Just before KristaBurton launched her book 'Moby Dyke' in NYC, she hopped on a call with Nikke Alleyne and Justine LaViolette, owners of The Bush “dyke bar for queers,' to talk about the long-awaited return of lesbian cruising and gaybies.
called “I Want My Lesbian Bars Back.” After that, I kicked around the idea with my agent of the book about visiting all the lesbian bars, but at the time we canned it in favor of other ideas. Fast-forward five years, a lot more media attention had started surrounding all these bars closing. There was the Lesbian Bar Project, there were articles coming out like, “Hey, there’s only 22. Hey, there’s only 21…”BURTON: Yeah.
BURTON: There are so many reasons. Part of it is that, I don’t know how old y’all are, but I’m 40 and for a while the word lesbian fell out of use, which hurt the lesbian bar business. Because people are like, “I’m queer, I don’t identify as a lesbian no matter where I fall on the spectrum. Maybe this isn’t my bar.” So if you identified as a lesbian bar, people started to have questions about who’s allowed in the space. But I don’t know for sure.
LAVIOLETTE: Exactly. We can write a paragraph, but we need to just be able to say it quickly. That’s actually also how we ended up getting our name. Before we even knew we were going to be in Bushwick, we loved that queer bars historically have had names that are euphemisms, that are fun and silly. And we didn’t want to name it The Pink Pussy or something like that. We landed on the Bush because most people can grow a bush. It doesn’t exclude. It includes a grand swath of our community.
BURTON: Have either of you seen anything outrageous happen at the bar already? I’ve heard some very interesting stories from bar owners.BURTON: Oh, I didn’t see the toilet incident. LAVIOLETTE: That’s so cool. You said you’ve been out for 20 years, do you remember your first queer bar experience?
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