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LONG-HAUL LESBIAN LOVE

fter Café Bohemia, the short-lived yet influential New York City jazz club that hosted the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, closed in 1960, the space was transformed by the Mafia into a bar that catered to lesbians. Jay Toole (right) was living in nearby Washington Square Park at the time. Eventually she would get clean, find housing,

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