Lesbian Visibility Week: Mission District bar Jolene’s hosts queer pool tournament

Christina Campodonico

 However, while San Francisco has plenty of all-encompassing queer bars—designated safe spaces for folks in the LGBTQ+ community—

 geared specifically toward women seeking other women. Jolene’s is one of the last of its kind in the city and 

. Call shots, drink shots and show your support for Jolene’s this Thursday at the Mission District bar’s Queer Pool Tournament. Pool sharks will play for a $50 bar tab, a trophy and “mad bragging rights,” plus a shoutout on the bar’s Instagram. Eight slots are open and 

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Christina J. Campodonico was a reporter at The Standard until 2024. She first fell in love with local journalism covering Silicon Beach in her native SoCal and cut her teeth managing the neighborhood’s 50-year-old newspaper, the Argonaut. Her writing has been nominated for multiple Southern California Journalism Awards and has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeleno and KCET&#8217;s Southland Sessions. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

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