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w is it you ignore that many of us in the lgbt community have experienced sexual abuse either personally and or as a protective parent teacher reporter trying to keep children safe why is it we are being silenced those of us who have been through the system know full well contrary to what you may think that it is very hard to protect kids and get any justice for them too often cps the police the family courts actually back up the abusers especially if they have money and the accusers are only women or kids too many of us have found this out the hard way there are many of us who are aghast at what s happening to lgbt politics but given the death rape financial threats we have not gone public but we are not going away and we will not shut up posted by anonymous at 1 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 20 2019 lost womyn s spaces of northampton massachusetts this is a wonderfully researched posting by kaymarion raymond at from wicked to wedded the peak of lesbian enterprise posted on april 16 2019 by kaymarion raymond an unprecedented number of lesbian enterprises existed in northampton in 1976 77 both old ones and new that evolved out of the 1975 76 separatist struggles what particularly made this creative flowering different was that lesbians were for the first and only time able to control rent and or buy multiple spaces within downtown northampton this was made possible in large part by the economic decay of the downtown its largest business mccallums department store had closed and many others followed as the city s population sprawled and shopping malls were built further and further down king st when i moved to green st in 1970 everything i needed was within walking distance over the next decade much of that disappeared except for a changing cast of banks bars and restaurants one by one all but two of the neighborhood markets folded as well as the a p on bridge st and the supermarket on conz st the working population that lived downtown in rooming houses or over just about every business aged and declined too two downtown schools hawley junior high and st michaels closed the working people s businesses i relied on began to close their doors fine s clothing woolworth s five and dime tepper s general store foster and farrar hardware whalen s office supply for a brief time before real estate speculation and gentrification took hold and turned hamp into noho competing nicknames space affordable to women became available below is a map of current downtown that i ve amended with the location of the major 1970s lesbian enterprises which peaked in 1976 77 following it is a brief description of the activity that took place at each address all of this will be detailed in future posts if i haven t already 1 200 main st lesbian gardens third floor space that was originally rented along with half the second floor by the valley women s center union 1974 77 currently harlow luggage building 2 66 green st green st top two floors rooming house that started to be lesbian in 1972 and continued to be all or mostly lesbian at least until 1991 building bought and demolished by smith college currently grass 3 1 bridge st gala café lesbian backroom 1975 1979 torn down part of spoleto s currently in that space 4 25 main st nutcracker suite one large room on a back corridor as i recall i believe on the fourth floor 1976 77 this address also was used by the grand jury information project ceres inc and later i believe by chrysalis theatre it was in what is now known as the fitzwilly s masonic building 5 19 hawley st the egg and marigolths 1976 77 estimated originally rented in 1973 by mother jones press which in 1976 became megaera press and joined with old lady bluejeans distributing and the women s film coop to form the women s image takeover wit additional space in the building was rented to accommodate several craftswomyn and greasy gorgon garage auto repair these formed a collective of businesses with the self chosen odd name sweet coming bookstore moved there in 1977 6 78 masonic st common womon club 1976 82 private dining club for feminist vegetarians owned by the non profit ceres inc later bought by bill streeter for his book bindery currently it is the mosaic café 7 68 masonic st nutcracker suite women s self defense and karate dojo moved from main st 1977 78 womonfyre books 1978 82 owned by ceres inc later bought by bart s ice cream as their bakery currently it is lesbian owned bela vegetarian restaurant posted by anonymous at 12 24 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lesbian bar lesbian bars massachusetts northampton women s bookstore women s restaurant wednesday march 20 2019 lilly s music and social house lilly s music and social house location 2321 arsenal street st louis missouri usa opened july 2015 closed may 2016 from out in stl excerpt from interview with kristin goodman can you tell me about the idea behind lilly s music social house when we were getting ready to open lilly s novak s had already been closed for two years people women in particular were sort of at a loss especially women who are in their late 30s and 40s and 50s a lot of women in that age group are not out at work or they re not out to their families yet so lgbt bars and spaces are really important for that age group when we were thinking about opening a place i wanted it to feature a lot of light music and make it a place where that lesbian who lives out in ballwin or crestwood would feel totally comfortable kristen goodman singing at lilly s photo by sandy gutierrez when we were brainstorming with the staff about our mission we landed on safe space for women welcoming space for all that really was the driver for all of the decisions we made from menu items to price points on cocktails to the atmosphere we probably were in the wrong sized space for what we were trying to do we d have an awesome band on friday night and be slammed and people would come in and hunker down and maybe order dinner or a cocktail and then sit there and watch the band the whole night with only about 40 seats in the place we weren t getting the volume that we needed to sustain us on a slow tuesday or wednesday night it was an amazing learning experience and i was sad when it closed but i don t regret it it connected people to other friends that they didn t know before and now they re all still hanging out and doing their own parties and social gatherings posted by anonymous at 2 26 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lesbian bar missouri st louis bum bum bar bum bum bar location 63 14 roosevelt ave queens new york usa opened early 1990s closed late 2018 from the jackson heights post bum bum bar roosevelt avenue lesbian bar closes after more than 2 decades march 1 2019 by meghan sackman bum bum bar the gay owned and operated bar located in woodside for more than two decades has closed its doors the bar which opened at 63 14 roosevelt ave in the early 1990s saw three generations of lgbt owners and appears to have closed late last year its closure was announced in a release today by nyc lgbt historic sites project a group that works to highlight and preserve sites connected to the city s lgbt community the non profit says bum bum bar pronounced boom boom was among the four remaining lesbian bars in new york city and attracted a mixed but mostly working class latina lesbian crowd it s a really sad commentary on the state of nightlife for lgbtq women said ken lustbader co director of nyc lgbt historic sites projects this was one of the only places that provided the opportunity for lgbtq women to meet each other in a safe environment the group even pointed to the bar s history in providing support for the inaugural queens pride parade in 1993 it is unclear why the bar closed and the owner was unable to be reached for comment by press time danny hart the site s most recent owner was interviewed by go magazine about the bar and its origins after she took ownership of it in 2016 the word bum bum is actually brazilian she said it means the booty of the women in brazil they have a contest called the bum bum contest and it takes into account the whole physique of the woman the magazine said the two gay men that opened the bar named it after the contest as an homage to their beautiful women customers the nightlife establishment which had a 175 person capacity and a large dance floor held a huge annual pride event and also participated in the annual jackson heights pride parade the bar s unexpected closure was met with surprise and concern i was shocked to hear they were closed said gwen shockey a brooklyn artist who studies queer nightlife and incorporates it into her addresses project a digital map of lesbian queer historical sites that have existed in the city her work is unaffiliated with the nyc lgbt historic sites project shockey speculated that the reason for bum bum bar s closing besides the changing neighborhood and rising rents could be the difficulties queer women face as business owners as her research has demonstrated people have frequently mentioned that it s harder for women to open and maintain spaces because of pay discrepancies shockey said women aren t making as much money as men on the dollar and it makes it harder to succeed or have as consistent of a nightlife following as gay men the nyc lgbt historic sites project said its work in documenting this bar s trajectory and that of other sites helps document an invisible history to show the public that lgbtq history is american history posted by anonymous at 1 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lesbian bar new york queens tuesday january 15 2019 harvard university women s organizations harvard university women s organizations for background see this article harvard cracks down on all male clubs but it s women s groups that have vanished b y sarah brown women at harvard protested the administration s effort to discourage membership on gender exclusive student groups here are the first few paragraphs from brown s article just over a year ago harvard university s leaders made an announcement that they hoped would be the final word for the time being in a lengthy debate over the future of campus social life starting with the freshman class in 2017 any student who joined a single gender social group like one of the university s exclusive final clubs or a fraternity or sorority would face restrictions members wouldn t be able to hold leadership positions on campus serve as captains of athletic teams or receive harvard s endorsement for postgraduate scholarships like the rhodes and the marshall the groups could avoid the sanctions only if they went coed technically the policy had been unveiled in may 2016 but after 18 months of contentious conversations harvard s governing board finally voted to approve the restrictions the board s action would in theory institute the policy beyond the tenure of drew gilpin faust the president at the time who stepped down this summer to some observers the demise of exclusionary social groups on college campuses makes a lot of sense as student populations diversify administrators are growing more aware of the need to foster inclusive environments not ones segregated by gender and class at harvard the men s final clubs in particular seem like vestiges of a university from an earlier era when the student body was whiter and wealthier than it is today so on the surface it would be easy to dismiss the lawsuits filed against harvard by greek organizations last month as a last gasp effort privileged people are digging in their heels in the face of threats to their privilege the argument goes the suits are accompanied by a national campaign and petition with an extensive website that purports to tell the truth about single gender social organizations some sorority chapters at other colleges have encouraged members and alumni to sign on but the s orority members who have become the loudest voice in favor of the lawsuits argue that their fight isn t about protecting privilege at all it s about protecting women harvard officials have said their crackdown on social groups was designed to do just that in their view all male final clubs encourage misogynistic behaviors and create problematic environments for women the solution to discourage the behavior at the source since the university couldn t singlehandedly eliminate private unrecognized off campus organizations administrators put in place the strongest disincentives to joining that they could come up with and that would they hoped pass legal muster the women on the other hand say that the administration s approach to halting gender discrimination has endangered gender exclusive spaces that weren t part of the problem in fact those women say such groups remain necessary on a campus where issues like sexual misconduct persist since the policy took effect it s the sororities and women s final clubs that have disappeared while most of the men only groups continue to operate this fall all four of harvard s sororities shut down one recently reopened but with a small fraction of its former membership the six female only final clubs have all started the process of going coed emphasis added this is a phenomenon often seen with regard to women s space when push comes to shove liberal feminist efforts to allow women into centers of male power will be countered by a male backlash of the same the end result nodules of men s spatial power remains while any remnant of female space no matter how apparently innocuous like a sorority will be destroyed here are additional points brought out in the article that are worthy of note the current social scene at the college revolves around deeply entrenched systems of power reads the february 2017 report of a committee convened to figure out how to carry out the policy men s final clubs in particular can leverage the historical dominance of gender class and race to preserve that power no kidding and notice that efforts to help support the women within this unequal playing field were cancelled one committee suggested that harvard have a five year bridge period for women s groups during which they could continue to operate with gender focused missions and make the transition to an arrangement in which they were recognized by the university and yet entirely unconnected from the typical greek system but last march administrators canceled the bridge program of course not surprised then we have the you girls have to suck it up because that s the only way to achieve our feminist goals argument never mind that the boys aren t sacrificing much of anything while the women are asked to give up everything a november 2017 statement signed by 23 female students said harvard s premise has been that women must not b...