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Lexington Club Archival Project was started by two filmmakers, Susie Smith and Lauren Tabak, in early 2015. The project's mission is stated on their website as: "dedicated to documenting the stories, sounds and images from San Francisco's last full-time lesbian bar, which closed April 30th 2015."
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Lexington Club was opened in 1997 by Lila Thirkield as a response to the numerous options for gay men but lack of options for lesbians and other queer women in San Francisco. She noticed that 16th and Mission had a "significant dyke presence" there and decided that it would make a good spot for
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unsustainable. She is a co-owner of another bar in the
Mission, Virgil's Sea Room. In February 2015, Thirkield announced that the Lexington Club would close at the end of April, and that the bar was being bought out by the PlumpJack Group, owned by politician
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