“I like to refer to it like ‘Alice in Wonderland,’” Gibson, 59, said of being in those lesbian bars that have been long closed. She said memories of past lesbian spaces motivate her in the face of anti-LGBTQ state legislation and financial hurdles. Pete Beach and currently the only queer women’s bar in Florida. Roughly four decades later, in the spring of 2022, Gibson opened The Lady’s Room in Largo, less than 15 miles north of St. “When you're alone at night, in the dark and you don't have a home, the bars become a safe place,” Gibson told NBC News in a recent interview. Pete Beach, just west of Tampa, where she found cover in a local lesbian bar, sitting at the end of the counter until closing time. As a teen living on the streets in the mid-1970s, she said, she made her way to St. The first time Vicki Gibson stepped inside a lesbian bar, it was because she had nowhere else to go.Īdopted by a family in Florida who had two grown sons, she said, she wasn't the “pretty little dress-up doll that my mom was looking for,” which led to conflict until her mother kicked her out. Photography by Akilah Townsend and Danielle Amy for NBC News
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