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The Bush, photographed by Eva Woolridge. While the presence of gay bars has for the most part held steady over the decades, lesbian bars faced a demise through the aughts that has more recently roused an outspoken bunch of writers, artists, revivalists, and patrons-to-be. Among them is Krista Burton, who in writing her travelogue Moby Dykepublished earlier this month, went on a cross-country pilgrimage to visit the last lesbian bars standing.

Just before her book launch in NYC, Burton hopped on a call with Alleyne and LaViolette to talk about raising a new generation of gaybies and the long-awaited return of lesbian cruising. On Wednesday, their lesbian nights. We met through mutual friends after I had a failed date. What was that like?

I think they do make it difficult to open a bar. In writing the book, you probably talked to a ton of bar owners. We were sitting on their couch in Brooklyn and I happened to see that you were having your opening night. First of all, I had never been topless on a beach in America. But we were disgusting and there was sand in my scalp and it was late and we were all very sun-soaked, laying around.

I feel like it was two to three blocks long, possibly longer. And the fashions coming through that line!

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I just wanted one that has a more sexy feeling. I love when I walk into a space and it makes me feel sexy. I love the shirt. I wear it all the time. What was that experience like? I live in the Midwest, in a small town called Northfield, Minnesota, 40 minutes south of the Twin Cities. I feel like the more Midwestern or Southern you got, the more welcoming it felt inside the bar.

In New York, everyone looks cooler than me all the time, and I could just feel that way because I live in a small town in Minnesota. I go in my sweatpants. We both have day jobs. Nikke does weekends and I do weekdays. So we ended up bar -acking all night in halter tops and platforms. What got you into in the idea of going to all the dyke bars?

Fast-forward five years, a lot more media attention had started surrounding all these bars closing.