America’s remaining lesbian bars are barely hanging on

Cubbyhole in the West Village remains closed during the coronavirus pandemic on June 22, 2020 in New York. (Photo: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images file)

It took Denise Cohen over two years to open Philadelphia’s last lesbian bar, the Toasted Walnut, and just 10 months for the Covid-19 pandemic to shut it down forever.

“There is that hopelessness, that sense of loss that, you know…