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You can get in touch with Monica by emailing m. Languages: English. Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Femme seems, from the outset, just like any other suburban Massachusetts watering hole.

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There's TVs, a row of barstools, a long bar and plenty of tables for patrons to enjoy a craft-made cocktail and a gluten-free flatbread. Maire Geoghegan likes to go to Femme, outside Boston in the city of Worcester, for drinks and food with her friends and gay. They club enjoy the femmes and bingo nights.

Femme is one of only 32 lesbian bars left in the United States. It's the only one currently serving New England. Lesbian bars have been on the decline since the s, when they numbered around In the aughts, Phoenix alone was home to nearly half a dozen. As ofBoycott Bar is the only one left — not just in Phoenix, but in the entire state of Arizona.

InErica Rose and Elina Street started a campaign to document all of the remaining lesbian bars in the country in response to their dwindling numbers. Their brainchild, which they called the Lesbian Bar Project, launched as a way to financially support lesbian bars across the country at the start of the pandemic, femme stay-at-home orders threatened to obliterate the hospitality industry.

Into mark National Coming Out Day, the Lesbian Bar Project released an eponymous three-part docuseries on the Roku Channel, with each episode focusing on a different establishment. It went on to win an Emmy. Since the project was first launched, a handful of new lesbian bars have popped up around the U.

As Geoghegan put it, "lesbian bars are not for the male gaze. But most lesbian bars, she said, don't use "lesbian" as their main identifier, and also market themselves toward queer, intersex, nonbinary and transgender patrons. King Smith said that today, white cis-gender gay men "have all of the privileges" that white straight men have.

That is why King Smith said lesbian bars "better represent" the space the community wants to see. While Falb could walk a few blocks to Femme, they said other patrons would drive multiple gay club to be in a space that felt welcoming.