.realleadelaria shares memories of wild nights out: “I can talk about dyke bars all day. I’ve been the ambassador for a very long time”
Photo: Courtesy of The Lesbian Bar Project Legend has it, if you go to the New York lesbian bar Cubbyhole on any given night, Lea DeLaria could be bellied up and ordering a drink. The performer, 63, known most recently for playing the braggadocious butch Boo on Orange Is the New Black, loves lesbian bars like Cubbyhole so much because she says she’s just about “the only open dyke out there who’s a part of their brand.
Lesbian chic, let’s be clear, really had nothing to do with lesbians and everything to do with straight men. Lesbian chic was used by the media and the industry and especially Hollywood — very guilty of it — as a spank bank for straight men. Straight men have this lesbian fantasy thing where they think that they’re going to slide in between us.
Before anybody could find out what was happening, I was thrown out. Trust me, only to be tracked down very quickly and told, “Very sorry about that — we’ve actually fired the guy.” But the best part was when they said “Throw her out!” I said, “I have a tab at the bar.” They’re like, “Throw her out, I don’t care!” Well, I’d been ordering Dom Perignon all night, so I was like, “Throw me out!”
It wasn’t my scene. Why would I do that when I could go to — this is Los Angeles — watch some hot strippers at Peanuts, or pick up a girl at the Palm, when I don’t even have to take her back to my hotel room, you can just fuck right at the club? So why would I want to go to some exclusive “I have money and nobody knows I’m gay” party?I was at Ginger’s [in Brooklyn] once, and one of the reasons I like going to Ginger’s is the pool table. What I say when I go to the pool table is, “I’m an O.K.
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