"So it's appropriate that, this summer, when Danielle Thoe and Sara Yergovich opened the first women's sports bar in San Francisco, they named it Rikki's. Prior to opening, Thoe and Yergovich joined forces with LGBTQ+ media arts nonprofit Frameline and hatched a plan to screen Last Call at Maud's at their bar, in homage. As excitement grew, they realized they would need more space."
"So they decided to hold two screenings: one at Rikki's and one at the Roxie Theater. At the Saturday matinee screening at the Roxie, gray-haired lesbians and the scent of fresh popcorn filled the theater and spilled out onto the sidewalk. "I used to go and we'd play ping pong. It was just always a really fun place to go," said Cathy Miller, 67, at the screening. She was a customer at Maud's in her 20s, and looks back on those days fondly."
Last Call at Maud's chronicles Maud's, a lesbian bar at 937 Cole Street that operated from 1966 to 1989 and anchored decades of lesbian community life in San Francisco. Rikki Streicher opened Maud's when running a lesbian bar was illegal and women were not allowed to bartend, forcing Streicher to keep a man to pour drinks. Patrons used women's softball games to locate lesbian bars when new to town, with Maud's often the destination. This summer Danielle Thoe and Sara Yergovich opened Rikki's, the city's first women's sports bar, partnered with Frameline to screen Last Call at Maud's, and staged dual screenings at Rikki's and the Roxie, drawing longtime patrons who cheered and reminisced.
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