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Nashville, Tennessee
Lesbian-owned East Nashville bar since 2002, 'a bar for humans.'
The Lipstick Lounge is East Nashville's lesbian-owned bar, open on Woodland Street since 2002 and self-billed as "a bar for humans," a tagline co-owners Christa Suppan and Jonda Valentine mean literally, framing the place as a community hub for the whole queer spectrum and its allies rather than a narrow scene bar. With only about three dozen lesbian bars left in the country, it's one of the survivors, and one of the only lesbian-owned bars in the region. Day to day it runs on karaoke, a perennial "Best of Nashville" winner, plus live music, trivia, drag, a full menu, and a patio. The crowd is wide and the welcome is the whole point. If you want the warm, everybody-talks-to-everybody end of Nashville's queer nightlife rather than a big club, this is the room, set in a brightly painted 19th-century building you can't miss on the block.
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