This charming dive out in the wilds of Bernal Heights is still lesbian-owned, and if it’s not exactly a lesbian bar, it’s still an essential place. The latest CDC guidance is here find a COVID-19 vaccination site here. Health experts consider dining out to be a high-risk activity for the unvaccinated the latest data about the delta variant indicates that it may pose a low-to-moderate risk for the vaccinated, especially in areas with substantial transmission. For SF’s queer community, it’s all about monthly themed parties, often held at locations that are straight most other nights.īelow, find a selection of the most essential drinking spots for LGBTQ crowds around the Bay, listed geographically from West to East. When it comes to dancing, you can find some at a couple of spots (and the “White Ho”) on a regular basis, but big dance clubs are now a thing of the past. Meanwhile, Polk Street, where an explosion of gay bars began in the mid-1960s and continued through the 1990s, has only one sole survivor from that era, The Cinch. Two neighborhoods where gay nightlife thrived in the 1970s, the Castro and SoMa, are still home to the majority of San Francisco gay bars, and Oakland is home to what is likely the longest continuously operating gay bar in the country, The White Horse, which officially opened in 1933 at the end of Prohibition. Morse serves on the board of directors for The Women’s Treatment Center, the Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership and Personal PAC, and is a former Commissioner on the Cook County Commission on Women’s Issues.While longtime queer spaces may be disappearing in San Francisco and other cities, queer people in most of America, including in the Bay Area, understand that actual, physical social spaces are still vital to the culture. She is Co-Chair of the Firm’s LGBT Forum and is also a member of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC). Morse is Chair of the Firm’s State and Local Tax Practice and the Co-Chair of the Firm’s Tax Controversy Practice.
Jenner & Block was a sponsor of the Diversity Scholarship Foundation, NFP.
Chicago Bar Association Cook County Bar Association of Illinois Decalogue Society of Lawyers Filipino American Bar Association Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel Indian-American Bar Association of Chicago The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois. The co-sponsors of the event were Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. Morse discussed how she became a partner at a major law firm and offered advice on how women can become successful in their careers.
The panel discussion highlighted career paths of six women who hold senior-level positions. Morse was a panelist in an event titled, “An Open Forum and Reception with Women Partners & Women Senior Corporate Management,” presented by The Diversity Scholarship Foundation, NFP The John Marshall Law School the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago on at the Hotel Allegro Chicago in Chicago, IL.