![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “People warned us against being so explicitly for lesbians,” Ruby Fruit co-owner Emily Bielagus told me. The name, to those in the know, is an homage to Rita Mae Brown’s 1973 novel Rubyfruit Jungle, which turns 50 this year and continues to have intergenerational relevance-as do dyke bars, despite their highly publicized demise and the insistence that lesbians themselves are a dying breed. IF LESBIAN BARS are dead, then where did I spend $50 on a glass of orange wine and a hot dog?Īt the Ruby Fruit, a new Los Angeles “strip mall wine bar for the sapphically inclined,” which opened in February 2023. ![]()
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