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This story was originally published March 21, 2023. One of Ohio’s longest-running lesbian bars, Summit Station, will receive a historical marker in June after community members worked to commemorate its impact in central Ohio.
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Two years ago, Julia Applegate, senior lecturer in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State and former patron of the bar, said she started the process for obtaining the marker to document the often forgotten queer history in Ohio. While the bar no longer exists, its impact left a mark on Columbus.
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“For at least eight or 10 years, I was there three or four nights a week,” Applegate said. “When I first moved here, I was just newly out and had a job, and we would go there to play pool or after softball games, to watch shows, to listen to music. I did karaoke, played darts, went to fundraisers and made plans for my life. It was just really functioning almost more like a community center than a bar.”
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Former University District lesbian bar receives historical marker
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Originally named Jack’s A Go-Go, the bar was purchased around 1980 by one of its lesbian bartenders and renamed Summit Station, becoming one of the largest women’s bars in Columbus, Applegate said. After several decades, the bar closed in 2008 after the owner, Petie Brown, became ill. CONTINUES ON PAGE 2
COURTESY OF PETIE BROWN
Owner of former lesbian bar on Summit Street, Petie Brown, sits atop the building. The address where the bar stood will receive a historical marker this June.