of being personally introduced and wearing the unofficial "jeans and flannel shirt" dress code inside the bar. The Wildrose was started in the early 1980s by a lesbian collective, and is the longest running lesbian bar on the West Coast. Washington, D.C. A League of Her Own occupies the basement floor of gay bar Pitchers and is frequented by lesbians, despite resisting the "lesbian bar" label. Phase 1 was the oldest (45 years) continually operating lesbian bar in the United States until its closure in February 2016. XX+ opened as a lesbian bar in 2018, but closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. West Hollywood, California The Palms was founded in the 1960s, when the area now known as the City of West Hollywood was a Los Angeles neighborhood. It closed in 2013. See also Last Call at Maud's (1993 documentary about the last evening at a San Francisco lesbian bar) Dyke marches Save Our Children White Horse Inn (Oakland, California) Lesbian Bar Project Types of drinking establishment References Further reading News, magazine, website (North Carolina, U.S.) Academia </ref> Books External links Lesbian Nightlife Map at the Addresses Project The Boy Mechanic project (history of lesbian bars in the United States and Europe) Eulogy for the Dyke Bar by Macon Reed Bars (establishments) Lesbian culture Lesbian history LGBT drinking establishments Types of drinking establishment