SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Julia Applegate, Senior Lecturer at The Ohio State University, discusses the documentary. The film focuses on the historically significant and longest-running lesbian-owned Ohio bar, which was located near The Ohio State University.
BY David Staley, Voices of Excellence
JUNE 28, 2024
When people have a place to gather and exchange ideas safely, they can create a community. The participants inspire encourage and support each other’s endeavors to improve the world, or their little corner of it.
BY Renee Fox, WOSU News
JUNE 17, 2024
The documentary “Free Beer Tomorrow” isn’t really about beer.
“So many people talk about the magic they experienced here, and they don’t talk about what they drank,” filmmaker Julia Applegate said. “They don’t talk about the beer because it wasn’t about the beer.”
BY Adrienne Mayfield, WBNS 10 TV
JUNE 13, 2024
The film scene in Columbus is certainly growing and while a handful of big names have shot movies nearby in recent years, they’re not the only ones getting a greenlight.
Several local filmmakers are getting to tell their stories, thanks to grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
BY Gabrielle Phifer, DAYTIME COLUMBUS
MAY 7, 2024
Free Beer Tomorrow was awarded a $41, 283 grant from Women and Philanthropy at The Ohio State University. Grant dollars will be used to investigate the relationship between the closure of lesbian spaces and loneliness/social isolation in this population.
Watch the Presentation AGING WELL
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Inclusive storytelling: In April, Ohio Humanities sponsored a community storytelling event, "Stories from Summit Station, Ohio's Longest Running Lesbian Bar."
JULY 15, 2023
A marker to recognize Columbus' first lesbian bar has broken roughly a month after it was unveiled.
BY ARIANNA SMITH
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
JULY 14, 2023
Watch surveillance footage of when Summit Station’s marker was damaged in the video player above.
BY DAVID REES
NBC4
JULY 12, 2023
The historical marker recognizing Summit Station, Ohio’s longest-running lesbian bar, has come down just a month after it was dedicated.
BY ALLIE VUGRINCIC
WOSU
JUNE 7, 2023
Summit Station, Ohio's first and longest-running lesbian bar, welcomed patrons for nearly four decades before closing in 2008.
BY KIONA DYCHES
10TV
JUNE 6, 2023
Ohio’s first and longest-running lesbian bar is receiving statewide recognition this weekend when a historical marker is installed at the site of the former pub.
BY DAVID REES
NBC4 COLUMBUS
MARCH 21, 2023
Former University District lesbian bar receives historical marker, the first in Central Ohio to recognize LGBTQ+ community.
THE LANTERN
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Ohio just approved its 3rd ever LGBTQ+ historical marker. Opened in 1980, Summit Station was Ohio’s first and longest-running lesbian bar. Now a campaign is underway to memorialize that history.
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