“It’s by far the biggest bar that we went to on our entire trip. “So the big thing about Sue Ellen’s is that it’s huge,” Gabrielli said. Sue Ellen’s in Dallas is named as a nod to the character in the TV series.
Two episodes released in April will focus on the Texas bars. Over the past several months, “Cruising” has taken listeners from the producers’ home city of New York and across the country. “But I think that’s kind of a wonderful thing, and that hasn’t changed the sense of family that’s there and community that’s there,” Gabrielli said. Gabrielli says some of these bars were always inclusive of anyone who wanted to walk into the door. “Basically, what our criteria is for the podcast is they have a history of catering to lesbians and being run by lesbians,” Gabrielli said. So they went on a road trip and asked lots of questions in their podcast “Cruising.”Īmong those questions was – what is a lesbian bar these days anyway? The decline in the number of lesbian bars has not escaped media attention but podcast producer Sarah Gabrielli says she and her friends wanted to document the stories of these establishments and the role they still play in a new way. Of the roughly 22 lesbian bars in the United States, two of them are in Texas: Sue Ellen’s in Dallas and Pearl Bar in Houston.