![]() She says San Diego lesbians in those days were “spoiled” with three venues to choose from: Club Bombay (later renamed Six Degrees), The Flame, and another called Patti’s Bar. Girton settled in San Diego in 1999-a time when, she remembers, women weren’t welcome at boys bars. ![]() Gossip, the block’s sole dive intended for women, stands out among them. We’re in San Diego’s historic gayborhood, as the locals call it, on a stretch of University Avenue that is home to at least six gay bars (boys bars, as Girton calls them). We sit at a high-top table on the perimeter of the dance floor, chatting about how she opened this bar 12 years ago the doors are open to the patio and I can feel the velvet sun, ubiquitous over Hillcrest, warming my legs. She’s sporting loud paisley prints in all shades of blue-a party of one at 3 p.m. Moe Girton’s white-blonde faux-hawk floods cotton-candy pink under Gossip Grill’s disco balls and neon lights.
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