Owners Matt and Tina Seaton held a benefit this month to raise money to keep the doors open. There's a musty feel to the place - not from improper maintenance or poor plumbing - but the kind that shows it has been around a long time.īut the Schnitzelburg bar's future is fleeting, a victim of America's embrace of LGBTQ lifestyle. Opinion: Learning about our black and Latinx LGBTQ+ history is necessary On a makeshift stage two rooms over, a drag queen performs Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl.” A handful of customers sit in old chairs and sink deep into couch cushions with springs long past their heyday, tipping the performers with $1 bills. The photos, donated by a regular years ago, are imagery of lesbians for lesbians - intimate and sensual - a shift from woman-on-woman erotica staged for men. Not even half a dozen regulars help themselves to a drink in a place that is more like a community center than a wild girls’ night out. Couples sit at the bar across from erotic prints of intertwined, naked women hanging from the deep purple walls. They don’t keep kegs anymore there are so few customers the beer goes sour. There’s just enough liquor behind the bar wrapped in LED rainbow lights to make Long Island iced tea in plastic cups.
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Inside the single door is Louisville’s last lesbian bar. They're in cut-off tank tops and cargo shorts, elaborate drag wigs and sequins.
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On Saturday nights, a handful of women stand in a billow of cigarette smoke outside the bar’s blacked-out windows on Preston Street. The small rainbow sign for Purrswaytions bar is easy to miss. View Gallery: Purrswaytions lesbian bar Louisville: Patrons say bye as closure looms