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Lipstick Lounge

Women’s sports bars are on the rise. Nashville’s will be a first for the South.

By Marianna Bacallao

July 2, 2024

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Nashville’s Chapstick is poised to become the first in the South to join a growing trend of sports bars dedicated to women’s leagues.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Aftyn Behn, bars, Freddie O'Connell, lgbt, lgbtq, Lipstick Lounge, Nashville Metro Council, Nashville Pride, The Lipstick Lounge

Nashville announces first permanent rainbow crosswalk

By Marianna Bacallao

June 18, 2024

The new addition will cover the East Nashville intersection home to the Lipstick Lounge, the city’s only lesbian bar.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: bars, Emily Benedict, lgbt, lgbtq, Lipstick Lounge, Nashville Metro Council, Nashville Pride, The Lipstick Lounge

Ground breaks on Chapstick, the Lipstick Lounge’s new women’s sports bar

By Marianna Bacallao

May 16, 2024

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The Lipstick Lounge is expanding with the addition of Chapstick — a new bar that will serve as a place to follow women’s sports.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Aftyn Behn, bars, Freddie O'Connell, lgbt, lgbtq, Lipstick Lounge, Olivia Hill, The Lipstick Lounge

22 stories that brought us joy in 2022, from the WPLN newsroom

By Chas Sisk

December 29, 2022

Kurdish collage Nashville

Not everything we cover is serious. Here are the stories that made us smile this year, and we hope they’ll give you joy, too.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: bachelorettes, Beauford Delaney, Cashville, Couchville Cedar Glade, Exit/In, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Fort Campbell, ginseng, harpeth river, IgG, kites, Kurds, Larkspur, Lipstick Lounge, Meharry Medical College, Mill Ridge Park, North Nashville, piggly wiggly, Shonka Dukureh, Sumner County Agricultural Fair, Tennessee State Fair, Tennessee Titans

‘This is church for some people’: After nearly two decades in business, Lipstick Lounge is a fixture of queer community

By Rose Gilbert

March 18, 2022

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Over the past 19 years in business, Lipstick Lounge has become a Nashville institution. Last year, the bar was voted best karaoke spot and best LGBTQ bar in the city by Nashville Scene readers. And as one of just 21 remaining lesbian bars in the country, it draws visitors from far and wide.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Features, Programs, WPLN News Tagged With: bars, lgbt, lgbtq, Lipstick Lounge

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