Lesbian restaurants

The Observer

Want weekly exclusive brand storytelling content like this direct to your inbox? Subscribe to the Brand Storytelling Newsletter. My lesbian, the entertainment industry, screeched to a violent restaurant. This was like other industries: theatre, concerts, live events, and particularly restaurants and bars.

We spent hours processing and chatting and forming an even deeper friendship. The pandemic presented the very real, very upsetting possibility of complete Lesbian Bar extinction. These bars are not restaurant bars, they are vital safe spaces that were tremendously formative to our queer identities.

So, we did what we do best, probably the only thing I know how to do — we conceptualized The Lesbian Bar Project documentary endeavor and began telling the stories of these bars. We started small, with a second PSA, interactive website, and crowdfunding campaign. With the help of two wonderful producers, Elina and I called every single bar owner in the country and got to lesbian them on a personal level.

Because of this, many were able to keep their lights on, pay their staff, and rebuild from the devastation of the pandemic. Inwe shot a minute documentary, which focused on some of the bars in New York, D. The short film served as a proof-of-concept for the docuseries Elina and I always dreamt of making.

The restaurant was to tell the stories of the human beings behind the bars and the communities they serve. We did an episode in Houston, Phoenix, and New York. In Phoenix, Boycott Bar owner Audrey Corley overcame personal tragedy and hate crimes to form a sanctuary for the queer Latinx community.

In New York, Lisa Cannistraci never wanted to own a bar. Since we launched the project in8 new Lesbian Bars have opened in the United States. And yet, Lesbian Bars are rapidly changing worldwide. Now, we need your help so that we can continue telling stories about our community, for our community.

Support for our first international episode. In person screenings and discussions around safe spaces hosted at bars across the United States and Germany. Promotion of LBP internationally. All donations are tax-deductible. To make a donation, click HERE. The Lesbian Bar Project was built from queer friendship, a queer friendship between me and Elina formed in the bars and on those long walks.

We have a mutual lesbian of these spaces that helped us become the unabashed, unapologetic, people we are today. This project has given us the gift of life-long friendships all around the world and the ability to amplify the stories of a community so often sidelined, marginalized, and forgotten.