How to Find a Lesbian Bar

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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Did you know that San Francisco, aka America’s queer capital, is currently home to ZERO bars exclusively for queer women? Ditto for Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, New Orleans, and a growing number of cities around the country. So why have lesbian bars become an endangered nightlife species? Caroline and Cristen explore their complex cocktail of historical and cultural impacts and hear from y'all about what it means for communities when these near-and-dear, queer watering holes dry up.

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0:00.0	I could tell that man and be like, do you have any idea where you are?
0:11.0	Like get the fuck away.
0:12.0	Like you're in a lesbian bar in San Francisco.
0:16.1	There's dicks everywhere.
0:17.1	There's lesbians.
0:18.1	There's charners.
0:19.1	Gay men like it was this beautiful space where I was given permission to like tell us
0:28.0	straight dudes to fuck off.
0:29.5	Welcome to Unladily Life.
0:47.7	The show that finds out what happens when women break the rules and go to the bar.
0:52.3	I'm Caroline and I'm Kristen.
0:54.4	And that voicemail you just heard was from Unladily Life listener Cassandra.
0:58.6	She was one of many who answered a call that we put out for stories about favorite
1:02.7	lesbian bars.
1:03.9	So thank y'all.
1:05.7	And the particular bar that Cassandra called us about was the Lexington Club.
1:10.6	It was pretty much a queer institution in San Francisco, a magical sounding place where
1:15.2	you could safely tell straight guys to just fuck off.
1:18.5	And that's actually where we're going for this episode to that magical, teeny tiny dive
1:24.3	bar.
1:25.3	The Lexington Club was the size of a postage stamp.
1:28.3	I think also with the word club on the end, people often thought it would maybe be bigger,
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