Summit Station quickly became more than a bar. Located on Summit Street in almost the exact geographical center of Columbus, owner Petie Brown says the space was one of the first three lesbian bars in the United States. Opened in 1980, Summit Station was Ohio’s first and longest-running lesbian bar. Now here in 2022, a third LGBTQ+ marker has been approved - the first for Columbus - honoring a storied lesbian establishment. Then in 2017, a marker was installed in Cleveland commemorating the block of West 29 th Street that was home to Cleveland’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community. In 2009, a marker was installed in Dayton honoring Natalie Clifford Barney, an out lesbian writer who convened literary salons in Paris that influenced generations of writers. Now a new effort is underway to memorialize one of Ohio’s most legendary gay bars with what would be only the state’s third ever LGBTQ+-related historical marker. For (literally) hundreds of years, gay bars have provided this critical sustenance in the lives of both LGBTQ+ individuals and the LGBTQ+ community writ large.
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