Dani’s Queer Bar opened its doors to Boston’s LGBTQ community last month, giving the city its first lesbian bar in decades. The venue joins a years long “lesbian bar renaissance” that has seen more than a dozen bars for queer women open across the country since the height of the Covid pandemic.
Dani’s, which has branded itself as a “space for Sapphic, trans and non-binary community members,” was more than two years in the making.
Prior to opening the bar, founder Thais Rocha hosted parties for queer women throughout the city, and then in March 2022, she announced a fundraising campaign to open a brick-and-mortar venue.
While the number of lesbian or lesbian-ish bars is nowhere near its ’80s peak, an NBC News analysis last year found there has been somewhat of a resurgence, with more than a dozen new Sapphic spaces opening up since 2020. Full story at NBCOut.com