List of lesbian bars

This is a list of notable lesbian bars worldwide, including early prototypes and modern more inclusive spaces.

See also: List of LGBT bars

Africa

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 [1] [2] [3]
Duchess Lounge	Cape Town	South Africa	2024	(Open)	Social media page references "sapphics and the queer community" but widely marketed as a lesbian bar [4]

Asia

Bar	City	Country	Year opened	Year closed	Notes
Amazona	Tel Aviv	Israel		2020	Only lesbian bar in the city [5] [6] [7]
Bigudi Club	Istanbul	Turkey	2008		First lesbian bar in Istanbul [8] [9] [10] [11]
Coup d'Etat	Beirut	Lebanon	2006	2007	The Middle East's first "openly" lesbian bar [12] [13] Closed in 2007 and opened again in 2018.
			2018
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. [14] [15]
L'Paradise	Hong Kong	China	2000s (early)		One of two remaining lesbian bars in Hong Kong as of 2020 [16]
Goldfinger	Tokyo	Japan	2000s (early)		"The most famous lesbian bar in all of Tokyo, maybe in one of the most famous in the world" [17] [18] [ better source needed ] [11]
Roxie's	Shanghai	China	2014	June 2024	First lesbian bar in Shanghai [19] [11] [20]
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 [16]

Australia

Bar	City	Country	Year opened	Year closed	Notes
Ching-a-lings	Darlinghurst, New South Wales	Australia	2009		Lesbian and nonbinary bar [21] [22]

Europe

Bar	City	Country	Year opened	Year closed	Notes
Cafébar Marianne	Berlin	Germany	2008		Also known as Mariannenbar. [23]
Candy Bar	London	England	1996	2014	[24] [25]
Chez Moune	Paris	France	1936		[26] [ better source needed ]
Damenklub Violetta	Berlin	Germany	c. 1926	1933	[27] [28]
Daniel's	Barcelona	Spain	1975	closed	One of the first lesbian bars in Spain and one of the first LGBTQ bars in Barcelona [29] [30] [31]
Gateways Club	London	England	1943	2014	[32]
La Gata	Frankfurt	Germany	1971		As of 2021 the only lesbian bar in Frankfurt [33]
Le Hanneton	Paris	France	1890s (early)	1900s	Depicted in lithograph Au Hanneton by Toulouse Lautrec [34] [35] [36]
Le Monocle	Paris	France	1920s	1940s (early)	One of Paris' first and most famous lesbian bars [37]
New Moon	Paris	France	1960s	1980s	[38] [39]
She Soho	London	England	2014		[40]

North America

Bar	City	State	Country	Year opened	Year closed	Notes
A League of Her Own	Washington, D.C.		United States	2018		[41] [11]
A Little More	San Francisco	California	United States	1980s		[42] [43] [44] [45]
Amelia's	Mission District, San Francisco	California	United States	1978	1991	[46] [47] [48]
The Anxious Asp	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1958	1967	[49] [50]
Artist's Club	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1946	1949	[49] [50]
As You Are Bar	Washington, D.C.		United States			[51] [52]
Babes of Carytown	Richmond	Virginia	United States	1979		[53]
Babiana Club Less	Mexico City		Mexico	2013		[54] [55] [ better source needed ]
BabyFace Disco	Montreal	Quebec	Canada	1960s (late)		First lesbian bar in Montreal [56]
Bachanal	Albany	California	United States			[57] [58]
Beaded Bag	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States			[49] [50]
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 [59] [60]
Blanco's	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1943	mid-1950s	also known as Blanco's Tavern [49] [50]
Blush & Blu	Denver	Colorado	United States	2012	2023	[53] Colorado's only lesbian bar. Closed as of Oct. 5, 2024 [61]
Bum Bum Bar	Queens, New York City	New York (state)	United States	1990s (early)	2018	[62] [63]
Cafe Des Beaux Arts	New York City	New York (state)	United States	1911	1921	One of the earliest "ladies bars" [64] [65] [66]
Chances Bar	Houston	Texas	United States	1994	2010
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" [59] [67] [68] [69]
Chez Madame Arthur	Montreal	Quebec	Canada	1971	1975	[56] [70] [71]
Chez Jilly's	Montreal	Quebec	Canada	1970s	1970s	[56] [71]
Chi-Chi Club	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1949	1956	[49] [50]
Clementina's Baybrick	South of Market, San Francisco	California	United States	1982	1987	also known as The Brick, The Bay Brick Inn [72] [73]
Copper Lantern	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1955	1965	[49] [50]
Cubbyhole	West Village, New York City	New York (state)	United States	1994		[74] [75]
Dani's Queer Bar	Boston	Massachusetts	United States	2024		On Boylston Street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood [76] [77] [78]
Doc Marie's	Portland	Oregon	United States	2022	2025
Driftwood	Hayward	California	United States			Also known as The Driftwood, and Driftwood Lounge [79] [58]
Dorothy	Chicago	Illinois	United States	2022
Egyptian Club	Portland	Oregon	United States	1995	2010
Eve's Hangout	Greenwich Village, New York City	New York (state)	United States	1925	1926	Also known as Eve Adams's Tearoom [80] [81]
First Choice/The Night	Newark	New Jersey	United States	1980s		[82]
Front	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States			[49] [50]
Ginger's Bar	Brooklyn, New York City	New York (state)	United States	2000		Also known as The G-Spot [83] [84]
The Grand Union	Seattle	Washington	United States	1950s		[85]
Helene's	Roselle	New Jersey	United States	1960s		[86]
Henrietta Hudson	West Village, New York City	New York (state)	United States	1991		[87] [75] [88] [89]
Herz	Mobile	Alabama	United States	2019	2023	[53]
If Club	Koreatown, Los Angeles	California	United States	1947	c. 1940s	The earliest known lesbian bar in Los Angeles, also known as If Cafe. [90] [91]
Jubilee	Oakland	California	United States			[92] [58]
Just Marion & Lynn's	Montrose, Houston	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 [93]
Kelly's Alamo Club	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." [94]
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" [95] "New Jersey’s largest and most happening lesbian club and hotel" [96] Formerly Owl and Pussycat [97]
The Lexington Club	Mission District, San Francisco	California	United States	1997	2015	[98] [99]
Lipstick Lounge	East Nashville	Tennessee	United States	2002		[100] [101] [102]
Magnolia	Montreal	Quebec	Canada	1990s		"One of the greats." [56]
Mary’s First and Last Chance	Oakland	California	United States	c. 1948	1956	Closed in 1958 for "catering to lesbians", but the bar challenged the ruling in the State Supreme Court and won in 1959. [103] [104]
Mary’s Tower	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1953	1967	[49]
Maud's	Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco	California	United States	1966	1989	[105] [106] [47] [48]
Miss Smith's Tea Room	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1954	1960	[49] [50]
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. [107] [108]
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. [49]
Mother Bar	Mission District, San Francisco	California	United States	2023		[109] [110]
My Sister's Room	Atlanta	Georgia (state)	United States	1996		[111]
Ollie's	Oakland	California	United States	1981	1991	[58] [112]
Our Club	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States			[49] [50]
Page 3	Greenwich Village, New York, New York	New York (state)	United States	mid-1950s	mid-1960s	[113]
The Palms	West Hollywood	California	United States	1960s	2013	[114]
Paper Doll	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1949	1961	[49] [50] [115]
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" [116] [117] [118] [119] Profiled in a documentary by the Lesbian Bar Project. [120] [121] [122]
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. [123] [124]
Phase One	Atlanta	Georgia (state)	United States	2010s		[125] [126]
Phase 1	Washington, D.C.		United States	1970	2016	The oldest continually operating lesbian bar in the country when it closed. [127]
Redz Bar	Boyle Heights, Los Angeles	California	United States	1950s	2015	Originally known as Redheads, it catered to working class Latina lesbians. [128]
Roselle Inn	Chicago	Illinois	United States		1935	Also known as Rose-El-Inn, one of the earliest lesbian bars. [64] Shut down by police in 1935. [129] [130]
Sappho's Tavern	Seattle	Washington	United States	1950s		[85]
Scott’s Pit	San Francisco	California	United States	1970	1984	The first lesbian biker bar in San Francisco; home of brawls and poetry readings. [131] [132] [133] [134]
The Silver Slipper	Seattle	Washington	United States	1970s		[85] [135]
Sisters	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	United States		2013	[136] [137]
Slammers	Columbus	Ohio	United States	1993		[138]
Sue Ellen's	Dallas	Texas	United States	1989		[139] [140]
Summit Station	Columbus	Ohio	United States	1971	2008	Ohio'a oldest and longest-running lesbian bar [141] [142] [143]
Tin Angel	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	1953	1961	[49] [50]
Toasted Walnut	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	United States	2015	2021	[144] [145] [146] [147]
Tommy's Place/12 Adler Place	North Beach, San Francisco	California	United States	late 1940s	1955	[49] [50]
Walker's Pint	Milwaukee	Wisconsin	United States	2001		"Wisconsin's last lesbian bar" [148] [11] [149] [150] [151] [152] [153]
Wild Side West	Bernal Heights, San Francisco	California	United States	1962		[154] [155] [156]
The Wildrose	Seattle	Washington	United States	1984		A long running lesbian bar on the West Coast. [157] [75]
XX+	Washington, D.C.		United States	2018	closed	[158]

South America

Bar	City	Country	Year opened	Year closed	Notes
Bach Bar	Buenos Aires	Argentina			Oldest lesbian bar in Buenos Aires [159]

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