‘Ladies at A Gay Girls’ Bar’
FREE Solo performance about queer history and fem identity. Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar, 1938-1969 is a dynamic, touching solo show that brings to life a lesser-known part of LGBT history, focusing on working-class lesbian communities well before what is considered the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement. Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar, 1938-1969 comes to Philly Fringe after pre-pandemic performances at the Providence and Hartford Fringe Festivals.
“There’s no better place to do this show about the importance of queer community than in a unique bar and community space like Tatooed Mom,” says writer and performer Maggie Cee. Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar features a character based in Maggie’s teenage experience as a youth activist in the late 1990s-early 2000, who guides the audience through fictional, history-based monologues that illuminate the feminine women whose stories are too often forgotten, but whose strength and determination made the gay girls’ bars come alive. The show draws on oral history interviews from The Buffalo Women’s Oral History and first person sources from the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar, 1938-1969 takes place Sunday, September 18 at 3:00 and 6:00 PM at Tattooed Mom, 530 South St, Philadelphia. Performances are FREE. Reservations are recommended and may be found at FringeArts.com/66235. 21+ with valid ID.
Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible, with one step required to enter the building, and a flight of stairs leading to the upstairs event space. Once upstairs, to get to the event space there are three small steps down into a middle room, and three small steps up into the upstairs back room where events are held.
