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Wild Side West Print
$35.00
Description
Wild Side West
9″ x 12″
Relief print on paper, 2023. Handprinted as part of the Queer Ancestors Project.
Wild Side West is a lesbian bar in Bernal Heights, San Francisco. Started in 1962 by two lesbians, the bar is arguably the last great lesbian bar in San Francisco. Certainly, it is the oldest lesbian bar still open today. However, it flies under the radar. A community dive bar, you’re more likely to hear a group of friends discussing kegel exercises in the luscious back garden than find people partying. What a back garden! It’s full of plants, quirky art, and tchotchkes of all stripes. When the bar first moved to the Bernal Heights location it’s in today, people threw toilets through the front windows in an attempt to show that a lesbian bar was not welcome. The owners boarded up the windows (as they remain today) and moved the toilets to the garden, where they look fun and funky. Like all great dive bars, Wild Side West bears the accumulated weight of decades of gathering.
