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Lesbians’ Hidden Role In The AIDS Crisis
- Lesbians played crucial caregiving and advocacy roles during the AIDS crisis despite being less directly affected medically.
- Their unrecognized labor included nursing, blood drives, emotional support, and activism that kept communities alive.
Spaces Shaped Community Separation
- The historic separation of gay men and lesbians partly arose from physical social spaces like gay bars and women's festivals.
- Segregated venues created patterns of distance that sometimes persist even when broader community overlap exists.
Rejected At A Lesbian Bar
- Derrick described being charged cover and treated as unwelcome at a lesbian bar in West Hollywood.
- He recalls feeling excluded when bartenders quizzed him and patrons moved away from him.