Owners: Ibijinka Hicks, Addie Johnson, Tedara Lindsay, Vicki Harris. Offered use of its space to community groups such as SMYAL, Mautner Project, and others. Here are just a few of the lost lesbian bars they identify:Īfrican-American-owned dance club, initially primarily a lesbian club. The Rainbow History Project has done a superb job of cataloguing LGBT "places and spaces" from the 1920s to the present.
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While Washington's bars suffered from fewer police raids than New York's, there was still harrassment:Ī member of Mattachine at JoAnna’s one summer evening in 1969 saw “a steady procession of uniformed police come in and out of the bar.” Querying a policeman about the procession, she was told “there was no trouble at all, but that the precinct was just keeping an eye on things.” It is also noted that Jo-Anna's was one of the first of Washington's clubs to willingly identify with "gayness" and distribute the Mattachine Society newsletter. They put in a small dance floor, which immediately started to attract business including, (I think) some men. It was responsible for the initiation of dancing in DC gay bars on a regular basis. Dr Franklin Kameny remembers, "JoAnna's arrived somewhat later, on the NE corner of 8th and E, directly across from Johnnie's. SE in 1968 represented a new social option for women, and a daring new dance floor. NW, the Spring Road Café, a purple building that was hard to miss, saw women’s gatherings on weekends. At 5828 Georgia, in upper Northwest, Zombies’ restaurant generally welcomed women. Until mid-decade there was no equivalent of the old Showboat club.
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Mark Meinke in "The Social Geography of Washington, D.C.'s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Community" (2002) says the following about "Women's social spaces" in Washington:įor most of the Sixties there were few public social options for women. Location: 430 8th Street, Washington, D.C., USA