |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Petit |first=Jordi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vuYl9vBPUy8C |title=25 años más: una perspectiva sobre el pasado, presente y futuro del movimiento de gays, lesbianas, bisexuales y transexuales |date=2003 |publisher=Icaria Editorial |isbn=9788474266481 |language=es |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210142/https://books.google.com/books?id=vuYl9vBPUy8C |archive-date=2023-04-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> |- |[[Gateways club|Gateways Club]] |London |England |1943 |2014 |<ref name="Gervat">{{cite book |last1=Gervat |first1=Claire |title=Night + Day London |last2=Gavin |first2=Francesca |date=2006 |publisher=Pulse Guides |isbn=978-0976601371 |page=112}}</ref> |- |[[La Gata (bar)|La Gata]] |Frankfurt |Germany |1971 | |As of 2021 the only lesbian bar in Frankfurt<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 September 2021 |title=La Gata: Die einzige Lesbenbar in Frankfurt feiert 50. Geburtstag |url=https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/die-einzige-lesbenbar-in-frankfurt-feiert-50-geburtstag-90960378.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016155538/https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/die-einzige-lesbenbar-in-frankfurt-feiert-50-geburtstag-90960378.html |archive-date=2022-10-16 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=www.fr.de |language=de}}</ref> |- |[[Le Hanneton (lesbian bar)|Le Hanneton]] |Paris |France |1890s (early) |1900s |Depicted in lithograph ''Au Hanneton'' by [[Toulouse Lautrec]]<ref name="Merrick">{{cite book |last1=Merrick |first1=Jeffrey |title=Homosexuality in French History and Culture |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |page=161 |isbn=9781317992585 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qa3aAAAAQBAJ&dq=jean+lorrain+le+hanneton&pg=PA161 |access-date=June 3, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Cafe">{{cite web |title=Lesbian Cafe Society of Fin de Siecle Paris |url=http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2011/09/lesbian-cafe-society-of-fin-de-siecle.html |website=Lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com |date=27 September 2011 }}</ref><ref name="Aka">{{cite web |title=La Grande Loge |url=https://www.akg-images.co.uk/archive/La-grande-loge-2UMDHUV45SFQ.html |website=Akg-Images.co.uk |publisher=AKG Images |access-date=June 3, 2023}}</ref> |- |[[Le Monocle]] |Paris |France |1920s |1940s (early) |One of Paris' first and most famous lesbian bars<ref name="VanDyke">{{cite news|last1=Van Dyke |first1=Isobel |title=The Intimate London Exhibition Paying Homage to a Legendary Lesbian Nightclub |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/esmagazine/le-monocle-nightclub-london-exhibition-paris-lesbian-zara-toppin-b1067239.html |work=[[Evening Standard]] |date=March 14, 2023 |access-date=May 26, 2023}}</ref> |- |[[New Moon (nightclub)|New Moon]] |Paris |France |1960s |1980s |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-10-05 |title=New Moon : comment un cabaret de Pigalle est devenu le QG du rock alternatif |url=https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/new-moon-comment-un-cabaret-de-pigalle-est-devenu-le-qg-du-rock-alternatif,132223.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213083532/http://www.telerama.fr/sortir/new-moon-comment-un-cabaret-de-pigalle-est-devenu-le-qg-du-rock-alternatif,132223.php |archive-date=2023-02-13 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=[[Telerama]] |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="DufresneRF">{{cite news |last1=Dufresne |first1=David |date=1 January 2018 |title=David Dufresne : "En 120 ans, le «New Moon» a eu énormément de vies : QG des impressionnistes, club de jazz, cabaret lesbien…" |language=French |publisher=[[Radio France]] |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-reveil-culturel/david-dufresne-en-120-ans-le-new-moon-a-eu-enormement-de-vies-qg-des-impressionnistes-club-de-jazz-cabaret-lesbien-8911288 |access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref> |- |[[She Soho]] |London |England |2014 | |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-01 |title=SHE Soho |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/nightlife/she-soho |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Time Out London |language=en-GB}}</ref> |}

== North America == {| class="wikitable sortable" !Bar !City !State !Country !Year opened !Year closed !Notes |- |[[A League of Her Own]] |[[Washington, D.C.]] | |United States |2018 | |<ref>{{cite web |last1=Riley |first1=John |date=23 August 2018 |title=A League Of Her Own's Jo McDaniel on DC's Newest Queer-Friendly Bar |url=https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/08/a-league-of-her-owns-jo-mcdaniel-on-d-c-s-newest-queer-friendly-bar/ |access-date=12 May 2021 |website=Metro Weekly |archive-date=12 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512205937/https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/08/a-league-of-her-owns-jo-mcdaniel-on-d-c-s-newest-queer-friendly-bar/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Ten Eyck Everyqueer" /> |- |[[A Little More (bar)|A Little More]] |San Francisco |California |United States |1980s | |<ref name="Herstory">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNIcAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Scott%27s%22++lesbian+bar+San+Francisco |title=Lesbian Herstory Archives Newsletter, Vol. 5-7 |date=1979 |page=16 |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2023-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210143/https://books.google.com/books?id=tNIcAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Scott%27s%22++lesbian+bar+San+Francisco |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Kirkeberg">{{cite web |date=July 8, 1982 |title=A Little More, a Lesbian bar, on the northwest corner of Potrero Avenue and 15th Street - 1982 |url=https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg/bundles/236409 |website=Max Kirkeberg Collection |publisher=[[San Francisco State University]] |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-date=October 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011102256/https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg/bundles/236409 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Graves2015">{{cite web |last1=Graves |first1=Donna J. |last2=Watson |first2=Shayne E. |date=October 2015 |title=Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco |url=https://default.sfplanning.org/Preservation/lgbt_HCS/LGBTQ_HCS_October2015.pdf |access-date=May 30, 2021 |publisher=City and County of San Francisco |archive-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701010302/https://default.sfplanning.org/Preservation/lgbt_HCS/LGBTQ_HCS_October2015.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="JonesRise">{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Cleve |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONRNCwAAQBAJ&q=Scott%27s+Pit++lesbian+San+Francisco |title=When We Rise: My Life in the Movement |date=2016 |publisher=Hachette Books |isbn=978-0316315418 |access-date=May 30, 2021 |archive-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210311/https://books.google.com/books?id=ONRNCwAAQBAJ&q=Scott%27s+Pit++lesbian+San+Francisco |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Amelia's]] |San Francisco, [[Mission District, San Francisco|Mission District]] |California |United States |1978 |1991 |<ref>Morse, Rob (November 12, 1991). "As San Francisco goes, so what?" ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]''. pg. 3. Retrieved 10 October 2021.</ref><ref name="Lipsky2020">{{cite news |last1=Lipsky |first1=Bill |date=February 13, 2020 |title=Rikki Streicher: Champion of Individual Freedoms and LGBT Rights |work=[[San Francisco Bay Times]] |url=http://sfbaytimes.com/rikki-streicher-champion-individual-freedoms-lgbt-rights/ |access-date=10 October 2021 |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010112234/http://sfbaytimes.com/rikki-streicher-champion-individual-freedoms-lgbt-rights/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Goldthorpe1981">{{cite web |last1=Goldthorpe |first1=Jeff |date=1981 |title=Valencia Street, circa 1981, Bohemian Roots of Gentrification |url=https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Valencia_Street,_circa_1981,_Bohemian_Roots_of_Gentrification |access-date=10 October 2021 |website=FoundSF |publisher=Shaping San Francisco |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010113339/https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Valencia_Street%2C_circa_1981%2C_Bohemian_Roots_of_Gentrification |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[The Anxious Asp]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1958 |1967 |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Arcana Bar and Lounge]] |Durham |North Carolina |United States |2015 | |North Carolina's only lesbian bar in 2024–2025<ref>{{Cite web |last=Asmelash |first=Leah |date=2024-06-15 |title=There may not be many of them. But these Southern lesbian bars are still finding ways to thrive |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/15/us/lesbian-bars-south-cec |access-date=2026-03-08 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrell |first=Elliott |date=2025-12-31 |title=A Beloved Durham Lesbian Nightlife Institution Turns Ten |url=https://indyweek.com/news/culture/arcana-durham-bar/ |access-date=2026-03-08 |website=INDY Week |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |[[Artist's Club]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1946 |1949 |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[As You Are Bar]] |Washington, D.C. | |United States | | |<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 March 2022 |title=Queering the Gay Bar Agenda: As You Are Bar |url=https://taggmagazine.com/as-you-are-bar-dc/ |access-date=14 April 2023 |archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414151427/https://taggmagazine.com/as-you-are-bar-dc/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=24 March 2022 |title=Buttigieg attends opening of as You Are bar |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/03/24/buttigieg-attends-opening-of-as-you-are-bar/ |access-date=14 April 2023 |archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414151426/https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/03/24/buttigieg-attends-opening-of-as-you-are-bar/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Babes of Carytown]] |Richmond |Virginia |United States |1979 | |<ref name="lesbianbarproject.com">{{Cite web |title=The 21 Bars |url=https://www.lesbianbarproject.com/the-21-bars-home |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2022-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201210238/https://www.lesbianbarproject.com/the-21-bars-home |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Babiana Club Less]] |[[Mexico City]] | |Mexico |2013 | |<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Aldaco |first1=Verónica Chávez |date=12 February 2015 |title=Top 5: Antros y bares gay en el DF |trans-title=Top 5: Gay clubs and bars in Mexico City |url=https://www.chilango.com/tragos/top-5-antros-gay-en-el-df/ |magazine=[[Chilango (magazine)|Chilango]] |access-date=14 April 2023 |archive-date=16 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016025721/https://www.chilango.com/tragos/top-5-antros-gay-en-el-df/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Silva |first1=Juliana |date=7 March 2019 |title=Los 4 lugares en la Ciudad de México para lesbianas, aliad@s y afines |trans-title=The 4 places in Mexico City for lesbians, allies and related |url=https://local.mx/musica/clubs-y-bares/lesbianas-lugares/ |website=[[Local.mx]] |access-date=14 April 2023 |archive-date=16 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016014648/https://www.local.mx/musica/clubs-y-bares/lesbianas-lugares/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{BSN|reason=lacks sigcov. May be notable simply because it's one of the only lesbian clubs in the city.|date=April 2023}} |- |[[BabyFace Disco]] |Montreal |Quebec |Canada |1960s (late) | |First lesbian bar in Montreal<ref name="Kirwin-2018">{{Cite web |last=Kirwin |first=Meara Bernadette |date=2018-02-26 |title=All Lez'd Up and Nowhere To Go |url=https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2018/02/all-lezd-up-and-nowhere-to-go/ |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=[[The McGill Daily]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016014633/https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2018/02/all-lezd-up-and-nowhere-to-go/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Bachanal (bar)|Bachanal]] |Albany |California |United States | | |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Katz |first=Leslie |title='Oh No' amusingly details 1970s lesbian journey |url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/culture/oh-no-amusingly-details-1970s-lesbian-journey/article_b7034116-4706-5d92-b098-f0aee2554023.html |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=[[San Francisco Examiner]] |date=3 September 2015 |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210140/https://www.sfexaminer.com/culture/oh-no-amusingly-details-1970s-lesbian-journey/article_b7034116-4706-5d92-b098-f0aee2554023.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Hoke" /> |- |[[Beaded Bag]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States | | |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Asbury_Park,_New_Jersey#LGBTQ+_community|The Bond Street Bar]] |Asbury Park |New Jersey |United States |1970s |1980s |Location was also the site of a women's bar in the 1930s<ref name="McDonaldM">{{cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Mark |date=October 13, 2013 |title=Asbury Park: A Gay History |url=https://mag.gayasburyguide.com/post/63960306261/asbury-park-a-gay-history-a-brief-chronology-of |website=Gay Asbury Guide |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213111621/https://mag.gayasburyguide.com/post/63960306261/asbury-park-a-gay-history-a-brief-chronology-of |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Biese |first=Alex |title=How the LGBT community saved Asbury Park |url=https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/nightlife/2017/09/24/lgbt-community-always-heart-asbury-park/690173001/ |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=[[Asbury Park Press]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2020-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829041818/https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/nightlife/2017/09/24/lgbt-community-always-heart-asbury-park/690173001/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Blanco's]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1943 |mid-1950s |Also known as Blanco's Tavern<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Blush & Blu]] |Denver |Colorado |United States |2012 |2024 |Colorado's only lesbian bar, closed as of October 5, 2024<ref name="lesbianbarproject.com" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-07 |title=Colorado's only lesbian bar closes its doors |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/denver-colorado-only-lesbian-bar-closes-blush-blu-rcna174126 |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> |- |[[Bum Bum Bar]] |New York City, [[Queens]] |New York (state) |United States |1990s (early) |2018 |<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Swan |first1=Shea Carmen |date=March 15, 2016 |title=Bum Bum Bar ReBorn |url=http://gomag.com/article/bum_bum_bar_reborn1457982/ |magazine=[[GO (American magazine)|GO]] |accessdate=12 October 2019 |archive-date=12 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012122945/http://gomag.com/article/bum_bum_bar_reborn1457982/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sackman |first1=Meghan |date=March 1, 2019 |title=Bum Bum Bar, Roosevelt Avenue Lesbian Bar, Closes After More Than 2 Decades |work=Jackson Heights Post |url=https://jacksonheightspost.com/bum-bum-bar-roosevelt-avenue-lesbian-bar-closes-after-more-than-2-decades |accessdate=12 October 2019 |archive-date=12 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012122947/https://jacksonheightspost.com/bum-bum-bar-roosevelt-avenue-lesbian-bar-closes-after-more-than-2-decades |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Cafe Des Beaux Arts]] |New York City |New York (state) |United States |1911 |1921 |One of the earliest "ladies bars"<ref name="Marloff-2021" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hankin |first=Kelly |title=The girls in the back room : looking at the lesbian bar |date=2002 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-9356-6 |location=Minneapolis |pages=7 |oclc=133167915}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Murdock |first=Catherine Gilbert |title=Domesticating drink : women, men, and alcohol in America, 1870-1940 |date=1998 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=0-8018-5940-9 |location=Baltimore, Md. |pages=74 |oclc=39195378}}</ref> |- |[[Chances Bar]] |Houston |Texas |United States |1994 |2010 | |- |[[Asbury_Park,_New_Jersey#LGBTQ+_community|Chez-Elle]] |Asbury Park |New Jersey |United States |1965 |1990 |Also known as Chez-L Lounge, opened by a former nun, it was Asbury Park's first "women's club" and a "groundbreaking lesbian nightclub" that was "part of a landmark court case in the 1960s"<ref name="McDonaldM" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pike |first1=Helen-Chantal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RaT7Ip9RXZ8C&q=maggie+hogan |title=Asbury Park's Glory Days: The Story of an American Resort |date=2005 |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |isbn=0813535476 |edition=1st |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |pages=105–106 |chapter=4: The Entertainment Circuits |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2023-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210139/https://books.google.com/books?id=RaT7Ip9RXZ8C&q=maggie+hogan |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gladden |first1=Michelle |date=September 12, 2017 |title=Asbury Angels To Honor Iconic Music Scene Contributors |work=Asbury Park Sun |url=http://asburyparksun.com/asbury-angels-to-honor-iconic-music-scene-contributors/ |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213112119/http://asburyparksun.com/asbury-angels-to-honor-iconic-music-scene-contributors/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=Fall 2017 |title=A 'Monumental' Campaign to Preserve & Protect |url=https://www.aphistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/APHS-Newsletter-Fall-17.pdf |website=Asbury Park Historical Society |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2023-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213112135/https://www.aphistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/APHS-Newsletter-Fall-17.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Chez Madame Arthur]] |[[Montreal]] |Quebec |Canada |1971 |1975 |<ref name="Kirwin-2018"/><ref name="chezmmarthur">{{cite web |last1=Cantwell |first1=Christiane-Marie |title=Chez Madame Arthur |url=https://historicplacesdays.ca/places/chez-madame-arthur/ |website=Historic Places Days |publisher=National Trust for Canada |access-date=13 September 2025}}</ref><ref name="podmore2006">{{cite journal |last1=Podmore |first1=Julie A. |title=Gone 'underground'? Lesbian visibility and the consolidation of queer space in Montre´al |journal=Social & Cultural Geography |date=August 2006 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=595–625 |doi=10.1080/14649360600825737 |url=https://coms324.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/podmore.pdf |access-date=13 September 2025}}</ref> |- |[[Chez Jilly's]] |[[Montreal]] |Quebec |Canada |1970s |1970s |<ref name="Kirwin-2018"/><ref name="podmore2006"/> |- |[[Chi-Chi Club]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1949 |1956 |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Clementina's Baybrick]] |San Francisco, [[South of Market, San Francisco|South of Market]] |California |United States |1982 |1987 |Also known as The Brick, The Bay Brick Inn<ref>{{cite web |date=2020 |title=The Baybrick Inn, Nine Flyers (1985-7) |url=https://www.campbooks.biz/shop/the-baybrick-inn-nine-flyers-1985-7 |access-date=11 October 2021 |website=Camp Books |archive-date=11 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011090456/https://www.campbooks.biz/shop/the-baybrick-inn-nine-flyers-1985-7 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cockrell |first1=Cathy |date=October 2, 1987 |title=Baybrick Era Ends |page=1 |work=[[San Francisco Sentinel]] |url=https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/sfbagals/Sentinal/1987_SFS__Vol15_No40_Oct_02.pdf |access-date=11 October 2021 |archive-date=12 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012160607/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/sfbagals/Sentinal/1987_SFS__Vol15_No40_Oct_02.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Copper Lantern]] |[[North Beach, San Francisco]] |California |United States |1955 |1965 |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Cubbyhole (lesbian bar)|Cubbyhole]] |New York City, [[West Village]] |New York (state) |United States |1994 | |<ref>{{cite web |title=Cubbyhole |url=http://www.cubbyholebar.com/ |accessdate=12 October 2019 |website=cubbyholebar.com |archive-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019070802/http://www.cubbyholebar.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Kravitz">{{cite web |last1=Kravitz |first1=Melissa |date=March 22, 2018 |title=The World's 9 Best Lesbian Bars |url=https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/the-worlds-9-best-lesbian-bars |accessdate=12 October 2019 |website=[[Fodor's Travel]] |archive-date=12 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012122944/https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/the-worlds-9-best-lesbian-bars |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Dani's Queer Bar]] |Boston |Massachusetts |United States |2024 | |On [[Boylston Street]] in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-09-12 |title=Dani's Queer Bar opens in former Pour House location in Boston's Back Bay |url=https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/danis-queer-bar-opens-in-former-pour-house-location-in-bostons-back-bay/3486530/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=[[NBC Boston]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Edwards |first=Tanya |date=2024-09-19 |title=Boston's First Femme Bar in Decades, Dani's Queer Bar, Has Opened |url=https://boston.eater.com/2024/9/19/24249001/danis-queer-bar-boston-opening |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=[[Eater Boston]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cifarelli |first=David |date=2024-09-12 |title=Boston queer bar dedicated to non-binary LGBTQ+ members makes debut |url=https://www.masslive.com/boston/2024/09/boston-queer-bar-dedicated-to-non-binary-lgbtq-members-makes-debut.html |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=[[MassLive]] |language=en}}</ref> |- |[[Dar's Hideaway]] |[[Cupertino, California|Cupertino]] |California |United States |1980s |2000s |<ref name="Queer Silicon Valley">{{Cite web |title=An Insight Into the Bar Scene With Darlene |url=https://www.queersiliconvalley.org/darlene-bar-scene/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624032704/https://www.queersiliconvalley.org/darlene-bar-scene/ |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |website=Queer Silicon Valley}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Dar's Hideaway Patrons 009 |url=https://calisphere.org/item/6edeabd8492bd6bf64fe6abc3a13ba37/ |access-date=2026-01-02 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gay Old Time, Use Your Imagination! |url=https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/papers/metro/12.25.02/nye-gay-0252.html |access-date=2026-01-02 |website=Metro Silicon Valley}}</ref> |- |[[Doc Marie's]] |Portland |Oregon |United States |2022 |2025 | |- |[[Driftwood (bar)|Driftwood]] |Hayward |California |United States | | |Also known as The Driftwood, and Driftwood Lounge<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-11-26 |title=Roller Derby's revival thrills fans |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/11/26/roller-derbys-revival-thrills-fans/ |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=[[East Bay Times]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210325/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/11/26/roller-derbys-revival-thrills-fans/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Hoke" /> |- |[[Dorothy (bar)|Dorothy]] |Chicago |Illinois |United States |2022 | | |- |[[Egyptian Club]] |Portland |Oregon |United States |1995 |2010 | |- |[[Eve's Hangout]] |New York City, [[Greenwich Village]] |New York (state) |United States |1925 |1926 |Also known as Eve Adams's Tearoom<ref>{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Eve Adams' Tearoom |url=https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/eve-addams-tearoom/ |accessdate=5 March 2020 |website=NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project |archive-date=10 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110094939/http://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/eve-addams-tearoom/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Gattuso">{{cite web |last1=Gattuso |first1=Reina |date=September 3, 2019 |title=The Founder of America's Earliest Lesbian Bar Was Deported for Obscenity |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-was-first-gay-bar |accessdate=5 March 2020 |website=[[Atlas Obscura]] |archive-date=5 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505212752/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-was-first-gay-bar |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Femme Bar]] |[[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]] |Massachusetts |United States |2023 | |Located in Worcester's [[Canal District, Worcester|Canal District]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Bates |first=Devin |date=June 27, 2024 |title=Femme Bar sees success as it builds tight-knit community |url=https://spectrumnews1.com/ma/worcester/news/2024/06/27/femme-bar-sees-success-as-it-builds-tight-knit-community- |access-date=April 8, 2026 |publisher=Spectrum News 1}}</ref> |- |[[First Choice/The Night]] |Newark |New Jersey |United States |1980s | |<ref> Sangaline, Isabella. "First Choice/the Night." Clio: Your Guide to History. May 24, 2021. Accessed June 12, 2023. https://www.theclio.com/tour/1873/2</ref> |- |[[Front (bar)|Front]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States | | |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Ginger's (lesbian bar)|Ginger's Bar]] |New York City, [[Brooklyn]] |New York (state) |United States |2000 | |Also known as The G-Spot<ref>{{cite web |title=Ginger's |url=http://nymag.com/listings/bar/gingers/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009113834/http://nymag.com/listings/bar/gingers/ |archivedate=October 9, 2012 |accessdate=12 October 2019 |website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chee |first1=Alexander |date=November 2, 2018 |title=Everything Felt Cursed After Carrie Nation Closed |url=https://punchdrink.com/articles/carrie-nation-gingers-brooklyn-gay-bar-alexander-chee/ |accessdate=12 October 2019 |website=PUNCH |archive-date=12 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012122943/https://punchdrink.com/articles/carrie-nation-gingers-brooklyn-gay-bar-alexander-chee/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[The Grand Union]] |Seattle |Washington |United States |1950s | |<ref name="QueenWomen">{{cite web |title=Queen City Comes Out: Exploring Seattle's Lesbian and Gay History (Women's Bars-Oral Histories) |url=https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/queen-city-comes-out/pioneer-square/womens-bars |access-date=May 30, 2021 |website=Out History It's About Time! |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602212911/https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/queen-city-comes-out/pioneer-square/womens-bars |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Helene's]] |Roselle |New Jersey |United States |1960s | |<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-1960s-lesbian-bar-that-will-haunt.html|title=Legal History Blog: Guest post: The 1960s lesbian bar that will haunt me forever|first=Anna|last=Lvovsky|date=June 14, 2021}}</ref> |- |[[Henrietta Hudson]] |New York City, [[West Village]] |New York (state) |United States |1991 | |<ref>{{cite web |title=Henrietta Hudson |url=http://henriettahudson.com/ |accessdate=12 October 2019 |website=henriettahudson.com |archive-date=18 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018192052/http://henriettahudson.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Kravitz" /><ref>{{cite web |date=2021 |title=About Us: History |url=https://henriettahudson.com/history |access-date=10 May 2021 |website=Henrietta Hudson |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511090105/https://henriettahudson.com/history |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bellamy-Walker |first1=Tat |date=April 29, 2021 |title=Henrietta Hudson Is Returning With a New Look |work=[[Gay City News]] |url=https://www.gaycitynews.com/henrietta-hudson-is-returning-with-a-new-look/ |access-date=11 May 2021 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511094451/https://www.gaycitynews.com/henrietta-hudson-is-returning-with-a-new-look/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Herz (lesbian bar)|Herz]] |Mobile |Alabama |United States |2019 |2023 |<ref name="lesbianbarproject.com" /> |- |[[If Club]] |Los Angeles, [[Koreatown, Los Angeles|Koreatown]] |California |United States |1947 |c. 1940s |The earliest known lesbian bar in Los Angeles, also known as If Cafe.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Ciara |date=2024-11-25 |title=The 2 Official Lesbian Bars in Los Angeles |url=https://queersapphic.com/lesbian-travel/los-angeles-lesbian-bars-la/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=Queersapphic.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The If Club |url=https://one.usc.edu/story/if-club |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=One Archives |publisher=ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries}}</ref> |- |[[Jubilee (bar)|Jubilee]] |Oakland |California |United States | | |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Orenstein |first=Natalie |date=2022-05-04 |title=What it's like to live inside a legendary Oakland lesbian bar |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/05/04/the-jubilee-oakland-lesbian-bar-history |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=Berkeleyside |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927182034/https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/05/04/the-jubilee-oakland-lesbian-bar-history |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Hoke">{{cite web |last1=Hoke |first1=Barbara |title=Lesbian Bars in the San Francisco East Bay |url=http://soulstudioarts.com/tellherstory/Bars.htm |access-date=May 28, 2021 |website=Soul Studio Arts |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214506/http://soulstudioarts.com/tellherstory/Bars.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Just Marion & Lynn's]] |[[Houston]], [[Montrose, Houston|Montrose]] |Texas |United States |1973 |1987 |One of the first lesbian-oriented bars to open in Houston, the bar closed in 1987, one year after one of the founders was murdered<ref>{{cite book |title=Places of Interest to Women, 1985 |publisher=Publications Inc Ferrari, Marianne Ferrari |year=1984 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=M0FCdgqwwu8C&q=%22Just+Marion+%26+Lynn%27s%22+address 127] |quote=Just Marion & Lynn's 817 Fairview}} - [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q= "Just+Marion+%26+Lynn's"+address It was also at 903 Richmond] according to ''Bob Damron's Address Book'', 1987, page 4, and ''Allgo Pasa!: Newsletter of the Austin Latino/a Lesbian & Gay'', 1986, page 2.</ref> |- |[[Kelly's Alamo Club]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States | | |A police raid in 1956 and the arrest of 36 women on charges of "frequenting a house of ill repute" led the [[Daughters of Bilitis]] to publish a guide, "What To Do In Case of Arrest."<ref name="BarRaid">{{cite web |title=Bar Raid in San Francisco |url=https://outhistory.org/items/show/2606 |access-date=May 30, 2021 |website=Outhistory.org |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213546/https://outhistory.org/items/show/2606 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[The Key West Hotel]] |Asbury Park |New Jersey |United States |1981 |1990 |"The 1980’s most popular club for New Jersey lesbians, and possibly the oldest lesbian venue of its kind on the East Coast"<ref>{{cite web |last1=Post |first1=Patricia A. |date=June 2011 |title=Jersey Girls |url=http://www.carolandmickey.com/keywesthotelarticle.html |website=carolandmickey.com |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2023-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213112227/http://www.carolandmickey.com/keywesthotelarticle.html |url-status=live }} (originally published in ''[[Curve (magazine)|Curve]]'' magazine)</ref> "New Jersey’s largest and most happening lesbian club and hotel"<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Staff |date=June 6, 2016 |title=A Reunion Of The Heart, Asbury Park Style |url=https://www.curvemag.com/blog/social/a-reunion-of-the-heart-asbury-park-style/ |magazine=[[Curve (magazine)|Curve]] |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213112227/https://www.curvemag.com/blog/social/a-reunion-of-the-heart-asbury-park-style/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Formerly Owl and Pussycat<ref name="Maffucci">{{cite web |last1=Maffucci |first1=Phyllis |date=April 5, 2017 |title=The Rainbow Room |url=https://asburyinsider.com/the-rainbow-room/ |website=Asbury Insider |access-date=April 16, 2023 |archive-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925220235/https://asburyinsider.com/the-rainbow-room/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> |- |[[The Lexington Club]] |San Francisco, [[Mission District, San Francisco|Mission District]] |California |United States |1997 |2015 |<ref name="Samson">{{Cite web |last1=Samson |first1=JD |date=27 August 2015 |title=The Last Lesbian Bars |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-last-lesbian-bars-apvideo-178/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225075124/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-last-lesbian-bars-apvideo-178 |archive-date=25 December 2016 |access-date=21 March 2017 |website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bieschke |first1=Marke |date=October 23, 2014 |title=Why SF's iconic dyke bar, the Lexington Club, is closing |url=https://48hills.org/2014/10/lexington-club-closing-owner-says-higher-rent-gentrification-gender-inequality-hurt-iconic-lesbian-bar/ |access-date=10 October 2021 |website=48 Hills |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010145601/https://48hills.org/2014/10/lexington-club-closing-owner-says-higher-rent-gentrification-gender-inequality-hurt-iconic-lesbian-bar/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Lipstick Lounge]] |[[East Nashville, Tennessee|East Nashville]] |Tennessee |United States |2002 | |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bianco |first=Marcie |date=2019-02-19 |title=How Some Lesbian Bars Are Surviving (and Thriving) in 2019 |language=en |work=Out |url=https://www.out.com/nightlife/2019/2/19/lesbian-bars-LGBTQ-women-spaces |access-date=2022-01-06}}</ref><ref name="thet">{{Cite news |date=2021-09-10 |title=The Tennessean Lipstick Lounge, East Nashville's lesbian- owned 'bar for humans,' turns 20 |work=The Tennessean |url=https://www.tennessean.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tennessean.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2F2021%2F09%2F10%2Flipstick-lounge-nashvilles-lesbian-owned-bar-humans-turns-20%2F5469361001%2F |access-date=2022-01-06}}</ref><ref name="littman">{{Cite news |last=Littman |first=Margaret |title=Drink Up 2021: Lipstick's Staying Power |language=en |page=2021-07-01 |work=Nashville Scene |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/food_drink/coverstory/drink-up-2021-lipstick-s-staying-power/article_7e695b82-d8f1-11eb-ad65-7f547d319f66.html |access-date=2022-01-06}}</ref> |- |[[Magnolia (bar)|Magnolia]] |[[Montreal]] |Quebec |Canada |1990s | |"One of the greats."<ref name="Kirwin-2018" /> |- |[[Marsha's]] |Philadelphia |Pennsylvania |United States |2025 | |Marketed as a "queer women's sports bar," rather than specifically a lesbian bar.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beltran |first1=Alana |title=Philadelphia's first queer women's sports bar to open this summer |url=https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/marshas-philadelphia-first-queer-womens-sports-bar-summer-2025/4219842/ |access-date=26 April 2026 |work=NBC10 Philadelphia |date=26 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kariuki |first1=Nick |title=Marsha’s, Philly’s first women’s sports bar, opens this week |url=https://billypenn.com/2025/09/11/marshas-south-street-chivonn-anderson-opening/ |access-date=26 April 2026 |work=Billy penn |publisher=[[WHYY-TV|WHYY]] |date=11 September 2025}}</ref> |- |[[Mary’s First and Last Chance]] |Oakland |California |United States |{{Circa|1948}} |1956 |Closed in 1958 for "catering to lesbians", but the bar challenged the ruling in the State Supreme Court and won in 1959.<ref name="Flanagan">{{cite news |last1=Flanagan |first1=Michael |date=March 15, 2015 |title=Barchive: Once Upon a Time in Oaktown |publisher=[[Bay Area Reporter]] |url=https://www.ebar.com/entertainment/culture/173481 |url-status=live |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215042/https://www.ebar.com/entertainment/culture/173481 |archive-date=June 2, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Courtsex">{{cite news |date=January 12, 1960 |title=Court's Sex Edict Fought |publisher=[[San Francisco Examiner]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-courts-sex-e/123062298/ |url-status=live |access-date=May 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418000618/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-courts-sex-e/123062298/ |archive-date=April 18, 2023}}</ref> |- |[[Mary’s Tower]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1953 |1967 |<ref name="BoydCastro" /> |- |[[Maud's (bar)|Maud's]] |San Francisco, [[Cole Valley, San Francisco|Cole Valley]] |California |United States |1966 |1989 |<ref>{{cite web |date=1994 |title=Last Call at Maud's (documentary) |url=http://lastcallatmauds.com/ |access-date=10 October 2021 |website=Last Call at Maud's |archive-date=14 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814210426/http://lastcallatmauds.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Block |first1=Jenny |date=November 9, 2018 |title='Last Call At Maud's' – The Documentary That Preserved the Last Drop of Our Lesbian History |url=https://www.afterellen.com/general-news/566275-last-call-at-mauds-the-documentary-that-preserved-the-last-drop-of-our-lesbian-history |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110031348/https://www.afterellen.com/general-news/566275-last-call-at-mauds-the-documentary-that-preserved-the-last-drop-of-our-lesbian-history |archive-date=November 10, 2018 |access-date=10 October 2021 |website=[[AfterEllen]]}}</ref><ref name="Lipsky2020" /><ref name="Goldthorpe1981" /> |- |[[Miss Smith's Tea Room]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1954 |1960 |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Mona's 440 Club]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1936 |1950s |Sold in the mid-1950s to a former employee, and was renamed "Ann's 440 Club" and then no longer served as a lesbian bar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mona's 440 Club "Where Girls Will Be Boys" - 440 Broadway |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=116012 |website=Historical Marker Database |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2023-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414184435/https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=116012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stabile |first=Michael |date=September 20, 2013 |title=12 Bars That Made San Francisco Gay, In Chronological Order |url=http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2013/04/22/12-bars-made-san-francisco-gay-chronological-order |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905234744/http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2013/04/22/12-bars-made-san-francisco-gay-chronological-order |archive-date=September 5, 2014 |website=Out (magazine)}}</ref> |- |[[Mona’s Candle Light Room]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1948 |1957 |Later it changed and became the Club Gala, the Jazz Workshop, Burp Hollow, and the Dixie Land Jazz.<ref name="BoydCastro" /> |- |[[Mother Bar]] |San Francisco, [[Mission District, San Francisco|Mission District]] |California |United States |2023 | |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cassell |first=Heather |date=April 11, 2023 |title=Mother's day: new women's bar at the former Esta Noche |url=https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=bartab&sc=bars&id=324424 |work=The Bay Area Reporter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Balakrishnan |first=Eleni |date=2023-01-28 |title=After 8 years, the Mission gets a women-centric, queer neighborhood bar |url=http://missionlocal.org/2023/01/sf-gets-mother-femme-centric-queer-bar/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=Mission Local |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |[[My Sister's Room]] |Atlanta |Georgia (state) |United States |1996 | |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-01 |title=Few lesbian bars remain in the U.S. Will they survive COVID-19? |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/few-lesbian-bars-remain-u-s-will-they-survive-covid-n1196891 |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> |- |[[Ollie's (bar)|Ollie's]] |Oakland |California |United States |1981 |1991 |<ref name="Hoke" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Swan |first=Rachel |date=2016-03-08 |title=Darlene Oliveira, colorful figure in LBGT community, dies |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Darlene-Oliveira-colorful-figure-in-LBGT-6875924.php |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=[[SFGATE]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405085338/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Darlene-Oliveira-colorful-figure-in-LBGT-6875924.php |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Our Club]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States | | |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Page 3 (bar)|Page 3]] |New York City, [[Greenwich Village]] |New York (state) |United States |mid-1950s |mid-1960s |<ref name="hughryan/lesbian-for-mafia"> *{{cite news |last1=Ryan |first1=Hugh |title=Back in the Day, Lesbian Drag Kings Worked for the Mafia |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/when-drag-kings-ruled-alongside-the-mafia-235/ |access-date=19 September 2023 |work=VICE .com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706213338/https://www.vice.com/read/when-drag-kings-ruled-alongside-the-mafia-235 |archive-date=6 July 2015 |url-status=live |language=en-us}} *{{cite web |last1=Ryan |first1=Hugh |author1-link=Hugh Ryan |title=Back in the Day, Lesbian Drag Kings Worked for the Mafia |url=https://www.hughryan.org/recent-work/2015/8/3/back-in-the-day-lesbian-drag-kings-worked-for-the-mafia |quote=on the corner of Charles Street and Seventh Avenue |website=Hugh Ryan .org |access-date=19 September 2023 |date=3 August 2015}} *{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Lisa E. |title=Under the Mink |date=2001 |publisher=Alyson Books |isbn=978-1-55583-556-9 |url= |language=en}} </ref> |- |[[The Palms (bar)|The Palms]] |West Hollywood |California |United States |1960s |2013 |<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 5, 2013 |title=The Palms Is Closing, Leaving West Hollywood Without A Single Lesbian Bar |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-palms-closing-lesbian-bar_n_3392667 |access-date=8 October 2020 |website=[[HuffPost]] |archive-date=22 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322033556/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-palms-closing-lesbian-bar_n_3392667 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Paper Doll Club|Paper Doll]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1949 |1961 |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=Winter 2010 |title=The Semaphore, Issue 189 |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/50425211/issue-189-winter-2010-telegraph-hill-dwellers |access-date=2023-04-14 |publisher=Telegraph Hill Dwellers |pages=16–18, 23 |language=en |via=yumpu.com |archive-date=2023-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414203706/https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/50425211/issue-189-winter-2010-telegraph-hill-dwellers |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[The Pearl Bar]] |Houston |Texas |United States |2013 | |"only lesbian bar in the Bayou City, one of two in Texas and one of 16 in the nation"<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Dellinger |first1=Hannah |date=September 15, 2020 |title=Pearl Bar gets preservation grant during pandemic |work=[[Houston Chronicle]] |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Pearl-Bar-gets-preservation-grant-during-pandemic-15569523.php |access-date=8 October 2020 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927082210/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Pearl-Bar-gets-preservation-grant-during-pandemic-15569523.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McKenzie |first=Zachary |date=2023-03-02 |title=Julie Mabry's Pearl Bar is one of the few remaining lesbian bars in the US. |url=https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2023/03/mother-of-pearl/ |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=[[OutSmart]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310230831/https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2023/03/mother-of-pearl/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=FLETCHER Announces 'Meet Her At The Bar' Shows At Women-Owned Queer Bars |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fletcher-announces-meet-her-bar-190727272.html |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=Yahoo Entertainment |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626124242/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fletcher-announces-meet-her-bar-190727272.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=17 June 2022 |title=Pearl Bar: The only lesbian bar in Houston |url=https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-pearl-lesbian-bar/285-b00a9e1b-64e4-41bb-833c-3bde4c124ddf |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=khou.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621091755/https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-pearl-lesbian-bar/285-b00a9e1b-64e4-41bb-833c-3bde4c124ddf |url-status=live }}</ref> Profiled in a documentary by the [[Lesbian Bar Project]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-27 |title=Why Pearl Houston is the perfect place to celebrate Pride |url=https://abc13.com/pearl-bar-julie-mabry-houston-lesbian/10817008/ |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=ABC13 Houston |language=en |archive-date=2022-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202070512/https://abc13.com/pearl-bar-julie-mabry-houston-lesbian/10817008/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-18 |title='The Lesbian Bar Project' Is an Important, Inspiring Series That Could Have Used Less SponCon |url=https://jezebel.com/the-lesbian-bar-project-is-an-important-inspiring-seri-1849655537 |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=Jezebel |language=en |archive-date=2022-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202232621/https://jezebel.com/the-lesbian-bar-project-is-an-important-inspiring-seri-1849655537 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=26 June 2021 |title=The last lesbian bars struggle to survive, advocates say, putting landmarks of queer history in danger |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/lesbian-bars-struggle-survive-advocates-putting-landmarks-queer/story?id=77923111 |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=ABC News |language=en |archive-date=2021-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629161444/https://abcnews.go.com/US/lesbian-bars-struggle-survive-advocates-putting-landmarks-queer/story?id=77923111 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Peg's Place (bar)|Peg's Place]] |San Francisco, [[Richmond District, San Francisco|Richmond District]] |California |United States |1950s |1988 |The site of a 1979 [[Lesbophobia|lesbophobic]] attack by off-duty members of the [[San Francisco Police Department|S.F.P.D]].<ref>{{cite web |date=August 9, 2014 |title=Peg's Place |url=https://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2014/08/pegs-place.html |access-date=10 October 2021 |website=Lost Womyn's Space |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010104317/https://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2014/08/pegs-place.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Palmieri |first1=Brooke |date=August 30, 2019 |title=Homophobia/Resistance at Peg's Place |url=https://www.campbooks.biz/archive/2019/8/30/homophobiaresistance-at-pegs-place |access-date=10 October 2021 |website=Camp Books |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010103804/https://www.campbooks.biz/archive/2019/8/30/homophobiaresistance-at-pegs-place |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Phase One (bar)|Phase One]] |Atlanta |Georgia (state) |United States |2010s | |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Phase One |url=https://www.ellgeebe.com/en/destinations/north-america/united-states/atlanta/nightlife/phase-one |access-date=9 October 2020 |website=ellgeeBE |archive-date=3 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203070955/https://www.ellgeebe.com/en/destinations/north-america/united-states/atlanta/nightlife/phase-one |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Phase One (Closed Permanently) |url=https://atlanta.gaycities.com/bars/3157-phase-one |access-date=16 January 2023 |website=GayCities |archive-date=16 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116095442/https://atlanta.gaycities.com/bars/3157-phase-one |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Phase 1 (bar)|Phase 1]] |Washington, D.C. | |United States |1970 |2016 |The oldest continually operating lesbian bar in the country when it closed.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chibbaro Jr. |first1=Lou |date=April 6, 2017 |title=Sale of Phase 1 ends 45-year run of lesbian bar |work=[[Washington Blade]] |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/04/06/sale-phase-1-ends-45-year-run-lesbian-bar/ |accessdate=11 January 2020 |archive-date=11 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111140609/https://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/04/06/sale-phase-1-ends-45-year-run-lesbian-bar/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Redz Bar]] |Los Angeles, [[Boyle Heights, Los Angeles|Boyle Heights]] |California |United States |1950s | 2015 |Originally known as Redheads, it catered to working class Latina lesbians.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-09 |title=15 Places in L.A. Where LGBTQ History Was Made |url=https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/la-queer-history/15-places-in-l-a-where-lgbtq-history-was-made |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=PBS SoCal |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |[[Roselle Inn]] |Chicago |Illinois |United States | |1935 |Also known as Rose-El-Inn, one of the earliest lesbian bars.<ref name="Marloff-2021">{{Cite web |last=Marloff |first=Sarah |date=21 January 2021 |title=The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-and-fall-americas-lesbian-bars-180976801/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=[[Smithsonian Magazine]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414191010/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-and-fall-americas-lesbian-bars-180976801/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Shut down by police in 1935.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fleeson |first=Lucinda |date=27 June 2007 |title=The Gay '30s |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/November-2005/The-Gay-30S/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=[[Chicago Magazine]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211004954/https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/november-2005/the-gay-30s/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tracy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJEU4xYiWEEC&pg=PA45 |title=Out and Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City's Gay Community |date=2009-03-01 |publisher=Agate Publishing |isbn=978-1-57284-643-2 |pages=45 |language=en}}</ref> |- |[[Sappho's Tavern]] |Seattle |Washington |United States |1950s | |<ref name="QueenWomen" /> |- |[[The Savoy (bar)|The Savoy]] |Santa Clara |California |United States |1984 |2009 |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-02 |title=Claudia and the Savoy |url=https://www.queersiliconvalley.org/claudia-and-the-savoy/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021180853/https://www.queersiliconvalley.org/claudia-and-the-savoy/ |archive-date=October 21, 2021 |access-date=2026-01-02 |website=Queer Silicon Valley |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Queer Silicon Valley" /> |- |[[Scott’s Pit]] |San Francisco |California |United States |1970 |1984 |The first lesbian biker bar in San Francisco; home of brawls and poetry readings.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boyd |first=Nan Alamilla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lpRUGTMCBukC |title=Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 |date=2003-05-23 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-93874-8 |language=en |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2023-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416222138/https://books.google.com/books/about/Wide_Open_Town.html?id=lpRUGTMCBukC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gayest Buildings in America most important to LGBT History |url=https://www.californiahomedesign.com/house-tours/gayest-buildings-america/slide/5728 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314045448/https://www.californiahomedesign.com/house-tours/gayest-buildings-america/slide/5728 |archive-date=March 14, 2014 |website=California Home + Design |publisher=Chronicle Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sides |first=Josh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLZCBMtH5SgC |title=Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco |date=2009-10-19 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-970339-5 |pages=119 |language=en |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2023-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414195611/https://books.google.com/books?id=WLZCBMtH5SgC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rivers |first=Daniel Winunwe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ya0qAAAAQBAJ |title=Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II |date=2013-09-03 |publisher=UNC Press Books |isbn=978-1-4696-0719-1 |pages=84 |language=en |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2023-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210139/https://books.google.com/books?id=ya0qAAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[The Silver Slipper]] |Seattle |Washington |United States |1970s | |<ref name="QueenWomen" /><ref name="70sQueenCity">{{cite web |title=Queen City Comes Out: Exploring Seattle's Lesbian and Gay History (1970s) |url=https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/queen-city-comes-out/pioneer-square/1970s |access-date=May 30, 2021 |website=Outhistory.org |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213105/https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/queen-city-comes-out/pioneer-square/1970s |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Sisters (bar)|Sisters]] |Philadelphia |Pennsylvania |United States | |2013 |<ref>{{cite news |last1=Webb |first1=Molly |date=August 13, 2013 |title=Philly Loses Another Nightlife Staple as Sisters Shuts its Doors |work=[[Curbed|Curbed Philadelphia]] |url=https://philly.curbed.com/2013/8/13/10208828/philly-loses-another-nightlife-staple-as-sisters-shuts-its-doors |access-date=29 December 2019 |archive-date=29 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229025053/https://philly.curbed.com/2013/8/13/10208828/philly-loses-another-nightlife-staple-as-sisters-shuts-its-doors |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Eichel |first1=Molly |date=August 12, 2013 |title=Sisters Nightclub closes |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/music_nightlife/Sisters-Nightclub-closes.html |accessdate=29 December 2019 |archive-date=26 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026185604/https://www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/music_nightlife/Sisters-Nightclub-closes.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Slammers]] |Columbus |Ohio |United States |1993 | |<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=Erica |date=April 12, 2021 |title=Slammers, one of 15 lesbian bars left in U.S., weathers pandemic, cultural shifts in Columbus |work=[[The Columbus Dispatch]] |url=https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2021/04/12/columbus-slammers-among-few-remaining-lesbian-bars-u-s/7114853002/ |access-date=20 September 2021 |archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129114246/https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2021/04/12/columbus-slammers-among-few-remaining-lesbian-bars-u-s/7114853002/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Sue Ellen's]] |Dallas |Texas |United States |1989 | |<ref>{{cite web |last1=Khuu |first1=Lily |date=May 24, 2019 |title=Sue Ellen's: One of the last lesbian bars standing |url=https://www.afterellen.com/people/545901-sue-ellens-one-last-lesbian-bars-standing |accessdate=27 December 2019 |website=[[AfterEllen]] |archive-date=11 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011102257/https://www.afterellen.com/people/545901-sue-ellens-one-last-lesbian-bars-standing |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Freedman |first1=Pete |date=March 27, 2008 |title=Sue Ellen's Is Closing...So It Can Move |work=[[Dallas Observer]] |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/sue-ellens-is-closingso-it-can-move-7072225 |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-date=October 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012234630/https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/sue-ellens-is-closingso-it-can-move-7072225 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Summit Station (lesbian bar)|Summit Station]] |Columbus |Ohio |United States |1971 |2008 |Ohio's oldest and longest-running lesbian bar<ref>{{cite web |title=Summit Station |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=225720 |website=The Historical Marker Database |access-date=17 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Vitale |first1=Bob |title=More Than a Bar: 15 Years After Last Call, Summit Station Gains a Historical Marker |url=https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/lifestyle/around-town/2023/06/07/long-running-columbus-lesbian-bar-summit-station-gains-a-historical-marker/70300160007/ |access-date=17 September 2025 |work=Columbus Monthly |date=June 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Tracer |first1=Dan |title=New Documentary Honors Ohio's First And Longest-Running Lesbian Bar |url=https://gomag.com/article/new-documentary-honors-ohios-first-and-longest-running-lesbian-bar/ |access-date=17 September 2025 |work=Go Magazine |publisher=Modern Spin Media, LLC |date=September 8, 2025}}</ref> |- |[[Tin Angel (San Francisco, California)|Tin Angel]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |1953 |1961 |<ref name="BoydCastro" /><ref name="Shaw" /> |- |[[Toasted Walnut]] |Philadelphia |Pennsylvania |United States |2015 |2021 |<ref>{{Cite web |title=With closure of Philly's only lesbian bar, we lose another safe space for queer women &#124; Opinion |date=3 March 2021 |url=https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/toasted-walnut-lesbian-bar-closing-philadelphia-20210303.html |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611235611/https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/toasted-walnut-lesbian-bar-closing-philadelphia-20210303.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Brandon |date=August 12, 2015 |title=Former Sisters Nightclub manager to open Toasted Walnut Bar & Kitchen on Walnut Street |work=PhillyVoice |url=https://www.phillyvoice.com/former-sisters-nightclub-toasted-walnut/ |accessdate=4 May 2020 |archive-date=12 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612002120/https://www.phillyvoice.com/former-sisters-nightclub-toasted-walnut/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Andrews-Spicer |first1=Taylor |date=March 30, 2017 |title=LGBTQ: Toasted Walnut Brings the 'L' Back to LGBTQ |work=Philadelphia Neighborhoods |publisher=[[Temple University|Klein College of Media and Communication]] |url=https://philadelphianeighborhoods.com/2017/03/30/lgbtq-toasted-walnut-brings-the-l-back-to-lgbtq/ |accessdate=4 May 2020 |archive-date=30 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430131245/https://philadelphianeighborhoods.com/2017/03/30/lgbtq-toasted-walnut-brings-the-l-back-to-lgbtq/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Winberg |first1=Michaela |date=February 18, 2021 |title=Philly's only lesbian bar is shutting down, adding to a somber nationwide trend |url=https://billypenn.com/2021/02/18/lesbian-bar-philadelphia-closing-toasted-walnut-gayborhood-gofundme-denise-cohen/ |access-date=16 June 2021 |website=Billy Penn |publisher=[[WHYY-TV|WHYY]] |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195725/https://billypenn.com/2021/02/18/lesbian-bar-philadelphia-closing-toasted-walnut-gayborhood-gofundme-denise-cohen/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Tommy's Place/12 Adler Place]] |San Francisco, [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] |California |United States |late 1940s |1955 |<ref name="BoydCastro">{{cite web |last1=Boyd |first1=Dick |date=2010 |title=Before the Castro: North Beach, a Gay Mecca |url=https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Before_the_Castro:_North_Beach,_a_Gay_Mecca |access-date=28 May 2021 |website=Foundsf.com |archive-date=18 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018190310/https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Before_the_Castro:_North_Beach,_a_Gay_Mecca |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Shaw">{{Cite book |last=Shaw |first=Randy |title=The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco |publisher=Urban Reality Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780692327234 |location=San Francisco, CA |pages=1–100}}</ref> |- |[[Val's Lesbian Bar]] |Philadelphia |Pennsylvania |United States |2026 | |Philadelphia's first brick-and-mortar lesbian bar since the COVID-19 related closure of Toasted Walnut in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rizzo |first1=Emily |title=Welcome to Lezborhood: Val’s, Philly’s newest lesbian bar, is finally open |url=https://www.inquirer.com/food/vals-lesbian-bar-philadelphia-20260320.html |access-date=26 April 2026 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=20 March 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hunt |first1=Kristin |title=Val's owners say opening Philly's only lesbian bar comes with a 'big sense of responsibility' |url=https://www.phillyvoice.com/vals-lesbian-bar-philly-opening/ |access-date=26 April 2026 |work=Philly Voice |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=18 March 2026}}</ref> |- |[[Walker's Pint]] |[[Milwaukee]] |Wisconsin |United States |2001 | |"Wisconsin's last lesbian bar"<ref>{{cite web |last1=Horne |first1=Michael |date=May 11, 2018 |title=Walker's Pint Is City's Oldest Lesbian Bar |url=https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/05/11/bar-exam-walkers-pint-is-citys-oldest-lesbian-bar/ |access-date=3 September 2021 |website=Urban Milwaukee |archive-date=3 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903095151/https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/05/11/bar-exam-walkers-pint-is-citys-oldest-lesbian-bar/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Ten Eyck Everyqueer" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Noennig |first=Jordyn |title='It's open to everybody': Bet-z Boenning has created a safe space for the LGBT+ community for decades at Walker's Pint |url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2021/06/09/walkers-pint-bar-milwaukee-has-been-friendly-place-for-lgbtq-people/5027341001/ |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=Journal Sentinel |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205074459/https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2021/06/09/walkers-pint-bar-milwaukee-has-been-friendly-place-for-lgbtq-people/5027341001/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-28 |title=Wisconsin's Last Lesbian Bar |url=https://www.milwaukeemag.com/wisconsins-last-lesbian-bar-is-in-milwaukee/ |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=Milwaukee Magazine |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128073851/https://www.milwaukeemag.com/wisconsins-last-lesbian-bar-is-in-milwaukee/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cruising {{!}} A Lesbian Bar Road Trip: Stop #7: Walker's Pint {{!}} Milwaukee, WI on Apple Podcasts |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stop-7-walkers-pint-milwaukee-wi/id1585850925?i=1000546760350 |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=Apple Podcasts |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210135/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stop-7-walkers-pint-milwaukee-wi/id1585850925?i=1000546760350 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fluid, Walkers Pint make their mark in Milwaukee's 'gayborhood' |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/baseball_mlb_videos/fluid-walkers-pint-make-their-mark-in-milwaukees-gayborhood/vp-AAYyL07 |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=MSN |date=16 June 2022 |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210147/https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/baseball_mlb_videos/fluid-walkers-pint-make-their-mark-in-milwaukees-gayborhood/vp-AAYyL07 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=11 of the best lesbian bars in the US |url=https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/best-lesbian-bars-us |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=Lonely Planet |language=en |archive-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326111706/https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/best-lesbian-bars-us |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Wild Side West]] |San Francisco, [[Bernal Heights, San Francisco|Bernal Heights]] |California |United States |1962 | |<ref name="Wildside">{{cite web |date=2021 |title=Wild Side West |url=https://www.wildsidewest.com/ |access-date=May 28, 2021 |website=Wildsidewest.com |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213054/https://www.wildsidewest.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=April 20, 2014 |title=Taking a walk in SF's Wild Side West bar |work=[[San Francisco Examiner]] |url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/features/taking-a-walk-in-sfs-wild-side-west-bar/ |access-date=10 October 2021 |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010120242/https://www.sfexaminer.com/features/taking-a-walk-in-sfs-wild-side-west-bar/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jaffie |first1=Karin |date=August 24, 2017 |title=The History and the Mystery of San Francisco's Wild Side West |work=[[San Francisco Bay Times]] |url=http://sfbaytimes.com/history-mystery-san-franciscos-wild-side-west/ |access-date=10 October 2021 |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010115244/http://sfbaytimes.com/history-mystery-san-franciscos-wild-side-west/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[The Wildrose (bar)|The Wildrose]] |Seattle |Washington |United States |1984 | |A long running lesbian bar on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]].<ref name="wild-rose">{{Cite news |last1=Brownstone |first1=Sydney |date=June 21, 2017 |title=My First Time at the Wildrose |work=[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] |url=https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2017/2017/06/21/25227858/my-first-time-at-the-wildrose |accessdate=23 August 2018 |archive-date=21 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921061852/https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2017/2017/06/21/25227858/my-first-time-at-the-wildrose |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Kravitz" /> |- |[[XX+]] |Washington, D.C. | |United States |2018 |closed |<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=Eboné |date=20 July 2018 |title=XX+ Provides Another Space for D.C.'s LGBTQ Wome |url=https://taggmagazine.com/xx-lina-nicolai/ |access-date=12 May 2021 |website=Tagg Magazine |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511034239/https://taggmagazine.com/xx-lina-nicolai/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |}

== South America == {{Expand section|date=June 2023}} {| class="wikitable sortable" !Bar !City !Country !Year opened !Year closed !Notes |- |[[Bach Bar]] |Buenos Aires |Argentina | | |Oldest lesbian bar in Buenos Aires<ref name="Mills-MoonBA">{{cite book |last1=Mills |first1=Nicholas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2wRSDQAAQBAJ&q=%22Bach+bar%22&pg=PT202 |title=Moon Buenos Aires |date=2017 |publisher=[[Avalon Travel]] |isbn=978-1631212864 |edition=1st |location=Berkeley, California |page=134 |access-date=2023-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417210134/https://books.google.com/books?id=2wRSDQAAQBAJ&q=%22Bach+bar%22&pg=PT202 |archive-date=2023-04-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> |} ==References== {{reflist}}

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