“It’s a cheers for the gay community, the heterosexual community, the trans community, it’s really an all-encompassing bar,” Moore said. With a recent financial boost from the Lesbian Bar Project and support from the local community, Bobbi Moore, general manager of Slammers, said the bar will be open this summer for everyone. serves as an inclusive space for all people while maintaining its identity as a lesbian bar. Opened in August 1993, the bar located at 202 E Long St. Slammers, one of the last lesbian bars in the country, continues to create a safe space in Columbus for those of the LGBTQ community and its allies, despite economic hardships and vandalism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Slammers, one of the last remaining lesbian bars in the country, continues to expand as a queer space after being open nearly three decades.
