Bar | City | Country | Year opened | Year closed | Notes |
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A League of Her Own | Washington, D.C. | United States | 2018 | | [32] |
| San Francisco, California | United States | 1980s | | [33] [34] [35] [36] |
Amelia's | Mission District, San Francisco, California | United States | 1978 | 1991 | [37] [38] [39] |
The Anxious Asp | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1958 | 1967 | |
Artist's Club | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1946 | 1949 | |
As You Are Bar | Washington, D.C. | United States | | | [40] [41] |
Babes of Carytown | Richmond, Virginia | United States | 1979 | | [42] |
Babiana Club Less | Mexico City | Mexico | 2013 | | [43] [44] |
BabyFace Disco | Montreal | Canada | 1960s (late) | | First lesbian bar in Montreal[45] |
Bachanal | Albany, California | United States | | | [46] |
Beaded Bag | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | | | |
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[47] [48] |
Blanco's | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1943 | mid-1950s | also known as Blanco's Tavern |
Blush & Blu | Denver, Colorado | United States | 2012 | | |
Bum Bum Bar | Queens, New York City | United States | 1990s (early) | 2018 | [49] [50] |
Cafe Des Beaux Arts | New York City, New York | United States | 1911 | 1921 | One of the earliest "ladies bars"[51] [52] |
Chances Bar | Houston, Texas | United States | 1994 | 2010 | |
| 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"[53] [54] [55] |
Chi-Chi Club | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1949 | 1956 | |
| South of Market, San Francisco, California | United States | 1982 | 1987 | also known as The Brick, The Bay Brick Inn[56] [57] |
Copper Lantern | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1955 | 1965 | |
Cubbyhole | West Village, New York City | United States | 1994 | | [58] [59] |
Doc Marie's | Portland, Oregon | United States | 2022 | | |
Driftwood | Hayward, California | United States | | | Also known as The Driftwood, and Driftwood Lounge[60] |
Dorothy | Chicago, Illinois | United States | 2022 | | |
Egyptian Club | Portland, Oregon | United States | 1995 | 2010 | |
| Greenwich Village, New York City | United States | 1925 | 1926 | Also known as Eve Adams's Tearoom[61] [62] |
First Choice/The Night | Newark, New Jersey | United States | 1980s | | [63] |
Front | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | | | |
| Brooklyn, New York City | United States | 2000 | | Also known as The G-Spot[64] [65] |
The Grand Union | Seattle, Washington | United States | 1950s | | [66] |
Helene's | Roselle, New Jersey | United States | 1960s | | [67] |
Henrietta Hudson | West Village, New York City | United States | 1991 | | [68] [69] [70] |
Herz | Mobile, Alabama | United States | 2019 | 2023 | |
Jubilee | Oakland, California | United States | | | [71] [72] |
| North Beach, San Francisco, 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."[73] |
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"[74] "New Jersey’s largest and most happening lesbian club and hotel"[75] Formerly Owl and Pussycat[76] |
The Lexington Club | Mission District, San Francisco, California | United States | 1997 | 2015 | [77] [78] |
Magnolia | Montreal | Canada | 1990s | | "One of the greats." |
Mary’s First and Last Chance | Oakland, California | United States | | 1956 | Closed in 1958 for "catering to lesbians", but the bar challenged the ruling in the State Supreme Court and won in 1959.[79] [80] |
Mary’s Tower | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1953 | 1967 | |
Maud's | Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California | United States | 1966 | 1989 | [81] [82] |
Miss Smith's Tea Room | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1954 | 1960 | |
Mona's 440 Club | North Beach, San Francisco, 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.[83] [84] |
Mona’s Candle Light Room | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1948 | 1957 | Later it changed and became the Club Gala, the Jazz Workshop, Burp Hollow, and the Dixie Land Jazz. |
Mother Bar | Mission District, San Francisco, California | United States | 2023 | | [85] [86] |
My Sister's Room | Atlanta, Georgia | United States | 1996 | | [87] |
Ollie's | Oakland, California | United States | 1981 | 1991 | [88] |
Our Club | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | | | |
Page 3 | Greenwich Village, New York, New York | United States | mid-1950s | mid-1960s | [89] |
The Palms | West Hollywood, California | United States | 1960s | 2013 | [90] |
Paper Doll | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1949 | 1961 | [91] |
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"[92] [93] [94] [95] Profiled in a documentary by the Lesbian Bar Project.[96] [97] [98] |
Peg's Place | Richmond District, San Francisco, California | United States | 1950s | 1988 | The site of a 1979 lesbophobic attack by off-duty members of the S.F.P.D.[99] [100] |
Phase One | Atlanta, Georgia | United States | 2010s | | [101] [102] |
| Washington, D.C. | United States | 1970 | 2016 | The oldest continually operating lesbian bar in the country when it closed.[103] |
Roselle Inn | Chicago, Illinois | United States | | 1935 | Also known as Rose-El-Inn, one of the earliest lesbian bars.[104] Shut down by police in 1935.[105] [106] |
Sappho's Tavern | Seattle, Washington | United States | 1950s | | |
Scott’s Pit | San Francisco, California | United States | 1970 | 1984 | The first lesbian biker bar in San Francisco; home of brawls and poetry readings.[107] [108] [109] [110] |
The Silver Slipper | Seattle, Washington | United States | 1970s | | [111] |
Sisters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States | | 2013 | [112] [113] |
Slammers | Columbus, Ohio | United States | 1993 | | [114] |
Sue Ellen's | Dallas, Texas | United States | 1989 | | [115] [116] |
Tin Angel | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | 1953 | 1961 | |
Toasted Walnut | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States | 2015 | 2021 | [117] [118] [119] [120] |
Tommy's Place/12 Adler Place | North Beach, San Francisco, California | United States | late 1940s | 1955 | [121] [122] |
Walker's Pint | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | United States | 2001 | | "Wisconsin's last lesbian bar"[123] [124] [125] [126] [127] [128] |
Wild Side West | Bernal Heights, San Francisco, California | United States | 1962 | | [129] [130] [131] |
| Seattle, Washington | United States | 1980s (early) | | A long running lesbian bar on the West Coast.[132] |
XX+ | Washington, D.C. | United States | 2018 | closed | [133] | |