Before the shutdown, only a handful remained in New York City. Maintaining a sense of community during the pandemic has been keenly important to lesbian bars, whose numbers across the country have sharply dropped in recent years to little more than a dozen.
establishment, who will I talk to? How will I meet people who understand me as if we were family?” “As gay people, we don’t have a community like straight families have - they’re married, they have children, and then those children have friends and those friends have parents, and that all creates a sense of community,” Mr.
