They aren’t just bars, it’s also a community center. “Embracing the language of what they really are is important. “We wanted to explore the past and the present, and who are the patrons over that time until now,” says Street. (L – R) Lea DeLaria, filmmakers Elina Street and Erica Rose, Lisa Meninchino Produced and narrated by Provincetown’s own Lea DeLaria and directed by Erica Rose and Elina Street, the Lesbian Bar Project will screen at Waters Edge Cinema this Women’s Week in companion with the full-length documentary Ahead of the Curve, a look at the influential lesbian magazine Curve. And now, a new documentary short of the same name further examines the issue. To assist those bars still operating, whose needs only deepened during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Lesbian Bar Project began a fundraising campaign in 2020 to offer financial assistance. Pre-pandemic that number dwindled to 21, and at the moment there are just 15 known lesbian bars open in America, with six others still closed since the beginning of the pandemic.
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According to the Lesbian Bar Project, an organization and movement founded to “celebrate, support, and preserve” lesbian bars, in 1980 the United States had an estimated 200 bars for gay women. And the issue is particularly acute with lesbian bars. Over the past decade, conversation within the LGBTQ+ community has shifted to concern that too many of these queer spaces are being lost as gay bars are closing. You could even say that, to some degree, these bars aren’t just safe spaces, but sacred ones. Ask any queer person what the first “gay bar” they ever went to was and chances are you’ll get an answer quite quickly, as no one forgets that experience of entering a safe space where you can fully exhale. But aside from major historical events and depictions in media, bars for LGBTQ+ people are intensely personal places for the community, even if upon a surface level inspection they seem like any other bar, just with a queer clientele. National Monument with President Barack Obama’s signature in 2016. After all, the Stonewall Riots, the event that gave birth to the modern LGBTQ+ right movement in 1969, happened at a Greenwich Village gay bar, with said bar becoming a U.S. Within LGBTQ+ culture, bars are an integral part of not just fun and recreation, but also politics, community, and even art. "Enola Gay" (Version 1) is in turn featured on the DVD Messages: OMD Greatest Hits.TOP IMAGE: Owner of New York City’s the Cubbyhole Lisa Meninchino "Enola Gay" (Version 2) appeared on the video release of The Best of OMD as did "Talking Loud and Clear" (Version 2). "Pandora's Box (It's a Long, Long, Way)" (US version)ĭanilo Giannini, Bo Nordin, Björn Skallström "Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)" Live concert on DVD included with Access All Areas. A DVD of this concert came with the 2007 reissue of Architecture & Morality.ĭocumentary on the band during the recording of Crush, with promo videos of the album's singles.ĭocumentary on the history of the band, including the reformation in 2006/2007.Įlectricity: OMD with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic OrchestraĪccess All Areas – Live Nottingham Playhouse 28 July 1980 LD (Japan only), VHS, Betamax, DVD (2007)
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So80s (Soeighties) Present OMD – Curated by Blank & Jones OMD, Dazzle Ships Live at the Museum of LiverpoolĪrchitecture & Morality/Dazzle Ships Live at the Royal Albert Hall OMD: The History of Modern Tour – Live in Berlin The group's overall record sales stand in excess of 40 million, with sales of more than 15 million albums and 25 million singles. OMD disbanded in 1996 but reformed in 2006, and have since re-established themselves as a top 10 presence on international album charts. OMD's albums Architecture & Morality (1981), The Best of OMD (1988) and Sugar Tax (1991) were certified platinum or higher in the UK the gold-certified Dazzle Ships (1983) became one of the band's most influential works. The group issued their debut single, " Electricity", in 1979, and achieved several international top 10 hits during the 1980s and 1990s, including their signature songs " Enola Gay" (1980) and " If You Leave" (1986). The discography of English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) includes 13 studio albums and 40 singles, among other releases. Co-founders Andy McCluskey (left) and Paul Humphreys in 2011