![]() But keeping one of America’s last lesbian bars - a recent count puts the total number at just 15 nationwide - in business is certainly a form of activism. She always considered herself an activist first and an entrepreneur second. ![]() “Now we’re Cher - the lesbian bar that wouldn’t die.”Ĭannistraci never planned to get into the bar business. “We used to be known as the Madonna of lesbian bars because we were constantly reinventing ourselves,” says Henrietta’s owner, Lisa Cannistraci. After being shut since March 2020, Henrietta’s (as it’s often referred to) will open with an outdoor parklet, followed by a completely redone interior, nearly unrecognizable to the thousands of patrons who’ve danced inside the dark club since it debuted 1991. New York City’s population of open lesbian bars is about to double with the re-opening of Henrietta Hudson, the city’s longest-standing gay bar. Lisa Cannistraci has revamped her iconic bar - and included an outdoor “parklet.”
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