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Last Call
at Maud's is director Paris Poirier's 1993 documentary about the 1989
closing of a lesbian bar that operated at this location, 937 Cole Street,
since 1966. An important record of the women's movement in San Francisco,
the film is also a wake-up call to anyone interested in preserving neighborhood
institutions. As patrons return to Maud's for the final farewell, each
shares memories of coming out and of finding community in each other in
pre-Stonewall society, thirty years before "Ellen." When you hear owner
Rikki Streicher say that if a fraction of her eleventh hour well-wishers
had only visited the bar once in a while it might still be in business,
you will know that this could happen to your favorite joint, too. Pioneer
lesbian activists Judy Grahn, Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin, and Sally Gearhart
also appear in addition to Streicher who died of cancer in 1994 at the
age of 68.
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