Tag: Lexington Club

Former lesbian bar feted with plaque

Though gone more than a year, the Lexington Club has staked out a permanent spot on its old corner of 19th Street Monday in the form of a commemorative plaque. On Monday afternoon, owner Lila Thirkield, former staff, politicians and about a hundred fans of the bar turned out for the plaque’s unveiling and to […]

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‘Wildhawk’ sign up outside the former Lexington Club

UPDATE 3/21/16: A spokeswoman for PlumpJack said the scheduled opening date for the bar is Wednesday, April 6, not March 23, the date listed on Wildhawk’s Yelp page. ORIGINAL POST: Wildhawk has come to roost – well, its sign at least. Friend of Capp Street Crap Jeff passed along this photo taken outside the cocktail […]

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In an ode to the Lexington Club, “Uptown Homos” debuts tonight

Missing their old haunt, two devotees of the shuttered Lexington Club are putting on the first of what they hope will be a monthly queer night at the Uptown bar. Uptown Homos, “a dyke, lesbian, unicorn, trans queer night of flirtation,” takes place tonight, from 6 to 11 p.m. Kelly Robbie Hansen and partner Tanya […]

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