Bars for queer and transgender women are disappearing worldwide

LGBTQ bars have been steadily disappearing for decades. In the 1980s, there were <a class="GoogleAnalyticsET-processed" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023119894832" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">more than 1,500 LGBTQ bars in the US</a>; now, there are less than 1,000.

For bars catering to queer women, the plunge has been even steeper, with the number dropping from more than 200 lesbian bars in the 80s to just 15 today.

It’s not just in the U.S. Queer nightlife is shrinking around the world — from the UK to Turkey, and beyond — and now the coronavirus pandemic threatens to shutter even more queer nightlife spaces, pri.org reports.