# @kqed on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CtmlS6ovB6_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/7974113-kqed-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-17T19:15:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** KQED (@KQED) — https://gondola.cc/KQED

## Caption

Back in March, thanks to my ongoing obsession with the city’s dives, I decided to compile a list of five supremely entertaining bars from San Francisco history. I found some gems in the archives — a spider-filled tavern in North Beach and a lawless basement bar on the edge of Chinatown, among them.

In the course of that research I also discovered Mona’s 440 Club — a bar for lesbians, crossdressers and genderfluid folks that was active in the 1940s. Finding a place “where girls [could] be boys” from that era prompted me to wonder: How many other fantastic little lesbian venues existed in Bay Area history that few of us know anything about today?

Here are four that are particularly noteworthy.

🔗 Read Rae Alexandra's full list of historic San Francisco lesbian bars at the link in bio.

✍🏽: @rae_alexandra3
📸: Kirn Vintage Stock/ Corbis via Getty Images

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| KQED | @KQED | https://gondola.cc/KQED | Media Company |
| Myron Caringal | @myroncari | https://gondola.cc/myroncari | Journalist |

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