Rachel Karp Went to EVERY Lesbian Bar in America | WHGS Ep. 326

We're Having Gay Sex

Ashley Gavin & Studio71

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This episode is going out tonight, listener! Rachel Karp is a writer, producer, and lesbian bar expert who has been documenting the history of sapphic nightlife in America, but today she’s in the sapphic space of Ashley’s apartment — and we’re doin’ BODY SHOTS! We discuss lesbian history through the lens of queer bars, the characters and stories found in them, age-gap relationships, and kissing your wife for the first time at a queer sex party. Ashley realizes she can get head. Lizzy ponders queer vs. gay. SUPPORT RACHEL: Read “The Lesbian Bar Chronicles” right NOW: https://www.rachelbkarp.com/ Listen to her podcast, “Cruising,” wherever you listen: https://www.rachelbkarp.com/podcasts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.karp/ FOLLOW ASHLEY GAVIN @ashgavs TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ashgavscomedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashgavs/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ashgavs Twitter: https://twitter.com/ashgavs Tour Dates & Newsletter: https://www.ashleygavin.com/#dates FOLLOW LIZZY CASSIDY @lizzycassidy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lizzycassidycomedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizzycassidy/ Twitter: https://x.com/lizzaster Tour Dates & Podcasts: https://linktr.ee/lizzycassidy FOLLOW ALEX VRAHAS @alvrahas Mailing List: https://forms.gle/t48AUUEYzrNagU1B9 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvrahas/ SUPPORT OUR PODCAST: Watch this UNCUT: https://www.patreon.com/WHGS Merch: https://shop.merchcentral.com/collections/ashley-gavin Watch on this YouTube: https://youtu.be/SutaDh61tpQ ______________________________________________ SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: FACTOR: Use code GAY50OFF to get 50% OFF + free daily greens at https://www.factormeals.com/gay50off HERS: Get personalized and affordable care at https://www.forhers.com/gay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was like late 2020, early 2021, where there were all these news headlines coming out about how few lesbian bars there were in the country.
0:08.5	And I was just like, what if we'd go to them and talk to people inside of them?
0:14.1	We knew going into it that we were going to get a lot of history, queer history, through the lens of these spaces.
0:20.1	But something that
0:21.9	kind of stood out was just like how recent queer history and queer people not having rights
0:28.8	is in our history. And how just, I don't know, visceral that is when you like go into, especially
0:34.6	in some of these like kind of smaller town bars like so many personal
0:38.3	stories and so tangible.
0:52.3	Listen, I know you love yourself a lesbian bar, a sapphic space.
0:56.6	And we have probably the premier expert of sapphic spaces.
1:01.8	Rachel Karp on the podcast today, the author of the lesbian bar chronicles, and the producer of the cruising podcast.
1:12.3	So much fun.
1:14.4	We talk a lot about lesbian bars and history,
1:18.8	but also, again, as always,
1:21.1	some good old-fashioned gay sex stories.
1:24.4	And a good discussion about queer versus gay and the cultural meanings of those labels.
1:31.8	I think you guys will enjoy it.
1:34.2	And then Patreon.com slash WHES because like lesbian bars, lesbian pods need to be supported.
1:44.6	Okay?
1:45.2	So donate a dollar.
1:47.7	One singular dollar a month.
1:51.3	It really helps.
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