By: Southvalleyfox

Suggestion: you should also check out what happened to the lesbian festival of the Michigan Women's Music Festival. It was a yearly event for women to come to from across the world, and it ran for nearly 50 years. Last time I was there there were about 20,000 women attending. Great music by and for WOMEN. Check it out. And don't forget about the Daughters of Bilitis in the 50's or the Lavender Menace in the 70's. But there's a LOT more history than you've discovered here. You might also check out the Dana Rivers murder trial that recently concluded in CA and was under a media blackout....just for giggles, ya know? In my mid-sized town in the mid 80's there arose nearly 5 exclusively lesbian bars. It wound up being too many...but I don't knwo if ANY of them are open anymore. I gotta tell you, girls, you haven't lived until you're only dancing with women or talking to women or organizing with women. We had the BEST times. I know EXACTLY why lesbian bars disappeared. We want to be with each other and it threatens the men...so, now we can't