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Cubbyhole, which still operates at this corner location in Greenwich Village, is one of only three remaining lesbian bars in New York City. Framed photo of Tanya Saunders, Cubbyhole's original and longtime owner, inside the bar, Source: cubbyholebar on Instagram. While known primarily as a lesbian bar and for its importance to the lesbian community, it has welcomed a mixed crowd of LGBT and straight people since its inception.

She recalled:. I wanted a real mix of people. I live my life that way, and I wanted it in my bar.

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Having no blood relatives during this time in her life, Saunders described Cubbyhole as her home and its staff and patrons as her family. Born in Germany inshe and her widowed mother fled the Nazis four years later on the last ship, according to her, of Jewish refugees allowed into the United States before others were turned away.

Inshe met her first girlfriend, Geri. They lived together on East 9th Street, in Manhattan, before moving to Brooklyn, where they married gay men who lived upstairs to help conceal their homosexuality. Saunders, who previously worked in advertising and, gay, real estate, decided to open a piano bar.

Inshe took over the lease of the future Cubbyhole space, which was then a bar called 12th Night and located close to her Horatio Street apartment where she lived until her death. Debbie Fierroher business partner untilultimately left to open Rubyfruit, a lesbian bar and restaurant at Hudson Street named after the book Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown.

Cubbyhole has hosted benefits and fundraisers for the AIDS Walklesbian community organizations, theater groups, and other causes. Jill L. This project is enriched by your participation! Do you have your own images of this site? Or a story to share? Would you like to suggest w4th different historic site?

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