'Year of the lesbian': How queer women are breaking San Francisco's doom loop

The evening represented everything Spanyol dreamed of when she opened Mother last year with hopes to revive a famed corridor of Valencia Street once home to a bounty of lesbian-owned businesses and bars.

Many of those establishments shuttered over the last several decades, leaving only a handful of lesbian joints still open in San Francisco.

The office vacancy rate remains at a stubborn high of roughly 37%, and a slowdown in foot traffic and tourism since the pandemic, exacerbated by concerns over crime and homelessness, has led to a wave of downtown business closures.

LGBTQ+ San Franciscans are trying to change the city's.

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