The lack of a lesbian bar in Los Angeles, America's second-largest city, is a big, flashing warning sign. Enter the Fingerjoint.
. The loss of queer spaces threatens to destroy much more than a comfortable night out — everything from future romantic relationships to political organizing is at risk, including the opportunity to build solidarity between cis and trans queers. Before it closed, the Oxwood Inn was host to a popular Saturday-night dance party for trans women; the coffee shop Cuties, run by a trans woman and her queer femme partner, is a rare Los Angeles business striving to create.
Lesbian culture in Los Angeles, even when there was a lesbian bar or two around, has long revolved around such weekly or monthly “nights,” often in gay male spaces but also in other lesbian-friendly businesses. These days, organizers increasingly prefer the word “queer” in order to be more welcoming to bi women, gender nonconforming people, trans people, and anyone else who might not identify as the typical clientele of gay male bars.
The Fingerjoint will explicitly be a lesbian bar, but one in the spirit of the Oxwood Inn. Much like Cuties Coffee, whichthe Fingerjoint is using the pop-up model to find out how to offer whatever the bohemian, design-savvy, cocktail-sipping Los Angeles lesbian and queer community actually wants in 2019. “I’m willing to be vulnerable to have that conversation and learn as I go,” Amador says.
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