Sapphic Seattle Is Reinventing the Lesbian Bar

“Are we feeling friendly or flirty tonight?”

A giggle ripples through the group. They exchange impish looks. Finally one partygoer, wearing a slick of patent leather and a headband adorned with the curled ram’s horns that mark an Aries, delivers the verdict on this May night.

“Flirty.”

Equipped with neon pink wristbands announcing their choice, they stride down a narrow, mirrored hallway at Supernova, a nascent nightclub in SoDo, bathed in strobing white light. The throb of bass grows. Beyond a door inlaid with a psychedelic 7Up soda logo, youthful figures in cat ears and iridescent mermaid leggings and glitter—so much glitter—bob beneath a phalanx of disco balls

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