Cindy Crabb is a therapist and feminist zine writer. She lived in the Bay Area in the early to mid-1990s, an experience that informed her forthcoming oral history The Bearded Lady Truckstop Cafe: An Oral History of the San Francisco Dyke Scene. Her zine Doris is widely cited as among the most influential zines of the ’90s, and her diaries and papers are archived at the Radcliffe Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
On The Way To Folsom St. Fair, 1994. Photo by Chloe Sherman. The Bearded Lady opened in San Francisco on Fourteenth and Guerrero in 1992, born out of the need for a lesbian-centered meeting and performance space. “Our only idea was we were going to have a coffee machine and
