L-bAR is an ongoing interactive generative documentary project launched in February, 2022.
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L-bAR is an immersive, virtual, lesbian bar storyworld. The bars are created based on photographs, writings and interviews with former bar patrons and bar owners, to create the interactive online bar and salon spaces that make up this collaborative and interactive story-world. In L-bAR, you’ll hear the oral histories with former bar-goers, whose portraits and audio interviews are part of the storyworld’s experience. Inside L-bAR, you can hang out, meet up, and learn about lesbian history while experiencing lesbian and gay women's spaces that existed between 1925 and 2005. The interactive, online lesbian bar project is open to everyone, regardless of sexuality or gender identity.
Directory
Click on direct links to experiences and oral history interviews inside L-bAR
L-bAR is a living project; new bars and queer women's spaces are added every month
Oral histories
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Jewelle Gomez; author, poet, critic, playwright
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Pat King; Manager, bartender
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Lila Thirkield; Owner of the Lexington Club
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Joan Nestle; activist,writer, co-founder of Lesbian Herstory Archives
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Saundra Tignor; retired nurse
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Nancy Valverde; activist,barber, chicana lesbian icon
Redhead, also known as Redz, Reds. Los Angeles
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Jonathan Ned Katz; author, independent scholar and history activist, founder of OutHistory.org
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Barbara Kahn; playwright and actor
Eve's Hangout, New York
Lillian Faderman; scholar of lesbian and LGBT history and literature, as well as ethnic history and literature
Coming soon
Andi Seagal; secretary
Joani Presents, Los Angeles
Kitty Tsui; poet, activist
Peg's Place, San Francisco
Chrystos; activist, poet
Romeo's Pizza, San Francisco
Christina Schlesinger; painter and muralist
Big Brother's, Los Angeles
Carolyn Weathers; Librarian, activist
Bacchanal 70
Susie Smith; Filmmaker, Lexington Club Documentary
Lexington Club, San Francisco
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Art Show
Chloe Sherman
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Performances
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Images and credits
textual and visual document list coming soon
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