Opinion: I'm an 88-year-old lesbian. Here's what gay and lesbian bars were like back in the day. [Opinion]
It seems to me, as an 88-year-old lesbian, that things were much easier for people in the gay community several decades ago.
The patrons at lesbian bars had pool and softball teams that played against patrons from other lesbian bars, with those from the losing bar furnishing the beer. Most of the bars were just beer bars, and mostly lesbians spent time with each other. House parties were all lesbians, and some RV travel clubs were mainly lesbian and open to straight women who wanted to join in, but most women who participated as members were lesbians.
In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the social event of the year for lesbians was the week of the Dinah Shore golf tournament in Palm Springs. Women flew in from all over the country for that week. It was party, party, party, the entire week. There was no gay marriage nor even talk of it. We were committed to our partners and people were identified by who they were with, i.e., Pat and Brenda, rather than last names that most of us didn’t know.
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